Kind of funny when you think that (rumored) Spaceballs was greenlighted at the condition that they would not sell movie merchandise to not take part of the market from Star Wars (that's why there is so much "spaceballs merchandise" inside of the movie.
That whole scene in Spaceballs was thanks to George Lucas as well. When they asked him if he was okay to parody Star Wars he let them do it as long as they agreed there would be no Spaceballs merchandise... Mel Brooks put the merchandising scene in the movie as a joke about that.
The way I see it. 1: Either George gets his cut. OR. 2: George gets public proof he's a genius and nobody can play with his toys but him. OR. 3: BOTH and he gets paid AGAIN to come in and fix it.
george lucas might not comeback cause disney is charge with the new starwars movie franchise and decision now :) george lucas play with toy read comic and even rewatch his original starwars trilogy by himself laughing at disney failure now
@I am Bluepelt I mean the majority of the Disney company is either run by or comprised of SJWs, that basically reduces all of their recent films to either: a) half-baked recycled versions of their old animated movies b) movies that force a marxist agenda down the viewers throats either way both of those are VERY bad for business, not to mention the Higherups at Disney allowing Lucasfulms to attack anyone who criticizes them, that's why Disney deserves to "rot in the deepest pits of poverty."
that's why they have to call him back to fix episode IX, and that will be the explanation why the legacy character are going to be heavily use too, Emperor, Vader, even Anakin from the prequels will be back
Well, they ruined Alien Encounter which he helped develop by replacing the Xenomorph with Stitch. The coolest attraction Disney World had is now more lame than "It's A Small World" thanks to them "knowing better".
@@ZontarDow the Imagineers wanted it to have it's own park to be Anaheim's third gate and Disneyworld's fifth but Disney wanted MONEY NOW. MONEY RIGHT NOW. ALL YOUR MONEY. NOW. for ONE ride and second that will never open because Disney pissed off the manufacturer.
@@BrickTrek Wait how could Anaheim have a third gate? The entire property is developed and in use, and there's no parking lot they can convert like they did with California Adventure.
Disney wants to kill off the original characters, but does NOT have compelling characters to replace them with. That's going to work out well for Disney.
few reason why starwars galaxy edge failing no memorable character we know from the movie no planet that is in the movie and even no character and planet that is memorable to us now :( luke han liea chewy r2 3po anakin padme bail organa greedo jabba jango boba fett kashyyyk tatooine hoth endor yavin 4 scariff jedha rogue one mustafar vader and director krinick death star alderaan clonewars other planet we never knew is gonna be coming back in the future now :)
Indeed, instead we have: less interesting less intimidating emo Darth Knockoff, The blander female Luke clone, the carbon copy plucky droid missing its comedic sidekick and the devil may care pilot who tends to make extremely stupid decisions. Oh, and the ex Stormtrooper who seems to be mostly comic relief and is quite forgettable.
So far, everyone involved has denied knowledge or responsibility. In fact, its in debt to the tune of $3.48. Those Lumpy action figures just did not fly of the shelves!
dont be an idiot,bob iger saved disney with the acquisition of pixar and marvel studios in the early 2000s......disney had not made many good movies in a long time and pixar and marvel took them to ever greater heights.
It isn't just a lack of Original Trilogy stuff, buddy. It's a lack of Prequel Trilogy stuff too. And a lack of Old Republic-era stuff. And a lack of Clone Wars stuff. Etc.
HickoryDickory86 my thoughts exactly, why not a live action rebels film. Make a mandalorian war film. Anything but the trope wars we are getting at the moment.
@@evertonporter7887 "Abused"? How about the many amounts of bullshit he pulled on his employees for like forever at LucasArts? Meddling with stories and even CHANGING literally full developments of games because the asshole had "different ideas"?! How about the cancelled badass Darth Maul game we were going to get but it was canned because of the constant interference from Lucas huh? The bastard deserves the hate he gets,he's a despot and arrogant piece of shit that loved to fuck up other's ideas because he could.
There's a vid in here called "History of cancelled Star Wars games" made by a channel called Gamers,it explains on detail how Lucas literally sabotaged many games at LucasArts because he didn't liked the ideas of his employees despite being far superior than those from himself...the dude is just a sore asshole who can't tolerate the fact that other people have better ideas than him to expand the mythos.
@@anekisamurai6492 I'll have to check that vid out because to my knowledge the Darth Maul game was still in development when Goerge sold Star Wars and they (disney/Lucasfilm) were the ones who shut it down. Same with 1313 and TFU3 (TFU3 having still been in the storyboard stage at the time) The only game I've ever heard of that got canned before release when still under George's control was Pandemic's Battlefront 3 which LucasArts stopped paying for and abandoned when the game was already like 99% finished. And that was likely due to the game constantly getting pushed back as the devs tried to add more and more. Its release date was originally 2009 but got pushed back to 2010, than '11, and finally 2013 when it got canned. In fact, LucasArts pulling out of that deal was what killed the studio if I'm not mistaken. They sold out to EA since they were broke because of this and EA promptly shut them down to send their teams to other studios.
nope. still don't appreciate the prequels. i have the unaltered theatrical release of the original trilogy and that's the entirety of the stars wars universe in my eyes.
george lucas made prequel fans do not love about it they care about obiwan luke anakin and even padme liea hansolo ackbar and even lando emperor palpatine vader now why count dooku and darth maul get the hate in episode 1 and episode 3 now?
That might be true. One of the reasons Disney decanonized the old EU is to avoid paying $$$ to the authors for the characters they created. It would make sense if Lucas retained a percentage in profits for each character they used.
@@etherspin Solo was only made because Lawrence Kasdan put it in his contract when J.J. hired him to help write the Force Awakens. Kasdan wanted to do Solo, so Disney reluctantly agreed that he could do that if he co-wrote the Force Awakens. That is why Solo was green lit even though no one wanted it made. No one cared, but it was Kasdan and his son's baby project.
If it's true that Lucas still has the rights to the original characters, then that would explain why Disney is killing off OT characters left and right: to avoid paying 25% to Lucas. It would also explain why there are no OT characters at Galaxy's Edge.
@@Hyro Chewbacca has been in the parks for years (before the Disney buyout). It's quite possible it's part of a contractual agreement that could expire at a later date.
of course its not true. r2d2,c3p0,the emperor,lando...infact all the characters are in the new films. This clickbait must be going well for these confirmation bias channels
And everybody hated him for the prequels, the Special Editions, and his opinion that Star Wars is Anakin's story! Now everybody wants him back! Star Wars is dead, and we all know it.
Dude, when the OG series came out they thought it would flop and gave him full rights to the merch. AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENED ALL THESE YEARS LATER!
sweiland75 I’m still waiting for people to drop this angle and start talking about gen z. I still laugh but as I stare at my 80s and 90s comic collection, my original Star Wars 8track soundtrack, my mortgage....oh no...there’s avocado in my house....I need to go pray to my laser discs and seek forgiveness
Oh, hell yeah. He waited until the divorce with his wife was finalized to go through with the prequel trilogy so he wouldn't have to give his ex-wife alimony payments from the proceeds of the prequel films. Very shrewd.
Star Trek Theory you are delusional. Collecting is a thing around the globe. I own almost nothing anymore my ex tossed it all when I was at work. I divorced her 7 days later papers took a week to post. Everyone around the globe envies America. That’s why the consume everything made here.
@@WorthlessDeadEnd His ex wife who banged the architect that was building their new house while George was away filming? and who retired after the divorce cause she got enough money for the rest of her life? Yeah I would have done the same as George here.
Why did George Lucas sell Star Wars/ Lucasfilm to Disney outright? And for so cheap? (He said he didn't needed the money and would donate it) - But he could have placed Star Wars / Lucasfilm into a trust and give the money to a children's charity like Peter Pan rights does (to the London Children's Hospital). BTW: Lucas is a type 1 diabetic. You would think he would give the money directly to the hospitals/research instead of lining the pockets of Disney/Iger/Eisner etc. ---- Something does NOT smell right. Disney has already made / will hit about 10 billion dollars from the 5 films. - And they only paid 4 billion dollars. (Even Iger had stated on camera that Disney will hit about 10 billion dollars in Star Wars income by 2020) ---- I think someone is either blackmailing George Lucas (to have handed over Star Wars / and so cheap) - or - there is something else going on.
