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Originally Posted by big screen satellite
one reason for these: action figures
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you know, the more I think about it... the more i'm convinced that my love for the original trilogy was actually more about the toys than the movies. I have all these memories about characters like Hammerhead and the alligator bounty hunter dude who are barely in one shot of the movies but since i had their toys and played with them forever, i loved it. I really don't know how fondly i would remember the Millenium Falcon if i didn't have the toy and couldn't marvel at how cool it was that they had the smuggler's hold built in. Certainly I think Boba Fett gained a lot of popularity because of the toy, simply because he looked like a badass. He was the Star Wars equivalent of Snake Eyes. It all melts together... now with the new ones, since i have to pay for my own toys now rather than just beg on birthdays and christmas, all i have is the movies and they don't quite add up. Even with epi3, if i hadn't seen the Clone Wars cartoon i would've thought that Grevious was really, really lame. I still have problems with him but at least i knew why he was constantly coughing and wheezing. And thanks to playing LEGO Star Wars, I got more out of the kashyyk sequence than what was in the movie. The movie feels like a puzzle with only 75% of the pieces and you have to scrounge around the couch cushions and underneath the bed to collect the whole story. Maybe i need to buy more toys.