Plausibility Check: Lucasfilm sold to Disney in the 1990s

What would be a good POD for Michael Eisner to have offered to buy Lucasfilm from George Lucas around the Late 80's-Early 90's while the Star Wars franchise and fandom were mostly dormant?
 
What would be a good POD for Michael Eisner to have offered to buy Lucasfilm from George Lucas around the Late 80's-Early 90's while the Star Wars franchise and fandom were mostly dormant?

Timoty Zahn´s books are made into movies ? Kyp Durron triology ? Grand Admiral Thrawn, Admiral Daala .
 
Star Wars kids show goes gangbusters, Lucas means it and acts on it when he says Stars Wars is for tiny tots.

Note Disney and children programming post Capital Cities/ABC purchase....
 
Very low

Lucas seemed pretty determined to tell his Young Indiana Jones stories and then we he got into deciding on the PT there was no stopping him.. so unless the deal included him still having full control on those properties...
 
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