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Wonder Why The Star Wars Prequels Seemed Like Toy Advertisements? Follow The Money

Date: Jun 6, 2012 | Author: Josh Tyler | Category: Sci-Fi

Those Star Wars movies have made a lot of money. This is, of course, not a surprise. What might surprise you is how they made their money. Sure they all did big business a the box office, but did you know that the money made by the films is only a tiny fraction of George Lucas’s total Star Wars wealth.

Star Wars makes money selling toys. Here’s the Star Wars revenue streams broken down into a handy, Millenium Falcon pie chart.

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The above infographic comes from Wired where you can see a larger version.

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Comments

  • Ilusive Man Jr.

    I used to beg my parents for Star Wars toys growing up. Makes sense that they’d make most of their money from toys.

  • bibleverse1

    1.3 billion bucks is alot for something called “other”.

  • Richard

    That’s why the only two truly GOOD Star Wars movies were the first two to be made (Eps 4 and 5). When it came time to make Ep 6, Lucas began to realize where his REAL money was coming from and created the Ewoks, probably in the hopes of making a line of teddy bears for little kids to enjoy. If you notice, outside of the major ship classes (Star Destroyers, TIE fighters, Imperial shuttles, and X-Wings), no two movies feature the same ships, and most introduce a new ship or ships you haven’t seen before. From after Ep 5 on, nearly everything you see in the SW movies was aimed at creating toys/games that could be sold on the side…..or is that toys/games to be sold by a movie made on the side?
    P.S.: That’s probably also why Lucas’ skills as a director got thrown in the garbage (hey, THX-1138, American Graffiti, and A New Hope were all really great movies, so we know he at least USED to have some directing talent), the later movies became special effects extravaganzas, and Harrison Ford to this day refuses to have anything to do with celebrating the Star Wars phenomenon.