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Bingowings
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A Long Time Ago... - Share Your Star Wars Story
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25-Mar-2009, 1:58 PM

It was 1977 and I was seven years old, I was a big science fiction/fantasy fan already (I loved Doctor Who) and I was watching Tomorrow's World (which was a popular science show on BBC1 for many years) and they had an item about the cameras being used in this new film which seemed to have a blue Dalek, a man in a gold suit of armor, a man in a monkey suit, a man in a gask mask and they were flying WW2 planes down a canyon in a metal planet.

Naturally I wanted to know more.

I got the Marvel comics (with the paper X-Wing and Tie Fighters) and learned all about such characters as Ob-Van-Kenob and Biggs Darkliner and pestured my dad as only a seven year old can to take me to watch the thing (I'd only been to the cinema once before and it was a film called "Where The North Wind Blows" and like Mr and Mrs TheBoost my auntie took us in half way through).

The film came out the same time as Close Encounters (the poster was interesting) and when were getting ready to go out my dad warned me that it might be a long queue and we might not be able to get in if the tickets ran out.

The queue was long, very long and went all the way around the corner of the cinema and up the road.

My dad told me that we couldn't see it that day and had got us tickets for Close Encounters instead (while I was upset at this I was still looking forward to that film too so I didn't mind so much).

We sat down and then the words "A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far Far Away" came up, by the time the words STAR WARS shot away into the stars I was carried away  (my dad pulled a sneak surprise on us).

I've never really recovered.

We went on to seeing Close Encounters next week (which was a great film but was made even more memorable because there was a trailer for Star Wars shown before it).

A few years later there was a clip of a film called "Alien" and I begged my dad to take me to see that too (shame really because it was certificate X and I was nine) but that is another story.