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DarthDragon164 Registered: Jun '08	Date Posted: 7/27 7:55pm Subject: What is your earliest Star Wars memory?
	What is your earliest Star Wars memory? Here's mine: I was pretty young, probably about 5 or 6. We had friends of the family over, so I was allowed to stay up late. I remember laying on the couch, super late at night (though it was probably only like 10 o'clock), watching The Empire Strikes Back. The part I remember watching was on Dagobah; I think it was when Yoda was raising the X-Wing. My eyes were slowingly closing as the X-wing rose, and soon I was asleep, having just taken my first step into a larger universe. -----signature----- We're Doing it Live! "It's a freakin' Trap, man!" -Ackbar on Spice Jedi Knight in the New Jedi Trials- Master to KotORBF2Female_Revan EU Podcast: http://www.vimeo.com/jedibeacon Arranged by Tom Wallace
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darthcaedus1138 Registered: Oct '07	Date Posted: 7/27 9:15pm Subject: What is your earliest Star Wars memory?
	Touching. -----signature----- Don't panic. Until the future becomes the present, it is merely distraction. Beautiful Blueberries. Star Wars EU Podcast, Jedi Beacon, Proud Co-host. http://www.vimeo.com/jedibeacon 2nd Most Attractive Guy in the EUC
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DarthDragon164 Registered: Jun '08	Date Posted: 7/27 9:22pm Subject: What is your earliest Star Wars memory?
	darthcaedus1138 posted: Touching. Aren't you gonna share yours? -----signature----- We're Doing it Live! "It's a freakin' Trap, man!" -Ackbar on Spice Jedi Knight in the New Jedi Trials- Master to KotORBF2Female_Revan EU Podcast: http://www.vimeo.com/jedibeacon Arranged by Tom Wallace
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Ambassador Cara Jade Registered: Oct '99	Date Posted: 7/27 9:42pm Subject: What is your earliest Star Wars memory?
	Riding Star Tours as a kid. That's kind of where my love of Star Wars started. -----signature----- Yeah, I have my own icon. Visit the Callista Fans Thread http://boards.theforce.net/eu_community/b10194/23653771/p1
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DarthBane95 Registered: Jun '09	Date Posted: 7/27 9:50pm Subject: What is your earliest Star Wars memory?
	I was 5 years old, saw TPM loved it, then I remember after the movie I rented the OT, and watched ANH, and ESB in the same day! Then the next day ROTJ! My best SW memory though was after seeing AOTC in theaters, then coming home, and my aunt bought be and my older brother a toy lightsaber, and we messed around, pretending that I was his apprentice, and my missions were to climb on top of our garage, and other weird stuff like that. -----signature----- Maybe I'd have grown up a nice guy if a Jedi hadn't cut my dad's head off in front of me-Boba Fett A twi'lek ruined my e-relationship Darth Vader is a hell of a guy. I am El Nino! All other tropical storms must bow before El Nino! Fan of Chris F
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Darth_Nub Registered: Apr '09	Date Posted: 7/27 10:05pm Subject: What is your earliest Star Wars memory?
	Receiving a C-3PO action figure as a gift, aged 3, in 1978. Had no idea what it was, or what its impact would be... -----signature----- "First you must fill your head with wisdom. Then you can hit ice with it."
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MatthewZ Registered: Sep '03	Date Posted: 7/28 3:59am Subject: What is your earliest Star Wars memory?
	Getting the Falcon for Christmas. Must have been 80 or 81. I know I had toys before that, but don't remember actually openning them. -----signature----- What I posted was true......from a certain point of view.
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Serafine_Tinaste Registered: May '09	Date Posted: 7/28 7:41am Subject: What is your earliest Star Wars memory?
	When I was about 7 me and my brother were running around the house with lightsabres. I don't actually remember the first time I saw the OT because I was like 4 or 5 at the time. -----signature----- Banana! Banana! Ooh! Ooh! Give it to Kiki?
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StarWarrior77 Registered: Oct '08	Date Posted: 7/28 9:01am Subject: What is your earliest Star Wars memory?
	I was 5 or 6 and I was over at a friends house, and this dude loved Star Wars! I had no idea what it was at the time, but it looked quite interesting to me. It was '99 and TPM was just coming out. I didn't see a Star Wars film until the next year when I saw TPM at another friends house on VHS. I loved it so much I begged my parents to let me see the OT, and they borrowed a copy of the OT box set and watched them. (Which I loved as well.) My favorite SW memory was when I saw ROTS in theaters, and I was blown away! Ah, memories... -----signature----- "Star Wars is not dead. It's gonna get better and better."-George Lucas "Star Wars is Forever, Roger. And you can Suck it." -Jimmy Mac Visit: http://z3.invisionfree.com/Star_Wars_Online/index.php
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DuracellEnergizer Registered: Apr '09	Date Posted: 7/28 11:35am Subject: What is your earliest Star Wars memory?
	The batteries in Darth Vader's lightsaber dying during a duel with the Energizer Bunny. -----signature----- Episode I Reimagined : The Beginning http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/30317264/p1/?1 ======================================= If KOTOR was any good, it'd be a book.
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Go-Mer-Tonic Registered: Aug '99	Date Posted: 7/28 11:52am Subject: What is your earliest Star Wars memory?
