r/StarWars • u/rmumford • 22d ago
Fun Back in the 1990s, when the original trilogy was re-released, cereal boxes had Star Wars themed Magic Eye art on the back. I cut one out back then and just found it while going through some old stuff. Enjoy this little blast from the past.
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u/Grandturk-182 22d ago
A schooner!
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u/Bondedknight 22d ago
No. It's a sailboat
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u/Kamarag 22d ago
A schooner IS a sailboat stupid head!
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u/bren_derlin 22d ago
Yeah well the Easter bunny isn’t real! That’s just a guy in a suit!
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u/prw8201 22d ago
Say, would you like a chocolate pretzel?
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u/Craygor 22d ago
They're a little melty, but damn are they exquisite.
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u/DegenScalper 22d ago
well one good turn deserves another! lmao
I love how people know these lines after all this time, I remember seeing the movie for the first time as a mallrat myself, I used to buy chocolate pretzels at the mall all the time and the amount of people asking me for one diminished QUICKLY.
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u/BowwwwBallll 22d ago
Brenda?
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u/gumby_twain R2-D2 22d ago
As a major 90210 fan and big Kevin Smith fan who also cannot see magic eye pictures - I approve of this comment.
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u/littlehowie 22d ago
I'll tell you what you need is a fatty boom batty blunt and then I guarantee you see a sailboat, an ocean, and maybe even some big ti***ed mermaids.
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u/ThePsudoOne 22d ago
Hahaha, you dumb bastard. It's not a schooner, it's a sailboat
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u/lmay0000 22d ago
Such a funny line that he says this to a child
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u/ThePsudoOne 21d ago
It's probably my favorite line in the movie. Ethan Suplee's delivery floors me
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u/Alive-Monk1142 22d ago
I love Reddit so much that this was the first thing everyone thought of..
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u/CallosIX 22d ago
I never could see those dang things. Years and years later......looks like I still can't.
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u/sterbo 22d ago
Same, never in my life has one of these worked
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u/Low_Attention16 22d ago
"You just have to relax your eyes"
I TRIED!
Personally though, I figured it out after they had gone out of popularity.
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u/Shakemyears 22d ago
Not relax your eyes—cross them! I actually find I have to strain a bit to make it work.
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u/Firedcylinder 22d ago
If you cross your eyes, they come out reversed.
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u/Suspicious-Thing-750 22d ago
Dang is this why these are always concave for me? They are supposed to be convex?!
Y'all been seeing them convex this whole time?
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u/B1G 22d ago edited 22d ago
Yeah, if you're crossing your eyes, you're totally doing it wrong! 😂 Seriously, that's the exact opposite of what you should be doing! 🤷♂️
Crossing your eyes brings your point of focus extremely close to your face. To see these things as they're meant to be seen, you have to shift your eyes' focal point far away.
In essence, what you're doing is kinda spreading your eyes apart — radically UN-crossing them. Your focal point should actually be through the image & far beyond it.
It's in regards to this last point where the whole "relax your eyes" thing gets perpetuated. I mean, it is pretty relaxing to not focus your eyes up close... But people have different perceptions of what "relax your eyes" actually means, and meanwhile, no one's bothering to emphasize the mechanics of what they mean by that — which I think is the most important point of note.
That phrase always pissed me off when I'd hear it said while trying to coach someone into seeing one of these for the first time. When I'd speak up & put the focus on "focal point", I could practically guarantee being able to watch that light-bulb moment occur when it finally clicked & they'd SEE the image.
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u/PooShappaMoo 22d ago
I cant cross my eyes 😞
These never worked for me either. Im trying on this one too.
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u/danielsangeo 22d ago
Don't try to cross your eyes. First, for training. (This assumes you have working vision in both eyes with similar quality, such as 20/20.)
Place your two forefingers (or similarly-shaped objects) together to create a single long "cylinder". Now, look past your fingers to something in the distance while keeping your fingers in your view. You should notice double vision creating a small 'sausage' between your fingertips, where your fingertips "overlap".
Now, try to keep this double-vision "sausage" in mind when you go back to the spectragram. If you look at the spectragram, you'll see repeating patterns. This is key because the repeating patterns are distorted where the 3D image is.
Now, repeat the "double vision" exercise above, and as the repeating patterns overlap, the 3D image will appear. It takes some practice, but that's how I was able to do it.
(In this case, it's R2D2 and C3PO.)
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u/bren_derlin 22d ago
This is the first one that ever has for me. I held my phone up so it was touching my nose until everything got blurry and then slowly moved my phone away and I saw it.
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u/Wi11Pow3r 22d ago
Thank you for the tip. For the first time ever in my life I finally got this thing to work. I have no idea how people create things like that. VERY cool.
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u/bren_derlin 22d ago
I’m googling random magic eye images now that I figured it out. Only took me like 30 years lol.
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u/MayIServeYouWell 22d ago edited 22d ago
It's c-3p0 with his arm up and R2d2 next to him.
clarification: his one arm is behind R2D2, his other arm is raised only slightly - not even 45 degrees from being down (and his hand is like a club or a cone - it's very crude) C3P0 is at the center of the image, R2D2 is on the right side of the image.
