In the meantime, I'M STILL CRYING OVER LOSING CHEWIE!!!
Showing posts with label chewie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chewie. Show all posts
Saturday, May 4, 2019
May the 4th Be With You 2019 Edition: No One's Ever Really Gone
Unless you're an extra on Avengers: Endgame or one of the defenders of Winterfell.
In the meantime, I'M STILL CRYING OVER LOSING CHEWIE!!!
In the meantime, I'M STILL CRYING OVER LOSING CHEWIE!!!
Thursday, May 2, 2019
A Little Bit of My Childhood, Gone Away.
The actor who played Chewbacca in Star Wars, Peter Mayhew, recently passed away.
While I have a fondness for all the original characters, Chewie was kind of my guy. Oversized, covered with fur, goofy, unable to play chess...
When I was 7 or 8 years old I asked for a large Chewbacca action figure for Christmas. My parents may not have understood the request because I ended up with a fluffy teddy-bear Chewie. I wasn't entirely thrilled at the time, but Plush Chewie grew on me and so he was a regular bedtime companion until I was 12 or so. Afterwards he was pretty much on a book shelf for display and I admit I grew out of the idea of owning a doll like that. I can't recall when he ended up going to a donation store, or whatever else happened to him.
There's times in my adulthood when I wonder why I let so much of my childhood things go. It was like letting go of some memories here and there. I feel this way when the actors I grew up with, playing the characters of my childhood, pass away.
Goodbye Chewie. What a Wookie!
While I have a fondness for all the original characters, Chewie was kind of my guy. Oversized, covered with fur, goofy, unable to play chess...
When I was 7 or 8 years old I asked for a large Chewbacca action figure for Christmas. My parents may not have understood the request because I ended up with a fluffy teddy-bear Chewie. I wasn't entirely thrilled at the time, but Plush Chewie grew on me and so he was a regular bedtime companion until I was 12 or so. Afterwards he was pretty much on a book shelf for display and I admit I grew out of the idea of owning a doll like that. I can't recall when he ended up going to a donation store, or whatever else happened to him.
There's times in my adulthood when I wonder why I let so much of my childhood things go. It was like letting go of some memories here and there. I feel this way when the actors I grew up with, playing the characters of my childhood, pass away.
Goodbye Chewie. What a Wookie!
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