How you became Star Wars fan?

This topic is for all of you, who want to share your experience about your “first contact” with Star Wars... and how you, eventually, became fans of this magnificent universe.

My adventure with Star Wars started because of Polish Canal+ - and speaking more precisely, with the premiere of “Phantom Menace” and Classic Trilogy in April of 2001, which were shown in Canal+. Of course, I’ve heard few thing about SW before, but it all began that beautiful April... I remember watching “Return of the Jedi” for the first time (If I do remember well, it was exactly 29.4.2001) – I was very, very unhappy when it has ended. I wanted more Star Wars, but there was nothing more... but then I discovered books. And from that moment, I’m 100% Star Wars fan, with no doubt, that it will never change.

I became a Star Wars fan when I saw the Phantom Menace for the first time. Then I wanted to see more SW movies, so I watched the Original Trilogy. I started collecting stickers for my album and action figures. At that time I could say I became a SW fan. Today I play SW games and watch SW DVDs.

What about books? Do you also collect them? (I'm asking, because it was what really "made" me fan; I suppose that movies themself weren't enough)

First, I went to see TPM in 1999. Then followed it's DVD, then AOTC, original trilogy and ROTS.
Well, I became full-fledged fan after AOTC.
As for the books, I'm not very keen on them. There are few reasons for that, i.e. they don't follow Lucas' vision, explanation of things is not... too-real and they don't have enough movie actions.
Still, Legacy of the Force has a potential to became the best book series so I started reading it.

I saw first the Original Trilogy and i like it, I became fan when I saw the premier of TPM in 1999, after I see the AOTC and became a BIG FAN of SW, I was nervous when 2005 ROTS came in cinema, thet was my best film of the PT.

Now I read some SW books, but the best book of SW I read is the Legacy of the Force.

well
my mom was kinda SF fan so i was watching Star Wars and Star Trek since i was little kid.But i truly became fan after AOTC.I started to collect action figures,and later i started to d-load books and stuff from internet.

my friend talk me into watching movies.At first they were boring,so I've watched them again and I finally understood. It was when I was 14 y.o.
@Nadiru Radena,where are you from? I seee you write in english,and you are new here.Am I right?

Oh! Jesteś z Polska. Mój polski nie jest dobry. OT,sorry... If only someon from russia could find this site...

Oh! Jesteś z Polska. Mój polski nie jest dobry

Actually "z Polski", not "z Polska". Z tego co widzę, twój polski wcale taki zły nie jest... (If you understand this, then it is not so bad that you think)

And one more thing: I was born in Yugoslavia, but I think you already know that, because you can see my posts in Serbo-Croatian.

Sorry for offtopic.

I first saw a Star wars movie, about 10 years ago.
My dad and I were in in local video store and I saw 3 movies with intereting covers( spaceships, weapons, blasters,... were things I was fascinated with back then).
I really liked it( i rented and watched the OT in 3 weeks time; one part of trilogy per weekend)
Then I played Rogue Squadron 3d and instantly liked it.
More and more, I became a SW fan.
The games( Racer, TPM, JK, JK2, JK3,...) and books( I started reading them maybe two years ago, Thrawn rules!!!) just deepened my affection thowards SW( Don't wory, I',m not with thoe guys that demand that UN makes Jedi religion a official religion ).

Watched the movies on video somewhere in the mid '90s.

After I played JK2: Jedi Outcast in 2002 (or was it 2003?) I started to gain more interest for the whole SW universe...

Nadiru RadenaWhat about books? Do you also collect them? (I'm asking, because it was what really "made" me fan; I suppose that movies themself weren't enough)

No, I don't collect Star Wars books or read them, I am somehow not attracted to Sci-Fi books.

I loved SW as a kid.
then TPM came out.<--- I was WOW
AOTC came out<----- I was WOW
ROTS is about to came out<---- I got really hooked up to SW I finded this forum and bacame a SW fan

Now I collect books

I`ve always liked SW. What "hooked" me was JK2, and then I`ve watched every SW movie... have everyone of them on DVD and I`ve read maybe 4 or 5 SW books. I`m more of a comic book guy.

Hmm, when we talk about "how we became fans", it's good to ask another question. What can bring non-fans, "normal" people to Star Wars? What can make them fans (not including movies, of course)?

If it comes to SW games, I'm... let's say... neutral. Jedi Knight II and two Knights of the Old Republic were very, very good, almost perfect, but other games? I'm sure that I wouldn't became fan after playing Republic Commando, Battlefront or Empire at War.

If I have to be honest, I think that in Poland, the best way to "make" someone fan, is to give him/her one of the SW books. "Thrawn Trilogy" is very good for the beggining...

hmm..i dont se the point in "making" someone a fan.. cause someone like the movie and all that that go with that and someone not..
now about introducing to someone star wars when he/she/i..ups dont know about it..that's something to talk about, and for that i think movies is the best way..cause..well..i know very few people who like to read.

Yeah, you can watch a movie for a couple of hours and you need much more time for reading the book.

I saw The return of the Jedi when I was about eight and then I became interested and saw the rest. That is how I became a fan

how pleasentevent.to see a new face in this corner of the internet galaxy... i knew some polish but i've forgotten...fux it...well what to say... ("during the war...."uncle albert-only fools and horses) it was a friday night and i got that day b from math and croatia...and that was a big stuff.....and for good results he took me in the cinema, but i was alone.and that was a phantom menace......and after i was in love....and so it has begun.........
may the force be with you!

Pierwszyfilm obserwuję by od Starego Trilogy. PowrótJedia.
First movie I saw was from the Old Trilogy. return of the Jedi. (sorry form my polish,again )