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

[CyberCubed]

https://www.jedinews.com/collecting/...mpression=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]

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

[DarkFell]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Bobba's Jefferson Starship

They dropped Boba's name after he got himself sarlacc'd.

Please, keep making comments Zarius.

[Leo656]

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

[frank_one]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

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/...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]

Originally Posted by Last Ronin

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

Spoiler:

[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.