Another new member here, hey guys!

Just want to add my own perspective on this. I am yet another person who is convinced they saw an unedited version of this when they were a child.

I was bought the original VHS tape on release back in 88/89 when I was 4 or 5. Absolutely loved it. Watched it until the tape literally became unwatchable.

A few years back, my girlfriend bought me the DVD release as a Birthday present. Excited, we both sat down to give it a watch. It seemed a lot shorter and bits I remembered weren't in it - that's when I then looked it up and was horrified to hear about all the edits.

Now as we all know, the edits were made to the theatrical release - however this left me somewhat dumbfounded as that would mean it's impossible for my VHS tape to have been unedited.

Then something interesting occurred to me after finding a drawing that someone made for me when I was a kid. I asked my mam about the drawing and she said it was done by her cousin who worked for Sullivan Bluth Studios were based in Dublin at the time. He was an animator (and ultimately had to move to Canada with the studio to find more work)

From what I've read, while the studios were in Dublin, much of the LBT work was done here. Actually I didn't really realize this until that viewing with my girlfriend of the DVD, the credits rolled and I had a huge 'WTF?!' moment - loads of Irish names!

Anyway, getting a bit sidetracked. What I'm trying to figure out is this;

As the studio was in Ireland and my mother's cousin was an animator - did I happen to see an early copy of the film?

Or;

As the studio was in Ireland, were there rental copies floating around which were more complete?

I'll have to ask my parents if my VHS copy is still in the house. As I said, fairly sure it was unwatchable (and the standard retail version) but I can't then figure out where these other memories of missing scenes are coming from. Unless it's all just my imagination!