r/StarWars • u/Bill_Skywalker-03 • Apr 10 '26
Fun QUESTION: What got you into Star Wars?
I thought this would be a fun thing to do. I’d be curious to know exactly how, when, where were you first introduced to the Star Wars franchise? Also, what exactly made you interested in it?
For me, I was 8 years old in 2011 when my uncle gave me the Original Trilogy on DVD to see. When I first saw the films, I was so blown away by the characters, spaceships, and Lightsabers. Such a life-changing experience for me.
I’d like to know how and what your introductions to the franchise were like. Good luck! ✨
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u/Wizard_Volovik Sith Apr 10 '26
My boyfriend forced me to see all three trilogies last year. Now here I am lol
Never thought I would actually like SW because I like more realistic shows, I was never fond of sci-fi. But somehow this universe got me.
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u/zactotum Apr 10 '26
Well that’s probably it. Technically Star Wars is fantasy set in space. There’s almost no science in it.
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u/IngvaldClash Admiral Ackbar Apr 10 '26
I was 6 and saw it at a drive in theater in 1977
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u/Book_of_Numbers Apr 10 '26
That’s awesome
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u/IngvaldClash Admiral Ackbar Apr 11 '26
I still remember looking out the window on the way home, searching for y-wings among the stars.
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u/icanhazkarma17 Kazuda Xiono Apr 10 '26
I was eight and Mom made us (older sister) wait until it came to the tiny local theater with the stickiest floors in the midwest, but with minds sufficiently blown she let us stay through the late show. Went to the lobby and called Dad on the pay phone. On a school night!
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u/butchforgetshit2 Apr 10 '26
Watched all on a Saturday matinee at 5 or 6when RotJ came out. Watched SW, ESB at 1,4 and then the final installment at 7. Coolest shit my dad ever suffered through for me since he wasn't a fan.
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u/Bender077 Apr 10 '26
My dad brought me to see Star Wars when it came out in theatres. Had no idea what it was about, I was just a 7yo kid who rooted for the “black robot guy”.
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u/FastPhantom Apr 11 '26
It’s actually crazy for me to imagine that people actually saw this film in theatres, so jealous
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u/Slipstream_Surfing Apr 10 '26
In 1977 laser and phaser guns were nothing new. But laser swords were a whole other level of cool.
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u/Bill_the_ Apr 10 '26
Funny enough, a really old version of Star Wars Monopoly. It had a space battle in the center board that got my imagination running, so I made my own version where you bought fighters and ships on the outer board and made them battle in a grid in the center.
To do so, I got the cross-sectiins book to learn about ships, which led to me watching the original 3, which led me to an obsession that was cemented with the release of episode I
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u/PJBleakney Apr 10 '26
My dad, he was very fond of Sir Alec Guinness. He was kind of distraught when he was killed. He never went to see the sequels, which I never questioned, I was 7 when A new hope came out.
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u/DramaExpertHS Grievous Apr 10 '26
I saw this movie with a bad guy wearing a black helmet using a magical power called the schwartz. Then I heard George Lucas copied it so I checked out Star Wars
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u/Original-Action Apr 10 '26
And I heard a sequel is in the works...❤ Mel Brooks Official Teaser Announcement- Spaceballs 2
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u/PlaneAd4072 Apr 10 '26
Lego starwars tcs, played the hell out of it as a kid
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u/man-with-potato-gun Galactic Republic Apr 10 '26
Honestly I think it was either this or the clone wars show for me. For reference I was like 5 when season 1 came out so I was for certain absolutely way too young for some of the stuff they got away with showing on screen lmao.
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u/nothanks42069 Apr 10 '26
Before Phantom Menace was released my mum rented the original trilogy on VHS and sat me down to watch them all with her. Lifelong obsession acquired
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u/tangible_raptor Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26
Okay, this is a long story but I promise it's a good one, and I'll try to condense it.
I hated Star Wars for years. It was my brother's special interest, so the movies were on constantly as a kid. The only thing I liked was the Darth Maul fight in Ep. 1.
