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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9435123" data-attributes="member: 18">So the same as the 1990s? Possibly the '00s?I was born in 1978, saw all the OT (and Ewok lol) movies growing up, had bunch of Star Wars toys, and frankly, kids at school didn't talk about them much at all. Nobody pretended to be a Jedi or w/e. Not a primary school, and not at secondary school. In primary school, i.e. up to age 10/11, re: on-screen SF, it was mostly about Dr Who, Back to the Future and Indiana Jones, with brief faddish interests in other stuff. In secondary school, up to age 18, it was Aliens, Terminator 1/2, Robocop. Period. We were desperate for any good 1990s SF but it basically didn't start existing until about 1998. Star Wars wasn't a nerdy/geeky thing - ironically that was part of the issue, I think, it was perceived as mainstream and a bit boring/uncontroversial. What was there to say about it? It was fun enough. It didn't spur our imaginations or feelings in the way stuff like Aliens and Terminator did. Star Trek did get discussed a bit - a lot more than Star Wars, that's for sure.Even re: toys, nobody was very excited by any SW toys which weren't inherently cool (AT-ATs were inherently cool, the Millennium Falcon was decidedly not, it was just a horizontal doll's house), at least in my age cohort in the '80s. Cool toys were Lego and Transformers, primarily. To be clear we didn't have really have GI Joe, and I know had I been born like 4 years later, TMNT would have also been involved. But apart from Lego and Transformers, Saturday-morning-style cartoons were pretty balkanized, most kids had a couple they really liked, but of like MASK, Ulysses 31, Thundercats, He-Man and a whole bunch of more obscure/now-forgotten stuff (Thunderbirds 2086, Starcom, etc.), any given kid would like 1-2 a lot and think the rest were okay, meaning those toys were pretty specific. Zoids did actually have quite a moment at one point, like a fad that last 1-2 years at least.</blockquote>

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