I’m happy I found your newsletter after you commented on my margarita post! Always great to meet a fellow Star Wars fan. Have you seen the Republic of Tea’s Mandalorian themed teas? Another great example of Star Wars branding.
I haven't seen that tea before, I'll have to see if it's still available. And so glad you found Death Star HR! Lots of good Star Wars stuff here on substack.
Oh that sucks. For once in my life I thought ahead and drained the caps. I think I used an awl or something similar to punch a little hole on the top and along the bottom.
I didn't get to see any previews at my showing of "The Phantom Menace": I went to a critics' preview about two weeks before the official release, and I am STILL shocked that 20th gave me a preview pass. (It even had the Lucasfilm logo in UV ink to foil forgeries.) Considering what I had written in "Sci-Fi Universe" at the time, giving me a pass to a Star Wars film was like sending Anton LaVey an invitation to the Pope's bat mitzvah. That said, I really regret that I didn't see the movie preview for "Fight Club" until it was out on DVD for a couple of years: the TV ads were beyond terrible, so bad that they put off a lot of people from seeing the film in its initial release. (Not only do I kick myself repeatedly for passing on attending the previews for "Fight Club" and "The Iron Giant" that summer, both of which because of an absolutely brutal work schedule, but when I lived in Portland in the 1990s, my first ex worked for Powell's Books, and I missed out on getting an autographed copy of the first edition of the novel at its debut party at the main Powell's store.)
Oh, and with the looks on the faces of the people at the Toys 'R Us midnight opening? You should have seen the shantytown in front of the theater when I went for the Episode One preview. The crowds of fans waiting outside at theaters around the country were so bad that "Doonesbury" even made fun of how they continued...waiting for Episode Two.
It's funny, I also got to see TPM ahead of schedule. I had a high school friend who worked at a movie theater, he was back home after freshman year of college doing that for a summer job, so I got to see it with the employee screening. And then I went again for a midnight showing for the official release the next day. I don't remember anyone camping out, at least not in Lansing.
Also, another friend and I got on the local news for the midnight toys 'r us release. We didn't get interviewed but you could very clearly see us in the stream of customers going into the store. I've checked the local news' websites but none of them have video going back that far, at least online.
I’m happy I found your newsletter after you commented on my margarita post! Always great to meet a fellow Star Wars fan. Have you seen the Republic of Tea’s Mandalorian themed teas? Another great example of Star Wars branding.
I haven't seen that tea before, I'll have to see if it's still available. And so glad you found Death Star HR! Lots of good Star Wars stuff here on substack.
I had about half of those Pepsi cans in my basement at one point but some of them burst at one point and I had to toss the whole set. 😡
Oh that sucks. For once in my life I thought ahead and drained the caps. I think I used an awl or something similar to punch a little hole on the top and along the bottom.
I didn't get to see any previews at my showing of "The Phantom Menace": I went to a critics' preview about two weeks before the official release, and I am STILL shocked that 20th gave me a preview pass. (It even had the Lucasfilm logo in UV ink to foil forgeries.) Considering what I had written in "Sci-Fi Universe" at the time, giving me a pass to a Star Wars film was like sending Anton LaVey an invitation to the Pope's bat mitzvah. That said, I really regret that I didn't see the movie preview for "Fight Club" until it was out on DVD for a couple of years: the TV ads were beyond terrible, so bad that they put off a lot of people from seeing the film in its initial release. (Not only do I kick myself repeatedly for passing on attending the previews for "Fight Club" and "The Iron Giant" that summer, both of which because of an absolutely brutal work schedule, but when I lived in Portland in the 1990s, my first ex worked for Powell's Books, and I missed out on getting an autographed copy of the first edition of the novel at its debut party at the main Powell's store.)
Oh, and with the looks on the faces of the people at the Toys 'R Us midnight opening? You should have seen the shantytown in front of the theater when I went for the Episode One preview. The crowds of fans waiting outside at theaters around the country were so bad that "Doonesbury" even made fun of how they continued...waiting for Episode Two.
It's funny, I also got to see TPM ahead of schedule. I had a high school friend who worked at a movie theater, he was back home after freshman year of college doing that for a summer job, so I got to see it with the employee screening. And then I went again for a midnight showing for the official release the next day. I don't remember anyone camping out, at least not in Lansing.
Also, another friend and I got on the local news for the midnight toys 'r us release. We didn't get interviewed but you could very clearly see us in the stream of customers going into the store. I've checked the local news' websites but none of them have video going back that far, at least online.