i was 10 when it came out..

waited a few months from when it opened in canada.

most of my friends had seen it already. but they were

talking about it all the time..

we used to have lightsaber battles. and bought

action figures. my original r2d2 and c3po figures

are on my kitchen counter, and i see them

everyday... i also still have my star wars bedsheets

in good condition! ha ha ..

i collected all the bubblegum card

sets. i remember coke had a promo of matching

characters with a plastic picture that you peeled

out from under bottle caps and you could

redeem them for money.... bought the comic

books. read the novel. there was a newspaper

comic strip that had different adventures..

and when splinter of a minds eye came out,

that was really cool to.. i remember hearing the

meco 'disco' theme from star wars on the radio.

i bought the soundtrack on vinyl, which had

a cool poster... i drew all kinds of artwork on

my own.. i always wanted to be luke as the

character i associated with..

i only saw it once originally in the theater.

and the second time was for the re-release

in 1979 before 'the empire strikes back' came out.

when they added the episode IV to the crawl.

that was it... never saw it in the theater again,

until the SE came out.. i've still only seen the

original less than 5 times to this day.. and yet

it's my favorite movie of all time.. and i can't

wait to see a restoration of it.

later

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