Disney forces Lego to rename Boba Fett's ship from "Slave 1" to "Boba's starship"

[CyberCubed]

https://www.jedinews.com/collecting/articles/disney-asks-for-slave-i-rename-to-boba-fetts-starship/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

The name Slave I is no more, long live Boba Fett’s Starship! With the release of Boba Fett’s iconic ship in its latest LEGO incarnation, you will notice that the name Slave I has been dropped in favor of Boba Fett’s Starship, as directed by Disney.

During LEGO Fan Media Days last month, CapnRex101 from Brickset.com and me asked the LEGO Star Wars team, Jens Kronvold Frederiksen (LEGO Star Wars Design Director) and Michael Lee Stockwell (LEGO Star Wars Lead Designer), about the name change as they showed us the set for the first time, and this is what they told us

Jens: then, the next one, also from the mandalorian, is boba fett’s starship.

Michael: yes, i built another. we’re not calling it slave i any more. this is boba fett’s starship.

James: ok, why are we dropping the slave i name?

Jens: everybody is. it’s probably not something which has been announced publicly but it is just something that disney doesn’t want to use any more.

The new 478 piece LEGO Star Wars Boba Fett’s Starship (#75312) is available from August 1st, priced at £34.99, $39.99, €39.99 with minifigures of Boba Fett and The Mandalorian.

Apparently "slave" is not a proper word anymore...even though the Star Wars universe has slaves in it...even Anakin Skywalker and his mother started off as slaves!

But you can't say "slave" anymore, even though that was Boba Fett's ship name for over 30 years.

[ZariusTwo]

Bobba's Jefferson Starship

[oldmanwinters]

http://i.imgur.com/sfmkSdg.jpg (https://imgur.com/sfmkSdg)

Don't even get me started on the "Slave Leia" ban.

[DarkFell]

Bobba's Jefferson Starship
https://media0.giphy.com/media/l2Je2TvlpshpTuoRG/giphy.webp?cid=82a1493be5zty0t1m12e16er533vktvyxtv 3zbp3l3gc60mf&rid=giphy.webp&ct=g
They dropped Boba's name after he got himself sarlacc'd.

Please, keep making comments Zarius. :tgrin:

[Leo656]

In case I haven't mentioned it lately, I f*cking hate Disney.

[frank_one]

even Anakin Skywalker and his mother started off as slaves!"The reality you remember has never existed. You are supposed to remember and accept only our current version of the reality. Please forget."

[neatoman]

On the topic of Boba Fett, how did this character even get popular in the first place?

All he did in the original trilogy was delivering Han to Jabba and then he fell into a pit, he's barely even a character in those movies and I'm pretty sure his name is only said by Han right before the pit incident.

[Allio]

Simply because he was popular with his suit.

[Andrew NDB]

So "slave circuited" can't even be a thing? How dumb.

[Last Ronin]

Ugh..... PC culture is stupid and getting ridiculous

[Andrew NDB]

According to Yahoo, beyond a small pocket of fans, everyone is "taking it in stride."

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/boba-fett-starship-slave-1-name-change-star-wars-culture-wars-220445980.html

The media really love pushing "the movement," don't they?

[AquaParade]

Just ignore them. Call it the Slave l. So they won’t put it on the toy box. Big deal. Disney doesn’t get to decide. The fan base is too big.

[Sumac]

This is such dumb pandering that I don't know who or why could come to this decision.

If this is a corporate twist, than they are very dumb and off the mark, to the point they basically illustrate why pandering is dumb and done for empty virtue signaling.

If this decision was made by a "true believer", this person is doubly retarded, because, no-one would be "oppressed" or "offended" by name of a spaceship of a murderous mercenary.

Next step would be to pretend that slavery doesn't exist in a Star Wars universe or that all slaves are Black and Asian, to score wokey points?

It wouldn't mesh with a prequel trilogy, but they always can pretend that Anakin's family had "White privilege" in a Star Wars universe and was treated better due to their skin color. And only blacks were suffering under slavery in a "galaxy, far far away"...

[CyberCubed]

It also makes no sense because the Star Wars universe is all about villainy and disorder and has slaves:

- Anakin and his mother started off as slaves on Tattooine
- Jabba's palace has many slaves working for him
- Boba takes Han when he's frozen (essentially a slave trapped in carbonite) and gives him to Jabba.

