>>6820126>>6820128>>6820224so do you guys collect any of this new stuff? Where are you at currently with Star Wars? Reminiscing the good old days? Creating customs? Filling gaps in your collection? Checking out old EU you've missed out on?
I've engaged a little bit in all of the above ever since early 2016. It feels like there's a sizeable amount of people out there that are still "star wars fans", but not necessarily fans of the post-disney state of the franchise. In some ways my love for Star Wars feels like it's on life-support, but realistically I think it's mostly just frozen in time--meaning that, I like what I like. That's it. In this case, that conveniently happens to be everything before the LFL buyout. I had sort of forgotten about the series for a while, but this cynical new disneyfied take on the franchise actually reinvigorated my interest in everything I used to like about the series. Now that the clock has stopped ticking and the dust has settled, and now that everything is pretty much available for grabs for free on the internet (except the toys), it's kind of fun to surf through all the old content that came out. Emulating some of the old console games in high def 60fps is really great. You don't really look at the faults in any of the material anymore, it's more about filling the gaps in your knowledge and seeing everything come together in an exhibitionary sense. It's about experiencing it all, rather than just reading about it or looking at pictures in a magazine. And while you engage in all this, it does make the series feel really relevant to you on a personal level again since you're specifically seeking out stuff that interests you and you're going through the material at your own pace rather than by release schedules. It's like digging through a treasure chest. What it all amounts to in the end is one endless toy commercial playing in your head, because of all the added context you get for all the characters, spaceships etc. I love it.
