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   On 2017-07-14 15:56:25 +0000, Jack Bohn said:   
   >   
   > There were a few old sf properties made into movies immediately   
   > post-Star Wars and they were "retooled" to be so similar that I wonder   
   > whether the name was bought just to dare Fox to sue a 1930s title as   
   > copying him.  (Buck Rogers, H.G. Well's Things to Come, Lensman.)   
      
   There were a ton of sci-fi movies and TV shows trying to jump on the   
   bandwagon after "Star Wars" was so successful ... including the "Star   
   Trek" movie. Some based on existing sources, some new ideas, but most   
   of them were just rubbish.   
      
   "Battlestar Galactica" and "Buck Rogers" were two of the better   
   cash-ins (if you ignore the second seasons!), with "Battlestar   
   Galactica" often labelled as "Star Wars for TV". George Lucas did try   
   to sue the makers, some of whom had worked on Star Wars, but lost.   
      
      
      
   > I've found five videos on YouTube about the similarities of Star Wars   
   > to Valerian.  Their consensus:   
   > Millennium Falcon is saucer-shaped like a ship in the comic.   
      
      
   One of the original designs of the Millennium Falcon was dropped   
   because it was considered to close to the Eagle spaceships of the UK TV   
   series "Space 1999".   
      
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