	When I was 6, my parents took my brother and I to the drive in to see ANH in 1977. As usual, we went straight up to the jungle gym/swing sets just under the screen, because we never cared about the movies we saw there. When the Star Destroyer flew overhead, it made me fall off the jungle gym. We then both rushed back to the car so we could hear what was going on through the speaker thingy. -----signature----- "...that’s not my job, to make people like my movies. They either like them or they don’t. That’s completely out of my hands.” -Lucas "At least I will have finished what I set out to do, and at least they will have been good to me." -Lucas
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ShaneP Title: Lucasfilm Projects Gremlin(Manager ) Registered: Mar '01	Date Posted: 7/28 1:02pm Subject: What is your earliest Star Wars memory?
	Star Wars at a Drive in with my cousins in next car. Star Wars was the film. 1978. Age 5. -----signature----- Keep Your Words Sweet. You May Have To Eat Them.
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ChrissySnow21 Registered: Jun '09	Date Posted: 7/28 2:10pm Subject: What is your earliest Star Wars memory?
	My favorite memory is going to the theater to see Empire strikes back in 80. I was 6. Also my grandparents taking us to Kmart and buying us the action figures and the cassette/record books. Weird that the two movies I remember seeing at the theater that yr are empire strikes back and 9 to 5.
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Rev Registered: Jan '05	Date Posted: 7/28 4:09pm Subject: What is your earliest Star Wars memory?
	My dad had rented "Return of the Jedi" for himself when I was in first of second grade (this was in the early nineties). A friend and I had wandered into the living room as it was starting and began watching it with him. We found it to be so boring that we started counting to a thousand just to pass the time as the movie went along. By the time of the speeder chase we had lost interest to the point that we left and went outside to play. Being so young, I was also greatly confused as to the plot line. The interspersion of scenes on both Tatooine and the Death Star had me believing that it was Darth Vader who was holding Princess Leia captive. This initial misunderstanding would lead to much greater confusion for me down the road. Several years later when I was still in elementary school I was at the local movie theater when I noticed a poster for "Revenge of the Jedi." Knowing by that time that there was no such Star Wars movie by that title, I became convinced that a fourth Star Wars movie was in production (this was still prior to any announcements of the Prequel Trilogy). Two things occurred shortly after: one was that I had seen "Return of the Jedi" in full and it proved vastly different than how I had recollected it; the second was that upon further inspection of the "Revenge of the Jedi" poster I realized that the release date was for 1983, three years prior to my birth. This lead me to the conclusion that my father had not rented "Return of the Jedi" years earlier, but rather "Revenge of the Jedi." None of this weighed too heavily on my mind at the time. While I was slightly more fond of the movies than as a young child, I still was far away from being a fan. But when Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight was released and I received a copy for Christmas, my interest in both Star Wars and video/computer games suddenly exploded. Gradually this new found interest for the Star Wars universe translated into my interest for the history of the production of the movies. Of course, as many fans know Lucas' own account over the years is vastly contradictory, and just as many fan rumors have abounded over time as well. Through my informal research I had become convinced of many things which now seem preposterous. Such that the novelizations of Episodes I-III had bee released at the time of the Original Trilogy, but were no longer in print and therefore difficult to come by. Or that the original "Star Wars" movie was initially being filmed as a Saturday morning children's television series until it was recut as a film instead. In-universe falsehoods existed as well, as a friend had convinced me in fourth grade that all Jedi were required to kill their own fathers as their final test in becoming knights. Now I'm glad to say that I'm quite familiar with the full history, both in and out-of-universe. I've come a long way from that confusing first watch of Return of the Jedi. -----signature----- "And in time of greatest despair there shall come a savior and he shall be known as: THE SON OF SUNS." (Journal of the Whills 3:127)
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Darth-Seldon Registered: May '03	Date Posted: 7/28 4:58pm Subject: What is your earliest Star Wars memory?
	I was walking through the electronics department at a store and Return of the Jedi was playing on some of the big screen TVs. I distinctly remember Chewie and company running through the forests of Endor. It made an impression on me and I asked my Mom what movie it was. She replied that it was "Planet of the Apes or Star Wars." It sparked my interest and I later begged her to rent the original film. I originally watched the trilogy in the sequence of ANH-ROTJ-TESB. My Mom thought that was the order of them (I guess ignoring any roman numerals.) This caused some confusion...I had no idea who Yoda was or why the little green guy had such a prominent role. -----signature----- Isaac Asimov was an innovative genius All posters are equal but some posters are more equal than others. JOE BIDEN 2012
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Teeonesix Registered: Jul '09	Date Posted: 7/29 7:10pm Subject: What is your earliest Star Wars memory?
	I was I think about 11 and heard these "zap, zap" type noises from the lounge room - went to investigate as I thought only the news and current affairs shows were on (is why I wasn't in there watching) - and it was indeed a current affairs show running a story about this fantastic new sci-fi movie that was about to be released. The scene being shown was the Millenium Falcon spaceport escape scene. If I remember correctly I actually slowly sank to my knees... We lived in a rural area so it took about a year before i got to actually see Star Wars - and by then I had read the Alan Dean Foster novelisation and seen the "making of" documentaries on tv.
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