Re: Disney buys Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 due in 2015 & more after...
There's no way in hell they could have kept the old Expanded Universe.
How could they possibly have done a new sequel trilogy when there had already been a buttload of books set in the days, weeks, months, years, and decades following on from ROTJ - books that the majority of people will have never read or even heard of.
Wiping the slate clean was the only solution.
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