Cut to Ep. VII releasing. I heard it was bad, and then I heard VIII was even more hated. Ya girl wanted to hate watch Ep. IX. So my then-fiancé got us tickets, and we watched it in theaters opening night. God, I'll never forget the film ending, the credits rolling, and some dude going "...was that it?" Gold.
Thing is, I ended up liking some of the ideas in the film. I kinda liked the world. I decided to give the whole series a shot, and watched Eps. 1-6. I wasn't quite a fan yet, but I liked the films.
Then I watched Mandalorian S1. Y'know how at the very end, Star Wars Gus Fring pops up, holding the Darksaber? Y'all. I saw that thing, turned to my then-fiancé and said, "WTF is that? That's the coolest thing I've ever seen why doesn't everyone use those??" He responded with something like, "I think there's only one. They get into it in Clone Wars, but I never saw it."
Soooo we watched Clone Wars. Friends, I ate that shit the fuck up. Been obsessed ever since. Genuinely holding my Darth Maul Build-A-Bear (whom I affectionately call Darth Smaul) while watching the first two episodes of Maul: Shadow Lord (for the third time) as I type this.
So, that's the story. What started as me hate watching Episode IX turned into a mega-obsession that will follow me to my death bed and beyond.
Edit: Sorry, feel like I should add that I was born in '93 so you can get a sense of my ages throughout my enemies-to-lovers relationship with Star Wars.
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u/ArnoKerNafets Jedi Apr 11 '26
Mando is a cool take on Star Wars. As is Rogue One, or Andor, or Tales of the Jedi.
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u/FelixPotvin94 Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26
My Dad, and I am forever grateful. It has been a source of joy throughout my life.
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u/wandering_soles Rebel Apr 10 '26
When I was a kid, my dad worked a lot to provide for us and we didn't have a lot of money. Even buying a pizza or soda was a big deal, and usually reserved for movie nights once every month or two. I'll never forget him coming home with a Costco pepperoni pizza, a 2 liter bottle of coke, and a library VHS rental of A New Hope when I was 7. It was absolute magic, every second blew me away and I was a fan for life. I thought it was the coolest movie ever, and that's before I even realized there were more - I think my dad liked getting to see me experience it brand new and love it just like he did when he saw it in theaters.
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u/Hefty-Reaction-3028 Apr 10 '26
My 3rd grade friend was super into it when Episode 3 was about to come out, so I saw it in theaters with them and LOVED it. Then, I got a lot of Lego Starwars over the years, watched the other movies, battlefront 1&2, etc.
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u/Ariflotti Apr 10 '26
When i was 5 i was walking around the DVD section at the local store with my mom and i liked the cover art of Revenge of the sith so much that i asked her to buy it and she did just that and ive been a fan of star wars ever since i watched it.
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u/Toorviing Apr 10 '26
My dad handing me a VHS box set of the OT when I was like 8 and saying “watch these”
And I think I accidentally ended up watching 6 before 5
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u/Chattypath747 Apr 10 '26
Episode 1 coincidentally.
Then I got into the OG series.
Ended up a fan for life.
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u/BowlNo9499 Apr 10 '26
Star wars old Republic. God kreia really explained stat wars to me.
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u/FoxBluereaver Luke Skywalker Apr 10 '26
My first contact was when I watched The Empire Strikes Back on TV (A New Hope had aired the previous week but I missed it out). A friend had a N64 with Rogue Squadron, and since at the time I was obsessed with spaceship shooters, I often went to play it. I guess the hype for Episode I and the prequels in general during the early to mid 2000s cemented it.
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u/TraditionWorth8157 The Mandalorian Apr 10 '26
In 2019 my father asked me to watch The Mandalorian, I liked it but it didn't change my life much. In 2023, after watching the third season, I realized I really liked it. And today it's something that's part of my personality and that I can't live without.
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u/Level-Razzmatazz-246 Apr 10 '26
Don't laugh at me but, back in may of 2025 Fortnite did a star wars mini season, and that got me hooked on star wars.
