Royal Mail celebrates Star Wars with eight stamps

The Royal Mail is issuing a set of eight stamps ahead of the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the latest film in the franchise.

LONDON, Sept 4 (Bernama) -- A set of official British postage stamps that are out of this world landed Monday to celebrate the latest Star Wars movie, China's Xinhua news agency reported.
Both new and old characters feature in the stamps, all of which have been illustrated by British artists Malcolm Tween, who designed a similar stamp set issued in 2015.

Each stamp shows a scene created by Tween especially for the stamps that also includes the hero character as well as an iconic spaceship or vehicle. A spokeswoman for Royal Mail said the stamps hail the British expertise behind the Star Wars films as each episode was made with a large British cast and crew.

Star Wars fans can pre-order the stamps from Monday, but they will not go on sale at Britain's 7,000 post offices until Oct 12.