Johnboy3434 said:
I can understand if there was a company-wide decree that only the movies were canon, a la Star Trek (where all published material is non-canon, with only two possible exceptions), but the official company-wide policy is that everything that can reasonably fit is canon.

Since when? I've always heard, from company officials, that there are 3 levels of canon. "True" canon is only what's in the movies. After that is what's in the radio dramas and the novels of the movies. So if something from the movies contradicts something from the radio dramas or novels of the movies, the movie overrides it. Beyond that, everything is EU, but EU all goes into non-canon. The only reason the books were written so far out in the timeline from the movies was to make sure they never intruded on any of the movie canon.

This rule is followed pretty closely and is even followed when costuming for official company functions. Pretty much any character that has only been seen in books isn't allowed at those functions. Exceptions have been made when the costume looks really good, but I've never seen one of those fighting Royal Guards anywhere outside of convention floors.

The only books that have been made Canon are Shadows of the Empire and maybe Splinter of the Mind's Eye (that one may have been pulled out of canon since it was written before ESB and ROTJ). I can't think of any other books that are considered strict canon.

Maybe that all changed after ROTS came out, but back when I was costuming for LFL events, the above was the rule. I even saw people get booted from events because they were accurate, but someone else that dressed as Vader was taller and they liked it better.