Sorry Folks, Park's Closed!

I actually like all of the first 4 Vacation movies. My favorite of course are the first one and Christmas Vacation. The one I favor is usually the one I've seen most recently, or if it's around the holidays Christmas Vacation get the nod by default, which I previously created a mini-set for. I'm finding out I just have a card making thing for most things Chevy Chase.

Some time last month I popped in my VHS copy of 1983's National Lampoon's Vacation and was inspired to do a mini card set. This is my new largest mini-set totaling 25 cards. I keep inching closer to a regular size set although I can't see myself doing a full 88 card sets, which seemed to be the magic number for non-sport card sets back in the day.  In the 25 cards that this mini-set spans I feel it does a decent job of spanning the films key plot moments.

For this set I went with a design inspired by the 1983 Donruss Magnum P.I. set. I modified it a bit by squeezing the frame's height a bit so I could add some text below the picture. I used a font I thought had a good "Wally World" feel to it. Another touch was to make the frame a nice "metallic pea" color.

We all know and love this movie so without further fluff I give your the mini-set...

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Tracey Eddon

In 2009 photos from 1982 of Carrie Fisher and her stunt double Tracey Eddon sunbathing in identical Slave Leia bikinis were leaked to the internet.  If you fall in a certain age bracket chances are that Princess Leia was your first crush, so multiply that times two and you can understand why this behind-the-scenes shot caused such a stir.

The photo is from the set of Return of the Jedi.  It's in Yuma, Arizona which served as Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine.  Carrie and Tracey are soaking up rays between scenes on the deck of Jabba's Sail Barge.

I made this card as sort of a custom supplement to Topps' 1983 Return of the Jedi card set.

Huge TTM success from Miss Eddon