Todd's post about Star Wars is a much fuller recollection of the phenomenon than mine. I wasn't planning to participate in Eddie's blog-a-thon, because I never saw the newer trilogy, but reading what's coming up so far--I couldn't help but chime in with a few memories.
My brother and I were as fully immersed in Star Wars growing up as any two kids could be. Technically, all the "Star Wars guys," as we called them, were his--except for Princess Leia and Yoda, which were too girly to belong to anyone but me. Boba Fett was my favorite, though, because we also had his ship and I thought it was really cool how you put him in then slid him up to the top. Neither one of us would claim Han Solo in carbonite, though. Too boring. We'd just leave him in a glass of water for days on end.
After seeing Jedi, we used our building blocks to create the Rancor monster's lair. We didn't have the Rancor monster, so one of us would have to play it. To do that involved simultaneously bending backwards as far as you could while walking backwards. Neither one of us being gymnasts, this led to a lot of bruises.
When my brother was in fourth grade, his school chorus performed the Ewok song at the Christmas pageant. The two of us can still sing it more than twenty years later, and "Lerdo" (Ewok for "nerd") is still a favorite insult between us. Here's the Ewok song, as I remember it, rendered phonetically because I've let my Ewok slip since my school days:
Yub nub
Eechappa yub nub
A-toomey peachy keen
A-fling-oh-wah
Yub nub!
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May 25, 2007 - 1:37pm
