Happy May the 4th! What’s your favorite Star Wars memory? I’ll always remember my first visits to Galaxy’s Edge at the Disney parks. Seeing the Millennium Falcon for the first time in person, and riding Rise of the Resistance truly felt as close to being in the Star Wars universe in real life as you could get. 💫

Share your favorite memory in the thread and I’ll pick one person to send a $50 fandango gift card from Team ComicBook, you can make a new Star Wars memory at the movies!

My all-time favorite was when we took the kids to their first Comiccon and my two littles dressed as Jedi and my oldest was Darth Vader! They all had so much fun!

1 hour ago, kristyne said:

Happy May the 4th! What’s your favorite Star Wars memory? I’ll always remember my first visits to Galaxy’s Edge at the Disney parks. Seeing the Millennium Falcon for the first time in person, and riding Rise of the Resistance truly felt as close to being in the Star Wars universe in real life as you could get. 💫

Share your favorite memory in the thread and I’ll pick one person to send a $50 fandango gift card from Team ComicBook, you can make a new Star Wars memory at the movies!

I bet that was fun to see! I've been wanting to take the kids there eventually.

Probably when the special editions were released in theaters. This was before we knew publicly that there were more movies coming out, so it really felt like an event. Plus, eventually, the movies ended up at the local dollar theater so we could see them all the time.

My favorite Star Wars memory is getting taken out of school early by my Father and Uncle to go see "The Phantom Menace" on its opening night May 19, 1999. Seeing young Anakin on screen for the first time and being around the age of the actor made me feel even more connected to the film and the franchise over all. A memory I will always cherish and reflect on every Star Wars Day. Thanks for the memories Mr. Lucas and Thank you Comicbook.com May the 4th be with you all.

As a kid: Quite simple, just endlessly rewatching the original trilogy on VHS and playing with a huge box of figures/toys for hours on end is like core childhood.

As an adult: The exact moment of silent anticipation between "a long time ago..." and the opening crawl for The Force Awakens at midnight, which is probably the most hyped I've ever been in a movie theater, or getting to go to Star Wars Celebration in 2023 (awesome of the announcements, none of which have been paid off!) and 2025 (awesome for Tokyo and Ryan Gosling).

As a kid, it's probably seeing Phantom Menace in theaters. It blew my mind seeing Star Wars on the big screen.

As an adult, going to Star Wars Celebration 2022 was a dream come true. I was supposed to go to Celebration 2020 for my old job, and then, well, 2020 happened. So it was a very satisfying payoff to finally go a couple years later. All the panels I went to were fun and I got to attend the Obi-Wan Kenobi premiere.

Honestly, my first time watching it, which was actually just two or so years ago. I didn't think I'd be into Star Wars so I never set aside the time to watch it and just prioritized other things. Then my finacée put it on one day while I was busy doing something else, but I was immediately hooked. Binged all of the movies in a matter of days.

Watching Return of the Jedi on a loop of 8 different films at The Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles with my cousin, both of us age 12; he had a heart transplant and wasn’t expected to live. It was our first SW experience ever. We would watch it every time it eventually premiered again on the hospital channel; this was back in the early nineties.

As a kid: Picking up Heir to the Empire in Geoff's second-hand book shop a week after it'd come out. I was already a regular there, I'd just watched ANH for the first time at Christmas, and I couldn't believe there was a new book!

As an adult: Celebration 2023, seeing the live-action Thrawn on the big screen for the first time and then Daisy Ridley on-stage :)

Happy belated May the Fourth!

I remember my dad taking our family to the local theater in Monterey Park (which sadly is no longer there) and standing in line the day of its release in '83 (I was a wee lad of seven at the time). I remember the anticipation for how the saga would end was high amongst those of us patiently waiting to be let in (I mean, you couldn't have had a bigger cliffhanger than the one "Empire" gave us, right?). I wish I still had it, but the theater gave out a souvenir book to everyone who purchased a ticket (I'm assuming while supplies lasted) which had the iconic hands holding the lightsaber on the cover. I remember walking out on such a high that day totally wanting ALL the toys from the movie. "Return of the Jedi" was everything I had hoped it would be going into the theater back in May of 1983, and I think it's because of this initial viewing experience that the movie has solidified its place as my favorite of all the Star Wars films.

For Halloween 1999 (age 9), after seeing The Phantom Menace twice in theaters over the summer, I dressed up as padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi. I wore the costume and had a clip-on braid in my spiked hair, and carried a toy lightsaber. My mom had her face painted like Darth Maul and accompanied me as Darth Mom. She wore an apron with "May the Farce Be With You" painted on it. She had to have her face painted twice; once for my Cub Scout Halloween party and once for Halloween night.

Oh man, I have a few: having dinner with and talking Star Wars with Peter Mayhew at an event. Going to see The Last Jedi immediately after my mom's funeral because it's exactly what she would have wanted as a massive Star Wars fan. Bursting into tears at Galaxy's Edge, both because it was like BEING in Star Wars and also because it was a gift given to me by my best friend.

But my favorite is probably less directly about Star Wars and more about the experience of going to see it in the late 90s when they re-released A New Hope in theaters. A small group of my friends decided that we HAD to go see it the day it hit theaters so we borrowed a friend's mom's car and sped the entire hour long drive to the nearest theater. There may or may not have been a situation involving someone riding in the trunk because there wasn't enough room in the car.... there is just something exhilarating about the experience that I'm taking right back to every time I watch that movie now.