A man has failed in his attempt to sue Disney for refusing to let him build a flying car shaped like a Star Wars space ship.

Joseph Alfred, from New Jersey, envisioned an "endless skyway" filled with vehicles capable of vertical take-off and landing which looked like X-wing fighter planes. When Disney agreed to hear his pitch, he told them that he could raise $930,000,000 through fundraising on Kickstarter, if only Disney would licence him the X-Wing design and promote the flying car alongside its upcoming Star Wars films during "its televising of Florida State’s unbeaten Seminole football team".

    Alfred spent years working on his design

However Disney declined Alfred's offer, prompting him to sue. In a novel interpretation of contract law, he claimed that Disney had automatically agreed to his terms by meeting with him. He also accused the company of "stalling the next evolution of human transportation on this planet".

Vice Chancellor Sam Glasscock III, considering the "remarkable" claim in the Delaware court, granted Disney's motion to dismiss. He ruled that "there are simply no allegations in the Complaint from which I can infer that Disney agreed to do anything". However he did praise Alfred's "unique example of the pleader's art", and offered encouragement in his pretty special ruling:

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Comments

Anonymous 23 January 15 16:31

Interesting (if slightly harsh) Birdman review in the link there; however, any chance we can see the actual "pretty special" ruling please?

Anonymous 29 January 15 12:13

This guy had better be careful as history shows that Edison tried a thousand times to invent the incandescent light bulb then stole the correct answer from an Englishman named Swan.