If this is true it makes even less sense how little effort the Disney writers put in to the new characters. The new villains are all incompetent, and the quality of writing for the protagonists is dismal to the point where I almost hope they will fail. Rey alone is a huge problem as her only character flaw is that she cries when she learns her parents aren't famous rock stars after she is transformed in to a force goddess over a long weekend. Such an awful character to try to get behind.
Well it seems like a plausible theory...After all we all know George had the foresight to have the licenses for the original trilogy and prequels...which turned out to be the best decision he ever made..wouldnt surprise me if he pulled some kind of deal with Disney to preserve that and also to protect his legacy...if the Disney films were crap, he can deflect it from his films....
Exactly what I was going to mention. Glad someone did. Lucas broke new ground with the OT and the merchandising of it. He would absolutely ask a percentage of his merchandise. :Thumbsup:
This would totally fit into Lucas' strategy. People said there was no way Lucas could keep any rights once he sold to Disney but this is George "freakin'" Lucas! He knows how to work the idiot corporate shills. Now he couldn't make them use his stories for the sequels but maybe that was payback for this deal? I find it hard to believe he doesn't have some controls over his movies in terms of presentation ie his versions over the theatrical cuts.
george lucas has to make the right decision to take back starwars if he want to keep his franchise movie and even comic book alive now and even made a new galaxy edge ride for millennial and new generation kids and disney doesn't know how to handle starwars right now and it made us leave their movie theater and not buy their merchandise and even not caring for the new characters anymore rey mary sue kylo ren vader clone or son now phasma royal guard or emperor palpatine snoke clone assassian now poe next luke to pilot a x-wing destroy starkiller base now finn next hansolo who can smuggle drugs and even win for the resistance now
They don't want to share their money... Thing is they would be making a fat stacks of cash but need to give % of it to George, intead they got chump change but keep 100% of it... Flawless business plan I guess....
It's also spite. Logically speaking greed would theoretically convince them to do as well as they could. Keeping 75% of a billion is certainly better than 100% of a hundred million, for example... Spite is a powerful motivator. Even more powerful than greed for a lot of people...
Sadly nothing new. Back in the 1890s, John Browning was the greatest firearms designer ever known. To this day, many guns made owe something to his innovations and some of his guns are still in production virtually unchanged. He used to sell his patents for lump sums, claiming no royalties. Companies like Remington and WInchester made millions off his designs he sold for just thousands. So, one day, he decides to ask WInchester to let him collect royalties instead on a couple of new semiautomatic weapon patents. WInchester said no, fearing the legacy costs. Browning, furious, finds other companies willing to pay him proper and makes millions for himself and those companies. WInchester suddenly finds it needs to get in on the new semiautomatic longarm market, but cannot do so without paying Browning royalties. So instead, they order a guy to make inferior and sometimes outright dangerous guns (one shotgun is nicknamed the Widowmaker) that don't work well JUST to avoid Browning's patents. Ain't corporate law amazingly fun???
@Caliban777 It also is a reminder that CEOs and other management can outgrow the times. It is not as if the man that said no to Browning had always been a fool, but he was getting out of touch with the market at the time. Remington and Fabrique Nationale saw the value of accepting Browning's demands for royalties, but Winchester, despite its enormous wealth and success, missed the market trends because one man lacked the vision and his company didn't have the culture to override him. Check and balances matter, folks.
This makes so much sense now. This really explains the announcement in 2015 about "LEGENDS" being left out of the "Disney STAR WARS canon." It makes me feel better to know that Geoerge Lucas wasn't completely raped by the Disney deal. However, the damage done to the STAR WARS brand is now colossal. I would love nothing more than to find out in a few years time that George's daughter, Katie Lucas, gets control of Lucasfilm and STAR WARS and declares "Disney STAR WARS" NOT CANON. Then take her father's treatments and make the TRUE STAR WARS: EPISODES VII, VIII, and IX. Has anyone ever noticed that THE FORCE AWAKENS and THE LAST JEDI do not have the Episode numbers on the front of any of the physical media? I've always taken that as a sign.✌
@@UltimaOmega That would depend on the size of the role George Lucas had set up in his treatments for the final 3 episodes. It could be revised in screenplay drafts to have the lines by HAN, LEIA, and LUKE revealed through a damaged holographic recording with audio difficulties to explain the imperfect voice matches. There are some very convincing voice actors who could pull off clean audio for such scenes as well.
THANK YOU !!! I've been saying it since TFA came out ! These movies do not have the number on them, that just shows they wanted to remake Star Wars, make THEIR Star Wars and not really be associated with episodes 1-6
@@Carandini george lucas probably rewatch his original starwars trilogy read books of the original EU and even buy their merchandise for the original character what we know and fall in love now luke liea hansolo anakin ahsoka darth maul jango fett boba fett admiral ackbar obiwan kenobi yoda mace windu aayla secura luminara kitfisto plokoon now
@Star Trek Theory Don't blame Lucas blame the original trilogy "fans" who wouldn't stop trashing George over the prequels. They're the reason George decided to sell Star Wars, he was tired of all the hate and abuse. And now those very same people want him back how ironic.
Mark Evans That does not rule out the political angle. Sure money was a factor but this isn’t mutually exclusive. I could see someone like KK using this as a justification for what she did. Overall it is a crappy situation.
@@Avarn388 Yeah maybe, but..yknow..just trying to imagine a SW theme park, without Darth Vader. If they were willing to try that, then they were certaintely capable of killing off the old cast, just so they dont have to pay to use their images.
Yes please. Only star wars movies I trust now are the one offs like Rogue One and Han Solo as they were actually made with fans in mind and the later was just a whole star wars love letter.
Sam Jackson said Lucas was cheated when he sold Lucasfilm for "only" 4 bil. Guess who has the last laugh. Disney is more stupid and greedy than the Trade Federation.
Georgie knew it was dead when he sold it. His grand vision of re-releasing six movie in post-production 3D ended when that first rancid prequel didn't do shit to sell toys. Disney was stupid enough to understand the reality and he sold this carcass for top dollar. Now even complete morons can't deny the smell rolling off this zombie franchise.
It makes sense that Lucas kept a hold of the property rights to all the original stuff. You'll notice you'll never see a classic Stormtrooper. Heck even Darth Vader's helmet was burned and charred and twisted when it appeared in the new series.. which made it 25% different. All the vehicles their colors reversed.
TLJ Luke calls a light saber a "laser sword" wow that one sounded f'd-up, but makes sense in this context. Also in SOLO Chewie has a weird bandolier, C-3P0's red arm, the square dish on the Falcon. Things that clearly differentiate iconic G Canon elements from new D Canon. This makes sense out of all of it. And why when GL owned Lucasfilm Vader and the OT was all over Disney parks, but once they own SW, it all goes away?????
The bulid your own lighsaber should of been done something like this: There is a jedi path where you go to the jedi temple and undergo some basic training by Obi-wan or Yoda or Mace, you choose your color, learn about jedi philosophy, there are temple guards around, holocrons really set the vibe, the at the end you kneel and are touched on the shoulder and knighted then you get your saber. The Sith path basically the same, set it in an old ruin or shrine, have Vader, Maul, Palpatine explain Sith philosophy, take part in some kind of dark ritual, then kneel and "What is thy bidding, my master." Done simple. You could do this with a 30 to 40 minute turn around, and charge I don't know $250ish, but for that you get a great experience, a well made saber not the cheap crap they have now, and a holocron, and then there could be optional extras like robes etc. Kids would loose their minds and so would a lot of adults lol, its not that hard to make something cool, Disney. Other attractions could be a laser tag kind of thing where you fight as the rebels (the force only knows why you would choose that side but to each their own I guess lol) or the Empire as stormtroopers with the same thing where you have a short basic training and drill type of thing, then you get a blaster and the armor if you pay more maybe, same with the other side, really drive people to ant to buy your merch but make it of decent quality ffs lol.
HOW COME we only had one trailer for Star Wars episode 9 compared to three trailers we got for the Force Awakens . For the same time period 6 years ago and nobody wants to cover that
Dwain Morris I’m wondering the same thing. Ep 9 is probably having production problems, reshoots, and last minute changes like all of the other Disney SW films. I wouldn’t be surprised if the scenes we saw in the trailer never make it into the actual film, just like with Solo. Like why is the Death Star crashed into the surface of a planet? Wasn’t it exploded into a million pieces? Something that size would make an extinction level event sized impact!
