Star Wars is widely regarded as one of the best science fiction sagas ever told. The legions of fans it has attracted, and the amount of money it has earned reinforces this claim. But it isn't just about movies and films. It has branched off into many other subcategories and genres that you wouldn't expect a science fiction franchise to do.
Let's start from the ground up and take a look at the products for younger kids. You have bed sheets, curtains, dressers, pencils, learning games, back packs, duffel bags, clothing, and pretty much anything else that you could want for school or home. As far as toys are concerned you have action figures of various complexities for different age ranges. You also have model vehicles and play sets to keep your children entertained on the subject.
The Star Wars toys have been in production for some time and the ones that our children play with today are not the ones we grew up with. The ones we had were typically die cast metal figurines that were meant to be posed and the battles imagined, rather then acted out with flexible figures. In addition to the metal figurines you could find metal and plastic models of ships and vehicles. There is currently a debate on amongst collectors about which toys are better; currently there is no end in sight for this debate.
After you move out of the toy related products you can then move onto the more home related ones. Star Wars costumes always show up at Halloween, and there are plenty of posters to go around. Now we come to perhaps the most stimulating of the available merchandise. This would be books, and Star Wars has several hundred of them. Not all of them are set in the same era as the films and many of them have been New York Times Best Sellers.
These range from large hardcover novels to small comic books, needless to say they all bring color and a different perspective to one of our favorite universes. Finally we come to the video game and movie section. Star Wars video games have been around for a very long time, and have advanced with technology. In the early days of gaming it was hard to make a good game based on this franchise simply because of the technological limitations of the time.
As we progressed over the years Star Wars games started to move from the arcade, into the living room. They now are in almost every home and range across all the consoles regardless of age. PS1, PS2, PS3, GameCube, Wii, Game Boy, PSP, Xbox, Xbox 360, and the PC all have numerous Star Wars games on them and make for an entertaining diversion at any time. Of course these wouldn't be complete without films to augment and accompany.
If you need to buy your kindergartner their first backpack there's even a product for that. If you need to buy your teen a game for the holidays there's a product for that too. Books are available for purchase if you're not into films and coloring books are available for your children.
