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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Well. Shows you not to "give your childhood" to some purveyor of fictional adventures.
Yes, God forbid people have something they really, really like. Better than not having something to believe in. But, then again, you've never had anything during the course of your childhood with as strong-rooted an influence as SW. By the time you were born, SW fandom was still around, but not nearly as rabidly as it was when I was a kid.
Think about it... SW was the first hugely successful film to come out. And the first to have multimedia tie ins. No other film really had toys, lunchboxes, comic books, novels, etc. It was a first and we all bought in. Hook, line, and sinker. You would have been the same way if you were born in our era. And don't try to deny it. With all your friends buying in and talking and playing. It was a phenomenon that was difficult to escape. You never had anything like that. Every movie since you've been born has been hyped up and overmarketed. You had more of a choice. And that's why so few toys have done as well as SW.