HRM........ I guess I like the part where they are getting out of the gungan sub. They shoulda left that in there, it was neat.

On AOTC, I didn't really like any of them... I can't remember them right now either, cause they were just sorta lame.... The padme family sucked. lol

did ya know if ya stare at ur buddy icon for more than 2 minutes, the outside world no longer exists? It just happened to me. lol

yo yo yo i gotz your franken berries right hereez. Meet me by the oak tree at 3:00 sharp. Don't bring no bang bang, only bling bling.

Did a deal with him a couple weeks ago and all was good. good guy to deal with, and good communication

welcome. that'll be $5

I've had star wars toys my entire life. I have an older  brother, so when I was growing up, he had already amassed a large amount of vintage, and we would play with them together.

It's kinda weird, as I write this, remembering my childhood and trying to come up with a complete story to tell. It's amazing how star wars has just always been one of those "things" that was there, and that I liked. It's kinda like you know wendys and the jr. bacon cheeseburger will always be there. Star Wars was the same to me, cause it was always just "there."

My sisters used to be in gymnastics once a week. Every week while they were in their hour session, my mom and I would go shopping. I was like 3 or 4 mind ya! I remember she would always let me pick out one Star Wars fig, which was cool. I remember her getting mad at me even cause for like 3 times in a row I picked wicket- my favorite character at the time. She didn't realize I was doing this until my older brother was like "Mom why are you letting James get the same figure!" My wicket days were over at that point (but I still have those three little guys lol).

Being a kid, I didn't realize I could actually own the star wars movies to watch at home. I actually sat in front of a tv one time and taped ROTJ- stopping the VCR between commericials and starting it back up when the movie would come back on. I still have that tape, though it's beyond annoying to watch

Then in the late 80's early 90's I went to Costco and saw the Star Wars Trilogy in a box set. I was like "this is the greatest day of my life." I got my parents to get the set  for me. By 1992, while still a "kid," I was back into collecting big time. I wanted all the vintage figures. At the time, we lived in Seattle, so there were lots of comic shops and antique stores. I would get my mom to take me to all of them all the time, and I would get loose vintage figures all the time. Star Wars was kinda dead back then, so I could get a loose vintage fig for 2 to 5 dollars in really good shape. Unfurtunately, I missed the Star Wars garage sales, as they prolly happend in the 80's. But I sure did get TONS of G.I. Joes that way (but that's another story!!!).

To tell everyone the truth, I really do owe the expanded universe credit for getting me die hard back into star wars. I mean I watched the movies, I got the NES and SNES games, I collected the vintage figures for the fun of it (my prized possesion at the time was an boxed Ewok Handglider)..... But it really got fun when the Star Wars books started coming out. No longer was I contained to 3 movies. Suddenly, a huge universe was becoming even BIGGER. I read each book as it came out, my mouth dripping with drool in anticipation for more more more! The Dark Horse Comics were great. I know I am not alone when I screamed in joy when I read Boba Fett was BACK! I was also into CCG from day one (which I've since quit, back in ohhh 98?), so that was a neat form to get into Star Wars also. Plus there was the micro machines. I remember i was on vacation in New Port, Oregon, and I went into a wal-mart and saw star wars micro machines. Didn't even know they were coming out so I got all of them. They were cool.

So then in July 1995, the new figures came out. All was good. I was a happy little man.  My sister worked at Target at the time, and she was able to score me a Obi-Wan and someone else... I forget now. I remember I would call TRU everyday and ask them if they had the new star wars figures in. So I collected them with joy, and all was good. I remember my TRU would hold figures for me, and then I'd get my mom to take me up there to get them. Then the fateful day happened when an employee told me he was NOT going to hold a figure for me. TRU was a 20 minute drive, and I didn't drive at the time, so calling was the only way to get my mom to take me. Oh the horror when the employee told me that... UGH. It was the first release of the Jawas too. I was so mad. I ended up NOT getting it then, but I did get it later.

Well I moved in the end of 97 to south carolina... I was starting to loose interest in SW. It had been pretty much my main focus from 1990 and on. All my friends I talked to Star Wars about were no longer around cause I moved. I was in 10th grade, at a new school, so I didn't bring star wars up to anyone there lol. Believe it or not, one day I walked by one of my teachers computer and he had a star wars themed background, so he became my first new "friend" in my new location that I could talk to about star wars. I would let him borrow my Insider when I was done reading them. He was a cool guy, and gave me an A+ in the class lol (but I really did earn the grade too!). So anyway, this is getting long... At this point in my life, I was just getting my first real job, and my parents were getting really strict with money. I suddenly realized that spending all my earned money on figures was not worth it, as I wanted to go to movies, eat food, get a car, and so on. So suddenly my collecting got put on the backburner big time. I didn't get any of the FF, Flashbacks, or Commtech green cards. I skipped on the TPM figs (and at the time I Was really pissed at the movie, but now I love it???), and I skipped on POTJ cause I thought they were WAY too much (6.99 for JUST the figure, and I had payed 4.99 a couple years ago).

So anyway, fast forward to this past summer... AOTC comes out, and I'm in love. I see it 5 times in the theater, once in IMAX. I love it. I keep looking at the figures, but keep telling myself "no, you don't need to get into that habit again." And then my girlfriend tells me i should buy them if I want. And my MOM KEEPS SHOWING ME new figures when they are out. She even called my at my place on a sunday morning at 8 am to tell me that walmart had new SW figs in. I wasn't even collecting them, but I guess the habit still hadn't died in her after all these years lol. Needless to say, I broke down I bought the Yoda when my girlfriend found him. He was just so cool, and I foudn and bought dooku at the same time. the rest is history. I'm hardcore back into CARDED collecting now ( up until this past summer, everything was opened)  because it's easier to display, and I really have no reason to open them, as I enjoy them more packaged. I've now started collecting the figures I missed. I have all the of the ep1 line excecpt 5 figs. Now I am trying to aquire the Flashbacks, FF, and POTJ figs. I don't collect the vehicles anymore, and I just get a 12" here and there when I like them. I don't collect action fllet anymore... Basically I collect the stanadard figures and the lego line...

That's all. Congrats if you made it through all that lol.

so we're on the same page, what WERE the last three waves? I don't have all the figs yet... I know Teebo, Bo Shek , and that droid dude were casue they don't have force files... what other ones?