I've read all the leia/luke/han solo centric novels and comics, seen every film a gazillion times and can probalbly run them back and forth in my mind with my eyes closed. I have probalbly watched them even frame by frame to study the effects at least three times.
I used to have the credits memorized and all the characters lines I still mostly remember when watching the films.
I've collected the action figures, the original ones when i was a kid I had all of them except the death star playset and the return of the jedi vehicles and figures. I've read all the marvel and dark horse stuff, played all the video games. owned all the video casette and audio tape/ record releases, but not the laserdiscs, laserdiscs when I was in high school where too cost prohibitive and players where outrageously high.
This was when the vhs tapes for movies were 20.00-30.00 a piece, and the letterbox ones were even more never mind the hundred dollar plus price of the early release rental tapes. when they became affordable I had already owned enough copies of the films on vhs that I purchased fan preservation dvd's in 1999-2000 when I first got a dvd player, of course these were cheap asian imports and I have gotten way better ones since the advent of originaltrilogy.com came along.
Years ago I even wrote and drew my own vision based on what info was then available of the prequels/sequels.
I've researched all the films to the point of rediculousness, including collected from the internet, books portfolios all the mcquarrie artwork, joe johnston etc., the prototype scripts for a new hope empire and jedi currently available not published fan collected drafts. I've found all of them to be authentic by the laurent bouzereau book annotated screenplays except for one draft of revenge of the jedi that appears to be a fake, the one with lando's death scene, which has a lot of real "deleted scenes taken from the novelization or story conference details published in skywalking". I've traced the majority of lucas's sources and even considered writing a book about it at one point.
Star wars is one of my mutitudes of interest, in fact it made me serious about becoming a writer of science fiction and fantasy, and even propelled my to the point of wanting to be become a film major and filmaker. My other interests are mythology, sci fi and fantasy authors such as tolkien, burroughs and others including star trek. I am a small time next gen/classic trek fan, but a huge star wars fan. My favorite filmakers growing up were steven spielberg and george lucas and they were my heroes.