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Star Wars mania in 1977
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My uncle, who was seventeen at the time it came out, described the world around him very different since the movie came out. All the kids had their toys on hand wherever they were, signs and tv ads everyday. He never saw it though; was too busy with my mom, other uncle, and grandparents in Europe moving from country to country while my grandpa was in the navy. He finally decided to see Empire Strikes Back, to which he replies to as "mind-blowing" and "like no other theater experience he'd ever witnessed". The craze didn't really catch on to him since he was already an adult, but he recalls small-talk on it always brought up amongst his co-workers at the power plant he worked at. He from time to time picked up a shirt or a burger king glass, but never dived into the toy mania. He also told me that, "you can bet that I was one of the first in line to Return of the Jedi". So yeah, I'm of course too young to explain the REAL mania around it, and both my mom and dad's side of the family were already a little too old.