Gary in Minneapolis donated a few vintage cards and a vintage sticker to the site, red series, loved, but ideal cards for someone still trying to finish up their set.

I decided that I'd add a little something to his donation, a Heritage P5 promo card (in honor of the vintage cards), and a very, very rare pad of SWTC post-it notes! These aren't vintage, but haven't been seen in years.

So, if your vintage Series 2 set is incomplete, or you want to start a nephew or niece collecting the vintage cards, or you need trade bait to help you finish your vintage sets, this contest might just be for you.

To enter, reply to this e-mail with a favorite Star Wars card collecting memory.

Entries will be accepted through New Years day.

Already impressed with the first of the e-mail entries.

Those who wish to can e-mail me privately, or post their entry here publicly. Private entries will remain private.

I got my first few packs of RotS movie cards at a drug store, was bummed when I noticed they were hobby because I wanted all the retial chases, and pulled a sketch card in my first pack!

Well I haven't exactly been collecting all that long, but my greatest memory is pulling a 'C' card in the second ever pack I opened of the Evolution Update series. In fact I was so bemused I had to triple check I had got the odds right of pulling one of these. To top it off later I pulled the other 'C' card in another box to make a pair.

And no, I have no intention of getting rid of them.

I guess my favorite Star Wars card collecting memory reminds me of my brothers. We don't talk much anymore but I can remember back in 1977-78 when I had to go and watch my older brothers play little league baseball. Before we left the house, my younger brother and I would look around the house for spare change. Once we got to the baseball field, we ran over to the concession stand. My younger brother would buy candy and I would buy....yes, you guessed it...Yellow Series Star Wars card packs. I remember when those packs were 25 cents each...plus tax. My younger brother would ask, "Why do you waste your money on those dumb cards?" I would simply say, "You buy what you want....I'll buy what I want." Later, while sitting on a bench I would thumb through the cards looking at images of the greatest movie I've ever seen. At that point, I was hooked! Oh, yea...I would watch my brothers play too.....

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I remember going to a friend's house and looking at his ESB cards.. his sister was blasting Michael Jacksons Thriller in the next room as I flipped through all the familiar images until my jaw dropped - there it was... Empire strikes back - Series One #109 "Lando . . . Friend or Foe? The one card I needed to complete the set. I had only seen it in the small black and white image on the back of #108 and seeing it large and color and real - felt like I spotted a unicorn or stumbled upon bigfoot. I had been buying packs for weeks tryng to get it and it was driving me crazy. He gave it to me and I carried it home gently.