MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin

> http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/darth-vader-yoda-and-lightsabers-oh-my-images/6396455
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> "With more than 90,000 items on display, the museum is a must-visit for true "Star
> Wars" fans given that it houses countless one-of-a-kind items, from special
> promotional objects to fan-made projects to bootleg items."

Steve Sansweet was head of Lucasfilm's Fan Relations for many years, and recently retired. However, the bulk of his collection was complete before his employment: in fact, it helped get him the job.

I once had the honor of emailing him: During his tenure as head of Lucasfilm's Fan Relations, I had the bright idea to start up a project to do a third-party open-source freeware recreation of the Star Wars holochess game "Dejarik" (depicted in Episode IV: A New Hope) since no commercial game had yet done it - and I'm pretty sure no game has a decent recreation of it still. Anyhow, to do that, I needed character models, and decent HD photos of what was used in the movie as playing pieces. Guess who collected the playing pieces. (EDIT: Actually there's a few of them in image 7 of the image gallery: http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/darth...ner#photopaging) ... so, following an email to his personal email account (not his lucasfilm.com account) outlining my request and explaining my intentions, I received an email from some lawyer explaining that their next move would be a cease-and-desist should I continue my "research" to that end.

We've since met in passing at some convention. (New York Comic Con 2009, IIRC)

- Stiletto