{"id":889,"date":"2008-04-07T11:57:17","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T18:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/?p=889"},"modified":"2008-04-07T11:57:17","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T18:57:17","slug":"you-go-george-lucas-kill-that-fandom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"You go, George Lucas! Kill that fandom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/news\/article.html?in_article_id=136554&#038;in_page_id=34\">George Lucas is finally getting around to a lawsuit<\/a> aimed at stomping out the common practice of purchasing screen-accurate plastic Stormtrooper costumes and then parading around conventions like you own the place and you&#8217;re some kind of costume genius because you had an extra couple grand burning a hole in your pocket.<\/p>\n<p>(I kid, I kid. I love those 501st guys. Except the ones who are absolute pricks. I hate them.)<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand&#8230;why, George? Why not just put out your own version, one that&#8217;s better and has the Lucasfilm marketing machine behind it, and bury the guy through old-fashioned free market capitalism? Instead, you file lawsuits and chase them across the ocean to make sure you get your way.<\/p>\n<p>Why you gotta be like that, Lucas?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like George Lucas is finally getting around to a lawsuit aimed at stomping out the common practice of purchasing screen-accurate plastic Stormtrooper costumes and then parading around conventions like you own the place and you&#8217;re some kind of costume genius because you had an extra couple grand burning a hole in your pocket. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}