Few months ago, with all the buzz about Double Fine Adventure and Wasteland 2 , a thought popped into my mind… that we’ve failed with all those petitions and letters, yet all we ever needed would be an official Kickstarter project to fund the restoration & DVD/BR release of our beloved movies. Raw numbers preceded by $ would speak to Lucas’ mind - and I’ll bet this crowdfunding project would get more backers and media coverage than some forgotten video game franchise.
Too bad that those big number successful projects emerged only in 2012, opening people’s eyes to Kickstarter possibilities (media talk about a revolution in video game production, as projects rejected by the industry were picked up & funded by the consumers themselves). If only we had such tools earlier - and some good examples to convince others to using this method…