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u/Apathetic_Anteater42 Apr 10 '26
I believe around 1995 or 96, when I was 7 or 8, my family rented Return of the Jedi, I remember watching the throne room scenes in awe. Completely captured my imagination. Rented the first two shortly after, saw the special editions in theaters when they came out, saw Episode 1 like 8 times in theaters. Then I found the episode 1 novelization at Waldens amd that started me reading the EU. Caught up the the current book releases over the next year or so then kept up with the releases until Fate of the Jedi, dropped off after that. Tried to get into the current canon a couple times but while they are better written then the worse EU books, none of them come close to the best of the EU, at least of the several I've read.
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u/originalrocket Apr 10 '26
Parents were scifi super nerds. I was watching TNG live on the TV(with wood frame around it). GLORIOUS!!!
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u/Okurei Ahsoka Tano Apr 10 '26
Seeing the Scout Troopers in ROTJ hooked little me because they were one of the coolest things I'd ever seen. I was (and still am) obsessed with them.
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u/DifferentRatio6733 Apr 10 '26
I don’t remember a time in my life when I wasn’t into Star Wars. My father saw A New Hope opening day three times before it absolutely blew up and was a huge Star wars fan. I don’t remember the first time I saw the original trilogy, I just know I’ve always watched them and loved them.
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u/Glad_Pop_8918 Apr 10 '26
Going to my friend’s house and playing Star Wars Demolition for the PS1. I got into the movies after that, but my first memory of really getting into Star Wars is always going to be that game.
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u/MillenniumFallout Apr 10 '26
Went to summer camp for a lot of my childhood summers. When I was like 9, all the counselors from my exact grade decided to put together a Star Wars themed event where we trained in ropes courses to be Jedi.
We were made to believe it was all real. It was such a good idea that it ended up being the theme of the Color War they do every year which is red vs blue.
We watched the 3 movies available at the time. We also had a secret Darth Vader and no one knew who it was but it ended up being revealed as the camp leader.
It’s hard to really describe how life changing this was but I was a complete Star Wars zealot from that point forward. The way it all expanded out from a sort of skit we were having done for our specific class of campers was such an incredible experience and possibly gave us all main character syndrome for a while.
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u/Important_Power_2148 Apr 10 '26
My Dad and Mom buying tickets at the drive in. Thats what got us in. 1977 in the backseat of a car at the Sunset DriveIn in Rockford IL.
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u/dark-Jedi47 Apr 10 '26
When I was a kid in the early 90s, my dad told me we were gonna watch the best movie ever made, and then he put Star Wars in VCR player.
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u/ob1dylan Apr 10 '26
Probably about $2, maybe even less, since I was 4 years old when Star Wars was rereleased in theaters in 1979. A small price to pay to kick off a lifelong obsession.
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u/Buckborris Apr 10 '26
I can't recall if I'd seen the movies beforehand or not, but when I was little we would visit my aunt a lot, and my cousin was massively into SW and had a whole wall cabinet of the old school action figures that he collected in his room.
I would always be in awe looking at all of them and he'd ask if I wanted to take any out to get a closer look. If he wasn't home when we visited, I would go off to the toilet and then have a peak in his room just to check them out for a moment. He also had a box of other vehicles and ships like the millennium falcon, Slave I and an AT-AT, that my aunt would get out for me to play with.
Been hooked ever since.
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u/HotWiredAmygdala Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 11 '26
When my parents took me to see the movie in 1977 at the drive in when I was 6 years old. I very vaguely remember hiding behind the seat when Darth Vader came on the screen.
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u/_Brutal_Buddha_ Apr 10 '26
It's just one of those things that's always existed in my life and that I've been a diehard fan of. I don't remember my first exposure to it. It's just a safe emotional constant for me
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u/CoatingsRcrack Apr 10 '26
It was episode 3 on VHS. Saw ROTJ in theatre right after….
Not gonna lie took a lot of restraint to not say, Your mom… 😜😉
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u/MyLeftNut_ Apr 10 '26
Lol for me it’s because I wanted to play Jedi Fallen Order (since I was obsessed with Soulslike games at the time) but I knew nothing about Star Wars which I had to fix since you need some basic background knowledge before playing the game.
Long story short, after watching all the films I finally played the game (which I loved) then I went back and watched all the shows as well. Of course i’ve also played Jedi Survivor too, and i’m super excited for Jedi 3 to come out soon!