The whole point of Boba Fett is he's a bounty hunter, who either captures targets, hunts them down to kill them, transports slaves, or steals cargo/equipment. It's not like Boba is supposed to be a "nice guy."

At first I thought this was just for Lego's since it's aimed at kids, but no, this is going to be for everything going forward.

[Andrew NDB]

This is the same kind of thinking that wants to ban movies (or anything, really) from having fictional rapists rape. They honestly think that by having bad guys do bad things like that in a movie or a book or a comic is the same thing as condoning or endorsing or proliferating such behavior (doesn't matter if this happens everyday in the real world). This is an insanity.

Bad guys do bad things. Even... horrible things. It's kind of their thing and in the name. Also, water is wet.

[mrmaczaps]

Ugh..... PC culture is stupid and getting ridiculous

Getting??? Its been ridiculous since day one. Don't like something, ignore it and move on with life.

[sdp]

It's only being renamed for the toy, it's still the Slave I. Just how Bikini Leia was deemed inappropriate so she was called "slave leia" now she's "huttslayer leia", different times different type of censorship, but it's always existed. Disney just wants to protect their name, and yeah it sucks but I mean as long as bikini leia keeps getting released they can call her "independent warrior won't take BS from anyone Leia" for all I care.

I do think they might just avoid calling the Slave I by name at least for a while but then agian, how many times was the Slave I actually called by name? It won't matter too much, and just like slave leia was banned for a few years, she eventually came back. It's all cycles.

I do hate those holier than thou articles that the "press" writes, it's just bad journalism and does take away respect to any journalistic entries. But it's been that way for years now since gamergate and really the best way to deal with it is to ignore it, getting outraged by it is what's caused this type of crappy journalism to continue. the more people have ignored it in recent years because of oversaturation the less i've seen it. It's still rather prominent but not as bad as it was a few years ago.

Everything goes in cycles and no reason to get outraged to that degree, just like when we were outraged that they censored X videogame because it had too much sexual content in the 90s or religious references, people would point it out but not make it the endless discussion of every thread in forums. I don't blame this as much on PC pressure and it's more of Disney trying to make everything more kid friendly, it's the same with the MCU, take a look at Iron Man 1, that would have never come out that way under Disney. They have an image to protect.

Now let's wash our palette with a sexy slave leia pic and forget about all this and move on to the next thread
https://i.imgur.com/WhSTBL0.jpeg

[Andrew NDB]

Kind of seems like you're ignoring the OP. And what the insider said. "Disney doesn't want to use anymore" is pretty clear.

[sdp]

I read it, how is it different than when licensee's were told they could no longer use Slave Leia in anything shortly after Disney bought star wars? They were afraid of having a scantily clad character under the Disney/Star Wars branding despite being an iconic costume. They see people complaining about the term slave so they decided to remove any references themselves. There was literally nobody #renametheslave1 hashtags and there never would've been.

Of course now that it's happened you'll see clickbait writers say how it was the right move and if you think otherwise you're racist and you'll also see other clickbait writers say how PC culture is ruining everything. It's the same thing every time.

I'm not saying it's not dumb, but it also isn't a big deal if the ship continue's to be released and it's not being retconned into not being the Slave I, they're just avoiding the name for the next couple of years. Did it suck when Disney and other companies censored other things in the 90s? Yes but there wasn't much we could do about it, no one was making endless rants of those crazy Christians and soccermums ruining it for everyone. I'm frankly more bitter about the sequel trilogy sucking than this personally. Now that's worth raging about.

[Andrew NDB]

You really can't do any "give" with these people. Because it never comes back. It's only take and take and take. This is what always happens. They literally want to rewrite history with a specific lens.

Unless you can name some examples of the other side "giving back" certain things after a time? And examples of "after great blowback from, like, everybody" doesn't count. For obvious reasons. Ones that defeat your point.

[sdp]

I think you are misunderstanding me, I said slave leia eventually came back, I don't think sex scenes or some of the more adult humor of Iron Man 1 are coming back. I'm sure they'll just avoid referring to Boba's ship but they won't be renaming it and after a while they'll bring back the name "slave 1".

And yes, things have already been changing, it's not as bad as it was a couple of years ago. You see less people getting as polarized, in many places online I frequent that had very strict opinions about certain things are being more 'diverse', more people call out PC BS moves, and also less people are complaining about every move and claiming it is PC. For a while people couldn't add a black or gay character without people claiming it was PC, even if it wasn't. So yeah, i am seeing a change in people stop being so polarized, not everything white is racist and not everything not-white is PC.

