May the 4th be with everyone, even if you are a piece of Sith...
All of these are awesome.
Unfortunately I didn't take pictures but yesterday my oldest was only interested in related activities such as watching Clone Wars, playing Star Wars Battlefront and wearing his clone trooper costume.
All hail the new generation!
Oddly, for some reason I can't get him interested in Star Trek at all.
Sometimes I think Trek didn't get the huge love that Star Wars did because Trek had more morals and rationale examination of real life current societal issues, and also it was team-driven by the Federation, by the ship, and by the captains.
Whereas Star Wars seemed much easier to place yourself in anyone's role, and imagine being Han or Luke or Mace or Yoda, and taking control of a situation personally.
The ability to imagine resolving conflict through use of The Force and a light saber seems to have outweighed the ability to get imagination satisfaction from commanding a star ship and a crew of hundreds or a thousand.
I bet few folks imagined being Admiral Tark or Admiral Akbar, while many imagined being Vader or Rey or Luke, or Maul or Qui-gon.
Plus, the success of first-person shooter games that put the player in the cockpit of a Tie Fighter had no parallel (that I'm aware of) in the Trek universe.
I love most of the Start Trek franchises, but I bought & played Star Wars, while I never bought any Trek games.
While I'm with you for the next gen and beyond franchises I do recall several commercials for the original series. The transporter deck with action figures comes to mind. Back then you had the main guys that you could fall in with: Kirk, Spoc, McCoy and Scotty.
The phasers, communicators and tri-corders were up there as well.
But get a kid to watch anything pre 90s and you are fighting a loosing battle just on time between cuts. If you see anything these days the scene cuts are so fast. If you count past 15 seconds before a cut that is slow. I guess they are trying to make more work for the editors. The attention span of the general audience seems to be shrinking at an exponential rate.
I guess with the access to everything NOW that the internet provides we all want to be fed information faster.
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