Favorite star wars child hood memories not related to the films

What is everyones   favorite memories that stick out in their head from growing up with the original trilogy? For me  it was  every time  we would go to K-mart  we  would get to pick out  (usually anyways) an action figure or book or  shirt  ...The excitment of  seeing the action figure in the cart and waiting to get home  or  the  audio books that came with a  record or tape to open them.

The excitment of  seeing a star wars toy commercial  on tv. WHen we were kids we had a big table in our room and we would lay our toys out on it and make scenes. Sort of like a Domino rally  table  but  star wars toys instead. I use to look forward to going to bed at night just to get under the star wars sheets.

Getting older sucks  but I wouldnt trade growing up in the 80s or growing up with star wars back when star wars  was great  for nothing. it was a truly special time. Here is something else when I  see and hear this  takes me right back to the early 80s. It is depressing in way  but  who else  hears this  guys voice and is taken back to a better  day and time?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2khYg5BbOpc

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!

- When the snow was falling on my city we played with friends like if we were on Hoth (not very original, but I'm fond of this memory, we had good fun).

- A big cardboard Darth Vader who frightened me as a very small child.

• Getting a Land of the Jawas Action Playset for Christmas

• Dressing up as a Jawa for Holloween in the 4th grade
• All of the sweet Star Wars shirts I had

Sluggo said:

 

• All of the sweet Star Wars shirts I had

 I had one of roughly the same style, but red with Vader on it. I wore it until it rotted off my body. There are pics of lil' me wearing a red thing that looks to be made of mesh.

The first figures I bought were Luke,Darth,Chewie, and Han. I played with them like no other.

About a week later, after a long day of Star Wars adventures, I noticed that Han was missing!

I looked everywhere. I mean EVERYWHERE. But alas, everyone's favorite lil' smuggler was nowhere to be found.

I searched every nook and cranny of the house for the next couple of weeks, and after awhile I gave up.

About five years went by. I was about 9 at this point. I had never forgotten Chewie's best friend. Sometimes I would stop and think where I had possibly put it.

One morning, when I was watching cartoons, A nickel fell out of my pocket into the cracks between the sofa cushions.

I lifted them up to retrieve my money, and HUZZAH! There was Han, in the exact same pose I last had him in five years ago.

I still have that little guy. He now rests next to my computer as a decoration, always reminding me to check between the cushions next time.

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I remember going to Gamleys to get a red Force Beam for my birthday (probably my eighth) and having it at my birthday party (I only had a few birthday parties when I was a child). I was also given a Dracula costume and a little girl was very scared of this vampire waving what seemed to her to be a elongated bar from an electric fire around and ran away crying. I had to take the costume off and put the Force Beam in the cupboard where people hid their balloons if they didn't want them popped.

xhonzi said:

I had two Chewbacca figures.  So I pretended that they were the Chewie brothers and that they were frontmen in a rock and roll band.

They would sing "Chewies!" in perfect harmony.  It was their signature.

I would totally buy their album.

xhonzi said:

I had two Chewbacca figures.  So I pretended that they were the Chewie brothers and that they were frontmen in a rock and roll band.

They would sing "Chewies!" in perfect harmony.  It was their signature.

It is also my signature.

Where do i start. well, seeing the movie for the first time and how it totally warped my imagination. A few months later, my mom and dad got me a bunch of star wars figurines and a quiz whiz for my birthday. I played with those things forever.

Yeah, that's about it.

^ has a good point.

Your name is Kevin. Interesting.

Me be stoopid sometimez

My favourite Star Wars childhood memory revolves around this delightful commercial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxafIhYFOr0

It made me an instant fan of Darth Vader and Star Wars - years before I ever got to see the films.

bkev said:

My username is a pretty big clue dude.

I thought your name was "bkevin."

xhonzi said:

Sluggo said:

xhonzi said:

I had two Chewbacca figures.  So I pretended that they were the Chewie brothers and that they were frontmen in a rock and roll band.

They would sing "Chewies!" in perfect harmony.  It was their signature.

It is also my signature.

What?  But... Hey!  I was going to...

Ah, man...

Can he do that?

I moved your cheese and stole your thunder.

I updated a previous post with a new pic of another of my old SW shirts.