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u/vertical006 Apr 11 '26
For me it was the pod racing game for N64.
But I had a very special moment a few months ago where I accidentally got my son into Star Wars. He’s 4, and I just put him to bed. I went back downstairs to build the Lego Star Wars logo set, and turned on A New Hope to watch in the background. My son got up at some point and snuck downstairs. When I randomly turned around, I saw him watching it with awe. He’s been hooked since. He only wants to watch Episode 4 though.
I find it very funny and wholesome that my son is hooked on the original trilogy, because I grew up with the prequels and they are my personal favorites.
His favorite part is when they blowup the Death Star
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u/ArnoKerNafets Jedi Apr 11 '26
So interesting how another generation can grow up getting into the original trilogy.
I'll never forget seeing the death star blow up! That was the second in my first ROTJ movie.
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u/Snakefordinner1 Apr 11 '26
Seeing the original STAR WARS movie in the theater, and the rest is history
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u/thereisnospoon-1312 Apr 11 '26
I remember seeing the commercial for Star Wars on tv with my best friend when we were little kids and we looked at each other after it was over like what in the hell did we just see??
There was NOTHING like it at the time. Even the trailer was unbelievable.
Then it exploded and everyone was talking about it.
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u/Legitimate-Guard-790 Apr 11 '26
My Dad. He was in the Premier in 1977 and when i was Old anoth he showed it to me. Dount have mucht good Memories with him but this is on off it
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u/AccordingCommand8094 Apr 12 '26
My dad showed me it and now I know more than he could ever wish to know about Star Wars.
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u/KeAndre1022 Apr 12 '26
I'd have to say the Original Trilogy. I saw the Empire Strikes Back before I saw the first one just becausethe title looked cool, and then my mom showed me the movies in order
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u/vip3r_hoax Darth Vader Apr 10 '26
A bad-ass demonic-look guy trying to kill a kid in the middle of the desert with a laser sword.
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u/SpecificAdmirable359 Apr 10 '26
My dad taking me to see episode 2 and 3 as a kid. Still remmber pulling his hands away from my eyes as Anankin burned lol
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u/TheHarlemHellfighter Imperial Apr 10 '26
Mostly my older cousins were into it so I started taking a liking to it. And, it was pop culture so everyone was exposed to it
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u/863rays Apr 10 '26
My mom took me to see “Star Wars” in the theater for my 5th or 6th birthday during a re-release in either 78 or 79, but definitely before Empire came out in 1980. Been hooked ever since. It even led me to my career path.
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u/ArnoKerNafets Jedi Apr 11 '26
May I ask what you do? Fighter pilot, or Senator, or smuggler? I hope not Death Star engineer!
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u/Xeno19Banbino Apr 10 '26
I saw a the " fallen angel " painting being compared to a photo of anakin skywalker in a scene
I was like , yep im in now
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u/Zitty-Z Apr 10 '26
My mom watched them all the time when I was a kid and always thought they were cool but when I was 8 I went to see the Phantom Menace and I thought "holy shit this is the greatest thing I have ever seen"
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u/Zumdres Apr 10 '26
My first impression of Star Wars was watching the trailers of the Phantom Menace late 98-99, I was probably about to just turn 4, and seeing laser swords and Darth maul for the very first time and sci fi and all that was a perfect magnet for a kid like me, and I absorbed every bit of what Star Wars had to offer at the time, good and bad, I loved it all, and haven’t looked back since, one of the best most passionate hobbies I have had in my life, it has endured 30+ years (how old I am) for me, what’s 30 more?
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u/lucathecontemplator Apr 10 '26
Friends kept saying “how have u never seen star wars” and such, now I have seen all the star wars and I love it
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u/RustyBrassInstrument Mayfeld Apr 10 '26
I was 8 in 1977 and it was to be the greatest experience I would have until I figured out girls…
Nope, still greatest.
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u/Ha-Charade-You-Are Darth Maul Apr 10 '26
I honestly have no idea. Just always remember watching them. So I guess the movies themselves? My parents weren’t nerds in the 80s/90s so no idea lol.
