We only have ourselves to blame for getting our hopes up regarding announcements, pics and “coming soon.” Especially where a 3rd party company is concerned. I honestly think Mars is trying to put out the best quality product they can and I don’t mind the wait. I’m sure they’d release and sell...
There would never be litigation. Every contract I’ve ever seen from Lucasfilm states something about them being able to use the image/product for whatever they want, as much as they want without further compensation.
I’ve worked on a couple of Lucasfilm licensed products and was told not to use any kind of fan art. And that was just for character design. Straight up grabbing an image was definitely off the table. I think this is something the HT graphic artist did and it wasn’t caught by licensing. Why would...