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You know, there's so many great documentaries about, you know, like the King of Kong.

Yeah.

And there's a, I can't remember what the pinball one's called, but there's one about pinball and the spelling B one.

Like these fascinating subcultures that have their own politics and rules and subcultures in the subcultures.

I find it very fascinating.

How did you get started sort of entering the world of Star Wars fans in Melbourne?

Well, we got started late.

I think the fact was, you know, I wish in hindsight,

even at the time, I think, that I'd had the idea a few months earlier or a year earlier or

whatever. Like there would have been plenty of lead time to have this idea, but there was only

16 years, mate. Yeah, that's right. 16 years. Not all of that time that we know he was going to go back, though. As much as he said, you couldn't believe him, could you? You can't believe anything he says. So I think there was only... I can't remember. I reckon less than two months ago before episode one came out. So we

literally went out that weekend and we went to Minotaur and we just shot some interviews on

the street. And we shot some footage in the, so Minotaur was a collector's bookstore in Melbourne,

which, you know, that was sort of the place to get comics and role-playing games and that sort of thing.

We've talked about Minotaur on the show before, and it's still in Melbourne, but it's in a different location.

It is, yes.

It's never had the same vibe for me since it moved.

No.

I get that too.

It's become much more of a, well, I don't know, the prices have gone up a lot, I think.

Yeah, I just even the layout and, like, I just loved the, like, it had like three or four floors and it was just, I don't know.

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