Paula S.
To pass the time waiting for Empire Strikes Back, my brother even made me a lightsaber of my own. Yes, he had the perfect excuse to beat his little sister half to death while she enjoyed it.
Nancy
I'd never seen A New Hope. I was obvious to me from Empire that Han, Luke and Leia already knew each other. ....It never occurred to me that there might be another movie.
Martie
As a fan of fantasy and science fiction genres, I expected to like Star Wars, but I never expected to be blown away by it!
Isaac
All the toys that year were the Star Wars toys my parents had been collecting and saving for my sister and me.
Des
...in 2002, I picked up my best friend's copy of the 3-in-1 Classic Trilogy novelizations, and my love of the Saga became irreversibly entrenched.
anakinluvergurl
I wish I could have seen Episode Four in the theater, but I didn't because I wasn't alive! I was just seven years old when Episode One came out.
SWBookworm
I remember stumbling on to Star Wars the summer I turned 13. It was 1996 and I was flying out to California to spend a month with my dad...
Thomas Bradfield
...When Return of the Jedi came to theaters, I sat and watched Darth Vader get pulled back from the "Dark Side". No matter what he had done, no matter how many lives he had destroyed, he had been forgiven...
MJLS
...My dad was watching Return of the Jedi on TV and I went downstairs. First thing I saw were the Ewoks...
Angie
...My thirteen-year-old self boycotted Star Wars for months. I refused to see it because it was The Movie That Got Star Trek Cancelled AGAIN!!! :P
Lumy
...ESB was so dark, though -- I didn't really like it much back then. I was freaked when Luke's hand got cut off -- more so than Vader telling Luke he's his father, I don't even remember my reaction to that.
Pronker
...Sometime in the long, lovely afternoon, an advertising plane trailing a banner circled the Coliseum, the writing slowly becoming visible: STAR WARS IS COMING.
Skye Princess
When I was young, maybe around 6 years old, I heard about Star Wars but thought that it would be a scary movie. I did not want to see it because I was scared...
wakybz2
In 1999, two significant things occurred. My baby brother was born and The Phantom Menace came out. One thing I specifically remember is dangling my little feet with my Darth Maul sandals whenever he came on the screen.
Bree
I saw a magazine that had Hayden Christensen and I thought he was so cute, and they told me that he was in Episode III. I really wanted to see it and they told me that I had to see all the movies to understand Episode III.
Stephen
...My father got me a Star Wars action figure from the first episode (TPM) and from there I fell in love with it....
Christopher
...I think of Anakin's story as being sort of like a mirror of Luke's story...The good vs. evil theme deeply appealed to me and I could identify with both characters...
Gary
...my mother caught me looking at the action figures in a local department store...that night we went to see Star Wars, which amazingly was still playing at one of our local theaters...
Larissa
...I was failing English and my mother forced me to start reading books instead of comics...she said I should read some of my brother's Star Wars books...
Trent
I didn't care much about Star Wars until I saw The Phantom Menace on opening day when I was a high school senior. I was blown away by the mythology of the storyline...
Jango4
The thing that really drew me in was the action sequences -- I was impressed with the chase scenes, the lightsaber fights, and the space battles...
Leigh Silver
...Because of the toys, video releases, and other merchandising, I fell in love with Star Wars as I grew up...
Matril
...I cannot remember a time when I wasn't aware of Star Wars in one form or another...And I have always loved it...
Steve Richards
...I was nine-years-old when my dad took me to see the original (THE original) 1977 film. I remember leaving the cinema and saying to him that it was the best film I had ever seen...
Emily
Star Wars forms one of my earliest childhood memories... It was the summer of 1980, and my Dad took my sister and me to see Empire Strikes Back...
JediSherra
In 1977...I saw a news report on TV that celebrated the new movie, Star Wars, as a return to family films. I was skeptical, but I took my six-year-old daughter to see it anyway...
jedi-scholar
...I headed to the theater filled with dread…because my stepbrother was keenly interested in Star Wars, I knew it’d be awful...
Anakin_Skywalker20
When I was young, I remember watching the Star Wars trilogy on television. All I could really remember was little images of scenes from Return of the Jedi...
Anapad_Nabooine
...Mother suggested we go see this movie called Star Wars. I thought to myself then, "Star Wars?" I'd never heard of it. I was lukewarm at the prospect of the outing...
TragicLove
...My obsession with the saga didn't start until the hype surrounding Episode 3 began. When I first saw the teaser trailer, something struck a chord with me...
Slychick6
...[my] first Star Wars experience...four years old at a New Year's party, a giant man in full Darth Vader costume picking me off the ground and me being so scared I cried...
Arathen
...my older brother got some of the toys and we played Star Wars. That’s what really got me into it...I loved playing Star Wars because I could be so creative...
Susan R.
I discovered Star Wars in 1980...Even with all the negatives -- poor tape quality, the kids running around, phone call interruptions -- I was hooked.
Sithcount
...in 1998 I married a die-hard fan. When our friends caught Episode I fever and bought us all tickets to the midnight premier, I gamely went along. Their enthusiasm was infectious...
AnakinAdvocate
It's hard to convey to those too young to remember the pre-modern special effects days just what effect the opening shot...had on people like me.
dark_heavens
I learned that my dad was a massive Star Wars fan and had been since the movies came out...but I actually got into them when I saw them on tape.
Darth Pipes
I don’t remember the first time I saw Star Wars. But I know I've been a fan as long as I can remember. Star Wars was my absolute favorite growing up.
rhonderoo
I remember the summer of 1978 as probably one of the best summers of my life so far...I remember my aunt, who was a Star Wars nut, telling me we going to see Star Wars.
Keith Palmer
If it wasn't earlier, it was at least in 1981, when I was five, that I was taken to Star Wars at the movies...It's obvious I liked it from the start...
Lady Aeryn
My first clear Star Wars memory is when the USA cable network, more than ten years ago, ran the entire original trilogy back to back twice in one day -- I watched...fully entranced.
Sarah
As every Star Wars fan knows, The Phantom Menace came out in the year 1999. In the summer of that year, when I was 11 years old, I got introduced to Star Wars.
Sean Dineen
...I was a four-year-old disabled kid. Star Wars gave me hope and pride...Yoda became my teaching model...the...happy ending gave me strength to overcome using a wheelchair.
Sgmsky
...I found two videotapes that my brother had borrowed from a friend: Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back...For four hours I only stopped staring at the TV to replace the tape.
ami-padme
It wasn't until the theatrical release of Return of the Jedi that the saga broke out of [the] background, and really made an impact on me. But what an impact!
FernWithy
...the kids went up to the very front of the theater and sat on the floor. [The movie] took up the whole world. It was the biggest, most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.
lazypadawan
My dad came up with the idea of playing hooky from work while my brother and I would be pulled out of school...[since] it would be easier to get into the theater on a weekday.
Reihla
The thing I remember best about my first Star Wars experience was the amazing lightsaber. I spent countless hours crafting my own...
