MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin

> 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.

You seem surprisingly unbitter, considering what a shitty response you got. It seems like a personal "hey I can't help you and you should probably drop that project" response would have been just as effective.