A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....12/04/02

At last it has arrived!!!!

Yesterday (Thursday 11th April) tickets for the second (or fifth depending on how you look at it) installment of the Star Wars saga went on sale across the country marking the beginning of the return of the greatest cinematic saga of all time.

With a release date of Thursday the 16th May, the Odeon cinema in Leicester is opening at Midnight for the first showing of Attack of the Clones, and being such a fan I have already booked up.

After waiting for three years for this movie it is great to actually have my first tickets ordered.

Unlike Episode I The Phantom Menace, George Lucas has opted for a more subtle marketing and release campaign as opposed to the overkill that was Phantom Menace.

I know that this is only speculation but with Christopher Lee, Samuel L Jackson, a grown up Anakin and new villain Jango (father of Boba) Fett, Attack of the Clones already looks like it could be the definitive Star Wars movie.

Memory of the week:

Star Wars: My first experience!

Along time ago in a house not far away a 4 year old boy with long blonde hair and blue eyes was watching TV when all of a sudden a tin can with legs named R2-D2 came into view.

Twenty three years and five films later that tin can appears all over my room in many different forms.

Seeing R2 for the first time was all that it took to start a love affair with a saga that has lasted all of my life since that fateful day in 1979.

I still have the first Star Wars figure I ever bought, a beaten up C3-P0 (I could not get R2). That one 3" figure was the catalyst to a collection was the first true love of my life.

Like so many other 'old-school' fans the figures are the reason I became hooked on the movies. It is the uniqueness of the characters and their vehicles which makes Star Wars such an enduring saga and why Star Wars is still around when many other movie franchises have gone the way of the Dodo.