Yes, I'm A Big Dork

[C.B.Cebulski]

Yesterday was the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars. Thirty years?! I was six years old on May 25th, 1977 when the movie was released. And to this day, I still remember going to see it in the theater. And as cliche as it sounds, Star Wars did deeply affect my life.

So like so many other Star Wars fans around the world, I celebrated the anniversary on my own. I woke up and actually put on a Star Wars T-shirt, I hit the post office to buy the newly released stamps, I popped in the Star Wars DVD and watched the original theatrical version, then I watched the live coverage of the Star Wars Celebration in L.A. on G4, caught up on all latest issues of all three Dark Horse comic series, then I watched the original theatrical version of Empire Strikes Back. Yes, I'm a big dork... and proud of it!

There was one thing I didn't do though...

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As you can see from the pic, I still own a full box of unopened packs of the original Star Wars cards, third series for anyone who cares, and I pondered opening a pack just for nostalgic value, to make me feel like I was a kid again. I actually did it about 15 years ago and even went so far as to eat the gum, which made me sick. But nausea aside, I remember it took me forever to find a pack to replace the one I opened back then, and while it might be a little easier to find now with eBay and cons, still I decided against it. But I took out and opened the box to have a look, and I have to say, the sight of the box sitting there, filled to the brim with unopened packs, with the smell of the wax and paper and gum still lingering... it made me feel like I was six years old again!

Happy Anniversary, Star Wars! Thanks, George!!

[scott sackett]

When I meet someone and I find out their age, I always divide them into one of two groups: Saw Star Wars at the theater or Too Young to see Star Wars at the theater.

The thing that always amazes the 'whippersnappers' when I tell them about seeing Star Wars is that I remember seeing ads in the paper for the 2nd annivesary of Star Wars and it had been in the theaters for two solid years.

Most young people cannot comprehend no DVDs, much less no VCRs or even no HBO. If you didn't see it in the theater you might never see it again!

When was the last time you saw a line for a movie around the block?

Btw, I doubt that gum tastes any worst now then it did back then! That stuff was terrible.

Scott

[beta-ray]

Man I'm old. Was 9 when Star Wars came out (so I am in the "saw it in the theaters" category 23x over)....

Those were the days! :)

[ClintP]

I fall in the too young category. I didn't actually see them until they re-released them in the 90's. I enjoyed them alot when I saw them in the theater. So does that mean I am an official saw-it-at-the-theater for the first timer? :)

[Thudpucker]

I don't have the self control to leave card packs unopened. Do you have an open set already?

[scott sackett]

I fall in the too young category. I didn't actually see them until they re-released them in the 90's. I enjoyed them alot when I saw them in the theater. So does that mean I am an official saw-it-at-the-theater for the first timer? :)

Sorry, but if you saw the '90s version you missed out because (and I know C.B. agrees)...

HAN SHOT FIRST!!!!

(Or as we refer to it 'The Pussification of Han Solo"!)

Actually Star Wars was so mind-blowing at it's time that you had to be there. There had been no science fiction movies since 2001: A Space Oddessy and Star Wars was really something different. While it's cool that you saw it on the 'Big Screen' I think the impact on guys my age was we had never seen anything like it.

Scott

[ClintP]

Sorry, but if you saw the '90s version you missed out because (and I know C.B. agrees)...

HAN SHOT FIRST!!!!

(Or as we refer to it 'The Pussification of Han Solo"!)

Actually Star Wars was so mind-blowing at it's time that you had to be there. There had been no science fiction movies since 2001: A Space Oddessy and Star Wars was really something different. While it's cool that you saw it on the 'Big Screen' I think the impact on guys my age was we had never seen anything like it.

Scott

Damn old fogies!;-)

[tdaniel]

CB - take a hot iron on a medium setting, rewrap your opened pack, cover it with a thin cloth towel. quickly run the iron over the unsealed area and bingo, restored wax pack...sneak one for me will you?

[Thomas Mauer]

I don't know why, but I still have an unopened 1.5L Pepsi bottle from the 1997 Special Edition promotion. :Oops:

[ClintP]

CB - take a hot iron on a medium setting, rewrap your opened pack, cover it with a thin cloth towel. quickly run the iron over the unsealed area and bingo, restored wax pack...sneak one for me will you?

Before I colelcted comics, I was a baseball card kid. I bought one of those grab bags of cards once and won a full set of unopened Topps cards from like 1990 or something. A couple of year later (they were old to begin with), I wanted a piece of that gum. I opened a pack and almost threw up from the nasty paint chip like gum. It took me a while to track down another pack of that same set of cards so I could have another unopened set. I still got those damn things.

