I put an ad in a radio-controlled car magazine. I remember Setrakian showing me this little flyer, and it had the chainsaw mounted onto a tank. Then Marc Thorpe said, "Hey, this is what I want to do," and we leapt on it. We had certain rules we were setting up, explosive bits and little flamethrowers that were going to shoot each other. Peter Abrahamson, high school friend of Setrakian and robot building partner: Monster trucks with weapons. Peter and I had actually planned on doing an event. Mark Setrakian, visual effects artist for Industrial Light & Magic: Marc told me the idea, fishing around to see how much interest there was and if I wanted to be involved. Then, I decided to stage an event: Robot Wars. So when I got turned down in the toy presentation, I decided to take the vacuum cleaner off my radio-controlled tank and put weapons on. Meanwhile, I was pursuing an idea of a radio-controlled vacuum cleaner, something to make vacuuming fun, and it wasn't going anywhere. And Mattel looked at the idea, and their comment was, "Somebody's going to figure out how to do this." And that was that. Marc Thorpe: I presented an idea that would involve vehicles that had weapons. Among the toy designers is 44-year-old Marc Thorpe, who prepares a new product pitch for a meeting with Mattel. Besides ILM and LucasFilms, a newly created LucasToys division is charged with creating toy replicas of your child's favorite on-screen heroes.
The various departments of Lucas' empire are incestuous and without many barriers employees cross from one department to the next as easily as Darth Vader crushes necks with his mind. Meanwhile, the best and brightest engineering minds that money can buy gather at Skywalker Ranch, the creative compound filmmaker George Lucas built with his "Star Wars" money, and the nearby headquarters of Industrial Light & Magic. The Internet has yet to take hold, Jay Leno is the fresh new face of "The Tonight Show," Bill Clinton has just shown off his saxophone bona fides on "Arsenio Hall," and Comedy Central is four years away from the premiere of "The Daily Show" starring Craig Kilborn.
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