Things will continue as it is but people are already growing tired and it'll continue to change. Just think of how censored violence and sex was in the early 90s and how over time it started to become more relaxed. All of the 2000's there was little censorship over that, and things just became more scandalous before the PC wave started in the 2010's. I think we already reached the peak, but even if not, this isn't going to stay here forever, things change.

And only if you really think adding a black lead is white genocide in that case then yeah, things won't be coming back ever for you. But the days of arbitrarily making any character gay just to be cool will also be gone. My days of being outraged are over, if I don't like something I move on.

[TigerClaw]

Some fans launched a petition to force Disney to change the name back to Slave 1.
https://www.change.org/p/walt-disney-change-the-slave-1-s-name-back-to-the-slave-1

[Sumac]

Watch them being painted as Nazis who want to enslave blacks.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

On the topic of Boba Fett, how did this character even get popular in the first place?

All he did in the original trilogy was delivering Han to Jabba and then he fell into a pit, he's barely even a character in those movies and I'm pretty sure his name is only said by Han right before the pit incident.

Because it caught the imagination of the fans, just knowing there were bounty hunters out there in the Star Wars Galaxy. It developed the story beyond the conflict between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance.

[CyberCubed]

Slavery never happened!

[raph27]

To be fair, this could be a marketing move as well. I'm sure the ship will get a lot more of a spotlight in the Book of Boba Fett show, and it's a lot easier for parents to remember that their kid wants "Boba Fett's ship" than "Slave 1."

This happens all the time with the Star Wars Lego sets. Grievous's ship is named "General Grievous's Starfighter" and not "Soulless One", the Jedi ships are named "*character name's* Jedi Starfighter" and not "Delta-7 Aethersprite", and so on. It makes it easier to sell toys, which has kind of been the whole point of the franchise since ESB.

Not saying that the real-world connotations of "slave" had nothing to do with it, as I'm sure that was a factor, but I think people are getting riled up too early before we really know the full extent of the situation. This could just be a thing for the toys now that the merchandising for Book of Boba Fett is getting into full swing.

It's barely even called by its own name in the films themselves. It's not like everyone won't keep calling it the Slave 1. Until I see something like an officially licensed book (like one of those encyclopedias) where the name is explicitly dropped, I'm not going to sound alarm bells.

[AquaParade]

At this point, I'd think most Star Wars have would have decided whether they are on board with whatever this Disney version of Star Wars is.
After TLJ, after ROS, after Gina, after all the outrage, which seems to only come from one direction, for the most part, I'm surprised they still have it in them to fight this ****.

Then again, why not? Maybe they are still enjoying small morsels, while just complaining about the larger parts of the franchise. I'm here enjoying bits and pieces of TMNT, while eye-rolling at the larger productions, myself. Though TMNT hasn't caused quite the headache that maybe Star Wars has. It's hard to say.

[frank_one]

Let's hope Disney doesn't find out Vader is voiced by a black dude.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

To be fair, this could be a marketing move as well. I'm sure the ship will get a lot more of a spotlight in the Book of Boba Fett show, and it's a lot easier for parents to remember that their kid wants "Boba Fett's ship" than "Slave 1."

Makes sense, since most of the Turtles' vehicles have always been named something with "Turtle" ("Turtle Van", "Turtle Blimp", "Turtle Tunneler").

[ssjup81]

On the topic of Boba Fett, how did this character even get popular in the first place?From the horribly animated segments of the special based around a holiday that cannot be named which doesn't exist in the minds of many, including George Lucas.:-P Joking aside, I think that's how he gained popularity along with toys that probably came out for him at the time. You know, on the Disney + app, you can actually watch those animated segments of the special, I believe. Came across it with a friend when looking at Loki last week. Also had the Ewoks cartoon that was part of the Droids/Ewok hour back in the day. I used to watch that.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

He gained popularity in part from his figure during the original trilogy's run, and also from stories in books like Tales of the Bounty Hunters, Tales from Jabba's Palace, and the Han Solo trilogy and Lando books.

[The Deadman]

Let's hope Disney doesn't find out Vader is voiced by a black dude.

Wearing an all black outfit.