Star Wars Kid Becomes Famous

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During what was one of the most watched Super Bowls in history, a young boy became a legend in what was a 30 second commercial for Volkswagen. If you haven’t seen the commercial, he plays a kid dressed up in a Darth Vader costume who tries to use the powers of the force on things like the washing machine, and even the dog. But when he goes outside and faces the car, he finds it starts up, causing him to jump. Thinking it actually worked, but it was really his parents that started the car by remote, a feature of the new 2011 Passat.

We hadn’t realized when we mentioned the boy in yesterday’s news feed that he had become the new Star Wars Kid and brought new interest back in the series and of course, in Darth Vader costumes for kids. The YouTube video of the commercial has garnished over a million views and the commercial itself is seen by 20 million during the Super Bowl.

And Max Page, the lad who played the miniature Darth, has been given the royal treatment after going on several talk shows and meeting Star Wars legend James Earl Jones. At a performance of Driving Miss Daisy on Broadway, in which Jones takes over the role that Morgan Freeman played in the movie, Page was treated to a meet and greet and an given an autographed Vader helmet.

For someone who was diagnosed at a few months old with a congenital heart disease, causing him to now have a pacemaker, 6 year old Page deserves the good luck. And we’d like to congratulate him and his family for a job well done. We expect we will see more of him in the future.
 
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