Zen has a Star War license!!!

Rafie said:

Just found out today that Zen Studios has acquired a license to do Star War tables. Much like that Marvel franchise, Zen will be doing 10 tables to commemorate the series. Supposedly we'll be getting some tables this month. Check out the article here from IGN:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/05/star-wars-pinball-is-real-exclusive-footage-here

My only question here is.....will TPA still be able to recreate the Star War tables from Williams, Data East and such?

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brakel said:

That will depend mostly on Disney and their license with Zen. If the contract gives Zen exclusive rights to make Star Wars video pinball games then we won't see a TPA Star Wars table for the duration of that license. If it doesn't then maybe. Disney is about making money so if the folks at Disney think it is in their best interest, then yes.

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sharkbear said:

Whether Zen has an exclusive license or not I doubt we ever see any of the Star Wars table on TPA. I bet those old tables violate all sorts of current corporate rules about how the Star Wars brand can be used. We can't even get the original films re-released! Would they really re-license something from the pre-Jar Jar era?

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brakel said:

Now that Disney owns it the old rules no longer apply. Disney didn't buy some limited rights to Star Wars. They bought Star Wars, ILM, LucasFilm, LucasArts, etc lock, stock and barrel. Disney can do whatever they want with it.

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Sinistar said:

Ok Zen Pinball 2 just got me to care.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/05/star-wars-pinball-is-real-exclusive-footage-here

the rumours we heard over here from someone after the Disney buyout of Lucasfilm , very true.

The tables are still over the top and cheesie , but now it's StarWars flavored cheese , so Zen 2 wins , Im impressed , I will buy.

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Hinph said:

Figured they would get it after the Disney acquisition news.


But wow... 10 tables? I wonder if they will have to delve into the expanded universe territory to come up with 10 interesting concepts.

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Rafie said:

According to Barbiebobomb (Zen's community manager), some of the tables are going to focus on events that occurred in the series. They got plenty to go with actually. So within the month we'll be getting a Boba Fett table, an Empire Strikes back table, and a Clone Wars (from the Cartoon Network show) table. It looks awesome!

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Pinballfan69 said:

Actually Clone Wars is based on the movie adaption from what I read.

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Rafie said:

What I meant is that the Clone Wars table that Zen used is derived from the Cartoon Network show. Take a look...

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013...d-ps-vita-this-month/comment-page-2/#comments

I don't know how to host pics on here. It always comes out wrong. LOL

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Sinistar said:

So the Clone Wars TV series syndicated pilot is actually called Clone Wars the movie , and was theatrically released , I've seen the table and it fits with that film , which is not the Prequel trilogy , which is where the mixup might be .

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Rafie said:

Ahhh I see...my mistake then! I haven't seen that movie yet. I think it's about time I go on Netflix and check it out. I'll have to ask Zen if they got the original VA's to voice on the tables. That would be awesome!

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