History of The Boba Fett Fan Club

Timeline

• 2010

  13 years in the making and still going strong.

• 2009

  On April 1, we closed the site. But only for 12 hours. The April Fool's Day joke was believed by many of our younger regulars, but the die-hard fans didn't go for our stunt.

• 2005

  We make front page of the Entertainment section of The San Francisco Chronicle on 5/14, in Peter Hartlaub's article "Forget Anakin -- for die-hard 'Star Wars' fans, Boba Fett rules." Fun press for the proverbial wall.

• 2002

  In 2002 IG88A's Bounty Hunters Inc. joined the network at bounty-hunters.com, one of the Fan Club's original addresses, until we stopped using that address.

• 2001

  In 2001 The Boba Fett Fan Club joined with Eric Cromwell's Asteroid-Belt.com, Boba-Rin's Boba Fett Homepage in Japan, and MICKY's Boba Fett Museum in Poland. Boba-Rin's site became The Boba Fett Fan Club - Japan Edition, and MICKY's site The Boba Fett Fan Club - Polish Edition. Content was collaborative and the foreign sites ran for years to come.

• 2000

  One day the "bobafett.com" domain name became available, and for no special price, we were able to have it. The previous owner, who used the site for non-Fett interests, even had lent us extra web space for free in previous years. Unfortunately, on June 15, Lucasfilm sent a cease and desist letter regarding "bobafett.com" and stating their commercial interest. On June 23, we agreed to turn the domain over, but we never heard back from them. After months of waiting for a response, while receiving great support from visitors worldwide, we decided to use the domain again.

• 1999

  In May, the web site is featured on Yahoo.com.

  The Vault returned to its original mission with the launching of this site at bobafettfanclub.com on April 1, 1999. In 2000, with new hosting provided for free by a local design company in San Francisco called The Parlor, the site merged with Joe Carlson's Boba Fett Internet Archive — the original home, and creative force, for expanding the fan club.

• 1997

  By January 1, 1997, the site joined forces with Daniel Sully's Boba Fett Homepage, who allowed the site to be hosted pro-bono with the likes of JediNet, creating fun thematic elements like a members section of the site.

  On January 27, U.S. News and World Report runs a photo and article on BFFC's founder, Aaron.

  We also host a Greedo web site, featuring the bounty hunter Han Solo kills in Star Wars: A New Hope.

  The relationship grew to include the support of Tyler Allison, the original inspiration for developing a Boba Fett web site, since he started the first Boba Fett site, The Boba Fett Pages, on his college server in 1995.

• 1996

  Initially known as The Boba Fett Multimedia Vault, the site began in June 1996 as a monthly newsletter, reaching 200 subscribers in less than six months. With the help of publicity on Jesse's Boba Fett Page, the Fan Club was able to grow because of our "Hunter's Journal."

Since 1996

The Boba Fett Fan Club is the premiere web site for fans and spectators of the cult phenomenon behind the bounty hunter Boba Fett from George Lucas' Star Wars saga. It is a non-profit web site designed, written, and maintained by volunteers. Support and original content has been provided by three of Boba Fett's talents: Jeremy Bulloch, Mark Austin, and Daniel Logan.

Animation made for BFFC
by J. McGarry

This is the longest lasting Boba Fett web site on the Internet and possibly the most popular single Star Wars character site ever.

Demographics

Gender
81% male
18% female

Age
13-17 = 9%
18-24 = 27%
25-34 = 34%
35-44 = 28%

Traffic

On average, The Boba Fett Fan Club receives about 800 unique visits each day.

• April 2007 – April 2008

  • 249,190 Visits
  • 1,386,585 Pageviews
  • 5.56 Pages/Visit
  • 4:18 Avg. Time on Site

• April 2006 – April 2007

  • 231,436 Visits
  • 1,177,173 Pageviews
  • 5.09 Pages/Visit
  • 3:29 Avg. Time on Site