A Long Time Ago...

 C'mon, sing along! You know the rest!

So...every year at this time, our little community has a parade & fair that celebrates life here in northern Nevada, called Carson Valley Days. I've posted pictures from the parades in years gone by. I love it, it's always pretty much homemade, hokey fun and VERY small-town. One way they raise money is to sell buttons--the idea being, that if you attend the fair WITHOUT a button, the roaming posse grabs you and you get tossed in fair jail for 15 minutes, on display so everyone can point & laugh. When you get out you have to cough up a buck for one of the buttons. It's all in good fun.

Every year the fair has a different theme, usually relating somehow to how great it is to live here (trying to distract everyone from the single-digit humidity, demonistic three-day windstorms and months of dry, freezing temps). The buttons are designed around that year's theme and carry the slogan.

This year's slogan is supposed to be, 'In A Valley Far, Far Away'.

Today we bought our buttons, and OH. MY. GOD.

I actually sucked in a breath and got lightheaded when I saw the sheer amount of copyright infringement going on here. It is literally a hat trick of infringement, a perfect trifecta: Disney, Lucas/Spielberg AND the Hildebrandt brothers, who created this artwork for the original poster (I'm a big fan of their work, and proudly own an original Star Wars poster with this artwork from 1977). And y'all know how keenly Disney pursues copyright infringement of ANY kind, right?

I'm sure someone thought, 'Meh, no one will care.' Oh, no. They care. This has 'Disaster' written all over it, in expensive ink flowing from the gold-plated pens of pricey lawyers.

I can't wait to see what happens.