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Bootleg Falcon - my #thingaweek and #Daily365 for Sunday
I’ve decided that doing a daily design and a Thing a Week is a bit much work for someone who doesn’t do design or photography for a living, so I am going to be counting one photograph every week as a daily design, starting with this one.
For anyone unfamiliar with Thing a Week, it’s a Flickr photography group very much in the spirit of the design-a-day challenge. It’s open to anyone, so please join us if it sounds like fun to you.
This week’s theme was ‘Trivia’, and accordingly I will be including the following factoids with my entry:
George Lucas had a $150,000 contract for writing and directing Star Wars, but he cannily insisted on 40% of merchandising - something the studio agreed to because they had no idea of what a phenomenon the franchise would become. In just the first year 42 million small action figures were sold.
Lucas once said that the shape of the Millennium Falcon was inspired by a hamburger. This toy pictured however is a bootleg, and would not have profited the Star Wars empire at all. The ship behind is a Nostromo knockoff from Alien.
