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30 Years of LucasFilm Staff Christmas Cards
An anonymous reader found that "For the last 30 years, Lucasfilm has created special holiday greeting cards for its employees and business partners. For the first time ever, we have compiled most of the Star Wars-themed Holiday Cards on one page." My favorite is 2005. That would make a cool poster or something.
They mention conceptual artist Ralph McQuarrie in these a lot--well, he's done many illustrations and paintings for collectible card sets. If you like these Christmas cards, I heavily recommend you collect the three Star Wars Galaxies Collectible Card sets put out by Topps in the early 1990s. I still have those three sets and still enjoy pulling them out every now and then and reading through the backs of the cards.
Most of the images on those cards are beautifully illustrated.
My work here is dung.
This years card is pretty badass, if i had the ability to get that I would be sending that one out this season.
I thought the year 2000 card was a pretty neat idea. While it may not give too much in terms of artistic value or depth it certainly ranks an 'A' on the "wtf, I wish I had one of these...no more pulling the sled up the hill"-scale. :D
Darth vader????
I mean he used to be human and would surely appreciate at LEAST a grinch look a like!!
Why can't we have more stories like THIS one?
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A whole bunch of us went and stood in line for like an hour to buy tickets. Most crowded movie opening I've ever been to. The whole time we're in line my friends are giving shit to this absolute slut in front of us. I don't use that word lightly. This girl was a disgrace. Anyway, the guy she was with was getting more and more pissed off with every underhanded comment about his girlfriend. As we finally got into the cinema to buy our tickets things had started to get out of hand. I believe the straw that broke the camel's back was when someone (maybe me) said "... anyway, who the hell brings a hooker to a movie?" *Bam* this guy is up in my friend's face. He was gunna kill him. My friend just couldn't stop laughing and saying "hey man, I didn't say it, but you gotta admit, it's accurate!" Security came in and dragged the guy out of line and his ditsy girlfriend didn't have any money to buy the tickets (its not like she had any pockets in that outfit). I don't even know if he got to see the movie, but considering the horridness of episode one, I think maybe we did him a favor.
How we know is more important than what we know.
That change-of-address card is really nice.
"Little does he know, but there is no 'I' in 'Idiot'!"
The cards are all interesting until 1995, when they start getting very PC. I mea... Chewbacca walking kids through the snow? It's a nice sentiment but, c'mon.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
Damn WTF, is that ewok polishing that snowman's carrot? Fucking 3p0 wearing a fuck-me Santa suit. Santa wears pants! Cripes.
Apparently, George Lucas sends the same card every year. He just adds more special effects.
Knowing George Lucas, he'll be remailing the same Christmas cards 20 years later after they've been reworked to show his original vision....
At first, I thought the card with the Jawas might be showing them picking over Santa's sleigh, maybe loading the scavenged contents into the sand crawler. And Santa? Captive of the Sand People, I would reckon. Obviously, that's too dark humor for Lucas.
Oh, yeah, it's not easy to pad these out to 120 characters.
How the last ten years cards were visually stunning but really badly written?
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
I would've liked to have seen one of the ultimate wielder of light sabres standing in front of a green screen myself...
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It's for "Life Day."
And when are we going to get a Star Wars Holiday Special Special Edition? C'mon Lucas, I want to see Bea Arthur shoot first!
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I wonder if old Georgie boy wakes up at night in a cold sweat and panic thinking about the legacy of trash film that he's leaving behind him, the millions of fans who feel betrayed and those of us who hated him from the word go.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
You know what's really disappointing is that McQuarrie (who is responsible in large part for the excellent designs of the first trilogies) is still around and painting, and doing great work, and LUCAS DIDN'T USE HIM ON THE PREQUELS. We ended up with the creepy, smooth, lounge-lizard Buck Rogers look of the prequels. What a shame.
1983?
the riders look pretty glum, facing imminent incineration:-}
What is the boat supposed to be? Jabba's skiff? Of the non-SW ones, there's Indy of course and Harrison's hot rod "from American Graffiti" but it's hard to tell what's behind the car. the next group might be from THX-1138, then there's Chewie and the 'driods. After that I'm guessing Willow and the cantina band
I know someone at the Ranch and I get a LucasFilm Christmas card every year! Love them. I always look forward the new designs. One year there was a card with like 8-10 panels - snowflakes.
Someone mentioned about McQuarrie and the prequels - yeah it's a shame the direction those films went in. The original 3 were made when Lucas cared about the story and just used the Special Effects (SPFX) to help tell that story.
The prequels ended up being about the SPFX and if they had time for a story, they'd get some of that in there too.
Anyhow - Haven't gotten a 2007 card yet - hope it comes soon!
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Each of the Christmas cards features the same well.
Is it just me, or does the 1977 card look an awful lot like R2D2 is wearing a bra?
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I seriously, seriously tried to sit through that monstrosity the other day without alcohol. I seriously tried but I couldn't get through the Jefferson Starship performance. And are wookiees media junkies? They've gotta be worse than the average American in that respect.
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Star Wars, there should have only been 3.
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.
Its all there in plain sight.
Evoks ate Santa back in 1983, and just like with storm troopers at the end of the "Return of the Jedi" - used his head for a drum.
In 1985 they tried (unsuccessfully) to trade the gifts to various races.
Not until 1994 did they manage to dump those gifts on anyone (apparently it is bad karma to eat Santa's) - until they bumped on a group of Jawas.
Those Jawas will take anything from anyone.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
The Wookiee grandpa watching VR, immersive, softcore space-porn is the best part.
That, and the (admittedly) coked-up Carrie Fisher singing.
I skip to the "good" parts these days, and only watch it when I'm showing it to someone who hasn't seen it. The first time, I watched it straight through, and I had to start reading a book to stay awake during the 20-minute-long stretch with NO TALKING AT ALL, just Wookiee grunting.
Lucas should make a special edition of it. Any changes he might make could only make it more hilariously bad, which is a good thing, for once.