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've discovered a new way to wind up my 3.5yo DS1 - I claim that Yoda is a girl!

He says I can only be a girl Jedi (to which I respond: "why?"), so I've decided Yoda is a girl. Walking down the street debating whether Yoda has a willy and why we think he's whichever gender certainly helps the school run go faster.

ha ha NQC! Moo, my bil has a mask like that too!

That's a bit cruel NQC
I was trying to convey Harrison Ford's TOTAL lusciousness in the originals to ds but somehow did not get my point across. BIG mistake to describe Mark Hamill as a drippy gurl I think . I have persuaded ds to concede that Hayden Christensen is a dreadful plank in the acting department though.
Moo, glad you approve of Clone Wars. It has just been sent with the aforementioned "don't make me kill you" birthday card to a little pal and is also on ds' birthday present list.

I'm still waiting for gobbledigook to come back to this thread and relive me of my guilt re: Mark Hammill.

Ds and I spent a happy hour last night on the website www linked to trying to get Darth Vader to read our mind. It's really funny.

darth "I'm thinking a shrew"
ds "no, we beat him mummy, it's a hamster isn't it"

This will mean NOTHING to anyone who who hasn't looked at WWW's link of course.

puddle, it got BUBBLE WRAP fgs, we were all very impressed!

I'm really hoping to develop DS into a star wars mad child so that I can pursuade him to get lots more SW toys for me to play with. He already points at Storm Troopers and says "skull" more becuase he knows it makes everyone laugh than because he's scared - don't ask how that comes to be one of his first words.

I was prevented from giving him a star wars or Lord of the rings name (ended up giving him another fantasy film related name but think DW thought I was limiting off spring when I said "there can be only one").

Incidentally Mark Hamil is a superb actor his voice talents on the most recent Batman cartoons as the Joker is most impressive.

grumpy. The clone wars cartoons didn't seem very kid-friendly to me - depends how old yours are I guess. There weren'y violent or anthing, but i'd guess aimed at 12yr old. I didn't think they were very good, but perhaps I'm a little older than the target audience!

In answer to the original question, ME!

I had to buy endless packets of cereal recently (mind you, it all got eaten) so my children could have as many mini light sabres as possible - shared between 4 children! I think we have about 11 to date.

Mind you, Star Wars is not the only obsession round here. Yu Gi Oh is going to drive me Pottyoh soon.

Amazing, dst1 has also named them "lightsavers!" and we have Darth Later as well. At 3 1/2 they have only seen episode 4 (Mark Hamill had his accident after this film which is why he looks different in 5 & 6. It was supposed to be quite a horrific car smash.) They loved it but dst1 was so upset that Darth Later was nasty in it!

We are saving a lot until Christmas, Toys R Us are doing buy 2 and get another free but we are hoping the prices go down so we can afford things like the Millenium Falcon. I so wanted that when I was little but my mum moaned about the price like every other great toy! I was lucky that one of my best friends had everything, and I mean everything including an AT AT but his mum gave them all away, he was gutted!

I do like that they are into Star Wars as there are so many stories they can make up themselves and other toys can be brought in. Currently their garage seems to be where Chewbacca and Darth Vader are living.

I have been told I am a hypocrite for not allowing dst to play with replica "human" guns but they can pretend to play lightsabres and laser guns. Stuff that, they are unlikely to go down the shop and find a real one, that is my defence anyway!

DS has the obsession encouraged along by DH. DS is 4 though and although we have let him see some of the original 3 films they do not really hold his attention. He enjoys the fights and space scenes but does not follow the dialogue. He is now the proud owner of a 20 quid light "saver". Seems to be a common mistake.