"Star Wars" Stamps

By: News Editor
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2007
Source: Reuters

On Wednesday, the U.S. Postal Service unveiled fifteen new first-class stamps featuring characters from the STAR WARS movies. Among the characters featured on the stamps are Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, Yoda, Darth Vader, R2-D2, C-3PO, Princess Leia, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Boba Fett.

Due to the success & popularity of the films, the U.S. Postal Service believes the stamps could reach "the blockbuster status of the Elvis stamp.'"

The STAR WARS stamps will go on sale on May 25th.

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Comments/Responses

wrrlykam • Mar 29, 2007, 02:20am •

Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie. I want to start collecting stamps again.

Kevn • Mar 29, 2007, 07:41am •

You just have to know that Lucas is making money off of this somehow. I bet he suckered the government into giving him a cut.

Krasch • Mar 29, 2007, 07:48am •

I wouldn't say "suckered" had a thing to do with it. All the Star Wars charatcers are TRADEMARKED to Lucasfilm, and as such the use of their likenesses on stamps would oblige the government to pony up royalties for the use of said characters.

wessmith1966 • Mar 29, 2007, 08:04am •

A framed set of the stamps will make a great Christmas present for my best friend. If Lucas has anything to do with this, you just know there are going to be about 5 versions of the stamps, with each set having very small changes to the images so Star Wars fans will buy each one. The original set will only be out for a week and we'll be told to buy a lot of the other four because the first set will never be available again. Six months later, there will be an announcement that the original set will be reissued so we better buy lots of those, too.

HLM03 • Mar 29, 2007, 08:57am •

wessmith brings up an interesting point. It is a pain in the neck the way Lucas re-issues EVRYTHING. At the same time though, you can't really hold it against the man to want to make that money when everybody complains about his marketing tactics, yet they ALL still fork out the money to buy every single edition! We live in a capatilist country after all. If people were willing to open up their wallets every time I sneezed, then I would jump on exploiting that too! :)

fft5305 • Mar 29, 2007, 09:22am •

He'll have 5 versions. Then, in 5 years, he'll change the appearance of the characters in the stamps and have the stamps reissued with the new look.

jppintar326 • Mar 29, 2007, 02:27pm •

You can go to the official Star Wars web site to vote on which pictures the stamps will have. I'll definitely be in line for these.

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