Star Wars mania - share your child's obsession here...

[Marina]

Is anyone else getting seriously fed up of Darth Vader and co?
Ds hasn't even seen Revenge of the Sith or any of the films yet for that matter, but it doesn't stop him being completely obsessed with the whole saga.
At the weekend he was drawing a birthday card for a little friend. Recognisable picture of Darth Vader wielding light sabre appeared.
I suggested he added a speech bubble, thinking "May the Force be With You" might be nice for a birthday card.
Great idea, chirps ds. Shall I write (switches to very convincing Darth Vader voice) "Don't....make...me kiiiillllll...you"?
I said I thought maybe not.
Who else is sharing their bathroom/breakfast table/trips out with non-stop Star Wars patter/scenarios/requests for merchandise?

i took my 2 yr old, 3.10 yr old and 8 yr old to see revenge of the sith

My DS1 (3y8m) has not seen any of the films, but is absolutely obsessed. We have lego star wars, two telescoping light sabres, and a sort of wookie blaster thing (water pistol really). Oh, and the Lego Star Wars game, which is quite sweet really - if you destroy anyone, they break up into lots of lego pieces.

I am Princess Padme or whatever her name is, but DS1 is generally Anakin, he will turn into Darth Vader when he gets older, he says, and he likes the baddies. I don't know what's up with that.

I probably will let him see the old films soon - a neighbour has them, without the weird annoying added on digital effects.

The latest one is a 12 Tiredemma because there is a massacre in it that however carefully filmed (still a 12 after all) is very distressing by implication. I know of 5 year olds who have been quite OK with the film overall but we've vetoed for now for this reason for our nearly 6 year old.
A friend reported a lot of barfing noises from a party of six and seven year olds during the lurve scenes...

LOL Marina - I think Bossydad needs his own thread.

yes, DS moves around the house like a small black skittle!

SP, dd is the original "Legolass" . At 2 she can dismember a Bionicle with her teeth and fists, swallow the small bits or spit them across a room, and belabour her brother with the limbs!
Yoda....I think I can see why that would have been a bad idea in Spain

My 5 yr old DS is obsessed. He watches the original 3 films religiously(the 1980's ones, which apparently somehow have now become the last three - guess who's NOT a SW fan? Me. ). He went to a SW party with his other reception class friends during half term and, to my horror, watched a bootleg copy of Revenge of the Sith! I had spent weeks telling him he couldn't watch it because it was too old for him. The party host's mum said someone had brought it along so she let them watch it. I didn't make a fuss because it was after the fact, but every adult I know who's seen it says it wouldn't be suitable for 5 year olds - what do other posters think?

I find it incredible that a film that's only supposed to be viewed by 12 years olds has a whole raft of toys marketed at children much younger. And if your child is a Star Wars fan, just try and hold out against the pressure to spend... I lasted 3 weeks before I gave in and brought another bloody light sabre - £7.99, does nothing, unlike the 'unofficial' one I got him a year or so back from Toys R Us which lights up and makes a noise. And only cost £4.99. An official one with equivalent 'functionality' now costs around £20!!

He also has the Millennium Falcon, but bought that with the money from his piggybank (which has been building up since birth...)

Needless to say it will all be forgotten soon, languishing at the back of the toybox like last year's Tracy Island.

An acquaintance of mine whose surname is Walker has given her newborn son the middle name of Sky. Luckily she hasn't gone the whole hog and called him Luke.

Obsessed 2-yr-old girl in this house asks to watch episode 1 again & again (tho she is afraid of the sith & likes the pod race the best) & swings older ds's lightsaber about.

You have reminded me that we hauled a ds-sized and rather dirty cuddly Pikachu to France and back recently ambrosia. It's bloody huge and had to sit in the back seat with ds and dd. I wish I invented toys instead of working in a library ...how rich would I be.
I wonder if there is any market for librarian dollies with working date stamps and washable cardigans....

This thread is doing the impossible and making the Inferiorettes appear quiet, subdued and non-delusional.

although DD1 goes through phases when she insists her name is Elastagirl...

wordsmith, long discussion about how scary or otherwise Revenge of the Sith is here ha ha MI!

Oh Marina - I sympathise so much. But it's not dd who is obsessed, it's dh. He has light sabres and he always has to play with Darth Maul's one as it's double ended and he's also got a Darth Vader outfit. He's always talking like Yoda too, in fact if you stand behind him and pull his ears sideways he looks like Yoda. We used to have downloaded clips from the Star Wars film on the PC too linked to various actions like opening up a file. Oh and then there was the ringtone. He keeps on about having a Star Wars party, watching ALL the films one after the other and all dressing up as characters.

blu, marina

now don't be encouraging him, bossydad that is

Well I've been umming and arrring about whether ds is too young to see the original film, but it would seem that he isn't (5 3/4).

I did get my mum to dig them out (stored with a load of our junk in her garage), so I guess he'll get to watch them soon.

He is into the Star Wars phenomenon, so I suppose we ought to let him understand what it's about.

I was looking at Kellogs "lifesavers" for him on ebay last week too.

Yes addicted...oh sorry, you mean the children! Too young yet, though I'm working on them. Just got a lego startwars space ship for my 31st birthday Fantastic!

Morning ladies.

Wondered if anyone out there could suggest some interesting recipes for a breadmaker - anything like ciabatta, foccatia / naan bread would be gratefully received...

Many thanks in advance.

Oops. sorry, pressed the wrong button! (dont think I've tried to start a new thread before) And there's me supposed to be IT literate and all!

tokenbloke! Although I cannot be the only one who has confused R2D2 with a Leifheit swing-bin before now.
Easy, Hausfrau, ds was assuring us last night that it was Darth MEWL, presumably some nasty hybrid of a villain and a pesky cat.
bk, he has only himself to blame. Tell little boys of your acquaintance you know Stuff About Superheroes, you are nailed for life!

Oh us too! It's Star Wars mania in our house! Pmsl @ puddle and blu: we too have 'lightsavers' and we too have the free black sarong from Marie Claire doubling up as DV's cloak!

My two have seen all the films apart from the newest one and are utterly addicted. Has anyone seen the cartoon version of The Clone Wars (£11.97 in Tesco, on DVD)? It's very good! Even though they haven't seen the new film they seem to know all the new characters - ds2 (3 and a half) was talking about General Grievous this morning. In fact, he's chanting "Star Wars Public [Republic] Commando" as I type. We have all the X-Box and PC games too...And an original Millenium Falcon, shedloads of figures and way too much Star Wars Lego.

I like the original best - mainly 'cos of Harrison Ford's utter lusciousness in 1977.

And talking of full-size Star Wars fans - I bought this for dh for Christmas!

Oh, and as an aside, db is the biggest Star Wars fan ever - he lives in London and went to the big hoo-ha in Leicester Square when the new film opened. Emailed me some pics of himself being held at blaster-point by stormtroopers, with his arm round Boba Fett's shoulder etc. I showed them to ds1 (8) thinking he'd be impressed. Result? Floods of tears..."I wish I could have seen real stormtroopers, I wish I had been there to see Chewbacca! I hate living here, it's rubbish, why can't we live in London?"