This May Smell Bad, Kid, But It’ll Keep You Warm Until I Get the Shelter Up.
Last week’s brief discussion about folks either being brought up Star Wars or Star Trek got me to thinking about a gem of a Flickr Pool that I bookmarked a few weeks ago: Growing Up Star Wars: 1977-1985. It is, well, EXACTLY what you’d expect from the title.
Definitely worth checking out for anybody who started their own personal mania in this period, as there are definitely some shots that you can just see yourself in. The above, for instance, is a contributor’s first grade portrait in which he donned the fan club-only Luke Skywalker Empire Strikes Back jacket! Mikhail…Greg…Holiday ’09? With a mangenta snow trooper helmet while you’re at it? And a bionic force-hand? Oh wait, that was later…
Also…how fucking STOKED! is this kid? I’m a fanat-atic FOR LIFE. I wish I lived in that box.
May 18th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Salacious Crumb was thrown over the fence into a field full of bluebonnets when I was in Pre-Kindergarten…then I got in trouble for punching him in the nose. He healed…and I still don’t have Salacious Crumb to complete my Jabba the Hut set…