Didn’t one of the fan editors from on here get invited up to Skywalker Ranch and very briefly met with Lucas or some of the execs around at the time?
It may have been the Phantom Editor themselves, I can’t quite remember. I remember reading a post on it at one of the older fan forums, and being surprised about the whole thing, and also envious.
According to some of the posts on here that was an editor called MagnoliaFan. It is listed in the ‘The Phantom Edit(s) - a catalyst for Star Wars fan edits’ section of An Index Of Projects & Help Thread for Star Wars Fan Edits and Other Projects.
But others like the Phantom Editor could also have been invited too?