{"id":37309,"date":"2022-07-09T16:51:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T20:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=37309"},"modified":"2022-07-09T16:51:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T20:51:31","slug":"star-wars-creating-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/07\/star-wars-creating-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: Creating Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, Brian Hickey had an idea: re-create the entire <i>Star Wars<\/i> Original Trilogy using nothing more than the old Kenner toys.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/swca1.jpg\" alt=\"Leia gives R2 the plans\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->He worked diligently, collecting vintage figures and creating all the necessary effects in-camera. And then when it was pointed out he'd need a license to publish his book, he reached out to Disney... who sent him a form letter rejection without even reading the question.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/swca2.jpg\" alt=\"Luke and Vader face off in the Carbonite freezing chamber\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>But a labor of love deserves to be seen, and while Hickey couldn't find a publisher for his book, there's absolutely nothing saying he can't release it online for free. So now you can enjoy all his hard work, even if he's not making any money from the effort.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/swca3.jpg\" alt=\"Palpatine watches the lightsaber duel\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/brianthehick\/docs\/star_wars_creating_adventure_396_pages_-_lr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the whole thing here<\/a>. And let him know his hard work didn't go to waste.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Star Wars Holiday Edition Mandalorian Warrior addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/star-wars-holiday-edition-mandalorian-warrior-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Star Wars Holiday Edition Mandalorian Warrior addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"ToyFare's Darth Maul prank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/toyfares-darth-maul-prank\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">ToyFare's Darth Maul prank<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Popular toys of the last 145 years\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/the-popular-toys-of-the-last-145-years\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Popular toys of the last 145 years<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Well, he does spend most of his time hiding in an egg...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/04\/well-he-does-spend-most-of-his-time-hiding-in-an-egg\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Well, he does spend most of his time hiding in an egg...<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Star Wars Relativity\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/star-wars-relativity\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Star Wars Relativity<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, Brian Hickey had an idea: re-create the entire Star Wars Original Trilogy using nothing more than the old Kenner toys. &lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Episode 9 spoilers Flippin' through Previews - July '11 Star Wars Unleashed: Tusken &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/07\/star-wars-creating-adventure\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,9,24],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-37309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-kenner","category-news","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37315,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37309\/revisions\/37315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}