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Revisiting 1977’s toy-less first ‘Star Wars’ Christmas

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By Mark Newbold

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Yahoo take a look back to what they consider to be the first Star Wars Christmas (even though the original novelisation came out in December 1976, so technically it was the second) with words from such luminaries as Mark Boudreaux and Bernie Loomis.

Maybe you’ve heard the story of the first Star Wars Christmas, and maybe you haven’t. Maybe you know about the mail-in certificates, and maybe you don’t. Either way, the story is worth telling and retelling because for all that the future holds for the Disney era of George Lucas’s creations, the first Star Wars Christmas is the only Star Wars Christmas that will ever be defined by one “brilliant” idea — and zero action figures.

For another angle on earliest Star Wars Christmas in the UK, here’s my article from StarWars.com back in 2013 (where I totally contradict what I said in the first paragraph of this piece).

 

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Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in '81 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He currently contributes to ILM.com and SkywalkerSound.com, having previously written for Star Wars Insider, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Starburst Magazine, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia and Model and Collectors Mart. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host (the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since it began in 2015), the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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Revisiting 1977’s toy-less first ‘Star Wars’ Christmas

Mark Newbold
By Mark Newbold

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Yahoo take a look back to what they consider to be the first Star Wars Christmas (even though the original novelisation came out in December 1976, so technically it was the second) with words from such luminaries as Mark Boudreaux and Bernie Loomis.

Maybe you’ve heard the story of the first Star Wars Christmas, and maybe you haven’t. Maybe you know about the mail-in certificates, and maybe you don’t. Either way, the story is worth telling and retelling because for all that the future holds for the Disney era of George Lucas’s creations, the first Star Wars Christmas is the only Star Wars Christmas that will ever be defined by one “brilliant” idea — and zero action figures.

For another angle on earliest Star Wars Christmas in the UK, here’s my article from StarWars.com back in 2013 (where I totally contradict what I said in the first paragraph of this piece).

 

SourceYahoo
Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in '81 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He currently contributes to ILM.com and SkywalkerSound.com, having previously written for Star Wars Insider, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Starburst Magazine, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia and Model and Collectors Mart. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host (the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since it began in 2015), the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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