HAPPY 30th ANNIVERSARY ESB!!!
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The Next Doctor
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30 years.....Man do I feel old, but Happy Birthday anyway ESB!!
Probe Droid
Master Member
Talked to Rinzler this morning. The Making of ESB book currently has a July 20 pub date.
Trap Joe
Sr Member
aaaah, cool news!!!!:thumbsup
BTW: long live THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK!
I am thinking about, posting my ESB props here. Need time.
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GINO
Sr Member
DivineHeresy
Sr Member
Yeah but if it's not in the films, it never happened.
Amen to that.
Sym-Cha
Master Member
Back in late 1980 ... this was the first thing I ever saw of the Star Wars Universe
in a local toystore in my small hometown in Friesland ...
I bought it and went home ... very pleased with my little green gnome ... :love
Huge was my surprise when early in 1981 walking past the local movie theatre,
where they had those PR pictures of the Empire Strikes Back in the window,
I discovered my little green toy gnome to be a real movie character. The next day
I went with my father to see the movie ... till this day he can still remember the
totally overwhelming and flabbergasted look on my face when we left the movie
theatre some 2 and a half hours later. It had changed my whole outlook on life ...
and I had finally found some kindred spirits. Everything from drawing little gnomes,
wizards and other fantasy figures to collecting toy PVC figures like those blue smurfs
and other animated characters fell into place ... and it did not end there. On the same
rack as my little green gnome were more exciting strange looking action figures like
Chewbacca etcetera. The collecting of more Star Wars action figures had begun . . .
As you can imagine after seeing the title crawl of Star Wars The Empires Strikes
Back mentioning Episode V I had to get my hands on Episode I,II,III and IV ...
completely unaware of the fact that the first three were yet to be written. However
my hunger for more was soon to be satisfied when they released ANH in our local
movie theatre, I believe for the first time, right after ESB became a huge success
... even though it must have been around somewhere in our country back in 1978
but alas I lived, as you might say, in the outskirts of the universe back in those days.
Anyhow here's a toast to that small green action figure back in 1980. Here's looking
at you YODA .... CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR 30th ANNIVERSARY!!!
-Chaim
in a local toystore in my small hometown in Friesland ...
I bought it and went home ... very pleased with my little green gnome ... :love
Huge was my surprise when early in 1981 walking past the local movie theatre,
where they had those PR pictures of the Empire Strikes Back in the window,
I discovered my little green toy gnome to be a real movie character. The next day
I went with my father to see the movie ... till this day he can still remember the
totally overwhelming and flabbergasted look on my face when we left the movie
theatre some 2 and a half hours later. It had changed my whole outlook on life ...
and I had finally found some kindred spirits. Everything from drawing little gnomes,
wizards and other fantasy figures to collecting toy PVC figures like those blue smurfs
and other animated characters fell into place ... and it did not end there. On the same
rack as my little green gnome were more exciting strange looking action figures like
Chewbacca etcetera. The collecting of more Star Wars action figures had begun . . .
As you can imagine after seeing the title crawl of Star Wars The Empires Strikes
Back mentioning Episode V I had to get my hands on Episode I,II,III and IV ...
completely unaware of the fact that the first three were yet to be written. However
my hunger for more was soon to be satisfied when they released ANH in our local
movie theatre, I believe for the first time, right after ESB became a huge success
... even though it must have been around somewhere in our country back in 1978
but alas I lived, as you might say, in the outskirts of the universe back in those days.
Anyhow here's a toast to that small green action figure back in 1980. Here's looking
at you YODA .... CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR 30th ANNIVERSARY!!!
-Chaim
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Trap Joe
Sr Member
Back in late 1980 ... this was the first thing I ever saw of the Star Wars Universe
in a local toystore in my small hometown in Friesland ...
I bought it and went home ... very pleased with my little green gnome ... :love
Huge was my surprise when early in 1981 walking past the local movie theatre,
where they had those PR pictures of the Empire Strikes Back in the window,
I discovered my little green toy gnome to be a real movie character. The next day
I went with my father to see the movie ... till this day he can still remember the
totally overwhelming and flabbergasted look on my face when we left the movie
theatre some 2 and a half hours later. It had changed my whole outlook on life ...
and I had finally found some kindred spirits. Everything from drawing little gnomes,
wizards and other fantasy figures to collecting toy PVC figures like those blue smurfs
and other animated characters fell into place ... and it did not end there. On the same
rack as my little green gnome were more exciting strange looking action figures like
Chewbacca etcetera. The collecting of more Star Wars action figures had begun . . .
As you can imagine after seeing the title crawl of Star Wars The Empires Strikes
Back mentioning Episode V I had to get my hands on Episode I,II,III and IV ...
completely unaware of the fact that the first three were yet to be written. However
my hunger for more was soon to be satisfied when they released ANH in our local
movie theatre, I believe for the first time, right after ESB became a huge success
... even though it must have been around somewhere in our country back in 1978
but alas I lived, as you might say, in the outskirts of the universe back in those days.
Anyhow here's a toast to that small green action figure back in 1980. Here's looking
at you YODA .... CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR 30th ANNIVERSARY!!!
-Chaim
thumbsupthumbsup cool story. It touched me. Jappy birthday to your Yoda from Germany:thumbsup
tubachris85x
Master Member
I've been chilling in the club this whole time, waitin for the party to start! Where's everybody at???????????
Sym-Cha
Master Member
Thanks Trap Joe
Jumpin Jax
Sr Member
:lolI've been chilling in the club this whole time, waitin for the party to start! Where's everybody at???????????
I helped make that wall behind you! FG panels, made in Seattle, employing me
tubachris85x
Master Member
:lol
I helped make that wall behind you! FG panels, made in Seattle, employing me
LOL Are you serious? This was some night club/bar in downtown west palm beach :lol
tubachris85x
Master Member
Well excuse me while I pass out....btw..no more Jack plz, k thanks *thump*
GINO
Sr Member
Anyhow here's a toast to that small green action figure back in 1980. Here's looking
at you YODA .... CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR 30th ANNIVERSARY!!!
-Chaim
Right on. :thumbsup
Since you mentioned Yoda, here's a couple of pics.
BTW, only 51 days left.
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tango'd fett
Well-Known Member
Happy Anniversary Empire , definately the greatest of all the Saga :thumbsup
This movie definitely had the best looking props and costumes from the trilogy...at least in my opinion.
Here's my Empire inspired R2-D2:
Here's my Empire inspired R2-D2:
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