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Source: Plaintiff: Disney Promised to Help Me Build an X-Wing. Court: No It Didn’t – Lowering the Bar<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

This one is so insane, I’m republishing the entire Lowering the Bar dissertation right here. (I, for one, did not know what an X-Wing was until I read this and although I’m not sorry I read it, I am sorry I now know what an X-Wing is.) Oh, a warning: fasten your seatbelts; it’s a bumpy (Disney) space ride:<\/p>\n

April 29, 2015<\/em><\/h2>\n
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Plaintiff: Disney Promised to Help Me Build an X-Wing. Court: No It Didn’t<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Many remarkable legal documents land in my inbox, and I try to mention as many as I can. Of that group, only a select few are remarkable enough to make it into the Hall(s) of Fame.\u00a0I don’t think any other case has yielded both a Hall of Fame pleading\u00a0and a Hall of Fame court order, but this is probably such a case.<\/em><\/p>\n

The order, issued in January by the Delaware Court of Chancery<\/a>\u00a0(thanks, Al), starts like this:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"X-wing\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

That’s a great summary of the complaint as a document, but what are the facts of the case? Let’s hear from the plaintiff on that score:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"2015-04-29<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

That’s two\u00a0sentences, but the court did it in one:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"2015-04-29<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Basically, the plaintiff would like to build an operational X-Wing fighter of the kind that currently can be seen only in\u00a0Star Wars. Plaintiff alleges that all the necessary technology is now available, although the complaint<\/a> is a little short of details on that. His plan is to build one or more X-Wings between now and the premiere of\u00a0Star Wars: Episode VIII, which\u00a0would give him the ability to offer fans the chance to fly in an X-Wing replica as part of an air show he has designed for the premiere; specifically, 93,000 fans would have the chance to fly for just $10,000 each, generating $930 million in revenue.<\/em><\/p>\n

The initial development of the X-Wing would be funded by Kickstarter, however.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Once X-Wing production is underway, he continued, it would quickly become the long-awaited “affordable automated personal airplane.” Plaintiff doesn’t say what the X-Wings would sell for, but he anticipates generating $15.239 billion from selling them, 45% of which he would then invest in the Disney Corporation (if it would just license the rights to him).<\/em><\/p>\n

Revenue would be enhanced by his planned launch of the campaign during a nationally televised Florida State football game.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now, you may be asking, why the X-Wing? Because it is a “symbol of hope and change.” Aren’t there other suitable symbols? Some of which, perhaps, are not owned by Disney? No, there are not. Indeed, in all of human history, the plaintiff continues, there have only been three suitably dramatic stories from which such a symbol could be taken: the story of Noah’s Ark, J.J. Abrams’ first\u00a0Star Trek film, and\u00a0Star Wars IV: A New Hope.<\/em><\/p>\n