There was a time I loved Star Wars just as much as I love Star Trek and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and such. Then the prequels came followed by the Pizza Roll review (Mmmmmm----pizza rolls) and my love of Star Wars kinda went south. However that all change when I went to Toys'R'Us and put the new Millennium Falcon in layaway. This ship is a beast and once I get out of layaway [next monday] I'll put up a video of it when I get it but I'm not stopping there I've desighted to collect a few more figures and ships and been thinking about doing some projects for my YouTube channel. Anyway that's my story of getting back into star wars. So what's your guys stories of Star Wars fandom?

I've loved the original trilogy since I was little and I dislike the new trilogy. The movies are in funny place for me. While I'm excited for Episodes VII-IX, I'm being very cautious of it. J.J. Abrams is a decent director but that's the problem. I've never seen a piece of his work and been toughly impressed.

I've played a ton of Star Wars games, to many to list in fact. I've loved so many of them and it has only aided in my fandom.

I remember when they re-released the movies in theaters I went on a spree of collecting. I had all sorts of toys and collectibles. My favorite though was a giant Yoda poster that met a tragic end.

That sounds awesome, and makes me want to go to Toys R Us. But every time I go, I just end up getting disappointed because it's nothing like it was in the 90s.

When I was a kid, my older brother had a Star Wars collection and I used to play with his toys. My favorites were Bib Fortuna, the red storm trooper guys and of course Boba Fett. He also had the ATAT walker, which was cool.

Other than that, I liked the original movies a lot, but never got into it seriously. The newer movies were instantly trash to me, and I never liked any of the animated stuff or newer games. I did like the Super Star Wars, Super Empire Strikes Back and Super Return of the Jedi for SNES and the early PC games like Dark Forces.

That's about it.

Edit: Oh and the KotoR games were nice.

Edit 2: Oh and my dad was trying to get me to play The Force Unleashed II on PC the other day, and I hated it with a passion. What garbage.

The milking ruined it all for me.

I still collect Star Wars figures. My son and I used to buy them together. But now he's not into action figures anymore so I just buy them. Although I haven't bought any in a few years as there really hasn't been anything released that is new.

If you want to get into Star Wars but you are short on time, give this a shot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smdMh3Ew6IU

That. Is. Awesome.

For a brief moment, I felt like Sherlock in Elementary. When he is watching all of his TVs at once.

. .........................AWESOME!!!!!!! Well there goes my sunday......

Dear God that is AWESOME.

I am anolyzing the films, the original trilogy has much more dynamic ad interesting camera work. It's brighter, but grittier looking if that makes any sense. Not to mention in the prequels the camera work is so stale ad boring. The scenes are long and over plotted, they just go on and on. 30 minute sin and so much more is happening and has happened in the originals.

Still have all my orginal LEGO star wars stuff.
Now if only I could reproduce the TIE fighter sounds....

I was into toys as a kid, but now I don't buy much of anything to be honest. Only thing I really bought was the collector's edition of SWTOR. After the game burned me and my commitment, i've just never really decided to punk down money on things. Still glad I dodged a dang bullet in not buying the Colonial Marines CE. Would have been stuck with a $5 paper weight.

Dealing directly with Star Wars stuff, I have nothing of interest. Only toy that might be worth something is an older 80's model that resembles the droid that blue its "motivator" unit. Might be worth $2 to the right person since it's out of the box with faded paint.

I've got an original print run of the first Star Wars novel before the movie came out. It's worth 100$. It's pages have yellowed, and it has so far from I have seen only a single tip of one page bent. Otherwise it's in very good condition. Someone gave it to me for free, I told him afterwords when I found out and he was happy. Though he himself being a bit of a geek I think maybe just a little bit he might have regretted it.

