At least he didn’t make himself a Jedi or something.
True.
That would have been very silly.
I just can’t image that if I was in Lucas’ shoes that my first though when entertaining the idea of a cameo would be “I’d like to play some blue politician in a funny hat”.
The X-Wing pilot makes more sense to me. Or you know, something short, but funny, like Peter Jackson’s various LOTR cameos.
In the end though I’m just amused by the fact that they also gave the character an action figure. After all I think the “Imperial Ground Crew” figure is kinda amusing, George Lucas as “Papanoida” the blue politician seen for two seconds in the background of ROTS, is just silly.
At least it came packaged with Lucas’ entire family;