Gary Altough I find this possibility plausible I think that even with 100% ownership we would still have TFA, TLJ and all that jazz There's an ideology beneath all that This possibility only makes it more acceptable to the suits
I think TFA happens still, but TLJ is completely different. I think they went with Rian's version because he destroyed Luke Skywalker and the OT past. it would explain how Disney approved that script. Still not completely buying the theory, but it does make sense. It's either that or Disney are so monumentally stupid to think new characters would sell way more figures than the OT characters.
It's a knock-off Star Wars experience, in an official Star Wars (tm) branded theme park. Edit to add: I have zero interest in any theme park, but if they'd built Mos Eisley, I would've had to go.
I was just thinking about this last night. The only way what Disney is doing with Star Wars makes sense to me is if their ownership is not as cut and dry as we've been lead to believe.
Paramount (Viacom) owns the rights to the Star Trek Prime movies, not CBS or Bad Robot. It is very possible that Lucas owns the rights to the original trilogy and prequels including the animated Clones series. Lucas may have licensed original trilogy characters to Disney but Disney can refuse to use them in future films and amusement parks in order to not have to compensate Lucas.
@@mupty I remember they outright said that cancelled it because their marketing folks thought they couldn't safely air it on their Disney channels and didn't want to keep it on a competing channel (Cartoon Network) and that's why they pulled it altogether and replaced it with Rebels, which could be marketed to a younger target demographic. So in the end it was just the usual politics of faceless managers preferring to kill something the fans want in order to make something they thought entirely different fans would buy.
I’ve always assumed there were two angles to this. Firstly, Disney were avoiding using OT icons (R2D2 would be a great example) because Disney wouldn’t want to pay royalties to anyone from the Lucasfilm era who may have some IP claim. And in addition to that JJ Abrams may have demanded as part of a TFA directing deal that HE get royalties from anything he/Bad Robot had designed (prime example BB8) from Force Awakens onwards. Maybe even Rian Johnson got his slice with Porgs?
Idk, after a certain point i simply stopped giving a shit about new movies and accepted that i have plenty of old ones, that aren't tainted with modern day bs. Part of that realization includes turning my back on shit like Galaxies Edge, and you know what? Disney leaving out the original trilogy just makes it THAT much easier for me.
I worked it out that it would cost me about $600 for my wife and I to visit for 2 days, this is nuts considering they have ignored the original trilogy.
I thought this was common knowledge. It’s based on rights to toys/merch. George did not sell the rights to the original series toys for sure. This wasn’t hidden when the buyout occurred. This has been the primary reason Disney has pushed the new characters and discarded/dismissed the original characters. Pretty clear to see
It's possible I do agree but it's hard to believe because part of the dealer selling lucasfilm's George Lucas is the second largest stockholder of Disney
I took my family the first week of Galaxy's Edge opening. I paid for the 5-day Park Hopper, stayed at the Disney Grand Hotel for $850 per night, but was only given a 4-hour reservation into GE? That was the first rip off. Then we get on the Falcon ride, and that was disappointing, too. It was ok, but nothing great. Then there's the merch...you can ONLY buy GE merch while you're inside GE. Other Disney merch can be bought anywhere else in the park, and also at World of Disney in Downtown Disney, but GE merch was only available inside GE. Another rip off. Oh, and they don't deliver purchased merch directly to your hotel room like they do in any of the other stores throughout Disneyland and California Adventures. Another rip off. The park price was also higher but we didn't feel like we got our money's worth. For the first time in 11 years, we're actually not planning on going back next year. Good job Disney, you fuct up Disneyland by not having canon planets or locations in GE, known characters walking around (except Chewie), but opted for 'new' locales not mentioned in any film? That was a huge fail. The adult cantina was cool but it's not something you'll go back to after the first visit. One cocktail cost me $20 and it was watered down. Another rip off. The whole experience was seriously lackluster and definitely not worth the ~$2000 per day that I paid (park entrance for 4, hotel, and food). I don't mind paying the money for my family to enjoy an annual Disney vacation, but we usually get close to our money's worth. But not this summer. I'm not keeping track, but I'm sure I've given Disney over $100k over the years.
Right? I don't know what dumbass business schools these modern CEOs go to... But they all seem like a bunch of idiots. The simplest concepts elude them.
Ps George Lucas should own his product and always get his money Disney has out side of rouge 1 screwed up there investment so much I dont see a future for it anytime soon We could use a new hope
Once upon a time in the 1970's a couple of wargamers, Gary Gygax, Dave Arnenson, and a few others expanded on their hobby creating the Dungeons&Dragons role playing game and launched the table top RPG hobby with their new company TSR. There are various takes on what happened next but Gary and Dave had a falling out and Dave Arnenson left [or was forced to leave] TSR and it was agreed he'd receive credits and royalties. Shortly afterwards TSR released Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, an expanded more rules heavy version of the original game. TSR and Gary did this so they did not have to pay royalties to Dave Arnenson. I'll let that sink in a minute. TSR continued to sell the original game and Arnenson had to file several lawsuits in 1979 to retain credits and royalties. Just thought I'd share this very familiar story from another hobby of mine. Fortunately D&D survived and still flourished then, it's in more trouble today though due to an SJW infestation.
I live in Florida and work for a theming company. We fabricated the pod racer engine set up in the cafe/bar. The first thing I noticed when we arrived on site to install everything I was struck by how everything about Galaxy's Edge was nothing but the new Disney movies. Falcon, X-wing, etc. The second thing I noticed was that the whole attraction was all about selling you shit. Vendor booths were going to be everywhere selling Porgs and characters from the Disney movies. My boss is well connected in the theming industry and privy to "inside" info and at one time told me how WB went to Disney over their plan do build a Harry Potter theme park experience and they gave the mouse the first shot. The only caveat? J.K. Rowling had final say on everything. Disney scoffed at that and told WB that THEY know what they're doing and wouldn't allow Rowling to have final say in ANYTHING. WB packed up and went to Universal who said "No Problem". Fast foward and Universal/Harry Potter continues to break attendance records and Galaxy's Edge is dying a slow, miserable, expensive death.
Good old George is playing the long game here. He sold high and after SW rots at the hands of Disney he buys low. Then capitalize on the resurgent of interest.
Wow. This makes sense. But what doesn't make sense is why Disney assumed they were getting a good deal. Just goes to show that Lucas is smart. Stinks for fans, but I can't say I blame him. Good video!
I understand that it's a new Star Wars area, and I agree some OT characters cruising around would be nice but I feel like everyone who says "there's no original trilogy stuff" either hasn't been to Galaxy's edge or isn't a big enough fan to recognize all the original trilogy stuff that's all over the place.
I feel this is quite possible. Looks at Disney's SW materials in the parks before Galaxies Edge opened. There was a much better spread with displays and even Star Tours covering the entire saga as opposed to just the Sequel trilogy. In fact it was this way for decades prior to the 2012 buy out. But we know Disney they don't like to license what then can own and they don't like to out source what they can do in house. The only thing they don't like to do it seems have their own ideas. But here is something else interesting to consider in this conspiracy of SW ownership. Gary Kurtz said around the time of the 20th anniversary of A New Hope that the reason for the Special Editions was because Fox wanted something extra beyond just re-releasing the films to get people back in theaters. Its also widely believed that the release of the SE and even Shadows of the Empire were a snowball build up strategy to help bank roll the The Phantom Menace. This I had all heard before but more recently a new rumor surfaced. An additional reason for the changes of the SE was because Marcia Lucas. If re-released in their pre-Specialized form Marcia would get a cut due to the arrangements in their divorce settlement. By changing the films, especially ANH which she had the biggest hand in, it blocked her from receiving payments from the films. It has been rumored that is also why we haven't seen the un-altered versions of the Original Trilogy. So Disney doesn't want to pay Lucas for using stuff related to 1-6 and Lucas doesn't want to pay his ex for un-altered OT stuff.
Only a vile gangster like Lucas can get away with altering the deal on the Disney Empire.... *Maybe instead of having young Luke, Han and Leia, they can have hire senior citizens to play them and put a broken burnt helmet in the place of Darth Vader?😆
The bottom line is there never should of been a sequel trilogy. ROTJ's ending to the Skywalker's was perfect, thus anything furthering that continuity was an utter cash grab. "There's a saying "If it isn't broke, don't fix it".
