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Star Wars Racing for Topps: Tie Fighter
Russell Walks based his tie-fighter tribute on the gorgeous Monaco Grand Prix posters of the mid-fifties: Bright, bold colors and imagery with a simple message. For those of you who don’t speak French, the tagline on this piece praises the best pilots in the Empire as they seek and destroy rebels in the Hoth asteroid belt.
Walks says: “I imagine the tie-fighter pilots in The Empire Strikes Back as being almost Kamikaze-like in their devotion to the Emperor, and I can picture them in their locker-room singing, slapping each other on the back, and completely ignoring the odds of success as they suit up for their one-way trip into the asteroid field.
In my mind, there’s a poster similar to this one displayed on the locker-room’s viewscreen, and each of the pilots touches it for luck as he exits the hanger and heads toward his ship and a glorious destiny.”
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