MixMob, a Solana-based gaming model, introduced Thursday that it’s going to add the Stormtrooper character from “Star Wars: A New Hope” as an NFT collectible and playable character for its Racer 1 recreation that mashes up racing and card-based technique. However there’s some attention-grabbing nuance to this license deal.
Whereas the licensed character is certainly the enduring Stormtropper from the unique 1977 smash sci-fi movie, this deal wasn’t brokered with Disney or Lucasfilm, or anybody representing them. As an alternative, the deal is with Shepperton Design Studios and authentic “Star Wars” prop maker Andrew Ainsworth.
Ainsworth designed the acquainted white-armored soldier from the unique movie. A long time later, when he began producing and promoting duplicate helmets primarily based on his personal design, Lucasfilm unleashed its legal professionals and triggered a years-long authorized battle. In the end, when it was all mentioned and executed, Ainsworth secured restricted rights to commercialize the design.
And that’s what you’ll see in MixMob: the “Authentic Stormtrooper” character. This isn’t a Disney deal or a wide-ranging “Star Wars” license play—however it’s certainly the official Stormtrooper design from the prop maker who initially introduced it to life.
A MixMob consultant confirmed to Decrypt’s GG that the sport studio can’t use Star Wars branding and that the deal, on this case, is restricted to the armor design from “A New Hope.”
Even so, it’s a memorable piece of a serious popular culture franchise coming into an NFT recreation that goals to ship a style of “remix tradition,” and the studio says that it plans to carry different licensed characters and content material into MixMob as a cell model of the sport is about to debut in Q2 2024. MixMob goals to announce three extra license integrations this yr.
Sale particulars for the Stormtrooper NFTs haven’t but been revealed. In accordance with the workforce, homeowners of MixMob’s Gen0 Masks and Gen0 MixBots NFTs might be given “precedence entry” to the mint.
MixMob’s Solana-based governance token, MXM, is up almost 15% on the day to a value of above $0.10 per knowledge from CoinGecko. The token, which debuted on February 1 with an airdrop to reward early gamers and NFT homeowners, set an all-time excessive value of $0.1136 final week.
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.
