Why did the “Star Wars ® Deckplans Alliance” separate from the “Star Wars ® design alliance forum”?
Over the years we have observed an alarming trend in the Star Wars ® franchise. Standardization and intercommunication between the various Star Wars ® model manufacturers, toy manufacturers, game programmers, artists, authors, and other license holders, are extremely poor. The net result are conflicts in the continuing Star Wars ® saga, fluctuations in technical data, a general lack of product consistency, and at times blatant errors that show no sign of research at all. We believe the reason for this is that George Lucas who is the owner of the Star Wars ® franchise, has demonstrated little leadership or concern over the efforts of other “official” licensed contributors to the Star Wars ® phenomenon. This problem has been further compounded and magnified by George Lucas’s renewed interest in developing the Star Wars ® Saga in the mid 90’s. Mr. Lucas’s has treated the Star Wars ® Expanded Universe as a separate entity and not an integral part of his Star Wars ® vision. His return to di
