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I saw her spruiking her new book on the Graham Norton show and thought she looked ill.

I had these posters as a kid

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And i used them again a few years ago when i built my replica E-11 Stormtrooper blaster as references.

I couldn't see TFA since we were looking after my wife's bed ridden mother when it was released, but i bought the 3D blue-ray last month and finally watched it.
The 3D was reasonable, but I've seen it used to better effect. Although there was one scene where i actually tried to grab the pointy end of a Star Destroyer that really looked like it was floating in front of the TV.

But i remember thinking at the time she looked so old and tired perhaps they should have kept Han alive and killed her off instead.

I hope its not a prophecy that comes true.

But when i saw her on the Graham Norton show i said to myself she looks like shes done a LOT of cocaine in her lifetime.

I hope she recovers.
 
Will Leia ever sing again?


All right, she's the daughter of 50s crooner Eddie Fisher and clearly has vocal talent, but imagine any team of genre or super hero actors appearing on such a pathetic show in the 21st century.
 
I saw the holiday special back in 78, loved every minute of it. I had seen Star Wars the year before and anything SW related was Gold to me then.
I still have some of the magazines from the 70's like this one.

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Today of course i am spoiled for Star Wars stuff

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I plan on wearing that Light saber hilt to Rogue One soon.
 
I think it is impossible to convey to younger people nowadays just how awesome Star Wars was for kids (and adults) back then. Because most families would have had just one TV set and putting it mildly, we were hardly bombarded with great SciFi/fantasy all the time in our own homes.

We played with the SW toy figures and space ships inside the home and also outside too. We used beaches for Tattooine scenes that would be improvised and re-written anew each day. When it snowed, we couldn't wait to get out the AT-AT's and Tauntauns and Speeders etc. It's amazing how cool a well-thrown tiny snowball can look when used to impact fresh, fluffy snow! Instant explosions!

The constant use of pure imagination and collaboration amongst a few friends (and virtually all boys had SW toys) fuelled fertile young minds. A friend of mine built a whole 'Hoth' snow scene replete with a backdrop sky painted on cardboard, modelling clay painted white for terrain, plus the obligatory Stormtroopers to complete the whole assembly which would be used as a stage in which our speeders or X-wings could make attack run after attack run.

Anything with the official 'Star Wars' stylised lettering was instantly attention grabbing for us. The ultimate marketing man's dream. If we walked into any kind of store and something (anything) with that writing would draw us in like moths to the flame. The world disappeared and for a while, investigating any new item of SW merchandising took precedent over absolutely anything else.

At home, starved of more new SW-related footage between movie releases, just seeing a news snippet or an item on a kids show to do with Star Wars, kids would strain to just hear about what someone else was lucky enough to have chanced upon on radio or TV.

There simply was no such thing as too much Star Wars - despite what might have been classed at the time as media saturation for the franchise, it was never, ever enough. Once we all had VCR's, copies of the movies were watched again and again and again. This alternate universe became ultra-real to us. It existed someplace, those characters existed and that Death Star was indeed blown up by some plucky rebels and a young Jedi of the purest of souls.

Often teenagers turn their back on the things they loved as a child but with Star Wars, you just loved it even more when you began to see the story from an adult's point of view. It kept giving and giving and it still is. George Lucas didn't create Star Wars, he revealed it to us all like a magician pulling back the curtain. It was all real someplace and Lucas was the conduit to it all and he unselfishly shared it all with the world.

To this day, I still favour the SW universe to live in if I somehow could be granted such a wish. Nothing comes close to the scale of impact SW had on our lives. The world would be such a different place now if Lucas had not been around to let us glimpse into that distant universe.

Isn't it funny how after all these years, a Stormtrooper outfit still looks the absolute dog's bollocks?
 
Very sad news indeed. To be honest when i first heard she had stopped breathing for ten minutes on the flight i didn't hold much hope for a happy prognosis.
You can restart the cardio/respiratory system after that length of time, but the brain rarely recovers from that scenario.

I'm still friends with slave girl Leia in this pic, she will be devastated today.

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Princess Leia was a revelation for any little girl at the time. One could be a princess and still kick ass.

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