Kman101
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Yep. The stores were cold. I hit up the Great Movie Ride yesterday and the building was NOT being air conditioned. It was obvious the second I walked inside.
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A Spirited Perfect Ten
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Yep. The stores were cold. I hit up the Great Movie Ride yesterday and the building was NOT being air conditioned. It was obvious the second I walked inside.
Tigger1988
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The Empress Lilly
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bhg469
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False. Boba Fett was a cool looking character. I'm a star wars fan and I despise his popularity becauseReal Star Wars fans hate everything except Empire, Boba Fett and their manchild toy collection.
A. He is a slaver... how could you like someone that is trafficking wookies as slaves?
B. He went out like a chump. A more pathetic death than most star wars characters.
ParentsOf4
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I remember being dragged to an opening day (not the opening day, May 25, 1977, which was only a limited engagement) 10 AM showing of Star Wars at my local theater by my brother-in-law (a Sci Fi fanatic).Real Star Wars fans hate everything except Empire, Boba Fett and their manchild toy collection.
I said no one goes to a movie at 10 in the morning, didn't even know they showed movies at 10 AM. My brother-in-law told me I didn't understand, this was a special showing. He said this movie was going to be big, really big. There were maybe 20-30 people in the theater. This was back in the day when movie theaters were large with hundreds of seats per screen.
The opening music was cool, I was absolutely wowed by the size of the first Star Destroyer, but what was it with all these robots. Where are the people? I didn't even begin to warm up to the movie until Luke finally appeared on the screen.
We stayed for 3 showings that day. Even in the days before cell phones, word got out quickly. I remember people on pay phones (remember those?) calling their friends to come to the theater. The last showing we stayed for was packed.
I've never attended another movie showing that could ever touch the magic of that first day. Those who have grown up in the post Star Wars era can't really fathom what it was like, especially in the early to mid 1970s, when movies (except Disney movies which really stunk in the 1970s) were targeted for adult audiences and nearly always were depressing to watch. (Just think Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Three Days of the Condor, etc.) Even early blockbusters (e.g. Jaws and Rocky) were cerebral, lots of gritty dialog targeted for mature audiences.
Star Wars completely changed the movie going experience. At the time, it felt like all other movies before it lacked the one thing Star Wars had an abundance of: joy.
Star Wars was the first "fun" movie I ever watched. It's a feeling that's impossible to explain to those who did not experience the 1970s and did not see Star Wars during its initial run.
After that experience, Star Wars will always remain one film.
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Nemo14
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I remember being dragged to an opening day (not the opening day, May 25, 1977, which was only a limited engagement) at my local theater 10 AM showing of Star Wars by my brother-in-law (a Sci Fi fanatic).
I said no one goes to a movie at 10 in the morning, didn't even know they showed movies at 10 AM. My brother-in-law told me I didn't understand, this was a special showing. He said this movie was going to be big, really big. There were maybe 20-30 people in the theater. This was back in the day when movie theaters were really big with hundreds of seats per screen.
The opening music was cool, I was absolutely wowed by the size of the first Star Destroyer, but what was it with all these robots. Where are the people? I didn't even begin to warm up the movie until Luke finally appeared on the screen.
We stayed for 3 showings that day. Even in the days before cell phones, word-of-mouth got out quickly. I remember people on pay phones (remember those?) calling their friends to come to the theater. The last showing we stayed for was packed.
I've never attended another movie showing that could ever touch the magic of that first day. Those who have grown up in the post Star Wars era can't really fathom what it was like, especially in the early to mid 1970s, when movies (except Disney movies which really stunk in the 1970s) were targeted for an adult audience and nearly always were depressing to watch. (Just think Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Three Days of the Condor, etc.) Even early blockbusters (e.g. Jaws and Rocky) were cerebral, lots of gritty dialog targeted for mature audiences.
Star Wars completely changed the movie going experience. At the time, it felt like all other movies before it lacked the one thing Star Wars had an abundance of: joy.
Star Wars was the first "fun" movie I ever watched. It's a feeling that's impossible to explain to those who did not experience the 1970s and did not see Star Wars during its initial run.