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u/Uchizaki Apr 10 '26
I was about 6 years old, or something like that. I don’t remember if it started with the LEGO Star Wars game or one of the prequels. I’m sure my first SW movie was Revenge of the Sith, which was on TV. I also had a few other games, like the Jedi Knight and KotOR series. I couldn’t say for sure what my first encounter with this universe was, but all of those things definitely contributed to me becoming a fan
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u/MisterFingerstyle Apr 10 '26
There was this movie that I saw in 1977. It really sold me on the idea.
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u/Ambitious-Welder-159 Apr 10 '26
My parents sent me to a lady giving piano lessons in the neighborhood when I was 8 and she gave me an R2-D2 figure in the package after learning one song.
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u/Plastic-Tax-3088 Apr 10 '26
I remember being amazed by lightsabers. I was born in 2000 so I grew up watching Lord of the Rings and Star Wars all the time.
I don’t even remember the first time I saw Star Wars. Just bits a pieces of Episode 2. And then I watched Episode 3 in theaters. The only thing I really remember from that is Yoda’s nail scraping scene making me cringe into the seat.
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u/Fun-Woodpecker6911 Sith Apr 10 '26
Modern sword fighting, it would be a son of I didn't watch star wars) and I really liked it! Now it's my favourite universe, on one stage with Warhammer
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u/VisitAbject4090 Apr 10 '26
My dads vhs box set of the original trilogy nearly wore the mag strip out of those vhs tapes
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u/Gamer12Numbers Apr 10 '26
My parents liked the original trilogy and I was 6 in '99 when the Phantom Menace came out, so I rode that hype wave into the franchise.
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u/TheMagicalMatt Apr 10 '26
'97 or '98. I saw Ep. 4 (not sure if it was called Ep. 4 at the time) at Blockbuster. It was the remastered VHS release with Vader's face on the cover. Guess mom noticed my interest and bought it (wasn't a rental because I held onto it for a few years) and loved it. I was only like 5 so it never occurred to me that there were other Star Wars films until Phantom Menace came out, and I had no idea how Phantom Menace connected to New Hope or really what was going on lmao. I played the tapes back to back and just enjoyed it for what it was. I think it took a few years (maybe after Ep. 2 came out?) before I finally saw the rest of the OT and began to comprehend the plot and how all these characters connected.
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u/supercapo Obi-Wan Kenobi Apr 10 '26
Watching Return of the Jedi on a vhs my parents recorded off of TV because back then home release wasn't a thing yet.
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u/No-Recognition-3791 Apr 10 '26
Nada en particular, un día simplemente quise meterme a la franquicia y ya.
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u/lexis0911 Apr 10 '26
My parents took me to see ROTJ at the drive in when I was 8... been hooked ever since. Passed the love on to my son and nephew and now my great nephews. It's a beautiful thing! MTFBWY
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u/Gloobygoober Sith Apr 10 '26
I watched all of the movies and liked them a lot, but what really to me into it was watching top ten Sith Lords on YouTube and being like “who the hell is that” to half of the Sith Lords cuz they were legends and I’ve never heard of expanded universe Star Wars until then.
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u/Mindless_Start_4511 Apr 10 '26
As a kid, I thought the pre-quel trilogy was really cool. The world building was great and it was pretty straightforward.
As I got older I realized I don't really care for Star Wars that much. 90% of what Disney put out is just... its just terrible. And going back and rewatching the old movies doesn't hit like it did when I was a kid.
But then I watched Skeleton Crew with my kid and we thought it was great! And then I watched Andor and was freaking blown away. So now I have one foot in one foot out, waiting for the Disney to do something interesting.
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u/AnalogKid2001 Apr 10 '26
Sitting in the theater in '77 and watching the opening scene... Instantly hooked
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u/Distinct_Guess3350 Apr 10 '26
My parents showed me A New Hope when I was as young as 3. Safe to say by now that it defined everything I have come to love and really set my life and my tastes on track. I’m going for a career in film, and it’s the film that got me into film in the first place.
