Would You Like To Curate 17,000 Star Wars Characters?

“Lucas had already done the cataloging. His company maintained a database called the Holocron, named after a crystal cube powered by the Force. The real-world Holocron lists 17,000 characters in the Star Wars universe inhabiting several thousand planets over a span of more than 20,000 years. It was quite a bit for Disney to process. So Lucas also provided the company with a guide, Pablo Hidalgo. A founding member of the Star Wars Fan Boy Association, Hidalgo is now a ‘brand communication manager’ at Lucasfilm. ‘The Holocron can be a little overwhelming,’ says Hidalgo, who obsesses over canonical matters such as the correct spelling of Wookiee and the definitive list of individuals who met with Yoda while he was hiding in the swamps of Dagobah.”
 — Whether this sounds like the best or worst job in the world says a lot about the particular way you wasted your youth. Much more about the Disney-Lucasfilm deal is revealed in this Bloomberg Businessweek piece.

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