Came across this article the other day about the old Star Wars CCG game from the 90s, which I collected avidly as a kid and recently have been trying to get into playing with a couple friends. Link: https://www.theringer.com/2018/5/21/17374528/star-wars-customizable-card-game-player-community

Anyway, the reason I’m sharing it here is this paragraph:

Holland helped them do that by purchasing an original print of Star Wars and an expensive editing machine that (Braunlich recalls) carried a $50,000 price tag. Decipher imported the equipment from Hollywood to its headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, and used the machine to capture high-quality images for use on the cards. “That was one of the reasons I always thought it was such a successful game—because the cards were just awesome,” Braunlich says. “Sometimes an image that’s fleeting in the movie, just in the background, we’d want to make a card out of it. And the artists there would do computer magic, and the players really loved that.”

Now, I know from experience that the printing process was unreliable enough that sometimes copies of the same card would look a little different, so the cards themselves probably aren’t worth much as a color reference for projects here, but this was a fun new fact to me that I thought was worth passing along. Honestly, I think a lot of my own personal ideas of what the “right” colors are for Star Wars are based on these cards.