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 Todd left Axanar in September 2015,(([[http://www.prlog.org/12489801-tony-todd-exits-star-trek-axanar.html|PRLog press release, "Tony Todd Exits Star Trek Axanar"]], 9/1/15.)) though his departure from the project was not publicly acknowledged by Axanar producer Alec Peters for several months, even though Todd’s photo remained a prominent part of Axanar’s ongoing Indiegogo campaign. Todd left Axanar in September 2015,(([[http://www.prlog.org/12489801-tony-todd-exits-star-trek-axanar.html|PRLog press release, "Tony Todd Exits Star Trek Axanar"]], 9/1/15.)) though his departure from the project was not publicly acknowledged by Axanar producer Alec Peters for several months, even though Todd’s photo remained a prominent part of Axanar’s ongoing Indiegogo campaign.
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 +<wrap lo>//See also: [[tony_todd|Why Tony Todd left Axanar and why it took so long for fans to find out]]//</wrap>
  
 Indeed, despite Todd's two-year-old [[tony_todd|disavowal]] of the long-delayed project and Peters himself, the actor's image continued to appear prominently on Axanar Productions' homepage throughout the lawsuit and even until September 2017. Indeed, despite Todd's two-year-old [[tony_todd|disavowal]] of the long-delayed project and Peters himself, the actor's image continued to appear prominently on Axanar Productions' homepage throughout the lawsuit and even until September 2017.
  
 [{{::todd-prelude-actors.jpg|**DISAVOWAL** Star Trek actor Tony Todd (second from right) still appeared on Axanar's homepage when this screenshot was taken on September 2, 2017, despite his condemnation of the project and its producer, Alec Peters.}}] [{{::todd-prelude-actors.jpg|**DISAVOWAL** Star Trek actor Tony Todd (second from right) still appeared on Axanar's homepage when this screenshot was taken on September 2, 2017, despite his condemnation of the project and its producer, Alec Peters.}}]
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 [{{ ::peters-dragoncon-todd.jpg?direct&400|**UNTROUBLED** by the continued use of actor Tony Todd's image in a banner that could only have been created by Axanar and provided to the fan group, Axanar producer Alec Peters poses at the fan table with his girlfriend, Crysstal Hubbard.}}] [{{ ::peters-dragoncon-todd.jpg?direct&400|**UNTROUBLED** by the continued use of actor Tony Todd's image in a banner that could only have been created by Axanar and provided to the fan group, Axanar producer Alec Peters poses at the fan table with his girlfriend, Crysstal Hubbard.}}]
  
-  * **Merchandise** on display and for sale, all of which came from Axanar's Donor Store. While Peters had announced the formation of independent Axanar fan groups around the country, he never disclosed that he had given them his remaining stock of merchandise. That stock had been manufactured using donors' money that was supposed to have gone toward making the film.+  * **Merchandise** on display and for sale, all of which came from Axanar'[[merchandise|Donor Store]]. While Peters had announced the formation of independent Axanar fan groups around the country, he never disclosed that he had given them his remaining stock of merchandise. That stock had been manufactured using donors' money that was supposed to have gone toward making the film.
   * **Banner** Professionally printed, displaying the Axanar logo, not the logo of an "independent" organization.   * **Banner** Professionally printed, displaying the Axanar logo, not the logo of an "independent" organization.
   * **Earnings** Apart from a portion of proceeds from sales of one of the patches supposedly destined for "animal charities," the allegedly independent fan group did not disclose what it would be doing with the money it was making from sales of merchandise that could only have been supplied by Axanar itself. Even the purported charitable effort broke Dragon*Con's own rules governing fan tables (see [[#no sales for charity]]).   * **Earnings** Apart from a portion of proceeds from sales of one of the patches supposedly destined for "animal charities," the allegedly independent fan group did not disclose what it would be doing with the money it was making from sales of merchandise that could only have been supplied by Axanar itself. Even the purported charitable effort broke Dragon*Con's own rules governing fan tables (see [[#no sales for charity]]).