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First Star Wars Memories
Where were you when you saw your first Star Wars movie? Which one was it? Was there anything about the circumstances surrounding your first viewing that made it more important than just seeing another movie?
My own first experience with the galaxy far, far away can be read in excruciatingly detailed detail here, but I would love to hear some of your stories.
Thanks for sharing!
My own first experience with the galaxy far, far away can be read in excruciatingly detailed detail here, but I would love to hear some of your stories.
Thanks for sharing!
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Permalink Reply by john on -
please forgive the spelling and lack of punctuation.
i was one of the lucky ones who got to see it in 77. i was four and change and it was in a drive in.
my mother had to read the opening words to me then the ships came on needles to say i never fell asleep
in the back of the car or had to use the pillow or blanket that was brought. i also remember having trouble seeing
the eye stalk come up i only saw it quickly as it had gone back down it wasnt till it was on the cable that i got to see the whole thing.so as one of my first movies the other was simbad and the eye of the tiger i became hooked on scifi fantasy and has consumed my life i have two model falcons a framed falcon being chased by stardestroyers from empier a framed b wing toy atat and snow speeder trading cards 1980 blaster and many many other items. also i must mention that i have used a light saber for a flash light in a poweroutage.
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Permalink Reply by john on
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i already posted about my first star wars memories but i have a few more id like to mention.
i had a friend i met when empire came out and he said just watch vader is gonna be a good guy
he said this for the next three years i dont know who was more supriesd when jedi came out me or him.
one when i was about 19 i was playing a game of football when a friend brought a friend a BIG FRIEND
a marine on home for leave to play. needles to say his team was winning. i dont mind loseing but i just wanted
to stop him once he went over me several times when and i swear i heard luke say that armor is to strong for blasters aim for the legs it may be our only chance to stop them. well the next time he came at me i ran right at him then i droped to the ground covered my head right in front of him and he tripped over me and went down i got him it hurt and he had to help me back up but thanks to luke i got him.
ok two more. when the 97s came out i went to get tickets early, for opening day which i took off. i also talked a few friends to do the same heres the catch it was for three times in the same day i went up to the stand( no internet for me yet at the time) and i said i need 5 tickets for the noon show. she went to give me the price and i said ahh no thats not it i need 7 tickets for the 4pm show i got a few people to sign on for a single she then went to give me the price again and i smiled said sorry and she said god no you cant be serious so i put the ton of cash in front of her and said i need 10 tickets for the 8pm please she just started to laugh said i was crazy got me the tickets. she also was the one who did my tickets for empire the look on her face was great when i went in for them at least i know she remembered me.
when i got sick had surgery and got home(took loner thant it sounds) the three movies were on pretty much 24-7 for about six months. i couldnt go out or move to good for quite a while so they kept me company thats also when i started doing models to keep me occupied thats when made my first ship guess what was my first. ok thanks for letting me put these up and rant a little about days past i have many more stories like old action figures laying around but you get the general idea.
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Permalink Reply by Dan Pugatch on -
First time I saw Star Wars was elementary school when my neighbor's parents purchased the trilogy on VHS. I remember when we removed the shrink wrap not knowing what was to unfold. Star Wars a New Hope was exciting but Empire Strikes Back blew me away. I didn't like Return of the Jedi until I was older, I found it boring until puberty.
What made Star Wars stand out was unlike everything else I've seen it felt genuine and real. This could happen, heck this did happen! I never doubted the realism of Star Wars because it was a basic coming of age story.
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Permalink Reply by Matt Herold on -
Showing my age here but I was 4 years old when Episode Four came out. My parents took me to see it at the drive-in (and, thankfully, they didn't make out). Even at that tender age, I loved Star Wars but found the trash compactor scene to be the scariest thing I'd seen my entire young life.
I spent the next several days avoiding garbage cans and only walking along the perimeter of my bedroom for fear of a dianoga popping his head up through the carpet and eating me.
Don't worry, I got my revenge, though. When I eventually got the Death Star playset, I totally bit the toy dianoga's head off.
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Permalink Reply by Jay Clarke on
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It was 1977 and I was 4yo. My dad had already seen SW with my mom and he told me all about it. I dont really remember this, but my mom told me later. Anyway, my parents took me to see it and that created a monster, a SW monster! From then on it was SW this and SW that. I daydreamed at school about SW, much to my parents chagrin. On Christmas of 1977 my parents bought me the x-wing, a small die-cast tie fighter, luke's landspeeder, and action figures: Luke, leia, chewy, han, Vader. obiwan, and stormtrooper. And thats the last time they ever bought me a SW toy. I remember thinking that SW was a stand alone movie, then I went ape-shit when I saw the trailer to ESB on TV one afternoon in 1980! My parents took me to see it on a saturday night and I still remember the laughter during yoda's intro and all the ooo's and ahhhh's and gasps from the audience, especially during the asteroid chase! When I was a kid all I wanted to watch was SW. I also remember having a friend stay over the night on a saturday back in 1983, and that night, while watching SNL, the ROTJ trailer aired! Yep, went ape-shit! I do remember going to see it with my dad and a friend from school one summer day afternoon! I also loved my SW toys and creating battle scenarios with friends. up through grade school I used to save up my allowance and buy more SW toys and had a pretty respectable collection. My friends and I used to combine our collections and come up with great battles! I also loved the Christopher Reeve Superman movies, but they were 2nd! I really didnt get into watching other movies until like 1984!
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