After that experience, Star Wars will always remain one film.
Wish I could like this 100 times!
lazyboy97o
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It is interesting when you see a Hot Topic near a Disney Store. There are times when the merchandise is very similar, just in a different size and background color.
What you have described is an amusement park, not a theme park. And there are lot of inconsistencies in the grand story that was 12 unconnected films, then 9 connected films, then only 3 films, then 6, and now 9 again
That's because the prequels were a story concept for like half a film stretched over three.
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
Tinfoil hats have been proven to increase the effectiveness of the mind control rays by a MIT study in 2005.
http://web.archive.org/web/20100708230258/http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/
Cliff notes version, Tinfoil hats actually amplify the signal by up to 1000X (30 db)
ABQ
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I may have been in the same theatre, who knows. But I feel much the same as you do about the changed experience. Not sure if it's true, but I think "they" claim it was Star Wars and its manner of opening, the music and right into the scrolling prologue text, that is to blame for credits universally being moved to after the film rather than before the film.I remember being dragged to an opening day (not the opening day, May 25, 1977, which was only a limited engagement) 10 AM showing of Star Wars at my local theater by my brother-in-law (a Sci Fi fanatic).
I said no one goes to a movie at 10 in the morning, didn't even know they showed movies at 10 AM. My brother-in-law told me I didn't understand, this was a special showing. He said this movie was going to be big, really big. There were maybe 20-30 people in the theater. This was back in the day when movie theaters were large with hundreds of seats per screen.
The opening music was cool, I was absolutely wowed by the size of the first Star Destroyer, but what was it with all these robots. Where are the people? I didn't even begin to warm up the movie until Luke finally appeared on the screen.
We stayed for 3 showings that day. Even in the days before cell phones, word-of-mouth got out quickly. I remember people on pay phones (remember those?) calling their friends to come to the theater. The last showing we stayed for was packed.
I've never attended another movie showing that could ever touch the magic of that first day. Those who have grown up in the post Star Wars era can't really fathom what it was like, especially in the early to mid 1970s, when movies (except Disney movies which really stunk in the 1970s) were targeted for adult audiences and nearly always were depressing to watch. (Just think Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Three Days of the Condor, etc.) Even early blockbusters (e.g. Jaws and Rocky) were cerebral, lots of gritty dialog targeted for mature audiences.
Star Wars completely changed the movie going experience. At the time, it felt like all other movies before it lacked the one thing Star Wars had an abundance of: joy.
Star Wars was the first "fun" movie I ever watched. It's a feeling that's impossible to explain to those who did not experience the 1970s and did not see Star Wars during its initial run.
After that experience, Star Wars will always remain one film.
Coincidentally, the following summer I recall riding in a hot, hot, hot rental car from Tarpon Springs up the Bee line highway to Lake Buena Vista with my Kenner make die cast R2-D2, no A/C, listening to Rhine Stone Cowboy to make my first visit to the Magic Kingdom. I recall crying myself to sleep as that R2-D2 toy was lost in said theme park too.
NearTheEars
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The Empress Lilly
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Great story! It is amazing how people got instantly hooked on Star Wars.I remember being dragged to an opening day (not the opening day, May 25, 1977, which was only a limited engagement) 10 AM showing of Star Wars at my local theater by my brother-in-law (a Sci Fi fanatic).
I said no one goes to a movie at 10 in the morning, didn't even know they showed movies at 10 AM. My brother-in-law told me I didn't understand, this was a special showing. He said this movie was going to be big, really big. There were maybe 20-30 people in the theater. This was back in the day when movie theaters were large with hundreds of seats per screen.
The opening music was cool, I was absolutely wowed by the size of the first Star Destroyer, but what was it with all these robots. Where are the people? I didn't even begin to warm up the movie until Luke finally appeared on the screen.
We stayed for 3 showings that day. Even in the days before cell phones, word-of-mouth got out quickly. I remember people on pay phones (remember those?) calling their friends to come to the theater. The last showing we stayed for was packed.
