My friends' dad built them a kick-ass tree house, and that served as the Ewok village. In the winter, my friends and I would build snow forts and pretend we were on Hoth (I was always Han Solo).
There's no separating it in my mind from Christmases, birthdays, summers and winters growing up. It represents absolutely everything good, fun and magical about my childhood. It's now legendary in this boy's family how the last action figure he needed, Anakin Skywalker, stopped being produced and carried in stores, and how this boy went for about ten years (until he got into college) trying to track one down and finally bought it from someone on his dorm floor for a bag of beer nuggets (don't ask.it's a Northern Illinois University thing). But years later, he would get what to this day goes down as one of the best gifts he's ever received: another box full of action figures, ten of the final twelve he needed to complete his collection. He was too young to fully appreciate how special that gift would be. He does remember the first 'Star Wars' themed gift he got.a shoebox full of action figures from the original set. He doesn't remember first seeing the movie, but he also doesn't remember life before it. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.There was a boy who was only two years old when the original 'Star Wars' film was released.