Given that JJ was part of this I wish to facepalm for 24 hours, due to how likely it is that Disney greed pushed them forward in the absolute wrong direction. This explains why the Expanded Universe was jettisoned too. The Sequel Trilogy is now the Disney Timeline.
George Lucas is the smartest businessman ever!I believe this news , especially knowing his tactics with past deals. George Lucas still has way more control then we know.......Disney just don't know it!
This completely makes sense. And that is why The Academy of Motion picture Arts and Sciences had to obtain Lucas's permission to screen the original unaltered version of Star Wars (A new Hope) back in July. It fits perfectly with this rumor/theory.
Makes sense. I saw a video a little while ago that was talking about Lucas letting someone screen an original version of A New Hope. The first public viewing of the original Star Wars movie since he added the newer special effects and LUCAS allowed it, not Disney
I can tell you right now what stopped me and all my friends from going... all the damn price hikes. I actually wanted to check out Galaxy’s Edge for myself but money is an issue, especially for certain friends of mine. And I can imagine it being the main problem for people who don’t live in that area
Great post. To add fuel to the speculation fire, the original plan at Orlando's Hollywood Studios was to insert an X-Wing/Tie Fighter dueling spinner ride, *the original* Cantina and an indoor Jedi Training Academy show (featuring Yoda at the end) into the area around Star Tours. Corporate shot that down, we got what we got. Theory makes a lot of sense--why the lightsaber shop doesn't sell traditional lightsabers, etc. Maybe even why it's uncopyrightable "blue milk" rather than "Bantha milk."
Hey Gary, been a long time since the Comic Outpost days. With all the stuff happening with comic books, Star Trek/Wars, another topic of interest you might want to discuss is the Marvel Land, formerly Bug’s Life land, that is being built over in California adventures.
Good for George and they should have heeded his warning ⚠️! But of course they didn’t and that’s why the new batch of movies can’t light a candle to the original ones!
my husband and I were just discussing the lack of rides in the area... nothing at all for the younger kids, only 1 ride and then _everything_ is over priced merch push... i mean, all your kids are going to want their own light sabers, but not at $200 each.. families can't afford that after spending that much each for tickets, plus hotel and everything... seriously could have done a reskined toy story shooting range thing, or tea cups done as x wings and tie fighters or whatever.. a speeder bike racer.. bring Star Tours over to the area.. it's not hard to come up with ideas.. oh yeah.. and BRING BACK THE MUPPETS.. actually do something proper with that property...
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When Star Wars beat Spaceballs to "The search for more money"..
Part 3 the search for part 2
Kind of funny when you think that (rumored) Spaceballs was greenlighted at the condition that they would not sell movie merchandise to not take part of the market from Star Wars (that's why there is so much "spaceballs merchandise" inside of the movie.
Best comment i seen in long long time...b4 the dark times...b4 disney.
That whole scene in Spaceballs was thanks to George Lucas as well. When they asked him if he was okay to parody Star Wars he let them do it as long as they agreed there would be no Spaceballs merchandise... Mel Brooks put the merchandising scene in the movie as a joke about that.
@@RetroRobotRadio I heard Mel Brooks tell that story somewhere. I think it was on Inside The Actor's Studio.
The way I see it.
1: Either George gets his cut.
OR.
2: George gets public proof he's a genius and nobody can play with his toys but him.
OR.
3: BOTH and he gets paid AGAIN to come in and fix it.
george lucas might not comeback cause disney is charge with the new starwars movie franchise and decision now :) george lucas play with toy read comic and even rewatch his original starwars trilogy by himself laughing at disney failure now
Honestly considering how SJW Disney has become, fuck them, they can rot in the deepest pits of poverty for all I care.
@@megaman37456 I hope you're exaggerating.
And when you say SJW do you just mean Rey or?
(I agree, Rey is basically a Mary Sue.)
@I am Bluepelt I mean the majority of the Disney company is either run by or comprised of SJWs, that basically reduces all of their recent films to either:
a) half-baked recycled versions of their old animated movies
b) movies that force a marxist agenda down the viewers throats
either way both of those are VERY bad for business, not to mention the Higherups at Disney allowing Lucasfulms to attack anyone who criticizes them, that's why Disney deserves to "rot in the deepest pits of poverty."
that's why they have to call him back to fix episode IX, and that will be the explanation why the legacy character are going to be heavily use too, Emperor, Vader, even Anakin from the prequels will be back
It's empty because it doesn't thematically fit in Disneyland but Disney "knew better" ignored the fans and built their desert mall anyway
The imaginers wanted to have it have plenty of original trilogy stuff but management said no.
Well, they ruined Alien Encounter which he helped develop by replacing the Xenomorph with Stitch. The coolest attraction Disney World had is now more lame than "It's A Small World" thanks to them "knowing better".
@@ZontarDow the Imagineers wanted it to have it's own park to be Anaheim's third gate and Disneyworld's fifth but Disney wanted MONEY NOW. MONEY RIGHT NOW. ALL YOUR MONEY. NOW. for ONE ride and second that will never open because Disney pissed off the manufacturer.
@@dondraper3898 They shut down Alien Encounter.
@@BrickTrek Wait how could Anaheim have a third gate? The entire property is developed and in use, and there's no parking lot they can convert like they did with California Adventure.
Disney wants to kill off the original characters, but does NOT have compelling characters to replace them with. That's going to work out well for Disney.
Rose Tico. Ha Ha.
And theyll try to dig into the EU and give us pathetic disnified versions of good characters
few reason why starwars galaxy edge failing no memorable character we know from the movie no planet that is in the movie and even no character and planet that is memorable to us now :( luke han liea chewy r2 3po anakin padme bail organa greedo jabba jango boba fett kashyyyk tatooine hoth endor yavin 4 scariff jedha rogue one mustafar vader and director krinick death star alderaan clonewars other planet we never knew is gonna be coming back in the future now :)
Indeed, instead we have: less interesting less intimidating emo Darth Knockoff, The blander female Luke clone, the carbon copy plucky droid missing its comedic sidekick and the devil may care pilot who tends to make extremely stupid decisions.
Oh, and the ex Stormtrooper who seems to be mostly comic relief and is quite forgettable.
but she can do anything..
The real question is who owns the rights to The Star Wars Holiday Special?
So far, everyone involved has denied knowledge or responsibility. In fact, its in debt to the tune of $3.48.
Those Lumpy action figures just did not fly of the shelves!
Danteen 1942 they flipped a coin. The loser kept them.
@@SmokiestJoe So the fans own it then?
Satan.
I'd watch the Holiday Special over Last Jedi any day. Although, that's not saying much...lmao
Its beautiful poetic justice that they tried to cut Lucas out and it bit them in the ass.
Slow clap for Disney and Bob Iger.
dont be an idiot,bob iger saved disney with the acquisition of pixar and marvel studios in the early 2000s......disney had not made many good movies in a long time and pixar and marvel took them to ever greater heights.
It isn't just a lack of Original Trilogy stuff, buddy. It's a lack of Prequel Trilogy stuff too. And a lack of Old Republic-era stuff. And a lack of Clone Wars stuff. Etc.
HickoryDickory86 my thoughts exactly, why not a live action rebels film. Make a mandalorian war film. Anything but the trope wars we are getting at the moment.
@Autismo "Discounted"? A $200 plastic lightsaber?
No, it's not "discounted", and that makes it worse.
There are battle droids there... But they ate near the rest rooms kid you not lol
@mutantpoo This is the vocal minority crap that makes people hate the fans. George's stories are Star Wars. Accept it.
So a lack of all the good stuff
This would help explain why George only wanted 4.5 billion for Star Wars when he could've easily demanded 10+billion.
He wanted it off his hands as soon as possible, especially after all the abuse he endured in the years up to the day he sold the franchise to Disney.
@@evertonporter7887 "Abused"?
How about the many amounts of bullshit he pulled on his employees for like forever at LucasArts?
Meddling with stories and even CHANGING literally full developments of games because the asshole had "different ideas"?!
How about the cancelled badass Darth Maul game we were going to get but it was canned because of the constant interference from Lucas huh?
The bastard deserves the hate he gets,he's a despot and arrogant piece of shit that loved to fuck up other's ideas because he could.
@@anekisamurai6492 you got some proof and links to those stories?