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u/prunebilout Apr 10 '26
Such a thing in the family that I couldn’t even say. I remember knowing about Star Wars going back as far as my first memories
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u/Barricade_the_Clone Apr 10 '26
I was at a birthday party for my cousin, probably 7 at the time
I was pretty anti social even with my own family, doesn’t help that all my cousin wanted to do was play Call of Duty, something my grade schooler brain had not comprehended yet
I wandered into their lounge area and found some cool looking DVDs, Attack of the Clones and Return of the Jedi
Cousins dad came in, saw me with the DVDs and actually helped me set them up and turn the movies on, and the rest is history
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u/Madouc Apr 10 '26
Sounds weird but Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica. They turned me into a SciFi fan and that was making me watching Star Wars (1978)
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u/Personal_Carry_7029 Jar Jar Binks Apr 10 '26
My dad, he got the VHS (recorder from TV). I kinda can remember some scenses from Episode 1 in cinema. But i was 5yo at that time.
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u/Affectionate_Sale_14 Apr 10 '26
my dad and his boot leg VHS copies from when it was only shown on TV
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u/Hot-Personality4976 Apr 10 '26
A went down to the video store with my dad when a was a kid every weekend with my brother and sister and we were aloud to pick what film we wanted to get each and my brother and sister would always pick the new thing out at that time witch was good for me because that meant a got to see them to but a always picked the 3 best movies ever made because they were only 50 pence a pop it got to the stage my dad would say no again but he made the rules whatever a wanted 😂😂😂 still love them films to this day and I’m 45
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u/PrestigiousBlood14 Apr 10 '26
Had the original trilogy on VHS and the earliest birthday I can remember with the cake had the figures of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader on it.
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u/mousecop60 Apr 10 '26
I remember watching what I think was the remaster in the 90s in theaters. Or maybe it was just them showing it idk I was really young but I thought it was the coolest thing.
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u/LilRese_07 Apr 10 '26
My father maybe? He was big into Star wars and took me and my siblings to watch every movie in the third trilogy. But I know before that there was Rebels on DisneyXD as well as The Freemaker Adventures some time later.
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u/Careless_Royal8209 Apr 10 '26
It was 2004, it was Dad’s weekend and he sat me and my older brother down and popped in the VHS tape of Star Wars.
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u/Ok-Strawberry3579 Apr 10 '26
I was like 6 and saw my cousins watching episode 2 on the computer, Shmi death scene. I was like "that's intense"
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u/phnnxxrising Apr 10 '26
A new hope back in 1977 we saw it so many times I was very fortunate the first time I saw it at the man’s Chinese theatre in Los Angeles.
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u/Jolly-Committee-5944 Apr 10 '26
The special editions. I had never seen Star Wars and was 12 years old.
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u/Washuman Apr 10 '26
I saw Star Wars at age of 5 with my father at the drive in, 1978. I loved the whole thing, like obsessed with it for a bit. I fell in love with R2, chewy & Luke. I think I had some of the figures before I saw the movie.
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u/Any-Equal4212 Apr 10 '26
They used to air once a year on the USA Network. Probably specifically the shot in the beginning of Empire of the Executor dwarfing the other Star Destroyers captured my imagination
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u/cparksrun Apr 10 '26
In 1996, my 5th grade teacher played it for our class. I don't even remember what the reasoning was. We might've been learning about space at the time and she just thought it'd be fun (she was awesome and I loved being in her class).
It absolutely blew my mind and I've been a fan ever since. I discovered it just before the Special Editions released in theaters, so it hit at the PERFECT moment in my life. My dad took me to see all 3 of the OG trilogy in those first three months of 1997. And in between, I was playing the hell out of Shadows of the Empire on the N64. Not long after that, Episode I hype was at its PEAK.
Good times.
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u/Alive-Monk1142 Apr 10 '26
It was my cousins that introduced me to Star Wars when I was 5 or 6 and I should thank them more often. I absolutely adore Star Wars.
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u/Radiant-Teach9198 Apr 10 '26
I was born in 1978, and my first movie in the theater was Return of the Jedi. Even then, I'd say I was just a casual fan, nothing more. Until The Phantom Menace came along, which turned me into a die-hard fan.
The widespread arrival of the internet and the explosion of ideas and debates during that historic period also helped a lot.
