Easter eggs
Easter eggs on Decipher Star Wars CCG cards are hidden jokes, call-outs, and extra images that have no effect on play. Decipher posted an official list through Jabba's Palace Limited; later finds are collector notes.[1][2]
Card titles that scramble employee and fan names are listed separately at Anagrams.
Premiere
- Gravel Storm — "This Card Rocks" in the copyright line
- Tonnika Sisters — alien icon has multiple eyes
A New Hope Limited
- Bespin Motors Void Spider THX 1138 — THX 1138 is George Lucas's first major film; also Lucas's sound company and Luke's "cell block 1138" line
- Dark Waters — Ewok doll floating in the water
- Defel — "WYOU" and "XERB" on the uniform (Wolfman Jack radio stations from American Graffiti)
- Death Star Trench — "The Art of Great Games" (Decipher motto)
- Hyperwave Scan — X's and O's as tic-tac-toe
- Luke's Hunting Rifle — Campbell's soup can reads "Cream of Womprat"
- M-HYD Binary Droid — copyright year 1996 written in binary
- Retract The Bridge — lights spell VERTIGO
- Scanner Techs — "WBN" in the background (Radioland Murders)
- Sensor Array / Sensor Panel — card backs visible; "ANEWHOPE" in a readout
- Tzizvvt — alien icon has multiple eyes
- Undercover — "Good Evening" and Hitchcock profile
- Yavin 4: Briefing Room — extra figures include Matt Mariani, Ronald Reagan, Bob Hudsol, Warren Holland, and Jerry Darcy
- You're All Clear Kid! — 253 (Decipher's Granby Street address)
Hoth Limited
- Hoth expansion display box — Mon Calamari cruisers appear before they join the Alliance in Return of the Jedi
- Crash Landing — "J. G. Ballard" on the snowspeeder (author of Crash)
- Death Mark — skull in the Effect icon
- Debris Zone — tiny snowman
- Deflector Shield Generators — "B. Fuller" (Buckminster Fuller / geodesic structures)
- Evacuation Control — Decipher home page on a monitor
- Frozen Dinner — knife, fork, and spoon in the ice
- FX-7 (Effex-Seven) — fish in the bacta tank
- Furry Fury — Indiana Jones bullwhip on Han's hip
- Major Bren Derlin — Cheers / John Ratzenberger joke ("everyone knows his name")
- Responsibility Of Command — battleship in the image
- Snowtrooper — snowflake instead of the Imperial symbol in the type icon
- Tauntaun Bones — xylophone sticks in the snow
- Tauntaun Handler — "Wilbur" in the horns (Mr. Ed)
- WED-1016 'Techie' Droid — copyright date in binary
- You Have Failed Me For The Last Time — Heimlich maneuver on a video screen
Dagobah Limited
- 4-LOM — "4 love of $" on the knuckles
- Astromech Translator — HAL 9000 lie on the screen
- At Peace — peace sign in the logo
- Han's Toolkit — Cloud City flow pack in the toolkit
- He Is Not Ready — Chia Pet on Yoda's shelf
- Imbalance — Interrupt and Dagobah symbols tilted 45°
- Landing Claw — Hitchhiker's Guide identity
- Lost In Space — Robot in the Effect symbol
- Rogue Asteroid — potato (used as asteroid props in filming)
- Smuggler's Blues — Glenn Frey song
- Visored Vision — "Blues Bros." in the copyright
Cloud City Limited
- Bionic Hand — $6,000,000 on the wrist flap (The Six Million Dollar Man)
- Cloud City Sabacc — Transamerica building; Capitol dome and Washington Monument in the skyline
- Dismantle On Sight — Nazi crate from Indiana Jones
- Force Field — Stir Crazy rule book
- Old Pirates — skull and crossbones in blast marks
- Sonic Bombardment — THX in the background
- Tibanna Gas Miner — ax, shovel, and lantern
- We're The Bait — fishhook in the Effect icon
- Weather Vane — rooster vane upside down
- Swing-And-A-Miss — baseball lore
- Leia Of Alderaan — Helen of Troy lore
Jabba's Palace Limited
- Abyssin — one eye in the alien icon
- Attark — upright Hoover vacuum
- Cane Adiss — outline of Virginia (Decipher's home state)
- Hutt Smooch — XOXO in the Interrupt icon
- Ree-Yees — three eyes in the alien icon
- Skull — crossbones in the title bar
- Someone Who Loves You — heart in the lore paint chip
- Strangle — Jabba's eye rolled up
Later sets
Decipher did not post an official list after Jabba's Palace. Collector notes in Encyclopedia 3.2 include:[1]
- Gambler's Luck — hidden heart, diamond, spade, and club
- Debnoli — Dark Side pilot icon
- Death Star Assault Squadron — permanent pilot icon is Darth Vader
- Corran Horn — Michael A. Stackpole
- Talon Karrde — Timothy Zahn
- Watch Your Step — "The Art of Great Games" in Aurebesh
- Bravo Fighter — permanent pilot icon is Anakin Skywalker
- Major Marquand — lore "Directed a counterattack"; Richard Marquand directed Return of the Jedi and cameoed as an AT-ST driver
See also
Sources
- SWCCG Collecting Encyclopedia 3.2 (p.191–200)
- Star Wars CCG Easter Eggs at Decipher.com (archive, 22 February 2002)
- Easter eggs thread at forum.starwarsccg.org
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 SWCCG Collecting Encyclopedia 3.2
- ↑ Star Wars CCG Easter Eggs at Decipher.com (archive, 22 February 2002)