The Star Wars Expanded Universe is defined as the mass amounts of literature, games, comics and other paraphernalia released as a simple tie-in for children primarily in the period up until April 2014. It was then since branded as "Legends" with a newer, better and less bloated canon and new Expanded Universe springing itself from it.

It is generally advised to immerse in the new Expanded Universe over the old one as the newer one will always remain relevant and will cause less fans to go bananas and spoil important movies.
Star Wars fan 1: "Which of the Star Wars Expanded Universe do you like?"

Star Wars fan 2: "The new one of course!"

Star Wars fan 1: "Good answer. The grass is truly not greener on the other side. I heard liking the old Expanded Universe makes anyone be a dick and spoil movies for people."

Star Wars fan 2: "Ah ok, thanks for the heads up."
by Hidalgo Rules! March 18, 2016
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The best possible game, created by a team of the best possible game developers. A titan of the industry, it is the grandfather of the modern gaming industry.
I am off to play Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga on my Nintendo licensed home video game console tiled the Wii.
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The Star Wars Expanded Universe refers to the large collection of Star Wars tie-in material such as Books, Comics, Roleplaying games, Video games that have discontinued their run in 2014. It also spawned many groups that consistently threaten to spoil and ruin the fun of any new forthcoming media most notably movies such as The Force Awakens and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Megan-Marie: "Have you read the Star Wars Expanded Universe?"

Bren: "This stuff is like so much better than my own life!"

Me: "This crap is fanfiction. I'm going to enjoy the movies, the real media form in which Star Wars should be shown in."
by Mehgends September 04, 2016
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The mass amounts of media released until and subsequently discontinued until 2014. This includes books, comics and video games used for the ultimate purpose of a cash-grab. While it had some decent stuff like Knights of the Old Republic, it had just too many wildly inconsistent ridiculous stories which destroy anything the Original Trilogy accomplishes such as Palpatine surviving Return of the Jedi and Luke Skywalker turning to the Dark Side. It was an ultimately a good decision Lucasfilm ultimately declared a collective retcon toward this even though this sadly resulted in groups aiming to ruin subsequent Star Wars enjoyment by spoiling The Force Awakens and Rogue One through "Comment Raids".
Matt: "I love MLP and the Star Wars Expanded Universe"

Jordan: "Me too. I still mourn for its death and I hate the new fans out there. I'm going to spoil Rogue One for all those filthy casuals!"

Matt: "Right on!"
by Steven Rottgers September 04, 2016
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The gut-wrenching and all-consuming pit of despair that overwhelms one who has recently completed the sequel trilogy of StarWars; and thusly has come to the realisation that he/she will never see another spontaneous scene from Ben Solo again-as he/she has witnessed all there is to see.
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Star wars: the force awakens is a movie that is no longer considered canon for its garbage story line and is widely regarded as a disappointment to everyone.
Teacher: "What's one thing you can name that is absolute garbage"
Student: "Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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It is the third movie in the Star Wars series, and is also the one in which Anakin Skywalker becomes Darth Vader after being driven insane by fear of losing his girlfriend, Padme (or Queen Amidala.) It is also easily the most disturbing Star Wars movie, because near the end, Anakin/Darth Vader is burned alive...ON SCREEN...
Person 1: Omg, like, Twilight is totally, like the BEST MOVIE EVER, like!
Person 2: Uhm, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is better, bitch.
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