I've never attended another movie showing that could ever touch the magic of that first day. Those who have grown up in the post Star Wars era can't really fathom what it was like, especially in the early to mid 1970s, when movies (except Disney movies which really stunk in the 1970s) were targeted for adult audiences and nearly always were depressing to watch. (Just think Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Three Days of the Condor, etc.) Even early blockbusters (e.g. Jaws and Rocky) were cerebral, lots of gritty dialog targeted for mature audiences.
Star Wars completely changed the movie going experience. At the time, it felt like all other movies before it lacked the one thing Star Wars had an abundance of: joy.
Star Wars was the first "fun" movie I ever watched. It's a feeling that's impossible to explain to those who did not experience the 1970s and did not see Star Wars during its initial run.
After that experience, Star Wars will always remain one film.
My first taste of Star Wars was seeign a trailer on tv. Not a commercial, but a movie show or something. I had heard of the movie before, was curious, but not more than that. Then the trailer played... I was mesmerised. I was a fan for life, instantly. Not dissimilar to how I became a WDW fan for life two years later, hooked for life before I had even left Town Square.
Here's the thing: I never got to see Star Wars! It didn't happen. Nobody else was interested, and I wasn't an assertive enough kid to make my interests fully known to my parents. I was the biggest Star Wars fan around, and had never seen the movie.
It was made up for three years later though, when Empire hit. I went to a double showing, in this massive Art Deco cinema. So fantastic. The moment that Star Destroyer came overhead... It remains the most inmpressive sight I've ever seen on a movie screen! The first spaceship was impressive enough, but then that enormous thing hunting it.... :O I thought it would never end!
I also loved Empire, and Jedi. I still maintain Jedi is the greatest of them all, despite purists denouncing it as a commercial sell-out and 'eew Ewoks' and blahblah. Of the prequels I disliked Phantom, but thought the other two great movies in their own right.
As for Boba Fett, he is like the Orange Bird. Cool and stuff, but it escapes me why they should've gained such cult status among fans. All because Boba shows how he's got swag by nodding his head slowly to Vader? Pft. I cheered when he went down like a little girl in Jedi. (Although outwitting the Falcon in the rubbish was cool, fair play to him)
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
Finally someone else who admits they find Olaf annoying and unnecessary - glad I'm not the ONLY one!
BrianLo
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Is the issue that we have no pictures of Bob at SDL, or that we suspected he hadn't been... Because they acknowledged he was there a month ago during the meeting.
I don't see the big issue around witholding press pictures, I can see reasons from both sides (Shendi and Disney) that they are 'attempting' to keep things under wraps still.
Before we make the argument that Disney never would skip the opportunity to flaunt pictures... Bob visits the U.S. based parks sometimes and no official acknowledgment is made. Such as the recent tour of DHS. We only knew because @marni1971 was there to capture it.
MKCP 1985
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@ParentsOf4 my experience seeing Star Wars for the first time was similar. The only thing I would add was the West Palm Beach, FL theater where my younger brother and I saw the film distributed booklets that identified the characters by name, species and height. I sure wish I had kept those marketing materials!
Mike S
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Probably worth a lot now too.
Cesar R M
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Disney? nope.. the parks? maybe..
"Disney's Magic Frozen Kingdom"
"Disney's Frozen Animal Empire"
"Disney's Frozen EPCOT"
"Disney Frozen Hollywood Adventure"
Cesar R M
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you forgot the comics.Real Star Wars fans hate everything except Empire, Boba Fett and their manchild toy collection.
Cesar R M
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Just like the Hobbit film.
looked waaaaaaaaaaaaaay so stretched and too full of fillers and silly changes that made no sense.
truecoat
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A little history from a former 12 yo whose life revolved around star wars in 1977. When the Star Wars christmas special came out in 1978 to a bunch of hungry star wars fans, the greatest thing about it was the animated section starring one bounty hunter, Boba Fett.
The next year, you could send in 4 proofs of purchase from Star Wars action figures for a free Boba Fett figure. This guy was hyped up for 2 years prior Empire being released. He didn't have as big a role in the movie as I thought he would but his appearance was very effective. Empire was too good to be disappointed by this anyway.
ChrisFL
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