Humorous SW Trading Cards

[Texas_Fett]

While searching for some decent card images, I stumbled across a pair of mildly funny cards from the Star Wars Collectable Trading Card Game. I found this interesting, in regards to one of the long-tome posters here. Pay attention to the title of the card, and its revelation about a certain stormtrooper.

 

And this one is pretty darn funny, too.

[ADarkJedi44]

Haha that second one is pretty good.

[TK421]

TK-421 a clone stormtrooper? You insult me

[Lord_La_forge]

Just another stupid, stupid investment. They try to make money of everything

[Trejiuvanat]

I agree with you La_Forge... That's sadly how Lucasfilm works...

[vakundok]

Why is it a problem? (Except, of course for TK-421. ) Lucas said that the stormtroopers were clones. The EU, not to be fucked up, corrected, that the majority of the stormtroopers were clones. (To the level that 40% of them belonged to the same host.) I think TK-421 is a perfect name for a clone. I am more interested to know, why he was the only stormtrooper not to have the regular backpack. (In which, Luke would have been able to carry his lightsaber and cut themselves out from the garbage room.)

[Texas_Fett]

You know, I think the reason I find the "Stormtroopers are Clones" information surprising is because I've shared the common assumption that the "Clone Wars" was a conflict of the Old Republic against the 'Clone Masters' and their 'Clone Armies'. I mean, in ANH, when it's revealed that Obi-Wan fought in the Clone Wars, the impression I've always had was that the Clones were the 'bad-guys'. SW Fiction led credence to that assumption with such stuff as 'outlawed' cloning (Boba Fett's leg), and the scarcity of spaarti cloning cylinders (Thrawn Trilogy). But if even the majority of 'modern' stormtroopers are, in actuality, clones, it not only throws all of that out of kilter, it also casts doubt on the histories of several prominent characters in the EU.

 

I think that was thge main reason why I was so surprised during Episode 2 when the Clones are the ones coming to the rescue of the Jedi.

 

Any-hoo...that's my 2 cents.

[vakundok]

Agree. While I have read only the originals and the Thrawn triology, I was just as well surprised. Especially since the hungarian translation of ANH writes that war against clones ...

 

I think it is only because GL tends to interpret his new ideas as they were allways planned as such and because he is completely uninterested in the EU. No continuity could follow that revisionist changing of its core ...

 

However, we have seen only the start of the Clone Wars, so, likely the clones will turn to be the bad guys with the Republic turning to Empire. Despite I have had the impression that the clone wars finished years before the Empire it was not confirmed in the originals.

[Jahled]

I gotta agree in that I was pretty surprised by the revelation concerning the clones... and I wonder if we're in for some Mandalorian surpises given the ESB states that 'Boba Fett was wearing the armour of an evil group of warriors defeated by the Jedi during the Clone Wars'...

[Trejiuvanat]

You know, I think the reason I find the "Stormtroopers are Clones" information surprising is because I've shared the common assumption that the "Clone Wars" was a conflict of the Old Republic against the 'Clone Masters' and their 'Clone Armies'. I mean, in ANH, when it's revealed that Obi-Wan fought in the Clone Wars, the impression I've always had was that the Clones were the 'bad-guys'. SW Fiction led credence to that assumption with such stuff as 'outlawed' cloning (Boba Fett's leg), and the scarcity of spaarti cloning cylinders (Thrawn Trilogy). But if even the majority of 'modern' stormtroopers are, in actuality, clones, it not only throws all of that out of kilter, it also casts doubt on the histories of several prominent characters in the EU.

 

I think that was thge main reason why I was so surprised during Episode 2 when the Clones are the ones coming to the rescue of the Jedi.

 

Any-hoo...that's my 2 cents.

 

I fully agree with you, those were my thoughts and ideas for many long years, and now we see that Gl has changed it.

The clones will be the bad guys, but they won't be defeated by the Jedi, instead they will defeat the Jedi.

 

Jahled, actually the clones were supposed to use Boba's armor, I remember seeing some images in a German magazine about 8 years ago. (I'll look for th magazine!). Also in ESB Boba was meant for having a white armor instead of green, but GL changed it last minute as well... I don't think we'll be seeing and Mandalorian, though