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George Lucas sells Lucasfilm to Disney for $4.05 billion

I am pretty much okay with it. Disney, for all of its faults and foibles as a company, has a pretty decent track record (hey, Jobs owned a good chunk). I am especially interested in seeing what plans Disney has for ILM and Skywalker Sound, two exceptionally innovative subsidiaries that Lucas did manage to ruin.
Time will tell...

Could Jar Jar be a new addition to Disney's Playhouse?

It will be nice to see what can happen with the SW universe when George isn't playing God.

...As long as Disneyland and Disney World do not make a ride called "It's a Small Universe After All !"

It certainly can't be any worse than those prequels with Disney at the helm. It could breathe new life into what is now dead to me. If not, then I'm no worse off than I was
before.

the C&D letters to all the SW fanfic sites now that the Mouse is in the house.

My first reaction was that the new Star Wars movies would be like a typical Disney film aimed at very young children and almost intolerable for adults. Further reading showed that Disney gave Pixar a lot of independance and would probably do the same for Lucas Arts.

-Goofy takes on Jar Jar Binks!
-Ewoks cuddle up with Minnie Mouse!
-Donald Duck meets C3PO - "Finally, somebody understands what I'm saying"
-And the inevitable line "Use the Force, Mickey!"

So, LucasFilm has some major missteps in their past. The most recent 3 movies were fair at best, and (the Phantom Menace particularly) plain bad at worst. Speaking as a mild SW fan since I was a little kid, I don't see how Disney can screw up the franchise any more than LucasFilm has already. However, the shrinking number of production companies worries me.

The only disappointment so far is that the sequel trilogy won't use content from the expanded universe, as that would've been awesome. A strange decision, if you ask me, but I'm trusting Disney on this one. As a previous comment states, they can't do any worse than the prequels.

For those worried that Disney will make childish movies, I'd remind you that they also own Marvel (see Avengers). They also released Alice in Wonderland in 2010 (there's a scene in that movie where there's a river of blood and floating heads). Finally, Disney has a very good track record regarding their films and most of them (even the ones aimed at kids) are quite good (see the Toy Story trilogy, The Lion King, Atlantis, Tron, etc).

... in 2010 (there's a scene in that movie where there's a river of blood and floating heads)."

You say that as if you think it's a good thing.

Lol. I don't mean that movies should be violent for the sake of violence. But Star Wars would be very boring if the jedi simply went around talking to the sith and hugging them. Someone in the previous comments had expressed worry that this would happen with Disney at the head. Hence, the (rather graphic) evidence that Disney can be mature.

DIS just dropped $4+ Billion to get the rights to the two franchises. Probably a package deal from Lucas, while Disney wanted the tech expertise of ILM & SS. Now they need to put those two to use and generate some ROI before they can afford to start picking up some (potentially greed-inflated) pricey properties from the expanded universe. Additionally, Lucas might have been feeling a bit testy about the possibility of them using "unauthorized" material from other writers and had a clause written in prohibiting it, at least for a while.

I did not consider that. Good point.

The expanded universe is too big to use in a movie format. For those of us that have not read all 1000 (exaggeration, but barely) books, it would be hard to follow all the extra details that have been filled in.

when taxes are raised next year, http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2012/10/disney-lucas-fiscal-cliff-taxes-medicare.html