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canofhumdingers
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Favorite star wars child hood memories not related to the films
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2-Mar-2011, 10:37 AM

I was born in the early 80's & kind of missed out on the first round of Star Wars.  I didn't discover it until the early 90's I was about 10 yrs old and my friend showed me ROTJ.  I didn't understand a lot of it (not knowing it was the second sequel) but was hooked.

Anyway, non-film related memories would have to be another friend showing me a small grainy picture in an action figure magazine previewing NEW(!) Star Wars toys being made that would be released in 1995.  I have many memories of collecting those toys.  One in particular was trying to find the newly released speeder bike.  My mom checked everywhere over the phone & finally found a Service Merchandise halfway across town that had one instock.  That was an exciting drive... 

Thinking about that stuff kinda makes me miss the days before the internet when news & rumors were so much more difficult to come by & you could actually walk down the toy aisle & be surprised by new figures you had no idea were coming out!