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SW Trilogy Special Edition WIdevision trading cards
There are 72 common cards,
six laser-cut cards (average one in every 18 packs),
and two hologram cards (average one in every 9 packs).
Two wrappers: Topps' Star Wars Galaxy Magazine and Topps' 20th anniversay publications.
The 72 common cards feature all-new
photo imagery and a couple of production sketches, also new.
Six cards are for ESB, six are for ROJ, and the rest are for ANH.
The backs of the
cards are written by Steve Sansweet and feature info on the creation
of the special editions and behind-the-scenes stuff. 1997-02
- hologram cards
- X-wings en route Death Star
- Millennium Falcon exiting Mos Eisley
- laser-cut cards
- A new customer enjoys the Mos Eisley cantina ambience.
- "It's not my fault," a rankled Han Solo tells Jabba the Hutt.
- The Tantive IV -- caught in the clutches of the Empire.
- Chewbacca led away in chains -- but appearances deceive.
- X-wings approach their target -- the Death Star port.
- Imperial view: X-wing laser fire incoming.
- common cards
ANH
- a sharper shot of the droid's escape pod shooting out
- lizard-like beasts of burden actually move across the Tatooine dunes
- sandtrooper riding the dewback
- sandcrawler rumbling over the Tatooine dunes
- wide shot of the Lars homestead
- the twin suns of Tatooine
- landspeeder prop had wheels
- look out at their destination: Mos Eisley
- small new creatures scurrying to get out of the way
- Mos Eisley as a bustling spaceport
- This completely new aerial view of the city of Mos Eisley
- illusion of a bustling spaceport
- asp droid carrying a heavy tool
- careless swoop bike pilot
- the ronto rears
- desert scenes were filmed with pantyhose over the lens
- Skywalker shoos a nosy Jawa
- the hover of the landspeeder
- two cantina patrons newly filmed against a blue-screen background get ready to enter
- dewback of the original film gives way to an apparently living, breathing creature
- sandtroopers interrogating a man in the street
- never happy with a creature called "Wolfman."
- the new mask was so elaborate it could be turned around
- sandtroopers search the narrow byways of Mos Eisley
- Imperial snoop, was added
- Solo encounters his nemesis, crime lord Jabba
- "Han, my boy" says an agitated Jabba
- Solo and the crime lord maintained the same eye contact
- Jabba the Hutt explains to smuggler Han Solo
- the obvious pain and surprise of Jabba
- the presence of the laconic bounty hunter
- how the Millennium Falcon made its successful escape from docking bay 94
- the Millennium Falcon being singed by laser fire from below
- The old Falcon was removed and a new and larger digital image able to do a trickier turn was substituted.
- Death Star lining up with Alderaan
- the best shot of Luke and Leia in peril
- Falcon's approach to the secret Rebel outpost
- The massive Massassi temple
- Alliance spacecraft leaving the secret base
- spectacular view of the Rebel Alliance armada
- an X-wing is built in a computer
- rear view of the Rebel Alliance ships
- the beginning of the final battle
- X-wing fighters en route to [sic] the Death Star
- X-wing fighters descending to the surface of the Death Star
- Sometimes we pan with the ships, which we couldn't do before.
- the Death Star's powerful laser cannons swivel into action
- Changing one shot
- a ship didn't swerve as much as Lucas wanted
- this TIE fighter exploded
- explosions underwent digital fixes
- completely digital X-wing fighter
- X-wing fighter is headed for trouble
- X-wing fighter speeds down the Death Star trench
- Vader's TIE fighter, flanked by two standard TIEs
- disheartening explosion for the Rebel Alliance
- R2-D2...takes a direct hit from laser fire
- one well-timed and well-aimed shot
- One second to total destruction
- The heroes of Yavin get ready to be congratulated
ESB
- This wampa ice creature, for example, seems determined
- shots that actually established the wampa
- snack time for the wampa
- original shot of Cloud City was somewhat of a disappointment
- Solo's ship is just about to set down
- expansive plaza in a storyboard
ROJ
- dancers Rystall, Greeata, and Lyn Me.
- two new backup musicians
- Femi Taylor, who played Oola
- four dancing girls and more
- photo illustration of what the final "Jabba Rocks" sequence would look like
- preliminary sketches by ILM's Terryl Whitlatch show the celebration
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