Star Wars expanded to other media
Although the "Star Wars" film series itself has never been rebooted, a decision was made, due to works set after the original trilogy that contradict and deviate from Lucas' own view of the "Star Wars" story, to discard the "EU" works from the franchise canon. Lucas decided to cease creative involvement after selling, in October 2012, the "Star Wars" franchise as well as Lucasfilm (the production company of "Star Wars") to The Walt Disney Company. When Disney began development of a sequel trilogy of films and other works, and needed its films to have full creative freedom unbound by the "EU", nearly all "EU" works were removed from "Star Wars" franchise canon and rebranded as "Star Wars Legends". (The two 2008 "EU" works which remained in canon were and its .)
Collectible card game
On June 3 of 1997, Wizards of the Coast announced that it had acquired TSR and its "Dungeons & Dragons" property which also gave them control of Gen Con. Wizards now had its long sought role-playing game, and it quickly discontinued all plans to continue producing Dragon Dice as well as any hopes of resuming production of the "Spellfire" CCG. Decipher was now sanctioning tournaments for their "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" games. "Star Wars" was also enjoying strong success from the recently rereleased "Star Wars" "Special Edition" films. In fact, the CCG would remain the second best selling CCG until the introduction of "Pokémon" in 1999.