I also won another set of unopened packs from some minor league card company. :)

[Taki Soma]

wow, that is fucking cool, CB

I was only a year old, so I don't remember it but I do remember them releasing it for the first time on television and I was freakin' stoked as hell! I actually remember seeing the X-wing Luke was piloting through the canyons of the death star in my childhood mind's eye.

ah memories...

[Thomas Mauer]

wow, that is fucking cool, CB

I was only a year old, so I don't remember it but I do remember them releasing it for the first time on television and I was freakin' stoked as hell! I actually remember seeing the X-wing Luke was piloting through the canyons of the death star in my childhood mind's eye.

ah memories...

I was half a year away from invading Earth when the movie came out. My first contact with Star Wars was actually a video rental of the first Ewoks TV movie. :)

[Aspiring Fanatic]

I remember getting more and more excited about seeing the movie, from reading adds in the paper to seeing commercials on TV. My family made a day of it, although I don't think my mom was all that excited at the prospect of taking two 9-year olds and an 11-year old to a Sci-Fi flick; especially when we got to the theater and the line was out into the parking lot! :lol:

My dad was more interested, but ended up getting called into work, so it was just Mom, my older sister, my twin and me. We waited in line for over an hour and were surprised we actually got in. The whole time we were waiting, I remember I kept wondering why everyone thought this movie was going to be so special. I mean, yeah, I was excited about the idea of it taking place in space, and in an alternate reality sort of setting, but the buzz was just so much more than that. I was 9. I didn't understand. :)

When we walked out of the theater, though, EVERY SINGLE person who'd just watched it (including myself and the rest of my family) had huge smiles, and you could just reel the energy of the moment that we'd all just shared. It's was like everyone in the theater was connected as one for a little over an hour and a half, and I remember my mom commenting that it was probably the first time she didn't have to tell at least one of us to be quiet during the movie. We were too enraptured by what we were seeing to speak! :)

I know it's a little late, but happy anniversary Star Wars, and I can't thank you enough, George Lucas, for giving me such an awesome childhood experience! :D

[sketchartist '76]

I was actually born on the year Star Wars was released...so I'm a huge fan. And no C.B. ...your not a dork my friend..it's just something ya love!

[Colin Solan]

I wasn't born for the first one and too young for Empire but I demanded to see Jedi in the theater. I was blown away by the awesomeness of the opening scene in Jabba's palace. Oh and Ewoks totally kick ass.

The really funny thing is that my uncle who took me still hasn't seen another movie in the theater to this day.

[changingshades]

Don't those cards have a C3PO that looks like he's got his dong out?

[WillS]

I only caught Jedi in theaters first time around, but to me the true Star Wars experience wasn't the movie, it was the radio drama! My folks used it to keep my siblings and I quiet during long road trips, and it worked. When they show Vader torturing Leah uncut on the screen, then maybe I'll change my mind.

[Arion]

I was actually born on the year Star Wars was released...so I'm a huge fan. And no C.B. ...your not a dork my friend..it's just something ya love!

Well, I'm 23. But I am a Star Wars fan .

[Frank Tieri]

Yesterday was the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars. Thirty years?! I was six years old on May 25th, 1977 when the movie was released. And to this day, I still remember going to see it in the theater. And as cliche as it sounds, Star Wars did deeply affect my life.

So like so many other Star Wars fans around the world, I celebrated the anniversary on my own. I woke up and actually put on a Star Wars T-shirt, I hit the post office to buy the newly released stamps, I popped in the Star Wars DVD and watched the original theatrical version, then I watched the live coverage of the Star Wars Celebration in L.A. on G4, caught up on all latest issues of all three Dark Horse comic series, then I watched the original theatrical version of Empire Strikes Back. Yes, I'm a big dork... and proud of it!

I officially can't talk to you anymore

FT

[Arion]

Don't those cards have a C3PO that looks like he's got his dong out?

Why everyone remembers that?

[Starleafgirl]

I officially can't talk to you anymore

FT

But you have to talk about the Chamber-pocalypse/Hollow Team-Up! >.<

... :roll:

Mmm-hmm, and to be sort of on-topic, I like Star Wars too, but not enough to call myself a dork for it.

[changingshades]

Why everyone remembers that?

because it's c-3po

and his dong

who WOULDN'T remember that

[Arion]

because it's c-3po

and his dong

who WOULDN'T remember that

Well, if put it like that it makes sense.

[changingshades]

Well, if put it like that it makes sense.

we're talking c3po's wang

we're well away from the area that makes sense