I had seen the original Star Wars when I was very young, but I really got into Star Wars in 2002, when I was bought a copy of Galactic Battlegrounds and a little later in the year a friend loaned me his copy of Jedi Academy (actually, I'm not sure if it was vice versa). It was one of the few games I played a lot. That game had an encyclopedia summarizing the various factions. I was really drawn to how Palpatine (sort of) and the stormtroopers were initially the good guys, but became the villains in the old trilogy. For an eleven year-old it was pretty novel stuff, and I was just getting into epic space battles and lightsabers were cool (they were laser-deflecting swords that you could retract!). It was also around the time Attack of the Clones came out, I saw episodes I, II, V and VI at roughly the same time. So I don't have the hatred a lot of people have for the new trilogy - in fact AotC is still one of my favourites. I love that scene in the end where we see all the clonetroopers marching into vaguely wedge-shaped ships, and Palpatine is looking grimly determined, while the Imperial March plays in full blast for the first time in the movie.

Revenge of the Sith came out at the height of my Star Wars mania, and I actually counted down to the premiere, and saw it twice, the first time I'd done that for any movie. I still remember thinking during that beginning title crawl that that was the first and last time I'll get to experience a new Star Wars title crawl. So, I can understand the nostalgia old trilogy fans feel and why they reject the new one. I expect when the new Disney SW movies come out, I'll be curmudgeonly too and dislike them, but at least I'll be more self-aware about it.

I read a lot of EU novels in my early teens - a lot of Clone Wars era ones (Shatterpoint was the one I remember really enjoying), and later the Legacy of the Force series. Though I never really liked the post-RotJ EU novels, because they really cheapened the ending of the movie saga - imagine that when Han, Leia etc are celebrating on Endor in Return of the Jedi, they haven't actually brought peace to the galaxy, and they and their children will see almost constant conflict and suffering in their lifetime. Makes it kind of a downer ending, doesn't it? I prefer to read them more like fan fiction. It was partly the fatigue induced by Legacy of the Force, partly because I was moving on to other sci-fi/fantasy works and partly because it's hard to sustain a level of interest in a universe when you can't even discuss half the canon for fear of derision, that caused my interest in Star Wars to wane.

I still really like Star Wars, but I don't think I'm an uber fan any more like I used to be. I still play some SW games, and I'll occasionally watch one of the movies when I feel like it, but when I learnt of the Machete Viewing Order (watching the series in IV-V-II-III-VI order) and thought it'd be cool to try, I keep dragging my feet.

Oh! Also, I collected the trading card game (?) for a time, have about two hundred cards I think. Then the shop I bought it from closed down, so I stopped.

Since I had no idea what the Machete Viewing Order is, I googled it and actually read http://static.nomachetejuggling.com/machete_order.html It was a surprisingly interesting read, and it really made me want to watch Star Wars again (in the MVO, obviously). Thanks for wasting X hours of my time that I should be spending on my studies.

I'm planing on getting Boba Fett no Star Wars Collection would be Star Wars without Boba---I'll try to get Slave 1 as well. It's mostly going to be on Amazon. Anyway in other news I've been doing some Star Wars title scrolling test and here's a video of latest one---http://youtu.be/zBa86bQQR6M

I'm a hardcoe Star Wars fanatic without being excessively creepy about it.

I'm 30 and by the time I had learned what Star Wars is, it was already about 10 years since the 1st movie. I have always loved it though. My oldest cousin collected the original action figures and had multiples of the ones you needed multiples of and allowed me to have one of the Emporer's Guards, still have it to this day (the guys in the red cloaks and helmets). I have played numerous Star Wars games, starting off with one of best all-time flight combat simulators ever in the X-Wing/TIE Fighter Series. My brother has always been a Rebellion/Republic guy, I have always been an Empire guy. A couple years after he bought X-Wing, I saved my allowance to buy TIE Fighter to spite him

I played and beat the original Dark Forces (not Jedi Knight, that was Dark Forces II) with Kyle Katarn in an FPS and beat it on the hardest difficulty. To this day, my favorite level is the one where you are captured by Jabba and have to fight with your hands against 3 of these "komodo dragon" creatures that are about half the size of a Rancor. Outside of fighting the Final Boss, it is the hardest fight in the game (argubly harder). After that I did play Dark Forces II with the expansion packs later on. On console I had Star Wars Rogue Squadron on N64, Star Wars Battlefront I and II on PS2, as well as Episode I on PC, and the single game that goes over the course of the prequel trilogy on PS2 that also had a 1 on 1 combat vs multiplayer too.

