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What was your first Star Wars merchandise?

Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 9:27 pm
by AQT
Aside from the movies themselves on home media? Me, I'm not too sure. It was either a box of Rebel Hoth soldiers Miro Machines (my little sister got Stormtroopers, or was it the other way around? *shrug shoulders*) or LucasArts Archives Volume I and II box sets. So how about everyone else? We all at one time had to have owned a first Star Wars product... right? 8)

Re: What was your first Star Wars merchandise?

Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 10:11 pm
by GangsterJawa
AQT wrote:Aside from the movies themselves on home media? Me, I'm not too sure. It was either a box of Rebel Hoth soldiers Miro Machines (my little sister got Stormtroopers, or was it the other way around? *shrug shoulders*) or LucasArts Archives Volume I and II box sets. So how about everyone else? We all at one time had to have owned a first Star Wars product... right? 8)
Probably the Original Trilogy which we got for Christmas when I was about 7 or so.

Re: What was your first Star Wars merchandise?

Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 10:13 pm
by Grev
Aw man, I have no idea. Probably my uncle/dad's old OT action figures.

Re: What was your first Star Wars merchandise?

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:26 am
by THEWULFMAN
Lego star wars stuff, I think the first ones were the speeder bike chase, and the snowspeeder, the first ones. I have a imense lego star wars collection.

Re: What was your first Star Wars merchandise?

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:37 am
by Twilight_Warrior
GangsterJawa wrote:Probably the Original Trilogy which we got for Christmas when I was about 7 or so.
AQT wrote:Aside from the movies themselves on home media?
:P

Mine? Well my Dad had a bunch of stuff. But the first thing that was legitimately mine that I paid for with my own money was actually Star Wars: Battlefront. If we're reffering to gifts, then I got an electronic lightsaber after Episode II came out in 2002. Bear in mind that I didn't see Star Wars for the first time until 1999, and it took me a while to fully appreciate it and get hooked enough to want stuff.

Re: What was your first Star Wars merchandise?

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:40 am
by Eggman
I don't remember exactly what my first-ever Star Wars toy was, but when I first became interested in Star Wars my favorite toys were the Action Fleet vehicles - I'm pretty sure my first toy from that line was the X-wing that came with Biggs Darklighter.

Re: What was your first Star Wars merchandise?

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:41 am
by kinetosimpetus
Besides the movies, (original trilogy vhs)... Lego. although I can't possible remember which set. Droid troop transport? AT-ST?
THEWULFMAN wrote:Lego star wars stuff, I think the first ones were the speeder bike chase, and the snowspeeder, the first ones. I have a imense lego star wars collection.
:thumbs:

Re: What was your first Star Wars merchandise?

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 2:00 am
by fasty
After thinking really really hard about it and asking my brother, we decided this was the first set we got:
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Too bad we don't still have that epic box.

Re: What was your first Star Wars merchandise?

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:09 am
by Darth_Spiderpig
lemme think...oh yes, the N1.

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Looking at the pic wakes good old memories. *_*

Re: What was your first Star Wars merchandise?

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:12 am
by GangsterJawa
Well, OTHER THAN the movies... probably some lego set. Maybe the Geonosian snubfighter and Jabba's Palace sets.

Re: What was your first Star Wars merchandise?

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:36 am
by guru
when empire strikes back came out I got a watch that plays the star wars theme..i loved it! Since then I have gathered many cool things like figures, models, masks, costumes and vehicles. My tusken raider outfit has been in parades and used by 501st peeps, now I use it during parties to be "the" coolest costume ever..I would buy some more stuff but no one really sells cool star wars stuff unless its a jillion dollars

Re: What was your first Star Wars merchandise?

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 1:03 pm
by commander501stappo
My first Star Wars thing was the second version of the Lego B-Wing fighter, it's a looong time since I got it, but I still have it
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It's not 100% anymore, but it's about 95%(at this time) :P

Re: What was your first Star Wars merchandise?

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 1:05 pm
by Lephenix
Lego sets ^^ (big fan of LEGO)

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Re: What was your first Star Wars merchandise?

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 2:13 pm
by The_Emperor
A flimsy plastic darth Vader mask about 16? years ago as a free toy from a supermarket, I think I was five-ish so I didn't even know what the mask was from. I wore it a lot though, pretending to be some robotic superhero guy.

Then in 1999 when episode 1 came out I got interested in Star Wars and I got dozens of junk then precious to me :D lego, posters, a jar-jar binks mug....

I also remember one of those lolly-pop things with (gross) candy (what the hell is that rockhard sticky translucent pink stuff anyway) at the bottom and a Qui-gon figure at the top who "slashed" his saber if you pushed a button. (In slow-mo, *bzzzzzzzzzzzt FLOP*, *bzzzzzzzzzzzzzt FLOP*)
At a later age I noticed that if one removed the lightsaber from his hands, he a made rather rude one-handed gesture. Hehe

Re: What was your first Star Wars merchandise?

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 2:24 pm
by Darth_Spiderpig
The_Emperor wrote:At a later age I noticed that if one removed the lightsaber from his hands, he a made rather rude one-handed gesture. Hehe
:funny2:

I had something similar, a Darth Maul figure with his lightsaber hilt as a toy lightsaber and if you plugged Maul into it and pushed a button he was swinging around his saber.

Pretty fun, pretty fun...

Re: What was your first Star Wars merchandise?

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 2:32 pm
by commander501stappo
Darth_Spiderpig wrote:
The_Emperor wrote:At a later age I noticed that if one removed the lightsaber from his hands, he a made rather rude one-handed gesture. Hehe
:funny2:

I had something similar, a Darth Maul figure with his lightsaber hilt as a toy lightsaber and if you plugged Maul into it and pushed a button he was swinging around his saber.

Pretty fun, pretty fun...
:funny2:

I had to laugh there :lol:

Re: What was your first Star Wars merchandise?

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:27 pm
by Nova Hawk
Oh gosh, I can't remember.

It was either this:
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Or this:
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Sadly, both of them are destroyed and are lost in my lego box somewhere in a million pieces.

Re: What was your first Star Wars merchandise?

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:45 pm
by Eggman
Nova Hawk wrote: Sadly, both of them are destroyed and are lost in my lego box somewhere in a million pieces.
Eh, finding all the pieces and putting them back together is half the fun of Legos. :)

Re: What was your first Star Wars merchandise?

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:53 pm
by commander501stappo
Eggman wrote:
Nova Hawk wrote: Sadly, both of them are destroyed and are lost in my lego box somewhere in a million pieces.
Eh, finding all the pieces and putting them back together is half the fun of Legos. :)
I agree for full, except one thing
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[quote="Eggman"]Eh, finding all the pieces and putting them back together is half the fun of Legos. :)[/quote]
For me it's more like 3/4 of the fun.

Re: What was your first Star Wars merchandise?

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 5:54 pm
by Xavious
I don't remember for sure, but this is what I have the earliest memories of.
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I've still got it somewhere, along with a massive box full of similar sets and action figures of assorted sizes.