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Post #316453

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Arnie.d
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A Long Time Ago... - Share Your Star Wars Story
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23-Apr-2008, 3:48 AM
My first memories of Star Wars are when I walked into the living room when my dad and older brother were watching a new hope. I must have been 5 or 6. I clearly remeber Obiwan scaring of the sandpeople. My father explained Obiwan has this "force" so the sandpeople are scared of him.

My dad made a copy of the trilogy on the good old Video2000 vcr. It was such a good machine. It actually had double sided recording capability so all three movies fit on one tape! In weekends I usually woke up at 6 and the first thing I (and sometimes my brothers) would do was watch Star Wars.

I remember watching the oot so many times, not the whole movies but mostly parts we liked like the "snow battle" as we called it.

Soon after the movies came the toys. I remeber walking into the toystore and they had the Millennium Falcon hanging from the ceiling. I never got it though. I still have all my other toys like the AT-AT and the B-Wing. And ofcourse a lot of action figures.

But me "living" Star Wars wasn't limited to toys. When playing outside we recreated the story for ourselves. Also the Ewok movies btw. I really liked those as a kid.

I never saw the oot in the theatre because in 1977 I didn't exist yet. And for Empire and Jedi I was too young. Well, maybe I could have seen Jedi, but at that time I hadn't seen Star Wars yet. I never cared to go to the SE. At the time I thought it was stupid (now I kind of like it). But I hate the 2004 SE.

The first ever movie I saw in the theatre was Willow. To this day I absolutely love that movie.