Re: Star Wars Figures

> From: 	 "Tom Sullivan" <starkfist@hotmail.com>
> Reply-to:	 FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> To:		 FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	 Re: Star Wars Figures
> Date: 	 Tue, 07 Jul 1998 11:46:29 PDT

The rumor mill at Origins '98 had the same info.  I have not called 
Scott at WEG to confirm, but I wouldn't be surprised.  They did not 
have their usual marketing people at Gama, and I have not heard from 
some of the people there in some time.

KR, Geo-Hex 
> >
> >On Tue, 07 Jul 1998 10:45:54 PDT, "Tom Sullivan" writes:
> >>	 Just FYI: West End Games has gone belly-up, and has ceased to 
> >>exist. 
> >
> >What are your sources on this?  The Star Wars RPG is one of the best
> >selling RPG's on the market, after the WOD and TSR stuff.  Can you
> >quote a press release or anything?
> >
> >-=- Matthew L. Seidl 		email: seidl@cs.colorado.edu 
> 
>      My source is SJ Games "Daily Illuminator" page, which noted that 
> WEG had fired all of it's employees, ceased all operations, and was 
> about to file for chapter 11.  Further details came from an article in

> their Pyramid magazine.  It's also been verified from a variety of 
> sources on Usenet.  Apparently, the future is bleak for the RPG,
seeing 
> as how it cost Lucasfilms more to handle the paperwork involved than 
> they were recieving in profits for it.  Life is sometimes less than 
> fair....
> 
> Tom Sullivan
> "You rebel scum!"
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