DEATH STAR DIORAMA/PLAYSET

Wirraway wrote:

I've never understood the fascination with Star Wars.  Which, with some folk, goes way beyond healthy, verging on obsession.  A guy at my workplace had his name legally changed to Zen Skywalker.   I'm embarrassed for him even if he is not.  I guess some people will latch onto something to give their life some meaning or purpose.  Now, that should stir up some Jedi........

weirdos! but i also know grown adults who dress up in starwars outfits and go to conventions, same with the trekkies.  my cousin one christmas showed up dressed as harry frikkin potter and he's in his forties....bwahahahaha!!!

i really enjoyed starwars as a kid growing up.  i had the action figures, but the playsets always sucked.  my dad built us a a huge hoth playset, out of styrofoam and model railroad landscaping, he was a brilliant ho scale railroader, but stopped twenty years ago for some reason.  it was great, and i wish we hooligan brothers didn't destroy it, but we destroyed all our toys, and models we built for that matter.

props to the op for being a great dad, and giving your kids an awesome fantasy toy you cannot buy in the store!

Hans von Hammer wrote:

Don't understand... The Empire Strikes Back was released in 1980..

Typo? Maybe he means Jedi... But that was not released 10 yrs later... strange

Boba Fett wrote:

Hans von Hammer wrote: Don't understand... The Empire Strikes Back was released in 1980.. Typo? Maybe he means Jedi... But that was not released 10 yrs later... strange

Got lost in translation. If there had of been a bootleg of Ep V in 1980 there wouldn't have been any home vcr's around to play it anyway (maybe a betamax) The best we had in 1980 was a 20 minute super 8 reel of selected scenes before the movie was released which, silly as it sounds, was also awesome (we charged other kids so they could watch it, heh what a scam) . So anyway around the time Jedi was released a bootleg copy of Ep V was a big deal, considering Jedi was pretty crappy. I think Empire was released officially late 80's early 90's from what I remember.

Camm wrote:

Boba Fett wrote:  Hans von Hammer wrote: Don't understand... The Empire Strikes Back was released in 1980.. Typo? Maybe he means Jedi... But that was not released 10 yrs later... strange Got lost in translation. If there had of been a bootleg of Ep V in 1980 there wouldn't have been any home vcr's around to play it anyway (maybe a betamax) The best we had in 1980 was a 20 minute super 8 reel of selected scenes before the movie was released which, silly as it sounds, was also awesome (we charged other kids so they could watch it, heh what a scam) . So anyway around the time Jedi was released a bootleg copy of Ep V was a big deal, considering Jedi was pretty crappy. I think Empire was released officially late 80's early 90's from what I remember.

Again, I'm confused.. Empire Strikes Back (1980) was the sequel to Star Wars (1977), and Return of the Jedi came in '83...

Do you mean that you had a reel from Return of the Jedi or The Empire Strikes Back?

There weren't any episode numbers in the Trilogy in 1983... A New Hope was Episode IV, but not until they released the 1st Special Edition on VHS in 90s, as far as I know... I remember being surpriced at the full title, "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" in the opening credits... That was the first clue most folks had that there was going to be a "Prequel" with three more films..

I do remember also that Lucas had originally intended the Star Wars saga to consist of nine episodes...

Hans von Hammer wrote:

Camm wrote:  Boba Fett wrote:  Hans von Hammer wrote: Don't understand... The Empire Strikes Back was released in 1980.. Typo? Maybe he means Jedi... But that was not released 10 yrs later... strange Got lost in translation. If there had of been a bootleg of Ep V in 1980 there wouldn't have been any home vcr's around to play it anyway (maybe a betamax) The best we had in 1980 was a 20 minute super 8 reel of selected scenes before the movie was released which, silly as it sounds, was also awesome (we charged other kids so they could watch it, heh what a scam) . So anyway around the time Jedi was released a bootleg copy of Ep V was a big deal, considering Jedi was pretty crappy. I think Empire was released officially late 80's early 90's from what I remember. Again, I'm confused.. Empire Strikes Back (1980) was the sequel to Star Wars (1977), and Return of the Jedi came in '83... Do you mean that you had a reel from Return of the Jedi or The Empire Strikes Back? There weren't any episode numbers in the Trilogy in 1983... A New Hope was Episode IV, but not until they released the 1st Special Edition on VHS in 90s, as far as I know... I remember being surpriced at the full title, "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" in the opening credits... That was the first clue most folks had that there was going to be a "Prequel" with three more films.. I do remember also that Lucas had originally intended the Star Wars saga to consist of nine episodes...

Episode V, thats the Empire Strikes Back, but yeah not called ep V at the time. I was just talking about a bootleg copy of Empire we had in 1983 or 84 can't quite remember. These days seems pretty silly considering we had to wait four years. And in the late seventies early eighties they would officially release super 8 reels, up to 20 minutes of highlights about the same time the movie was in the cinema. Of course, it was pre-VHS and DVD.