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

[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...to-the-slave-1

[Sumac]

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

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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."

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

[ssjup81]

Originally Posted by neatoman

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. 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]

Originally Posted by frank_one

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

Wearing an all black outfit.