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Reged: 05/09/05
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Loc: Waltham, MA
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Re: Rancho Obi-Wan
01/31/13 07:37 AM
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> 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.
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