The Phantom Menace - 10 Years Old!

[Dasquian Belargic]

Every saga has a beginning... this one began on May 19, 1999 !

Almost 10 years since the arrival of the prequels, Padme Amidala, Qui-Gon Jinn, Darth Maul, double-bladed lightsabers, Mace Windu, little Ani Skywalker, midi-chlorians, and - of course - Jar Jar Binks!

Happy birthday, TPM. Without it, I doubt we would all be here :)

[Zai]

Qui-Gon Jinn...ahh..

[Emelie Shadowstar]

Maulllyyyyyyyyy :D

Inspired me for years with the Sithies I used to write as.

[Darth Turbogeek]

TPM = still a steaming pile of shit after 10 years

[Dasquian Belargic]

Happy birthday, old bean.

Sadly, you are the redheaded step-child of the Star Wars family, so a great many of us scorn you and beat you for the sheer fun of it. Oh well!

10 years today :)

[Crusader]

1999 the best summer I ever had! I love SW years!

[CMJ]

My least favorite of the series by a big margin, but still an awful lot to like. Hard to believe it's been 10 years! My first ever midnight showing. :)

[Droo]

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Happy Birthday, you may be a big clunking disappointment of a film but you brought us together!

[Dasquian Belargic]

As soon as I heard "I will not condone a course of action..." I got goosebumps :lol

I might have to watch this tonight. It's been too long.

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[Lilaena De'Ville]

Hard to imagine I was a dewy 19 when TPM came out. I still remember seeing the trailer for the first time - it was in front of Enemy of the State and I sat on the edge of my seat the entire time. My friends made fun of me. Former friends, I should say. ;)

[Peter McCoy]

Really enjoyed watching the trailer after all this time. 1:20 - the Wilhelm in all it's cheesy glory!

And at 2:13 I thought of those sigs I did for Garrett.

[Jedi Master Carr]

Hard to believe it has been 10 years. I remember going to see it in theaters like it was yesterday.

[General Dan]

I still remember staying in line all night to see it, the day before graduating high school :D

It's so crazy that we're ten years removed from that. Seems like no time at all.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

I remember seeing it at the Cine-Rama in downtown Seattle when it came out. I waited a week or so though; never was one to wait in lines. I do remember walking by on my way to work for iirc three or four days before it opened, and a line had already begun. By the time it did open, my god. That line stretched back behind the theatre and down for BLOCKS.

[Wyl Staedtler]

Oh man. I was fifteen when it came out and my brothers and I paid three bucks each to see it in a crappy little theatre with no air conditioning. Didn't understand a word of it because it was (very badly) dubbed in Spanish with no subtitles. :lol

I still can't help but laugh when Qui-Gon does his little pseudo-somersault after he's been skewered. ^_^;

[Droo]

Omg Spoilersss!!!

[Dasquian Belargic]

Anikin Grows Up To Be Darth Vadar!!

[Droo]

Shut Up Shut Up Shut Up!!!

ps. is there a way to circumvent or disable this thing on the forums that automatically turns your outrageously capitalized posts into lower case, as seen above in my last two posts? The smaller letters do not do my outrage justice! :shakefist

[Dasquian Belargic]

JAR JAR BINKS IS HIS FATHER

[Droo]

ONLY BECAUSE HE GOT JIGGY WITH YO MAMA!

It works? OMG IT WORKS LOLLLLL!!!

[Dasquian Belargic]

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[Lykaios]

10 years? Holy crap!

That makes me....old -_-

I too remember standing in line at the theater for hours unend for the midnight showing. Great idea, poor exectuion. So much to like, so much to hate.

[JMK]

I saw the anniversary creep up. It's unreal that 10 years has already sailed past.

What else can be said about TPM that hasn't been said? I've always said it was like having 5 healthy kids, and 1 not so healthy kid with a bad case of tourette's. You love them all equally, but one of them isn't like the others.

[Crusader]

^^this sounds so nice when you put it like that!