EyeShotFirst said:

I just don't understand why Star Wars wasn't big on television, until recently. Books, movies, and in some respects games, it has done pretty well. We could've had some amazing television programs in the 80's and 90's. Droids sort of fell by the wayside.

Maybe Lucas was worried they would tarnish his vision, like the Holiday Special. Maybe the failure of Droids was something he didn't want to repeat, but Droids wasn't near the cartoon we could've gotten.

Possibly. Animation in the 80s wasn't the market for decent storytelling, and maybe Lucas thought if they focused to much there it would cheapen the whole phenomenon.

Or maybe it was his vision. He didn't want to do "Star Wars" half assed on a live-tv budget. "Young Indiana Jones" was practically a testing ground for all his new digital experiments to pull off the stuff he wanted to do.