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Author Topic: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
jimbofett72 
Registered: May '02
Date Posted: 5/22/02 11:43am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
I used to call Jabba "Pizza" the Hut. I saw ESB first when I was four so when I saw ANH on video for the first time around 1982 I thought that Luke was drowned by the trash compactor monster. I remember jumping up and crying "Luke can't die. How is he in ESB when he dies in the first one" Suddenly Luke emgerges from the water and my fears were answered.

 
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Pimpleyone  98 posts
Registered: Jan '02
6458_Ewan and Temuera
Date Posted: 5/22/02 12:15pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
When I was a little kid(before the SE)I thought when Oola drops into the Rancor cage she got turned into the frog-creature that Jabba eats right after. I don't know why I thought this, but I did.

 
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Darkside_Spirit  965 posts
Registered: Sep '01
Date Posted: 5/22/02 2:20pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
""I remember thinking that Oola - the dancer at Jabba's palace - fell into the hole in the floor, and then was turned into a frog. Then Jabba ate her."

grin Me too. grin

 
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MadMardigan  1428 posts
Registered: Nov '01
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Date Posted: 5/22/02 5:15pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
Wow. What memories. I had all the variations on Vader's name as well. Light Saver. Life Saver. Life Saber. All those. The ROTJ death star is from ANH.

But my biggie was this. I always thought the head in Vader's helmet in the cave on degobah was a GIRL! I think my rationalization was something that if Luke turned to the Dark Side he would kill innocent women.

To be honest (I'm 23) I didn't realize it was Luke's head until a few years ago...maybe when I was about 14 or so.

 

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lucassot  61 posts
Registered: May '02
6615_Darth Vader
Date Posted: 5/22/02 6:35pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid. - Date Edited: 11/7/06 5:25pm (1 edits total) Edited By: DVeditor
When I was young, for some reason or another I thought the Super Star Destroyer was called the Jedi, therefore ROTJ meant that the Super Star Destroyer returned in the movie!! WT*!

Wierd mind of a child!

 

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skippy35000  97 posts
Registered: May '02
Date Posted: 5/24/02 9:29pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
"jedi knight = jet-eye knight"

YES! i always remember hearing about "return of the jet eye" when i was a kid.

i really only got into star wars during the special editions, when i was in 8th grade. i don't really think i had any major misconceptions except for the popular oola/bug thing. but i can remember some of my friends' misconceptions:

-one said he thought the movies took place in the future. he must have ignored the blue letters that open each movie!

-another said he thought the empire were the good guys, and darth vader led the rebellion. man, that must have been confusing.

 

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skippy35000  97 posts
Registered: May '02
Date Posted: 5/24/02 9:34pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
"Whenever I was playing with my friends, I'd be like:

"Quick, now's our chance to escape, the stormtroopers need more oil". "

that story is so cute!!
your name, however, is not.

 

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skippy35000  97 posts
Registered: May '02
Date Posted: 5/24/02 9:43pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
"actually, han DID shoot first. it's only in the special edition that greedo shoots first. it's a huge thing that a lot of people have a problem with this change. there's a bunch of threads on this board about it....somewhere."

you, sir, are an ass.

 

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Cantina-Busboy  78 posts
Registered: May '99
Date Posted: 5/24/02 11:57pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid. - Date Edited: 5/25/02 12:01am (1 edits total) Edited By: Cantina-Busboy
I used to think:

The Death Star Explosion in ANH was soooooo bright, it hurt your eyes to look at it.

Yoda's stick was called a Gimer Stick.

The Tusken Raider popping up into Luke's Macrobinoculars was a scary thing.

The funniest thing was when I brought several of my action figures to a re-release of ANH in 1979 and sat them down on the seat beside me so they could see the movie too!

Pre-ROTJ, I thought Harrison Ford wouldn't want to return and Han Solo was never going to survive the thawing process from carbonite.

I used to call Aunt Beru's drink "Aunt Beru's Blue Brew".

I thought the Empire Strikes Back would only be called "Star Wars 2".

Lucas was trying to outdo himself with cute creatures. ANH had R2-D2 and the Jawas, ESB had Yoda and ROTJ had the cutest creatures of them all -- Ewoks.

 
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Bring_on_Aurra_Sing 
Registered: May '02
Date Posted: 5/25/02 1:08am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
I was 6 when aNH came out. I remember thinking that when C3PO said "they've shut down the main ractor-we'll be destroyed for sure" that the reactor was like the droids' big battery, and they would literally "die." I also thought that there was a problem with the 2 C3POs on the ship--either one was a ghost, or that the other one would cone back some day to have a part (I thought C3PO was the main character). I used to think the character was called "grandma tarkin"; I used to think the vehicle was called the "twin pod clown car"; I also thought the actors were getting awards at the end of the movie, because luke's leather jacket made me think it was just a 70s guy in his duds, not Luke.

 

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Silverhill 
Registered: May '02
6579_Princess Leia
Date Posted: 5/25/02 4:09pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
Some of mine have already been mentioned.

Here's one that hasn't:

In ESB, I thought Luke said "I need my *land* back..." (instead of "lamp")

 
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Mad_Ewok  633 posts
Registered: Apr '02
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Date Posted: 5/25/02 4:48pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
<<In ESB, I thought Luke said "I need my *land* back..." (instead of "lamp")>>

He doesn't say land? I thought that he did up until now. [face_shocked]

 

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Qui-Gon_Gin_n_Juice 
Registered: May '02
Date Posted: 5/25/02 9:29pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
I thought that the second Death Star was what was left over from the first one and that they were rebuilding.

I thought that somethig happend to Obi Wan's light saber (a malfunction or something)

I thought that Yoda was what all old jedi looked like. Maybe I thought that the force caused you to shrink in old age.

I thought that Han killed Vader at the end of ANH. I didn't realize that he stabilized his fighter.

I though that Luke killed Vader on Dagobah.

When Vader turns on his lightsaber to defend the Emperor in ROTJ, I thought that the throne just had a laser beam or a force field that protected the emperor.

What screwed me up was when I discovered that Stormtroopers is a real historical term. I thought that it was something that was only in Star Wars.

 

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echupa  89 posts
Registered: Apr '00
Date Posted: 5/25/02 10:21pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
i always thought a 'jedi' was the creature that Yoda was. I thought that once luke became a jedi, he would grow ears like yoda.

 
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Devlo_Masan 
Registered: May '02
Date Posted: 5/26/02 3:29am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
Re: "The funniest thing was when I brought several of my action figures to a re-release of ANH in 1979 and sat them down on the seat beside me so they could see the movie too!"

LOL!! That's too funny!

Another thing, someone else mentioned "Pizza The Hut" and it reminded me of how I thought Jabba The Hutt was pronouced "Job Of The Hut."

 
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