There's a vid in here called "History of cancelled Star Wars games" made by a channel called Gamers,it explains on detail how Lucas literally sabotaged many games at LucasArts because he didn't liked the ideas of his employees despite being far superior than those from himself...the dude is just a sore asshole who can't tolerate the fact that other people have better ideas than him to expand the mythos.
@@anekisamurai6492
I'll have to check that vid out because to my knowledge the Darth Maul game was still in development when Goerge sold Star Wars and they (disney/Lucasfilm) were the ones who shut it down. Same with 1313 and TFU3 (TFU3 having still been in the storyboard stage at the time) The only game I've ever heard of that got canned before release when still under George's control was Pandemic's Battlefront 3 which LucasArts stopped paying for and abandoned when the game was already like 99% finished. And that was likely due to the game constantly getting pushed back as the devs tried to add more and more. Its release date was originally 2009 but got pushed back to 2010, than '11, and finally 2013 when it got canned. In fact, LucasArts pulling out of that deal was what killed the studio if I'm not mistaken. They sold out to EA since they were broke because of this and EA promptly shut them down to send their teams to other studios.
If George Lucas did anything is that he made people appreciate the Prequel and OT franchise more.
ViperChief117 oh I agree I have a better appreciation of the prequels now
nope. still don't appreciate the prequels. i have the unaltered theatrical release of the original trilogy and that's the entirety of the stars wars universe in my eyes.
Prequels were great, especially revenge of the sith. No doubt
@@hackysmacky some dialogue was painful but those fight scenes and the game made up for it for me
Attack of the clones is still a bad movie. I do enjoy most of 1 and 3 though.
No way thats mad, so Lucas was clever afterall, he basically sold the studio "Lucasfilm" but not the actual OT Characters.
In a way, this statement is true, because George Lucas' creations are the reasons we avoid this sequel trilogy crap
george lucas made prequel fans do not love about it they care about obiwan luke anakin and even padme liea hansolo ackbar and even lando emperor palpatine vader now why count dooku and darth maul get the hate in episode 1 and episode 3 now?
That might be true. One of the reasons Disney decanonized the old EU is to avoid paying $$$ to the authors for the characters they created. It would make sense if Lucas retained a percentage in profits for each character they used.
If this is true it would explain so much more than galaxy's edge. Not least the ham-fisted rush to do away with the old characters.
Rogue one supports that theory but then Solo goes against it so I dunno
@@etherspin Unless by using a new Han Solo actor and thus action figure, it side-steps the original agreement?
@@etherspin Solo was only made because Lawrence Kasdan put it in his contract when J.J. hired him to help write the Force Awakens. Kasdan wanted to do Solo, so Disney reluctantly agreed that he could do that if he co-wrote the Force Awakens. That is why Solo was green lit even though no one wanted it made. No one cared, but it was Kasdan and his son's baby project.
SW Galaxy Edge has no prequel and original characters, it has been all about the sequel characters, so sad. Save your money guys, wake up.
If it's true that Lucas still has the rights to the original characters, then that would explain why Disney is killing off OT characters left and right: to avoid paying 25% to Lucas. It would also explain why there are no OT characters at Galaxy's Edge.
Chewbacca
@@Hyro Chewbacca has been in the parks for years (before the Disney buyout). It's quite possible it's part of a contractual agreement that could expire at a later date.
of course its not true. r2d2,c3p0,the emperor,lando...infact all the characters are in the new films. This clickbait must be going well for these confirmation bias channels
roastlonely moron they are under a contract signed before the acquisition of SW. They will exit after it finishes unless they make a deal with Lucas.
That sounds like George, he's a fantastic creator, but an even greater businessman
By far the BEST COMMENT SO FAR! Lucas knew everything is interlinked with the past. Disney said ....F-U
And everybody hated him for the prequels, the Special Editions, and his opinion that Star Wars is Anakin's story! Now everybody wants him back! Star Wars is dead, and we all know it.
Dude, when the OG series came out they thought it would flop and gave him full rights to the merch.
AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENED ALL THESE YEARS LATER!
Soooo true. George is crafty.
"The Millennial Falcon"
Oh dear!
There may be a TH-camr taking offense to that right now.
Piloted by Han Soylo.
sweiland75 I’m still waiting for people to drop this angle and start talking about gen z. I still laugh but as I stare at my 80s and 90s comic collection, my original Star Wars 8track soundtrack, my mortgage....oh no...there’s avocado in my house....I need to go pray to my laser discs and seek forgiveness
i am a millennial and i love to ride the millennial falcon for the first time lol and my brother would do the same as me now :)
@@vapsman88 hansolo harrison ford he the legend i give him praise now :)
George Lucas would definitely want a piece of the merchandising. He's done it in the past.
Oh, hell yeah. He waited until the divorce with his wife was finalized to go through with the prequel trilogy so he wouldn't have to give his ex-wife alimony payments from the proceeds of the prequel films. Very shrewd.
Star Trek Theory you are delusional. Collecting is a thing around the globe. I own almost nothing anymore my ex tossed it all when I was at work. I divorced her 7 days later papers took a week to post. Everyone around the globe envies America. That’s why the consume everything made here.
@@WorthlessDeadEnd His ex wife who banged the architect that was building their new house while George was away filming? and who retired after the divorce cause she got enough money for the rest of her life? Yeah I would have done the same as George here.
GL practically INVENTED merchandising.
Please, gifted hackers of the world, PLEASE do not try to hack Disney to try to confirm this rumor.
Hack the Galaxy!!
why would anyone go to Disneyland? who ever said happiness doesn't cost anything obviously has never been to Disneyland
Arbatov What the hack?!😃
It's too late because already offer them a nice dinner for information about Disney.😳
Oh yes... We certainly don't condone hacking Disney to confirm rumours and expose the goings on at Disney.....
lolZ... is this the reason George Lucas called Disney "white slavers"?
I suppose so.
"White slavery" is a fairly recent expression which refers to sex slaves, i.e. prostitutes.
Why did George Lucas sell Star Wars/ Lucasfilm to Disney outright? And for so cheap? (He said he didn't needed the money and would donate it) - But he could have placed Star Wars / Lucasfilm into a trust and give the money to a children's charity like Peter Pan rights does (to the London Children's Hospital). BTW: Lucas is a type 1 diabetic. You would think he would give the money directly to the hospitals/research instead of lining the pockets of Disney/Iger/Eisner etc. ---- Something does NOT smell right. Disney has already made / will hit about 10 billion dollars from the 5 films. - And they only paid 4 billion dollars. (Even Iger had stated on camera that Disney will hit about 10 billion dollars in Star Wars income by 2020) ---- I think someone is either blackmailing George Lucas (to have handed over Star Wars / and so cheap) - or - there is something else going on.
Royce M Lucas is dying. He hoped Star Wars would live on.
@@pugtortuga3406 were all dying.
If this is true it makes even less sense how little effort the Disney writers put in to the new characters. The new villains are all incompetent, and the quality of writing for the protagonists is dismal to the point where I almost hope they will fail. Rey alone is a huge problem as her only character flaw is that she cries when she learns her parents aren't famous rock stars after she is transformed in to a force goddess over a long weekend. Such an awful character to try to get behind.
Rey is short for Reia - Princess Reia - as in Leia. --- She is the sister of Ben / Kylo Ren.
"LET'S HAVE 100% OF NOTHING INSTEAD OF 80% SOMETHING, THAT WILL SHOW EM!" ...... help me force jesus.
Sounds like an MBA decision to me! (MBA = More Bad Advice)
At least the force is female though!
Disney is too greedy, gay, and goofy!
Well it seems like a plausible theory...After all we all know George had the foresight to have the licenses for the original trilogy and prequels...which turned out to be the best decision he ever made..wouldnt surprise me if he pulled some kind of deal with Disney to preserve that and also to protect his legacy...if the Disney films were crap, he can deflect it from his films....
Exactly what I was going to mention. Glad someone did. Lucas broke new ground with the OT and the merchandising of it. He would absolutely ask a percentage of his merchandise.
:Thumbsup:
This would totally fit into Lucas' strategy. People said there was no way Lucas could keep any rights once he sold to Disney but this is George "freakin'" Lucas! He knows how to work the idiot corporate shills. Now he couldn't make them use his stories for the sequels but maybe that was payback for this deal?
