Is Star Wars Legends owned by Disney?

Here’s your guide to everything from the old Star Wars Expanded Universe that Lucasfilm has gradually made canon again. When Disney purchased Lucasfilm in 2012, they swiftly realized that they had a difficult choice to make. As a result, Lucasfilm made the decision to render all the EU non-canon, branding it “Legends.”

What happened to Star Wars legends?

On April 25, 2014, Lucasfilm announced that the Expanded Universe was being reorganized under the new non-canon “Star Wars Legends” banner to make way for a new line of continuity, led by principal projects Star Wars Rebels and the Star Wars sequel trilogy, to take shape.

Is Star Wars getting reset?

Disney and Lucasfilm have not publicly said anything about changing the timeline of Star Wars, but it is very unlikely. Despite this, Star Wars “leakers” such as Doomcock and Mike Zeroh seem convinced that the series is going through a change behind the scenes.

Why can’t we have a young Han and Luke Star Wars storyline?

The truth is that what the fans wanted was something fairly shortly after Return of the Jedi —as close as could be plausibly done—and a story that had a young Han, Luke, and Leia simply could not work. For this reason, an incredible amount of EU story lines already had to be scrapped.

Why did Star Wars need a hard reset?

The entire thing was simply too crazy for the Star Wars universe and ruined it forever—a hard reset was almost necessary after the horrible disaster of the New Jedi Order series, which never should have been and whose creators should still be ashamed by the existence of.

Are Rey and Ben from Star Wars secretly brother and sister?

In fact, it is for this reason that many fans really like the idea of Rey and Ben secretly being brother and sister—it would fulfill the fan wish for Han and Leia to have had twins. However, the Solos also had another child, and George Lucas kind of wished they hadn’t.

Why did Disney get rid of the European Union?

The final reason Disney got rid of the EU is because while they did need it gone, it is never really gone if they do need any of it. The EU still has a wealth of existing planets, characters, aliens, organizations, technologies, and all sorts of other things to draw on.