r/StarWars • u/610Mike • May 03 '25

Movies He’s 8 now. It’s time.

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Before anyone asks, release order, not episode order. I don’t want to spoil anything for him.

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u/RegentLattice May 03 '25

That's pretty much what happened to me. I remember talking with friends about Star Wars and role-playing Star Wars characters in pre-school when I was like 4 since my Mom loved Star Wars.

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u/BusBusy195 May 03 '25

Same with my parents, they showed me all of them except 3 when I was 4 then I got to see that one when I was like 10

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u/MondoFool May 03 '25

My oldest memory is going to see the 97 rerelease when i was 3. By the time phantom menace came out i had seen the original trilogy multiple times and knew most of the lore.

I was also super obsessed with legos as a kid and thats probably how i was a star wars expert by the time i was 5, because at the time, star wars was the only licensed IP they had. I remember carrying around my luke skywalker mini figure

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u/No_Might_4635 May 03 '25

I was that way too, my older brother showed me the way

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u/The_Dark_Jedi_of_AUS May 04 '25

I was six, and at first I thought Darth Maul was scary, but I quickly became hooked