I find it hard to believe he doesn't have some controls over his movies in terms of presentation ie his versions over the theatrical cuts.
george lucas has to make the right decision to take back starwars if he want to keep his franchise movie and even comic book alive now and even made a new galaxy edge ride for millennial and new generation kids and disney doesn't know how to handle starwars right now and it made us leave their movie theater and not buy their merchandise and even not caring for the new characters anymore rey mary sue kylo ren vader clone or son now phasma royal guard or emperor palpatine snoke clone assassian now poe next luke to pilot a x-wing destroy starkiller base now finn next hansolo who can smuggle drugs and even win for the resistance now
Thanks to my head canon, this new trilogy never happened. Just like STD.
Like the Kaylon Head Canon. :0)
can join the rest of us- our sequels start at Endor+1 with "Truce at Bakura"
I too pretend my STDs dont exist...way to go plaaayaaaa
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They don't want to share their money... Thing is they would be making a fat stacks of cash but need to give % of it to George, intead they got chump change but keep 100% of it... Flawless business plan I guess....
Ancient Mariner greed, greed and shortsightedness is the common weakness of this generation of high execs.
why would anyone go to Disneyland? who ever said happiness doesn't cost anything obviously has never been to Disneyland
It's also spite.
Logically speaking greed would theoretically convince them to do as well as they could. Keeping 75% of a billion is certainly better than 100% of a hundred million, for example...
Spite is a powerful motivator.
Even more powerful than greed for a lot of people...
Sadly nothing new. Back in the 1890s, John Browning was the greatest firearms designer ever known. To this day, many guns made owe something to his innovations and some of his guns are still in production virtually unchanged. He used to sell his patents for lump sums, claiming no royalties. Companies like Remington and WInchester made millions off his designs he sold for just thousands. So, one day, he decides to ask WInchester to let him collect royalties instead on a couple of new semiautomatic weapon patents. WInchester said no, fearing the legacy costs. Browning, furious, finds other companies willing to pay him proper and makes millions for himself and those companies. WInchester suddenly finds it needs to get in on the new semiautomatic longarm market, but cannot do so without paying Browning royalties. So instead, they order a guy to make inferior and sometimes outright dangerous guns (one shotgun is nicknamed the Widowmaker) that don't work well JUST to avoid Browning's patents. Ain't corporate law amazingly fun???
@Caliban777 It also is a reminder that CEOs and other management can outgrow the times. It is not as if the man that said no to Browning had always been a fool, but he was getting out of touch with the market at the time. Remington and Fabrique Nationale saw the value of accepting Browning's demands for royalties, but Winchester, despite its enormous wealth and success, missed the market trends because one man lacked the vision and his company didn't have the culture to override him. Check and balances matter, folks.
My ride would be: "No, I am your father" the emotional roller coaster
This makes so much sense now. This really explains the announcement in 2015 about "LEGENDS" being left out of the "Disney STAR WARS canon." It makes me feel better to know that Geoerge Lucas wasn't completely raped by the Disney deal. However, the damage done to the STAR WARS brand is now colossal.
I would love nothing more than to find out in a few years time that George's daughter, Katie Lucas, gets control of Lucasfilm and STAR WARS and declares "Disney STAR WARS" NOT CANON. Then take her father's treatments and make the TRUE STAR WARS: EPISODES VII, VIII, and IX.
Has anyone ever noticed that THE FORCE AWAKENS and THE LAST JEDI do not have the Episode numbers on the front of any of the physical media? I've always taken that as a sign.✌
Never noticed that, you're right!
@@UltimaOmega That would depend on the size of the role George Lucas had set up in his treatments for the final 3 episodes. It could be revised in screenplay drafts to have the lines by HAN, LEIA, and LUKE revealed through a damaged holographic recording with audio difficulties to explain the imperfect voice matches. There are some very convincing voice actors who could pull off clean audio for such scenes as well.
THANK YOU !!! I've been saying it since TFA came out ! These movies do not have the number on them, that just shows they wanted to remake Star Wars, make THEIR Star Wars and not really be associated with episodes 1-6
If that’s true, and i hope it is, good for George Lucas!!!!
It's not true. Nerdrotic is making things up again, getting his ad revenue up!
Disrespecting customers is so obviously a bad idea that I wonder if this disaster is done on purpose.
This is why you don't hire zealots of any stripe.
disney respect their customer we reject disney movie making decision and the franchise is still not bought and we chose to ignore it
@@Carandini george lucas probably rewatch his original starwars trilogy read books of the original EU and even buy their merchandise for the original character what we know and fall in love now luke liea hansolo anakin ahsoka darth maul jango fett boba fett admiral ackbar obiwan kenobi yoda mace windu aayla secura luminara kitfisto plokoon now
George Lucas: Pray that I do not alter our agreement again!
Keego Bricks 😂😂😂
Our PM Boris Johnson needs to hire George Lucas to get us a good Brexit deal😁😁.
@Star Trek Theory You're an idiot.
@Star Trek Theory Don't blame Lucas blame the original trilogy "fans" who wouldn't stop trashing George over the prequels. They're the reason George decided to sell Star Wars, he was tired of all the hate and abuse. And now those very same people want him back how ironic.
@Star Trek Theory He wouldn't of sold star wars if it weren't for the hateful "fans".
I am actually amazed..i thought it was politics killing off the old chars....somehow...these explanation makes way more sense than mine did.
Mark Evans That does not rule out the political angle. Sure money was a factor but this isn’t mutually exclusive. I could see someone like KK using this as a justification for what she did. Overall it is a crappy situation.
@@Avarn388 Yeah maybe, but..yknow..just trying to imagine a SW theme park, without Darth Vader. If they were willing to try that, then they were certaintely capable of killing off the old cast, just so they dont have to pay to use their images.
Anticipated crowding doesn't seem to deter guests when Universal Orlando opens a new Harry Potter ride.
I heard it was empty because it was fairly shit to be honest but he ho who actually knows?
Massively overpriced, not the Star Wars that fans want and fairly shit.
@@smilebehappy6102 but universal studios is packed, despite NBC universal alienating the same group.
A 5 minute ride in a brown shopping mall with an entry fee that sells merch similar to stuff on Amazon. Bleahhhhhh
Eisener was pushed out for far less than what Iger has done.
Why do you think that was?
"Millennial Falcon"
pretty sure that was a freudian slip there. also pretty sure KK is going to force that name change any day now.
But Disney didn't realize they bought the worn out one that no one wants, the Aluminum Falcon.
Keep Galaxy's Edge and the theater seats for The Fall Of Skywalker empty
Yup dl a cam
Yes please. Only star wars movies I trust now are the one offs like Rogue One and Han Solo as they were actually made with fans in mind and the later was just a whole star wars love letter.
I love imagining George just poking this dead carcass of a Disney Dumpster Fire.
I'm sorry but on first reading i thought you said you love imagining George Lucas poking dead carcasses at Disney's Dumpster hire !
Yes I'll sell you star wars...just one small thing though...😂
Awesome avatar...
Sam Jackson said Lucas was cheated when he sold Lucasfilm for "only" 4 bil. Guess who has the last laugh. Disney is more stupid and greedy than the Trade Federation.
Georgie knew it was dead when he sold it. His grand vision of re-releasing six movie in post-production 3D ended when that first rancid prequel didn't do shit to sell toys. Disney was stupid enough to understand the reality and he sold this carcass for top dollar. Now even complete morons can't deny the smell rolling off this zombie franchise.
George deserves a few extra bucks because he created characters we love. It doesn't mater how much money he has now.
Right on, Boba. Besides, the guy is a wonderful philanthropist. He gives hundreds of millions to charity.
George doesn't need the money...but DISNEY DOES?!!!!
It's all a cluster fuck I'm afraid
It makes sense that Lucas kept a hold of the property rights to all the original stuff. You'll notice you'll never see a classic Stormtrooper. Heck even Darth Vader's helmet was burned and charred and twisted when it appeared in the new series.. which made it 25% different. All the vehicles their colors reversed.
TLJ Luke calls a light saber a "laser sword" wow that one sounded f'd-up, but makes sense in this context. Also in SOLO Chewie has a weird bandolier, C-3P0's red arm, the square dish on the Falcon. Things that clearly differentiate iconic G Canon elements from new D Canon. This makes sense out of all of it. And why when GL owned Lucasfilm Vader and the OT was all over Disney parks, but once they own SW, it all goes away?????
The bulid your own lighsaber should of been done something like this:
There is a jedi path where you go to the jedi temple and undergo some basic training by Obi-wan or Yoda or Mace, you choose your color, learn about jedi philosophy, there are temple guards around, holocrons really set the vibe, the at the end you kneel and are touched on the shoulder and knighted then you get your saber.
