I saw it in 77 when it came to the little town of Milan, TN. I was 6 years old at the time. I believe I lived in Medina at the time so we had to drive into Milan which was then and still pretty much is a rural hole in the wall.

The movie theater only had one screen so we had to stand in line for what seemed forever waiting through showing after showing before we could finally get in.

I remember when we got close enough to the lobby doors that we could see the big cardboard standups of some of the characters.... it wasn't like the individual cardboard standups you can get today, this was like a big Star Wars poster on cardboard.... for some reason I think the Jawas were on there... I just remember looking at it thinking wow, I have to see this.

From that moment forward I was hooked.

My parents were not the type to spoil their kids so I had to wait to get the figures on my birthday and christmas which both come in December so that sucked each year but man did I get a lot of figures over the years

From that first day in 77 I wanted to fly in space and I wanted a "laser sword". No at age 32 I have a crap load of lightsaber replicas, a stormtrooper helmet, Han's blaster and more figures, books and comics than I care to admit

Good times