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The Nostalgia Awakens is an exhibit featuring every action figure toy made by Kenner Toys

from 1978 to 1985 based on the original three Star Wars movies. The Star Wars Toys on Display are from Jared Roll,

enthusiast and museum curator from Wisconsin.

He and his brother Kevin owned many of the toys when they were children

as an adult Jared collected the rest of the original toys.

In part one of this two-part story,

we learned that Star Wars was released in May of 1977 to just 32 theaters nationwide and how George Lucas's movie revolutionized movie merchandising, licensing, and even how kids play.

Here's Jared Roll with the rest of the story.

One thing that toys allowed us to do is that we could carry on that story.

We could relive that story.

You know, we could be in control of that story that we saw on the big screen that one time.

I mean, this is before the days of VHS.

This is before the days of any way to replay this. I didn't have any

means of replaying this movie. If you wanted to see Star Wars multiple times, you had to go

to the theater. And being a five-year-old kid, I didn't have any power over that. But the

other thing to consider too is that it was only at my theater for two weeks, and then it

was gone, and then it came back in 78. 78 during that summer it was back again for two weeks

so we needed ways

to stay connected to Star Wars

when we weren't seeing the movies

and how did we do that? Well one of the best way was with action figures

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