Re: When Did Your Fettish Start?

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I'm not a huge fan of Star Wars. I like it but I'm one of those people that think George Lucas ruined it with all the CG animations. Most of all by adding Jar Jar Whatever into the story.  I'm not really obsessed or anything but I do collect.  I'm still a kid at heart.   Boba Fett was my favorite character from the moment I first saw him in "Episode V".  I'm nearly 30 now but I remember seeing it on opening night when we lived in Germany.  My parents bought me plenty of Boba Fett toys back then. They have them stored at their house along with all my other old Star Wars toys.  I started collecting Boba Fett items again about 10 years ago when Star Wars first starting comming back on the scene. It was a good time to start because with the re-release of the orginal movie, and the start of Episodes I, II, III, there were, and still are, plenty of new toys and such to buy.  I buy just about anything I can find.  I even bought the little Boba Fett Burger King was selling last year. Since then I've added statues, jewerly, and more toys.  Last night I bought a bobble head on Ebay.  I've been planning on getting the skull from his armor for a tattoo.  I saw one in the special edition of "Dawn of the Dead".  The 2004 version.  If you watch the news reels that aren't in the actual movie there is a scene where they are in a morgue interviewing a doctors. The zombie on the table that grabs one of the doctors has the skull tattoo on his shoulder.  There are still a couple of statues I need to add to my collection and a painting or two.  Those are the more pricey items.  The Gentle Giants statues that I already have are my favorites.  I'm looking forward to getting the bobble head too.

Explain why the CGI ruins Star Wars

The CG looks too fake.  The original movies were just fine without it (of course they didn't even have it at the time) andwhen  the re-releases had CG added many people shared my opinion.  They even mocked it on an episode of SouthPark. They added CG to an older episode that kina poked fun at what Lucas did in his movies. He was not very happy.  The movies are rediculously awesome to watch but somehow all the CG seems to make the visuals seem less believable. I mean that's what watching Sci-Fi is all about....knowing it's not real but being able to imagine that it is. Jar Jar might have been less annoying if he hadn't been 100% CG.  I guess people that are close to my age and older appreciate the original moves a little more because they were made without all the technology that exists today.  It's not that I think CG just totaly sucks. I just don't like it when a movie depends on it.  Too much CJ makes a movie look generic.

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Yea i agree but CG can be good for things like the big space battles otherwise they wouldnt have been very good.

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Also, i think rubber puppets are pretty fake.

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I watched Episode 5 and the fettish started.
I wanted to read about him
I wanted to be him

I wish i was boba fett

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1980, when I first saw Boba on screen.

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i used to like han solo, that is until i saw boba fett, then i got pissed whenever he knocked him into the sarlacc. my world stopped for a second there. then it started again with Jango Fett

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boba_fett_fan51 wrote:

I watched Episode 5 and the fettish started.
I wanted to read about him
I wanted to be him

I wish i was boba fett

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He got out though.  And I started being obsessed with Boba when I first saw him.  I just liked the cold calculating way he acted, as opposed to Vader's rage, or Luke's righteousness (not that that's a bad thing).  AND you never see behind that helmet, so it added an air of mystery to him.  I thought he was really cool.

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noone in my family was a real big star wars fan but about '94/'95 ish my mum put on the original star wars. i was hooked from there. i forget if it was my birthday or christmas that came first but i got one star wars toy that year, slave one. this ship was so unique looking and the tiny figures (boba and han in carbonite) sparked my imagination. i thought "who is this guy? he CAPTURED han?!" bear in mind i had only seen A New Hope. i was hungry for more and my fettish grew around a character who was so mysterious and involving.

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I was a little kid and when I watched the star wars movies I thought he was so cool. I got a poster of him from some magazine my brother got and it is still in the same spot in my room. As I grew up I began to read books like the mandalorian armor and stuff. THats it for me.

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I finally realized that my real enthusiasm for Fett started when I picked up his life-sized cardboard standee at the mall. I bought it for like $7, and it stands in my room to this day. My family was soooooo mortified as I walked through the mall with it under my arm =P.

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ROTFL, I have one of those. Worse it gets dressed up the holidays, the best being Christmas. Santa hat and lights everywhere.

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I finally realized that my real enthusiasm for Fett started when I picked up his life-sized cardboard standee at the mall. I bought it for like $7, and it stands in my room to this day. My family was soooooo mortified as I walked through the mall with it under my arm =P.

