Star Wars and Me

I thought I'd write this up because I realized I would likely often write the same things at conventions which will be something along the lines of --- they have only been in Star Wars so did not get their autograph --- writing something like this will probably come across to you the (fictional) reader that out of all the science fiction or fantasy genres that I just don't like Star Wars, which is not true, but there is a reasoning I have decided not to chase Star Wars...

I would go as far to say that among my first film memories are of Star Wars, and as a little kid I probably watched the films multiple times a week and like a lot of kids my age collected the Kenner things before growing out of them, but cut to 1993 when I was 11 I decided to buy some Return Of The Jedi comics from a charity shop and from there grew a collection, that I now kept in the packaging, luckily places like car boots as well as a cool local shop helped me built up a collection including some of the rare stuff.

I collected for the next few years getting many bits of stuff related to the original trilogy (which obviously was just the trilogy at the time), until I think one of my cousins in late 95, stole all my weapons and some of my rarer figures. I stumbled on for a few months into 1996 but decided after the set back that I can't have anything nice to sell up my collection.

Even after selling on my collection, I did attend some collector's conventions that had Star Wars guests there, they included Warwick Davies, Paul Blake, Jeremy Bulloch and Peter Mayhew... all of them where lovely except Mayhew who was grumpy even then.

I went to see the special edition re-releases in 1997 and as well as the seeing the prequels (quality be damned) and even saw The Force Awakens on the day of release more recently. I do own the odd bit of signed stuff (like a signed Jeremy Bulloch Return Of The Jedi comic) and even a couple of years ago started and got 3 signatures in a Star Wars Lego Encyclopedia, but I just decided my heart wasn't in and sold it on.

So there you go, I don't look down on the Star Wars franchise, it's just an area I am no covering and still have a lot of affection for it, and honestly if I had the chance of a key character like Harrison Ford or Mark Hamill there is no way I can turn it down.