TheBoost said:
When the trailer came out, a friend had a VHS, and we watched it... 30 times that night at a party. Loved every second of it. I expected to love it, and I did.

Saw TPM at midnight, again the next morning, drove to Las Vegas and caught it again the next day.

It wasn't for a few weeks (and two more viewings) that I started to get annoyed with Jar Jar.

The only merchandise I had was the novelisation I picked up later that summer, and a Qui-Gon cup I still dont know where it came from.

Between TPM and AOTC, my friend got a copy of the book from the library. I asked him what he thought about it later, and he said "I can't read it, it's too detailed."