I'm pretty sure it never was... Like I said before, life doesn't work like a free hand-outs.

Yeah probably not as easy as it used to be.

I've seen a lot of people selling their fan merchandise (and most of the time it looked way better then official stuff). You can sell it directly to other fans by contacting them via fan sites or Deviantart, but I don't think there's any way to get any official license. Companies don't give licenses that easily.

A lawyer and a lot of money, and in the end you might STILL not end up with what you were after.

My dad said that you also have to have a lawyer.

Plus the license may be really expensive, like when you buy a permission to use a song into a video

TLKG, life isn't that simple. You can't just go in and ask for a licence and expect them to hand it to you. That would be like going in somewhere and asking for a job and having them be like "okay"! Life doesn't work like free hand-outs. The adult world is full of paper signing, interviews, training, and all that other good stuff.

ok. wow. i thought you could make a prototype and go up to universal and ask for a license.

For what you're talking about, no, it's not possible. The only way for an item of merchandise to be "approved", is for the manufacturer to make it themselves through a license with the film's production company. Anything other than that is fan-made, which COULD be sold but ONLY if you make it absolutely clear it is NOT official merchandise. Plus, those tend to sell for far less than official merchandise does.