With the highly anticipated "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" set to hit French theaters on Wednesday, two days before the US release date, fans in Paris are flocking to stores, decked with merchandise from the intergalactic tale of good versus evil. 

Star Wars merchandise is displayed at the 'STAR WARS Identities' exhibition press conference & photo call at MAK on December 17, 2015 in Vienna, Austria. 

Moviegoers queue to buy food ahead of the first public screening of Walt Disney Co.'s 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' at a Vue Entertainment Ltd. cinema in London, U.K., on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015. 

Customers holding lightsabers and dressed as Jedi Knights, collect their tickets from the counter at the first public screening of Walt Disney Co.'s 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' at a Vue Entertainment Ltd. cinema in London, U.K., on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015.