The Sith path basically the same, set it in an old ruin or shrine, have Vader, Maul, Palpatine explain Sith philosophy, take part in some kind of dark ritual, then kneel and "What is thy bidding, my master." Done simple.
You could do this with a 30 to 40 minute turn around, and charge I don't know $250ish, but for that you get a great experience, a well made saber not the cheap crap they have now, and a holocron, and then there could be optional extras like robes etc.
Kids would loose their minds and so would a lot of adults lol, its not that hard to make something cool, Disney.
Other attractions could be a laser tag kind of thing where you fight as the rebels (the force only knows why you would choose that side but to each their own I guess lol) or the Empire as stormtroopers with the same thing where you have a short basic training and drill type of thing, then you get a blaster and the armor if you pay more maybe, same with the other side, really drive people to ant to buy your merch but make it of decent quality ffs lol.
That could bethe reason why Lucas could stop the flagging of the Darth Vader Fanfilm!
It would be SAD if disney is killing off old characters due to rights
A big fail
It would explain why they destroyed or diminished every single OT character.
Disney literally bought the name STAR WARS for $4,000,000,000,000. George Lucas is a goddamn genius. $500,000,000 per letter.
@@kidstlme8230 It's because of bastards like you that he sold it.
@@kidstlme8230 🙌
Math is not your strongest subject, is it?
@@cab8866 You actually made me check this with the bloody calculator.
Never really thought of it that way but you're right!
he still owns the original prints so they can not be re-released. That was actually big news when the IP was sold.
HOW COME we only had one trailer for Star Wars episode 9 compared to three trailers we got for the Force Awakens . For the same time period 6 years ago and nobody wants to cover that
Dwain Morris I’m wondering the same thing. Ep 9 is probably having production problems, reshoots, and last minute changes like all of the other Disney SW films. I wouldn’t be surprised if the scenes we saw in the trailer never make it into the actual film, just like with Solo. Like why is the Death Star crashed into the surface of a planet? Wasn’t it exploded into a million pieces? Something that size would make an extinction level event sized impact!
Gary
Altough I find this possibility plausible I think that even with 100% ownership we would still have TFA, TLJ and all that jazz
There's an ideology beneath all that
This possibility only makes it more acceptable to the suits
I think TFA happens still, but TLJ is completely different. I think they went with Rian's version because he destroyed Luke Skywalker and the OT past. it would explain how Disney approved that script. Still not completely buying the theory, but it does make sense. It's either that or Disney are so monumentally stupid to think new characters would sell way more figures than the OT characters.
I always suspected Disney had to pay a percentage if using old school Star Wars images/characters.
That makes me feel a lot better about joining the Fandom Menace and boycotting ALL Disney movies, tv and products 😂
wow you are so cool! you must get tons of bitches bruh. Disney doesn't care if some man babies boycott their shit buddy.
Slurpee Cloud or the guy just chooses to spend his money on something of quality
It's a knock-off Star Wars experience, in an official Star Wars (tm) branded theme park. Edit to add: I have zero interest in any theme park, but if they'd built Mos Eisley, I would've had to go.
Hell yeah man, an actual 21+ cantina.
@@Beretic805 With blackjack and hookers!
@@godzilladestroyscities1757 *Sabaac and hookers lol...
And some Corellian Ale
This is great if true! Disney Stars Wars is officially NOT canon! Lucas wins, Iger lose!
I was just thinking about this last night. The only way what Disney is doing with Star Wars makes sense to me is if their ownership is not as cut and dry as we've been lead to believe.
Disney built a shopping mall instead of an amusement park...a shopping mall with a $150 cover charge. How could that possibly lose?
Your Beard deserves its own channel
lol...the facial beard
It has its own twitch channel, it plays games badly while revealing Garys chin sporadically to the highest bidding virgin who watches religiously
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
If this is true, George Lucas is brilliant. DON'T GIVE IT TO THEM GEORGE!!!
Paramount (Viacom) owns the rights to the Star Trek Prime movies, not CBS or Bad Robot. It is very possible that Lucas owns the rights to the original trilogy and prequels including the animated Clones series. Lucas may have licensed original trilogy characters to Disney but Disney can refuse to use them in future films and amusement parks in order to not have to compensate Lucas.
Would explain why they originally cancelled Clone Wars prematurely.
@@mupty I remember they outright said that cancelled it because their marketing folks thought they couldn't safely air it on their Disney channels and didn't want to keep it on a competing channel (Cartoon Network) and that's why they pulled it altogether and replaced it with Rebels, which could be marketed to a younger target demographic.
So in the end it was just the usual politics of faceless managers preferring to kill something the fans want in order to make something they thought entirely different fans would buy.
I want a TRUE Lucas/Star Wars Land like the concept art released/leaked again recently
Was their any Jar Jar Binks at Galaxies Edge?
I think I'd rather suffer Jar Jar than Tico...
I doubt George held onto that one haha
porgs become the new jarjar binks in the last jedi george lucas laugh and kept jarjar binks now
@@waylonlewin3322 They will make a female Jar Jar Binks
A jar jar walking around would definitely be an improvement
I’ve always assumed there were two angles to this. Firstly, Disney were avoiding using OT icons (R2D2 would be a great example) because Disney wouldn’t want to pay royalties to anyone from the Lucasfilm era who may have some IP claim. And in addition to that JJ Abrams may have demanded as part of a TFA directing deal that HE get royalties from anything he/Bad Robot had designed (prime example BB8) from Force Awakens onwards. Maybe even Rian Johnson got his slice with Porgs?
So .... Basically... For Bob Iger, it's everyones fault, except Disney !!!
Great mentality Bobby, keep up the incompetence !
>Millenial falcon
I see what you did there. :)
Idk, after a certain point i simply stopped giving a shit about new movies and accepted that i have plenty of old ones, that aren't tainted with modern day bs. Part of that realization includes turning my back on shit like Galaxies Edge, and you know what? Disney leaving out the original trilogy just makes it THAT much easier for me.
Makes perfect sense. The same way you wouldn't go to Timothy Zahn's "Heir to the Empire" trilogy, you get stingy with Lucas and ruined Star Wars.
Lucas's ex-wife has part ownership of the original trilogy, so maybe she is the one who gets a percentage.
So Disney would rather have 100% of nothing than 75% of the Original Star Wars cash cow?
Slow clap for the Disney marketing peeps...👏👏👏
Considering what happened to Xmen before Disney bought Fox, that's actually believable
I worked it out that it would cost me about $600 for my wife and I to visit for 2 days, this is nuts considering they have ignored the original trilogy.
Man I would love to see a George-Produced Star Wars again!!
I thought this was common knowledge. It’s based on rights to toys/merch. George did not sell the rights to the original series toys for sure. This wasn’t hidden when the buyout occurred. This has been the primary reason Disney has pushed the new characters and discarded/dismissed the original characters. Pretty clear to see
It's possible I do agree but it's hard to believe because part of the dealer selling lucasfilm's George Lucas is the second largest stockholder of Disney
The 'purchase price' was mainly stocks, not hot cash.
I took my family the first week of Galaxy's Edge opening. I paid for the 5-day Park Hopper, stayed at the Disney Grand Hotel for $850 per night, but was only given a 4-hour reservation into GE? That was the first rip off. Then we get on the Falcon ride, and that was disappointing, too. It was ok, but nothing great. Then there's the merch...you can ONLY buy GE merch while you're inside GE. Other Disney merch can be bought anywhere else in the park, and also at World of Disney in Downtown Disney, but GE merch was only available inside GE. Another rip off. Oh, and they don't deliver purchased merch directly to your hotel room like they do in any of the other stores throughout Disneyland and California Adventures. Another rip off. The park price was also higher but we didn't feel like we got our money's worth. For the first time in 11 years, we're actually not planning on going back next year. Good job Disney, you fuct up Disneyland by not having canon planets or locations in GE, known characters walking around (except Chewie), but opted for 'new' locales not mentioned in any film? That was a huge fail. The adult cantina was cool but it's not something you'll go back to after the first visit. One cocktail cost me $20 and it was watered down. Another rip off. The whole experience was seriously lackluster and definitely not worth the ~$2000 per day that I paid (park entrance for 4, hotel, and food). I don't mind paying the money for my family to enjoy an annual Disney vacation, but we usually get close to our money's worth. But not this summer. I'm not keeping track, but I'm sure I've given Disney over $100k over the years.