I put an Indiana Jones hat on mine.

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As I stated in another topic, mine is destined for the office in my salon/day spa.  We are gonna deck him out beauty shop style...

Poor poor poor Fett....  The things he does for us ladies...  tongue

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Mine started in the early 80's when I saw a pic of Boba and the card his figure came in.
I hadn't even seen TESB I just thought he looked awesome and there was something about him.
He's been one of my faves ever since.
If not my fave from the original trilogy.

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Niner, have you seen TESB now?

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I always loved the movies.  Dad is a Boba Fett fan too, and he convinced me to watch them for the first time.  I'm glad he did!

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Mine started when i saw Boba's gun.  I was already into starwars at the time, but didn't pay much attention to the mandalorian at all that much. But on my birthday, i got starwars battlefront 2.  I started to play and selected mos eisley, and then assault caught my eye.  I wanted to try it very much so i did.  I picked villains because my favorite character at the time was Darth Maul.  But then i saw Boba's weapon.  I saw the scope on his ee3 blaster, and since i was a sniper freak (could own all of you with clone sharpshooter) i immediatley picked him.  it turned out his gun wasn't a sniper, but i liked him anyway.  So i wtched tha complete trilogy again to learn more about him.  I started buying books about him and searching wookiepeapedia for topics on him.  I drew many pictures of him and other bounty hunters.  I learned much about our fellow mado soldier Boba Fett, that i wanted to learn about other Bounty Hunters.  So I know like, every bounty hunter there is to know.  So anyway, back on topic,  I was doing a google search one day.  I was searching for online games of Boba Fett and saw something that said Boba Fett Fan Club.  So, of course, i clicked on it and joined.  So all in all, that's how my fettish started. smile

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wraith wrote:

noone in my family was a real big star wars fan but about '94/'95 ish my mum put on the original star wars. i was hooked from there. i forget if it was my birthday or christmas that came first but i got one star wars toy that year, slave one. this ship was so unique looking and the tiny figures (boba and han in carbonite) sparked my imagination. i thought "who is this guy? he CAPTURED han?!" bear in mind i had only seen A New Hope. i was hungry for more and my fettish grew around a character who was so mysterious and involving.

Same here,I'll never forget my first time watching starwars,and I still have my slave I,it's on a shelf in my room I can't find the carbonite Han Solo though...

virtualbettie wrote:

ROTFL, I have one of those. Worse it gets dressed up the holidays, the best being Christmas. Santa hat and lights everywhere.

lol,the same thing happens to my Titanium Boba!my nephew put a santa hat on it last year,how he found one to fit a mini statue a little bigger than an action figure,i'll never know!

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I started liking Fett when I started reading the Star Wars book. I knew his character obviously but I did not think too much about him.

I did not know about the books until Devil boy got me shadows of the empire for Christmas in 2003. He then got some books that he had left at his mum and dads and I read him in the short stories in tales from Jabba palace and tales of the bounty hunters.

I thought Fett was funky from then. I think that was about Feb 2004. So it has not been long.

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Believe me Devil Girl, the "Fettish" will grow on you. It sure grew on me. It has lasted 26 years now!

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I think it was the first time I saw the films...  I was just attracted to the armour and wanted to know more about who occupied it.  And ever since, it's been a Fett-ish. wink

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Mine started in Empire, I thought who is this dude that nots scared of vader and where did he get that sick ship from. Then my second figure was Boba vs IG-88 and that sealed the collecting side of things and after the books there could be no denying that we were in a serious relationship. Then I had the honour of meeting Jeremy in Australia and then in Japan and we talked about cricket and I thought " I'm talking to Boba Fett about the ashes!" and then I ran away screaming "I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!

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Well the movies were out before I was born, so for me it began when I was in a toy store one day (I had bought Star Wars toys before however) and i first laid my eyes upon a Boba Fett toy and thought "who is this guy in cool armor?" and bought it and every other boba fett thing i found. When I first saw the movies i was too young to comprehend boba's coolness. So it began when I saw him in the store couple years later.

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I have been a Boba fan as long as I can remember...  I'm sure it started with ESB- his suit rocked, his ship was totally different from the others, and it had the most wicked sound when it left the Bespin platform..  I was hooked.


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