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Mike O wrote: Even assuming we actually had the technological ability to do that, which is questionable, I doubt Lucas would care about our little niche.

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Lucas has won.

Your first statement makes the second incorrect. According to you, Lucas won't do anything to stop a fan preservation, so the only thing holding a a fan preservation back is technological ability. Which is something this community can learn in time. If we can learn in time then that makes it possible for the fans to make a worthy preservation and since Lucas won't do anything about it. C'est la vie.

I don't mean to be Debbie Downer Asshole

You do. You're above contradiction proves it. Embrace your Dark Side. You generalfrevious and kenkraly200whatever should do a pod cast together. Light Side, Dark Side, StarWarscide. That would be great podcast/radio.

We can learn some of it in time, but as noted, there's just no way that we'll be able to create something on the level that a professional company would be able to do. Any fan preservations may preserve the films among the fans, but they'll hardly last and keep those version in the public consciousness for most people. Look at Amazon's bestsellers, the BR boxed set has skyrocketed back into the top ten for Christmas. Most people do no give a damn about the OOT, they'll just buy anything that say Star Wars on the label. I thought there'd come an oversaturation point, but obviously there won't. I've just finally decided to live in reality and accept the situation. RIP Star Wars. There's not just no evidence to the contrary.