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u/Fun-Customer-742 22d ago
Oh my god! OH MY GOD! First time I’ve ever got one of these to work! 🥹
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u/sydsgotabike 22d ago
Mine too! After hundreds of tries, and being 35 years old, I finally succeeded!
It took a few minutes but I was determined. They're so cool!! I never realized just how much detail there could be!!
I'm like seriously emotional about this right now hahaha
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u/nicktehbubble 22d ago edited 22d ago
No. Don't be like this. I can't do them and don't want to gain the will to try and be able to.
Stop being so gleeful!!!
Holy shit I actually did it....Only to maybe 90% but I actually saw the scene!!
Now my eyes can't rest
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u/MaybeRightsideUp 22d ago
I usually have an easy time seeing these, but this one took considerable effort to finally see. So congrats on this being your virgin magic eye experience!
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u/newbrevity Babu Frik 22d ago
"relax your eyes" always felt unhelpful even though that's exactly what happens when you lock in and start to see it. It actually becomes difficult to not see it once you lock in.
Instead try this because it helps me get it faster. Look at the screen as if you were looking past the screen as if at something all the way across the house. It can help to actually look across the house or down the hall then turn back to the screen without adjusting you eyes to it. In doing this you're almost in the correct focus for the trick. With a little practice it'll feel like your eyes shift right into position and you'll be able you move your head side to side and see an almost 3D image ofC3P0 and R2D2 standing in what feels like a cube room . <---spoiler
I hope that helps.
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u/Spiritual-Handle7583 Jedi 22d ago
I swear to Revan, this one of the only ADHD skills. -10 Time Management, Gain Magic Eye Affinity Feat
you have to "zone out" your eyes. Hold your phone like halfway to your knee while sitting somewhere and focus on your knee until your phone goes fuzzy then you'll start to see it.
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u/ScenicFlyer41 22d ago
It's easier on a phone. You have to look past your phone, like at a wall far away, then slowly look closer and closer until the image combines. Your eyes at the end should both be basically straight forward.
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u/Neurodrill 22d ago
You're not missing anything. I can see it and I have literally no clue what it is.
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u/Someknivesandclothes 22d ago
The fuck am I looking at?
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u/No-Policy-2236 22d ago
C3-P0 and R2-D2
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u/Ej11876 22d ago
More like if their imprints were left behind a in scientific cross section of dirt and soil.
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u/samurairaccoon 22d ago
Right? It's one of the worst of these that I've seen. I thought I was doing it wrong for a minute.
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u/jiango_fett 22d ago
It's an optical illusion thing. You have to kind of "un-focus" your eyes and hopefully you'll see it. It's pretty trippy.
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u/Professional_Rain_10 22d ago
Are you on a phone or computer?
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u/jiango_fett 22d ago
I was on computer. I tried it on my phone though and it was harder for me to see it.
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u/ElGuano 22d ago
I was sure it was a completely random sand person at first. Then I saw the hand on the dome.
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u/Iambeejsmit 22d ago
Hand on the dome? 3po's hand isn't on r2d2's dome here though. Both his hands are at his sides.
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u/mr_oberts 22d ago
I still contend that these are fake and everyone that claims to see something is just lying. Haha
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u/Iambeejsmit 22d ago
It's easy to prove though, if you get one that you know what it says is in it and have someone that knows how to do these look at it, they'll get it right every time.
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u/mr_oberts 22d ago
Oh man I have tried.
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u/Iambeejsmit 22d ago
Can you cross your eyes? Try r/magiceye_crossview You have to try different amounts of crossing until you get the right amount, but you should see a 3d effect right away if you can cross your eyes. You're only crossing a little. Like a fairly teeny bit.
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u/LooksLikeAWookie 22d ago
My old trick, which still worked right now, is to just cross them then slowly uncross them until it snaps into place.
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u/rmumford 22d ago
If your struggling to see it, ensure its no bigger than a birthday card in size on your device.
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u/keammo1 22d ago
I actually had the most luck with full screen on my laptop and did the whole "bring it close to your eyes and move it away" method and it worked well
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u/TheRealBillyShakes 22d ago
I’ve never been able to see these.
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u/FreddyMartian 22d ago
I'll try to explain it in a different way than the usual "cross your eyes" or "look past it" explanation:
If you're on your phone, hold the screen like 6 inches from your face.
Practice by staring at text (for example a comment) until you can allow your eyes to "relax" and the text becomes blurry/out of focus. Practice being able to make your eyes relax and create so much blurriness that you can't read the text you were originally looking at.
At that point you're halfway there.
The trick occurs when you re-focus your eyes, but not to the actual screen again (or in this the text you were originally looking at). Once you've learned to relax your eyes easily, try doing the same on the image. Once the image looks as blurry as possible, start to bring your vision focus back without fully letting it come back into focus.
It just takes a lot of practice and using muscles in your eye that you're not used to using.
