Most sets of Star Wars trading cards focus on story, characters or broad themes. 1997 Topps Star Wars Vehicles finds its place exploring how people get around in a galaxy far, far away.
1997 Topps Star Wars Vehicles Checklist Details
Spanning 72 cards, the base set has lots of spaceships, war machines and other forms of transportation. Much of it is art-based with illustrations provided by Top Cow’s stable of comic artists. This gives them a distinct look, a style that was common in a lot of comic books at the time. Towards the end of the checklist, there are subsets for the big-time Battles of Yavin, Hoth and Endor. The Millennium Falcon, perhaps the most famous Star Wars vehicle of all, gets four cards. Finally, a handful of profile cards pair up characters with ships and vehicles they’re known for.
1997 Topps Star Wars Vehicles is extremely lean on inserts, both for what collectors can expect in a box and the space they take on the checklist.
Four Cut-Away cards use acetate to show the featured ship. The cover lifts up to show the inside of the ship. These land 1:18 packs.
Each box should also have one of two different 3-D cards. A redemption for an oversized 3-D card, essentially an uncut set of both, is a case hit.
The promo cards are some of the rarest and most valuable 1997 Topps Star Wars Vehicles cards. Originally planned to be done in chromium, similar to 1996 Topps Finest Star Wars, promos #P1 and #P2 use the shiny stock. Both have even scarcer Refractor versions that are believed to have less than 200 copies each. All four of these are extremely tough to find today.
There’s also a two-card oversized promo that is much more common.
Without much in the way of characters, 1997 Topps Star Wars Vehicles is somewhat overlooked today. It’s also one of the tougher sets from the franchise to find in any sort of quantity.
1997 Topps Star Wars Vehicles Checklist
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Set size: 72 cards
Cards per pack: 5
Packs per box: 36
Boxes per case: 10
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Base Set Checklist
72 cards.
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1 Title Card
2 Millennium Falcon
3 A-Wing
4 B-Wing
5 Y-Wing
6 Z-95 Headhunter
7 X-Wing
8 V-Wing Airspeeder
9 E-Wing Fighter
10 Rebel Snowspeeder
11 Rebel Blockade Runner
12 Escape Pod
13 Rebel Cruiser
14 Rebel Transport
15 Mon Cal Cruiser
16 Nebulon Ranger
17 T-16 Skyhopper
18 Luke’s Landspeeder
19 Jawa Sandcrawler
20 Sail Barge
21 Lady Luck
22 Twin-Pod Cloud Car
23 Slave I
24 IG-2000
25 Hound’s Tooth
26 S-Swoop
27 Outrider
28 Virago
29 Stinger
30 AT-PT
31 AT-ST
32 AT-AT
33 Speeder Bike
34 Chariot LAV
35 TIE Fighter
36 TIE Bomber
37 TIE Interceptor
38 TIE Advanced
39 Lambda-Class Shuttle
40 I-7 Howlrunner
41 Interdictor Cruiser
42 Lancer Frigate
43 Imperial Star Destroyer
44 Victory Star Destroyer
45 Executor
46 Eclipse Star Destroyer
47 Sun Crusher
48 World Devastator
49 Death Star
50 Death Star II
51 Battle Of Yavin – Strategy
52 Battle Of Yavin – Warriors
53 Battle Of Yavin – Hardware
54 Battle Of Hoth – Strategy
55 Battle Of Hoth – Warriors
56 Battle Of Hoth – Hardware
57 Battle Of Endor – Strategy
58 Battle Of Endor – Warriors
59 Battle Of Endor – Hardware
60 Millennium Falcon – Gun Port
61 Millenium Falcon – Smuggler’s Hold
62 Millenium Falcon – Cockpit
63 Millenium Falcon – Hyperdrive
64 Millennium Falcon / Han Solo
65 X-Wing / Luke Skywalker
66 Executor / Darth Vader
67 Mon Cal Cruiser / Admiral Ackbar
68 Sail Barge / Jabba the Hutt
69 Slave I / Boba Fett
70 Imperial Shuttle / Emperor Palpatine
71 Sandcrawler / Jawas
72 Checklist
3-D Checklist
2 cards.
1:36 packs.
1 Leia and X-Wing
2 Luke and Shuttle
Cutaway Checklist
4 cards.
1:18 packs.
C1 AT-ST
C2 Slave I
C3 X-Wing
C4 Lamba Shuttle
Oversized 3-D Checklist
1 card.
1:360 packs.
Available via redemption.
3 Leia and X-Wing / Luke and Shuttle
Redemption Card
Promo Cards Checklist
P1 Darth Vader / Speeder Bikes
P1 Darth Vader / Speeder Bikes Refractor
P2 Speeder Bikes
P2 Speeder Bikes Refractor
Slave I / B-Wing – 4″ by 6″
