A Kickstarter For Alt-Art Cards Shows Your X-Wing Metal
May 18, 2019 by dracs
Kei Taniguchi, a designer who runs Fully Modded Lighting, has launched a Kickstarter to create new alt-art, etched-metal cards for use in X-Wing.
Kei teamed up with a fellow X-Wing fan, Louis, and together they came up with a series of designs which they put out to some of the different swap and sell groups. Upon discovering there was a market for these alt-art designs, Kei launched this Kickstarter.
The etched-metal cards are double-sided. One side features a generic pilot for the ship, while on the other side you'll find an elite pilot (such as Han up above). All of them come with really cool blueprint designs of the ship in question.
Currently, the plans are for one card for each of the different factions:
- Rebels: T-65 X-Wing. Luke Skywalker / Red Squadron / Veteran.
- Empire: TIE Advanced x1. Darth Vader / Tempest Squadron Pilot.
- Scum: Fang Fighter. Fenn Rau / Zealous Recruit.
- Resistance: T-70 X-Wing. Poe Dameron / Red Squadron Expert.
- First Order: TIE / SF. Quickdraw / Zeta Squadron Survivor.
- Republic: Delta 7 Aethersprite. Anakin Skywalker / Jedi Knight.
- Separatists: Sith Infiltrator. Darth Maul / Dark Courier.
The campaign has already blasted past its £1000 funding goal, meaning that backers will also be receiving a double-sided, generic upgrade card (such as a shield or hull upgrade), as well as a special card Kei has described as "a double sided, metal, shitty Paint alt art card."
To be clear, it won't be this design, but Kei has said it will be something like this; fun, silly, and monochrome.
The cards themselves promise to have some really cool designs. The blueprints of Star Wars are almost as iconic as the ships themselves, and these sort of metal cards make for an eye-catching and different addition to your collection.
You can find out more about them over on the Kickstarter.
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What’s the legality of this? Isn’t there a risk of FF and/or Disney shutting this down?
That’s the first thing that came to my mind @lordofuzkulak
Unless this Kickstarter has an expensive IP deal with FFG and Disney I don’t see how it can be anything but a “pirate” project.
But, as always, maybe I’m missing something. I am by no means a legal expert!
There’s bound to be copyright issues with the design of the icons, but then … there are 3rd party tokens for Xwing already (usually sold as ‘space something’ instead of Xwings).
The tricky bit will be the ship designs and unit details.
The ‘shitty paint alt card’ probably could use ‘parody’ as an excuse although I wonder if that works against the Disney legal team.
I did think about those tokens, but I think the difference is those are all fairly generic symbols so can’t be copyrighted whereas this is blatantly copying Star Wars imagery and the X-wing cards.
I was thinking the same… when the mouse catches wind…. it’s gone.
There is no chance this will ever see the light of day, are the designers stupid or just criminal?
looks good if made.?
Yeah, I would have to agree with the other people here and say this will never happen. Knowing how kickstarter doles out its payments the people who back this will probably never get their product or their money back. Maybe, though – I don’t know enough about copyright laws, but this seems really close to stealing an IP. I wouldn’t mess with Disney.
From the risks and challenges bit:
“Obviously the other risk is Disney and / or Fantasy Flight coming down on me like the fist of an angry god and smashing my little project into the ground. Honestly, if that happens I just shrug and walk away. If it’s been funded then everyone gets their money back. I’ll be honest though, a little project like this, for something that doesn’t actively infringe on any of their existing products is unlikely to draw their ire.”
Yeah…. Nope.
a lawsuit in 3..2..1.