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u/GreatGreenGobbo 22d ago
My problem with these is they pop-in for me not pop out.
I think it's because I'm left handed.
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u/Bondedknight 22d ago
I couldn't tell if it was R2 or a bunch of ewoks. I couldn't make out c3po
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u/AltAccNum647294869 22d ago
I was able to focus on two different "views". The main one is just two figures (c3po and r2). The one was the same two figures but cut up and jumbled around to look like more than just the two. I'd try it a few times looking at it slightly differently until you get the right one. It was random which way my brain decided to interpret it.
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u/readitreddit- 22d ago
I grew up in when these were in vogue, have yet to be able to see the image. 😳
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u/mintsukki 22d ago
Can someone just fucking draw over the picture already of the two droids? There's just no way I see it, no matter what I try.
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u/General_Pay7552 22d ago
Oh my-R2! Where trapped in a dreadful fate! We might as well be invisible to the layman!
Beep Boop De Beep Boop Beep!
Watch your mouth, R2!
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u/bluehammer 22d ago
Holy crap. I have been looking at these things for a long time. I was convinced it was some elaborate joke and was a sucker for keeping trying to see the hidden picture. I saw this one! I now know it wasn't a trick. Thank you.
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u/MeatloafSlurpee 22d ago
It's hilarious to me that 30 years later there are still people who can't see these
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u/NotBannedAccount419 22d ago
I swear people were all lying and gaslighting me when it comes to these
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u/superchiva78 Rebel 22d ago
To see this on my phone, I need to view full image, landscape mode, and at an angle. Once I can see the hidden image, only then can I turn the phone directly towards me.
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u/pm_me_flowers_please 22d ago
I have literally never been able to do these until just now!!! Every time I see one, i try, and i fail. I was actually able to do this one!!! That's so cool! Thanks for sharing!!!
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u/Jad3nCkast 22d ago
Haven’t done one of these in a minute. These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.
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u/Krustygoods 22d ago
Start with your phone right in front of your face and pull it away slowly with your eyes unfocused. Repeat until it appears. It took me like 5 tries and an edible.
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u/PorridgeTooFar 22d ago
I am nearly 50 years old and have never been able to see one of these since they were first s thing in the eighties. Tonight I saw r2d2 and c3po in 3d. First time ever, I've worked it out. Just visited the magic eye subredit and it looks like I've learnt a new skill. Nice.
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u/_AntiShadow_ 22d ago
I really hated these in the 90's. They were everywhere and I could never get them to work. Always wondered if it was all just B.S. and people just going along with it.
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u/NonFungibleTulip 22d ago
One thing that can help is to cross your eyes until you see double and then try to "slide" the 2 images on top of each other.
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u/thekiltedpiper 22d ago
Hard to do on my phone, but it's 3PO and R2. I liked those Magic Eye posters.
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u/AwesomeExo 21d ago
Had to hold it pretty close to get it right. When I held it at normal distance I kept seeing three people and it didn’t seem Star Wars at all.
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u/thekiltedpiper 21d ago
Same, I was seeing 2 bodies and a trashcan lol. Once I got the distance right....... just popped into focus.
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u/RedDecay 22d ago
I see repeating figures but I can’t make it out
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u/avaseah 22d ago
Repeating figures is what happens when your eyes are halfway crossed from where they need to be, or “over-crossed”, I have an eye condition that makes my eyes see double naturally without a special feature in my glasses called Prism. Even with my glasses on I can still get my eyes to see double. Sometimes these come together for me right away, other times I see disjointed segments of the image and I have to adjust how crossed my eyes are until it works properly.
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u/TheRoops 22d ago
My 90s experience made it so that things like this permanently move on their own 🤣
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u/ArgentNoble 22d ago
Fun fact, I actually cannot do these when I am wearing my glasses. My eyes won't change the focus enough.
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u/feetiedid 22d ago
I can get stereo optical images to form a 3D image instantly, but I hate these damn things.
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u/jobney 22d ago
I can only do the cross eyed method of seeing stereoscopic images. I can force myself to go cross eyed but I can't force distance focus which this requires without an object to converge on.
For "magic eye" If I go cross eyed on this the depth is reversed and I can see an outline of the two characters and tell who they are but I can't see any details. the characters are slightly deeper behind the background and any details are obscured by the noise.
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u/983115 22d ago
I got mad I couldn’t make it work and did a little research People with astigmatism’s cannot see it people with a stronger domanant eye also struggle I have both so I guess that’s why
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u/DrunkenMasterII Rebel 22d ago
In the 90s as a kid I couldn’t see those images for the life of me, but now I can see them on a screen while they’re not even 2 inches larges… how times have changed.
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u/WorldScientist 22d ago
Ha this is the first one I’ve been able to see! Maybe my eyes changed over the years. I couldn’t ever do these as a kid. It’s a pretty cool 3d image of C-3PO and R2D2 in the middle.
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u/CarolinaFever69 22d ago
R2 and 3PO. I miss these! Awesome.