Star Wars Galaxies and Star Wars The Old Republic as well.

I've read numerous post-movie trilogies to the point where you're about century in the future, dealing with the offspring of Han and Leia, Luke and Mara, the New Jedi Order, all the way through the Legacy Era.

I just can't get enough of Star Wars. However, going back to the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy and all the events that happen in between the 6 movies are always going to be the heart of things.

Favorite Game: Star Wars Battlefront II - I remember having epic battles in multiplayer during LAN parties. The best were always when you had a force user and a non-force user, because the non-force user was actually just as powerful but it wasn't as apparent.

Notable Mention: TIE Fighter - the game that got it all started for me

Favorite Movie: Revenge of the Sith - I'm an Empire guy.

Favorite Book: The Truce at Bakura - happens immediately after the destruction of the 2nd deathstar, Luke is still healing from his encounter with Palpatine when a new threat emerges from outside the galaxy, and Empire remants and the remaining usable Rebellion forces from the Battle of Endor join forces to save the galaxy.

Favorite Race: Chiss - Admiral Thrawn comes to mind, but the Chiss Ascendency is truly something to behold since they are the only faction to become an official ally of the Empire and they never joined anyone and pretty much all attempts to assimilate their culture or invade their space has been repelled. The lore behind The Chiss is as exciting as it is mysterious.



In a galaxy with a faction as large as the Empire, does it make sense that if you cut off the head that it would completely die? The Empire is HUGE. They got severely weakened, but they still had large forces and secret bases and most importantly: They had a philosophy and purpose, that's enough for any nation to keep going even if their king is killed.

Just saying, this is Star Wars. It's an entire galaxy, not everybody gets along. Even The Old Republic, as big as it was, never had more than say 60-70% of the galaxy united under it. The Chiss, The Hutts, The Empire...they all existed in some form or another and had a domain. Chiss control a large portion of space that no faction could ever penetrate. So you have that. Just because one part of the galaxy is at peace doesn't mean the entire thing is. Look at our world. The major powers are "at peace" but we're always fighting something, somewhere.

As far as Star Wars games go I love Dark Forces and Jedi Outcast, I haven't played the one with Mara Jade or Dark Forces 2 Jedi Knight, I also love Rouge Squadran II (RS III was ok) on the Game Cube and is by far one of the better SW experiances I've played. Also I love Shadows of the Empire on the N64 that game was fun.

I forgot all about Shadows of the Empire. Yes, that was good too but it was a pretty frustrating game.

I never had to many frustrating issues with other then getting all the challange points in each level of each difficulty setting. Interestingly enought Prince Xixor's theme is the same or dang near close to the Harry Potter theme heard here:
http://youtu.be/GM6iZvsoCJ0?t=3m6s

and Harry Potter's theme:
http://youtu.be/Htaj3o3JD8I

Like I said they're dang near close to each other.

A copy of that is worth $100? I've got one sitting on my shelves. The things you learn.

I have tons of Star Wars stuff. For the movies, I have the original trilogy on VHS (from before George started tinkering too much) and the prequels on DVD. I've got about ~50 Star Wars novels, a half dozen of the Essential Guides, various old comic books and a bunch of Dark Horse's omnibi, various video game like Jedi Outcast and KotOR, tons of old Micromachines, LEGO sets, roleplaying sourcebooks, some of the old CCG... you could say I'm a fan.

Tyr the original.

I'll pass. God of War style games aren't my thing, nor are people that hold their lightsabers like some kind of ninja from Naruto.

It's a viable style!

Star Wars has never matched up to Star Trek. Space magic, cheap rip offs from mythology, and an endless parade of promotional tie-ins. Star Wars is a joke.