30 years ago this weekend, people all over were seeing these words on a theater screen for the first time ever:

Ohh, stamps come out on 5/25!!1!!

Yup! Get them before postage goes up again.

I should have a sheet coming.

Happy 30th SW! Man, I feel old now. But seriously, I've gotta give some recognition to the movie that changed movies forever.

They were seeing those words, although that font wasn't used til the Special Editions in 1997 if you wanna get technical.

I feel obligated to post in this thread today. My favorite movie of all time!

Speaking of the stamps, I got a confirmation email the other day that mine had shipped.

I can't believe it's been 30 years since Han shot first.

Happy birthday Star Wars.

Happy birthday Star Wars...

Happy Birthday Star Wars!

Happy 30th Star Wars! Now I think it's time you moved out of the house ...

Might you be looking for something a bit more like this?







Oh, and Happy Anniversary...

That's pretty much how I feel.

I still remember seeing those first commercials...and also seeing it in the drive-in. Ahh, those were the days.

What I can't believe is that it's been 30 years and I'm still forced to watch fcking bootlegs to get the best quality of this.

Yeah, I just grabbed the first one Google images found.

I was 9 and remember standing in line in front of the Cinerama Theater. And that's all I remember. I don't remember anything from the actual viewing itself. I don't remember the crowd. I don't remember where I sat. All I remember was catching the bus to go stand in line until my aunt showed up with my cousins.

Oddly, I remember the viewing of JAWS two years earlier more than I do Star Wars. Sitting in Waikiki Theater #2, 5 rows up from the first sort of balcony. My mother throwing her popcorn when Ben Gardner's head pop out from the hole in the hull of his ship.

Wasn't that in Jaws 1?

Just picked up the new stamps are I have to say they're pretty darn cool!

Yeah, I've got 2 sheets coming.

Cheers to my favorite movie of all-time. No movie has ever moved me the way Star Wars did and still does today, as I still watch it as that self contained film where nobody was related. I will commerorate the anniversary with my gazillionth viewing of the movie, unfortunately in non-anamorphic.

Happy 30th aniversary, although how can we be celebrating the 30th birthday to a movie that GL says doesn't exist to him anymore.

Found this posted over at Rebelscum:

My earliest memories in a movie theater are watching Return of the Jedi. When I was older my brother sat me down to watch all three movies back to back. Star Wars seemed to bring us together, seeing as well he was not the best older brother. Sadly we did not get a chance to enjoy the Prequel trilogy together. By that time he had become a real ass, and I did not see the guy I used to look up to. Luckily my older sister was still around and we got to enjoy those films together as my parents went through what was an ugly divorce. These movies provided an escape through some bad times, and I'm not exactly sure how I would have got through it all without them.

I didn't see Star Wars until it came out in the 90s.

Yeah just got them at the post office...definitely could have done without Queen Amidala and Darth Maul for that matter, although at least, thank god, there is no Jar Jar, lol. Chewy and Han definitely should have had their own stamps, and Princess Leia, would have been much better in the bikini..

And that Emperor Palpatine, that is one damn ugly stamp...