Want to save 20%
Looses 100%
*Genius!*
Right? I don't know what dumbass business schools these modern CEOs go to... But they all seem like a bunch of idiots.
The simplest concepts elude them.
I hope this is so. That way they can't go back and redo the original trilogy
Ps George Lucas should own his product and always get his money
Disney has out side of rouge 1 screwed up there investment so much I dont see a future for it anytime soon
We could use a new hope
Ahhhh yes... Rouge 1. Always makes me blush 😳
Once upon a time in the 1970's a couple of wargamers, Gary Gygax, Dave Arnenson, and a few others expanded on their hobby creating the Dungeons&Dragons role playing game and launched the table top RPG hobby with their new company TSR. There are various takes on what happened next but Gary and Dave had a falling out and Dave Arnenson left [or was forced to leave] TSR and it was agreed he'd receive credits and royalties. Shortly afterwards TSR released Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, an expanded more rules heavy version of the original game. TSR and Gary did this so they did not have to pay royalties to Dave Arnenson.
I'll let that sink in a minute.
TSR continued to sell the original game and Arnenson had to file several lawsuits in 1979 to retain credits and royalties.
Just thought I'd share this very familiar story from another hobby of mine. Fortunately D&D survived and still flourished then, it's in more trouble today though due to an SJW infestation.
Between the two, I think George Lucas deserves the Star Wars money WAY more than Disney does.
I live in Florida and work for a theming company. We fabricated the pod racer engine set up in the cafe/bar. The first thing I noticed when we arrived on site to install everything I was struck by how everything about Galaxy's Edge was nothing but the new Disney movies. Falcon, X-wing, etc. The second thing I noticed was that the whole attraction was all about selling you shit. Vendor booths were going to be everywhere selling Porgs and characters from the Disney movies. My boss is well connected in the theming industry and privy to "inside" info and at one time told me how WB went to Disney over their plan do build a Harry Potter theme park experience and they gave the mouse the first shot. The only caveat? J.K. Rowling had final say on everything. Disney scoffed at that and told WB that THEY know what they're doing and wouldn't allow Rowling to have final say in ANYTHING. WB packed up and went to Universal who said "No Problem". Fast foward and Universal/Harry Potter continues to break attendance records and Galaxy's Edge is dying a slow, miserable, expensive death.
Good old George is playing the long game here.
He sold high and after SW rots at the hands of Disney he buys low.
Then capitalize on the resurgent of interest.
I would love to see that happening.
Well, this rumor throws the Time travel theory a bit off, since Disney wouldn't have one of their characters to become one connected to Lucas.
Is this why C3PO has a red arm now?
Wow. This makes sense. But what doesn't make sense is why Disney assumed they were getting a good deal. Just goes to show that Lucas is smart. Stinks for fans, but I can't say I blame him. Good video!
George Lucas will be remembered as the man who created Star Wars AND The man who killed/crippled Disney.
David and Goliath.
If true, would be hilarious and entertaining to watch Disney go tits up given how they've treated their acquisitions over the years.
I understand that it's a new Star Wars area, and I agree some OT characters cruising around would be nice but I feel like everyone who says "there's no original trilogy stuff" either hasn't been to Galaxy's edge or isn't a big enough fan to recognize all the original trilogy stuff that's all over the place.
Rumour is bob iger hides in your beard . Great vid as always
I feel this is quite possible. Looks at Disney's SW materials in the parks before Galaxies Edge opened. There was a much better spread with displays and even Star Tours covering the entire saga as opposed to just the Sequel trilogy. In fact it was this way for decades prior to the 2012 buy out. But we know Disney they don't like to license what then can own and they don't like to out source what they can do in house. The only thing they don't like to do it seems have their own ideas.
But here is something else interesting to consider in this conspiracy of SW ownership. Gary Kurtz said around the time of the 20th anniversary of A New Hope that the reason for the Special Editions was because Fox wanted something extra beyond just re-releasing the films to get people back in theaters. Its also widely believed that the release of the SE and even Shadows of the Empire were a snowball build up strategy to help bank roll the The Phantom Menace. This I had all heard before but more recently a new rumor surfaced. An additional reason for the changes of the SE was because Marcia Lucas. If re-released in their pre-Specialized form Marcia would get a cut due to the arrangements in their divorce settlement. By changing the films, especially ANH which she had the biggest hand in, it blocked her from receiving payments from the films. It has been rumored that is also why we haven't seen the un-altered versions of the Original Trilogy.
So Disney doesn't want to pay Lucas for using stuff related to 1-6 and Lucas doesn't want to pay his ex for un-altered OT stuff.
Only a vile gangster like Lucas can get away with altering the deal on the Disney Empire....
*Maybe instead of having young Luke, Han and Leia, they can have hire senior citizens to play them and put a broken burnt helmet in the place of Darth Vader?😆
@@spacecadet35 I don't know dude, I just said that because Darth Vader altered deals... Friggen comment cop here.
_“Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen”_
There was a Darth Vader costume dude before. He’d come out for the Jedi Training thing.
The bottom line is there never should of been a sequel trilogy. ROTJ's ending to the Skywalker's was perfect, thus anything furthering that continuity was an utter cash grab. "There's a saying "If it isn't broke, don't fix it".
ITS OFFICIAL.! George Lucas IS Yoda...LOL..!
Given that JJ was part of this I wish to facepalm for 24 hours, due to how likely it is that Disney greed pushed them forward in the absolute wrong direction.
This explains why the Expanded Universe was jettisoned too.
The Sequel Trilogy is now the Disney Timeline.
George Lucas is the smartest businessman ever!I believe this news , especially knowing his tactics with past deals.
George Lucas still has way more control then we know.......Disney just don't know it!
This completely makes sense. And that is why The Academy of Motion picture Arts and Sciences had to obtain Lucas's permission to screen the original unaltered version of Star Wars (A new Hope) back in July. It fits perfectly with this rumor/theory.
George,,well the city is 4 billion ,,,but the key is going to cost you another 4 billion, Bobby,,,,sucker,🤭😂🤣🤣
You can have the city, but the power plant is still mine and you have to pay the electricity bill...
Disney thought they shafted Lucas, but it looks like they'll be the ones getting shafted instead!
I really want this to be true, he's never liked the big studios and think he may have screwed Disney over is wonderful.
At first DC Comics licensed Captain Marvel to do the Shazam character. They only bought the characters years later. So this sounds believable to me.
Makes sense. I saw a video a little while ago that was talking about Lucas letting someone screen an original version of A New Hope. The first public viewing of the original Star Wars movie since he added the newer special effects and LUCAS allowed it, not Disney
I can tell you right now what stopped me and all my friends from going... all the damn price hikes. I actually wanted to check out Galaxy’s Edge for myself but money is an issue, especially for certain friends of mine. And I can imagine it being the main problem for people who don’t live in that area
Great post. To add fuel to the speculation fire, the original plan at Orlando's Hollywood Studios was to insert an X-Wing/Tie Fighter dueling spinner ride, *the original* Cantina and an indoor Jedi Training Academy show (featuring Yoda at the end) into the area around Star Tours. Corporate shot that down, we got what we got. Theory makes a lot of sense--why the lightsaber shop doesn't sell traditional lightsabers, etc. Maybe even why it's uncopyrightable "blue milk" rather than "Bantha milk."
Hey Gary, been a long time since the Comic Outpost days. With all the stuff happening with comic books, Star Trek/Wars, another topic of interest you might want to discuss is the Marvel Land, formerly Bug’s Life land, that is being built over in California adventures.
Good for George and they should have heeded his warning ⚠️! But of course they didn’t and that’s why the new batch of movies can’t light a candle to the original ones!
my husband and I were just discussing the lack of rides in the area... nothing at all for the younger kids, only 1 ride and then _everything_ is over priced merch push... i mean, all your kids are going to want their own light sabers, but not at $200 each.. families can't afford that after spending that much each for tickets, plus hotel and everything... seriously could have done a reskined toy story shooting range thing, or tea cups done as x wings and tie fighters or whatever.. a speeder bike racer.. bring Star Tours over to the area.. it's not hard to come up with ideas.. oh yeah.. and BRING BACK THE MUPPETS.. actually do something proper with that property...