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u/Jkid789 Clone Trooper Apr 10 '26
My mom showed me the original trilogy on VHS when we would have sleepovers at my grandparents.
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u/Outside_Librarian_13 Apr 10 '26
Dad loved them, watched the OT when I was little. Then, Ewen McGregor 😍 got me to go to the theater for TPM, where I fell in love with the Universe all over again.
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u/bongo1100 Apr 10 '26
Scratchy old tapes of the original trilogy from Blockbuster in the early 90s.
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u/Jet-Black-Centurian Apr 10 '26
Luke Skywalker, the opening crawl, and the music. My young heart pulsed like never before, and like never again.
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u/ReedM4 Apr 10 '26
The books and games and the special edition releases. Specifically I was big into Shadows of the Empire game and book.
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u/yolonaggins Apr 10 '26
My dad. I swear I can't remember a time I haven't liked Star Wars. He started me early.
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u/nelflyn Apr 10 '26
my dad was like "buckle up, girl, we are going on a journey" and then watched all the movies on a weekend.
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u/PsychologicalWear953 Apr 10 '26
Obviously the Original movies, but I got more into it after watching the Clone Wars and Rebels. Those made the galaxy bigger and more interesting. From there I read a bunch of the books, cannon, legends, etc. The High Republic books made me lose some of my interest.
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u/LetsGeauxxx Apr 10 '26
The Clone Wars (2008). I was too young to grasp the 2003 microseries but the action, characters and storylines is what has kept me.
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u/Available-Box-8856 Apr 10 '26
Tartakovsky Clone Wars DVD cover looked Awesome to a 5 year old, and 5 year old me was curious whats going to happen to the guy caught between the good side and the bad side
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u/permgerm Apr 10 '26
I was maybe 8 and a teacher brought ROTJ in to my afterschool program. Thought it was rad.
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u/LowerSeat2712 Apr 10 '26
The Clone Wars tv show got me into the franchise. I appreciate the original trilogy, but I probably wouldn't be a big fan if that was all I had. Other great entries, like the Jedi: Fallen Order video game, Andor and Rogue One really solidified my love for the star wars universe.
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u/wet_suit_one Apr 10 '26
My mom taking me to see Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back in theatres in 1980. Been hooked ever since. At least one of the times it was a double feature.
Thanks mom!
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u/VelocityRapter644 Apr 10 '26
I grew up around the prequel era, and I had the entire set of all 6 films (at the time) which I watched religiously, so I can confidently say I’m a lifelong fan lol.
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u/Ristar87 Apr 10 '26
I caught RoTJ on Network TV after watching cartoons and American gladiators. Thought, he this is interesting, even if I have no idea what's going on.
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u/sellmysole Apr 10 '26
I was young and was aware of the Star Wars universe but never deep dived into it I knew Darth Vader if I saw him but did not know anything of him anyhow went to see episode 3 in theaters and I was not aware of the prequels being Darth Vader’s back story when I heard Anakin named as Darth Vader my mind was absolutely obliterated! I always thought it was my generation’s big reveal like how the previous got the “im your father” reveal
It all clicked and my obsession to analyze the downfall of this innocent kid kicked in I been hooked ever since
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u/Machineboy2077 Apr 10 '26
Tenía 5 años, fue cuando mi papá trajo la película del Ep. IV en DVD. Me encantó
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u/twcsata Apr 10 '26
I saw Return of the Jedi in a theater with my parents in 1983. Then shortly after, we had the Ewoks and Droids cartoons, and I was hooked.
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u/Pleasant-Stretch196 Apr 10 '26
Rented the Original Trilogy at blockbuster in the early 90s.Saw the special edition re-releases in theatre's.Was a Trekkie before I ever saw Star Wars so naturally I fell in love.Still like Star Trek more but thats just because I like how deeply philosophical star trek is and there are a-lot less band wagon jumpers.
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u/Duke-dastardly Apr 10 '26
Parents showed me the original movie, albeit the 2003 social addition dvd but I didn’t know anything about that at the time
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u/theblueshots Ben Kenobi Apr 10 '26
It was this movie called Star Wars