J.J. Abrams has benevolently cracked open his mystery box and put some names to the faces we saw in the first teaser for The Force Awakens. And in a nod to the long-running tradition of Star Wars and marketing tie-ins, he and Lucasfilm have opted to roll them out via a set of trading cards over at Entertainment Weekly. The images are at the link, and the confirmed names are below:
Star Wars character names revealed via retro Topps trading cards
- The “ball droid”: BB-8
- Oscar Isaac’s X-Wing Pilot: Poe Dameron
- The guy with the lightsaber: Kylo Ren
- Daisy Ridley: Rey
- John Boyega: Finn
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