This was a Threadless submission. The competition was on the theme of “Geeks”. Isn’t Yoda sweet! Alas, even though I’d seen Star Wars shirts on the site before, and even though this was totally drawn by hand and all my own work and hardly even looked like Yoda unless you ‘got’ it, they declined the sub for copyright reasons. So nobody saw it, at all. The (very nice) message they emailed in response to my polite protest included the phrases “no longer accept Star Wars subs” and “legal pressure from LucasArts.”
That’s right — “legal pressure from LucasArts.”
Seriously, what schmucks. They won’t even let people enter Star Wars designs to a competition. If George Lucas is SOO worried about people damaging the reputation and legacy of the Star Wars universe, then his lawyers better whip off a cease-and-desist order to George Lucas. Dated about twenty-five years ago.
So here’s the design that was, with the blurb. It’s called: “Before The Force”
Maybe even Master Yoda was a geek once — passionate about physics, inventing working lightsabers and intrigued by a mysterious “force” that keeps messing up his equations.
This is for you, Stacey.
