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Collect ‘Em, Trade ‘Em: New Star Wars Characters Revealed in Throwback Trading Cards

Kylo-Ren: A new Star Wars villain?
Kylo-Ren: A new Star Wars villain?

 

Now how cool is THIS?

Star Wars director J.J. Abrams and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy have released the names of all the characters from the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer in the most novel, fun and inspired way imaginable — they’ve released a set of retro Topps-style trading cards!

Can you say… Freakin’ AWESOME!!??

Anyone who was lucky enough to have grown up in the late-seventies and remembers all the Star Wars mania of those days — myself included — will instantly recognize the heartwarming feel of nostalgia these cards bring back.  They are almost identical to the original set of Star Wars trading cards put out by Topps back in 1977, even down to the starbursts and numbering system (and yes, according to Abrams those numbers DO have some significance — could they be in chronological order of events from the film?).

Here’s a couple of scans of the original 1977 cards for comparison:

 

Luke

 

Vader

Entertainment Weekly broke the story yesterday with their exclusive release of eight cards, which we have reproduced here in numeric order for your speculative enjoyment.

BB-8
Poe-Dameron
Kylo-Ren
Rey
Finn
Stormtroopers

 

Now for my next question:  will we be seeing the rest of the cards?

Anyone interest in picking up some of the original trading cards should come down to our sister store, Sfanthor! at 1101 South Congress!  We have almost the complete set!

 

SOURCE:  ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ character names revealed (in coolest way possible) — exclusive