In times before digital entertainment those toys were priceless and my friends, brothers and I spent countless hours recreating Star Wars battles (including replicating the planet Hoth in the garden with real snow).Īs a teenager and young adult I read all the expanded universe novels, from the wonderful Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn to the slightly dodgy Crystal Star by Vonda McIntyre - which is still a miles better story than the newer films, even if it does feature centaurs and werewolves. I had most of the toy figures, the AT-AT, X-Wing, Tie Fighter, ewok village, Jabba and his music band, and of course the Millennium Falcon. Must have driven my poor mother to distraction. Star Wars was a huge part of my childhood, the original was the first film I ever saw at the Cinema and for a period I watched the film (and the two proceeding) pretty much every day - at one point I could recite the whole script if you'd asked me to.
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