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DARTH_CORLEONE Registered: Oct '01	Date Posted: 4/28/02 8:48pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	I thought that C3PO had to be a real robot...I didn't think anyone was skinny and toleramt enough to be in that costume. I thought the stormtroopers were supposed to be robots. I thought the cockpit on the falcon was where the guns were. Dark Vader. Lifesaver. I thought R2D2 died and they got a new one. I thought Chewbacca was supposed to be a gorilla. I thought you could also shoot people with lightsabers. I was seven, gimme a break. -----signature----- "Never argue with a stupid person. They bring you down to their level, then beat you with experience." "Not unless round is funny."
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rocket1312 Registered: Apr '02	Date Posted: 4/28/02 9:40pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid. - Date Edited: 4/28/02 11:03pm (7 edits total) Edited By: rocket1312
	I always thought that Luke cut Vader's head off at the end of ROTJ. I saw ROTJ before I saw ESB, so I'm not sure if the scene on Dagobah had anything to do with this. I do know that this misconception was at least in part due to a picture in the ROTJ storybook from the end of Luke and Vader's duel where Vader is slouched down on the ground and you can't really see his head. I also used to think that when Yoda said "Then and only then a Jedi will you be" to Luke in ROTJ, it meant that at the very moment he defeated Vader he would be a Jedi, but would then immediately cease to be one once the fight was over. The only others I can think of are more misconceptions about how films were made. I used to think the pilots in the space battles really died. I knew they were actors, but I figured they were just really devoted to their craft. Also, when a friend's dad told me Chewie growled using a voice box, I thought that Peter Mayhew actually had a voice box surgically implanted into his throat. And finally, after I saw ROTJ, my dad told me that the special effects were done using computers, and all I could picture was a bunch of Gamorean guards standing at computer terminals controlling the monsters in Jabba's palace.
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The power's back! Registered: Jul '99	Date Posted: 4/29/02 12:43am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	When I was 8, my mom and I rented all three movies to watch. When I put ANH in, and saw Episode IV, I think I actually took it out, asked her about it, and tried one of the other tapes. I then reluctantly trusted that ANH was the first movie, but I had a nagging doubt in the back of my mind. :-)
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Edhel Registered: Feb '02	Date Posted: 4/29/02 1:46am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	That's another one of mine that I forgot, for years I didn't understand why the "first" one was Episode IV.
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emupiett Registered: Oct '00	Date Posted: 4/29/02 1:55am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	My earliest memories were of seeing ROTJ and thinking that Luke's first enterance was actually the Emperor, because he had on that cloak. -----signature----- "Intensify forward firepower!"
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DarthIWasPushed Registered: Apr '02	Date Posted: 4/29/02 2:18am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	-When I was a kid, I remember seeing R2-D2 and C-3P0 in a commercial telling about how you shouldn't smoke. I didn't realize at the time that they were in Star Wars, so years (and years) later when I first saw Star Wars, I was like "OMG, It's those robots from the smoking comercial!!!" -Before I saw all of Star Wars (The first time I saw ANH was half way through the thing) I thought that Han Solo was one of the rebel guards on Princess Leia's ship. -I though that ANH was the only Star Wars movie (come to find out later that there were two more, not to mention TPM which came out a few years back). -When I finally saw all three Star Wars movies, all of the Star Wars references on the cartoon "Muppett Babies" suddenly made sense! -----signature----- I'm boycotting this site until further notice.
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Plo_Koen Registered: May '01	Date Posted: 4/29/02 2:27am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	Han Solo: "That's our chicks, go!" -----signature----- My mind is not in my body, my body is in my mind.
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El-Elyon Registered: Feb '02	Date Posted: 4/29/02 2:37am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	I have to say that I saw the film when I was too old to have any other misconceptions, but these are HILARIOUS!!!!!! -----signature----- "Close the blast doors"...[PAUSE]..."Open the blast doors, open the blast doors!" Stormtroopers, Clonetroopers, not as good as having a blaster at your side>>>
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Darthmcm Registered: May '01	Date Posted: 4/29/02 8:59am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	I though Vader was the boss when I was a kid Palpatine confused me. He didnt have a name you know back then just "emperor" -----signature----- http://sarcasmknights.com http://myspace.com/irishmile
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waheennay Registered: Sep '00	Date Posted: 4/29/02 10:00am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	When I first saw EMPIRE as a kid, when General Veers talks to that little hologram of Vader I thought he said:"Yes Lord Vader, the shield will be down in moments, you may start your NAPPING." -----signature----- U2's Sweetest Thing; "A blue-eyed boy meets a brown-eyed girl Oh oh oh the sweetest thing"
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MoldyBread Registered: Aug '00	Date Posted: 4/29/02 10:06am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	I also remember making up a story to explain why yoda was so short. If you used the force alot, you would grow old and wrinkly and green - that's why there was no doubt that yoda was stronger than the emperor - yoda had used the force so much that he shrunk. -----signature----- I rock. Or do I?
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MrJango Registered: Mar '02	Date Posted: 4/29/02 11:03am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	im only 14 years old, and the only Sw film i saw before being over 12 years old was ROTJ. therefor, thats the only SW movie i have misconceptions from. ill try to line up some of them. - I used to think the emperor was a zombie(with that look, who could blame me). i was really surprised when my cousin told me he was human. - All the ewoks were children, and chewbacca was the only grown-up of their species. - Jabba was working for the empire. - The SW movies were new movies from the 90s, i refused to believe that harrison ford or mark hamill had gotten old. - many more, but i cant think of any right now.
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jsp2000 Registered: Mar '02	Date Posted: 4/29/02 11:32am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	This is great! Here are mine: 1. I remember seeing ANH when on TV back in '83 (I was five years old). I was so confused at the beginning when the Princess was stunned by a Stormtrooper. I thought she was supposed to be a main character, yet she had gotten shot in the first 5 minutes. My dad told me to be quiet and just keep watching. 2. For a long time, I was confused about the whole Obi-Wan/Luke lightsaber thing. I didn't realize Obi-Wan had a lightsaber of his own...I thought he was using Luke's father's lightsaber, and that it got left on the Death Star. I was left trying to figure out where Luke's lightsaber in Empire came from. 3. I thought the Jawa's had a crush on Luke! There is that scene when Luke is walking over to the Jawa Sandcrawler to look at the line-up of droids. They show Luke walking, and the next scene is shows Jawas getting excited, screaming, and running away. It looks just like teenage girls watching a boy band. I still wonder about that one... -----signature----- "Proud to be a fully certified Little Lebowski Junior Achiever." More fun can be had at http://www.jasonplank.com
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powerjm Registered: Apr '02	Date Posted: 4/29/02 11:40am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	Greetings. I'm a new poster, but have read the discourse here for about 6 months. I just had to chime in now. I saw the Holiday Special when it aired, but was only 4 yrs old. Until I got to college and heard others talking about it, I thought that the Holiday Special was just something I had dreamed of....Seeing Chewie's house, and all. I didn't realize how attrocious it was, either.
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Edhel Registered: Feb '02	Date Posted: 4/29/02 11:47am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	Welcome powerjm. jsp2000, that is hilarious about the Jawas! I used to think that when Obi-Wan slices that guy's arm off that he used Luke's lightsaber but that he used his own to fight Darth Vader on the Death Star. Stupid child-logic!
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