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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.
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Darth vader????
I mean he used to be human and would surely appreciate at LEAST a grinch look a like!!
Gotta love the caroling stormtroopers. Although, the mental image of them singing in that special stormtrooper way is now firmly lodged in my mind's ear..
KSHHHHT
"Deck the halls with"
KSHHHHT
"Boughs of holly,"
KSHHHHT
"Fa la la la la,"
KSHHHHT
"La la, la la.."
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My personal favorite: "Gimme good presents or I will Force choke the life out of your pathetic body"
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That change-of-address card is really nice.
"Little does he know, but there is no 'I' in 'Idiot'!"
So, you're a terrible person and not afraid to admit it ?
Religion is what happens when nature strikes and groupthink goes wrong.
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.
Apparently, George Lucas sends the same card every year. He just adds more special effects.
So, you are standing in line with your boyfriends while he was standing with his girlfriend?
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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.
Should have had Obi-Wan pop up next to them, using the force to make them sing. Then your mental image could have been:
Obi-Wan (quietly, slowly waving his hand): "Deck the halls with"
Stormtroopers (loudly, in unison): KSHHHHT "Deck the halls with"
Obi-Wan: (again, quietly, slowly waving his hand), "Boughs of holly"
Stormtroopers (loudly, in unison): KSHHHHT "Boughs of holly"
etc.
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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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.
It beggars belief that you're bragging about being that much of a cunt.
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