As a black dude who had this who literally had this set as a kid, it didn't really bother me. Kids are smart enough to understand these things. It's adults that see the word "slave" and go crazy
Disney asks LEGO to rename Slave 1 to Boba Fett's Starship
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I have the older but better and bigger Ultimate Collector Series version of this with its proper name.
Yup. They're currently toning down Fennec Shand as well.
Ha! Same thing I thought of. The fact that it's actually BDW makes it even better. I know people will complain but it's probably for the better.
Yeah I think most kids can handle it fine. I think it's more so Disney doesn't want to have the only toy in the isle associated with slaves, even if it's only in name.
I think it's okay for bad guys to have "bad" names for their ships. We should be able to recognize that the bad guys don't espouse the values of a series. It feels like something only adults would stress about and saying you're doing it for the kids is bullshit imo. Kids know who's bad and who's good and that hurting people is bad and so is slavery. It's adults that have fucked it all up and can't figure out basic morality.
Han's journey is from being a self-interested smuggler to a hero so that makes sense. He wasn't really a hero until the end of Star Wars when he came back to save Luke. Prior to that he had left with the money lol. And the whole bounty hunter thing began with them hunting our heroes and heavily linked to the Empire. They even imply some sort of history between Darth Vader and Boba Fett so that's why they are considered bad guys. At the very least they kill or kidnap people for money so they are not straight up good guys.
Yeah it was like a Firespray class attack craft or something for patrolling prison worlds that Jango Fett acquired and heavily modified. I don't think it was ever named Slave I in the movie.
Han's journey is from being a self-interested smuggler to a hero so that makes sense. He wasn't really a hero until the end of Star Wars when he came back to save Luke. Prior to that he had left with the money lol. And the whole bounty hunter thing began with them hunting our heroes and heavily linked to the Empire. They even imply some sort of history between Darth Vader and Boba Fett so that's why they are considered bad guys. At the very least they kill or kidnap people for money so they are not straight up good guys.
Yeah it was like a Firespray class attack craft or something for patrolling prison worlds that Jango Fett acquired and heavily modified. I don't think it was ever named Slave I in the movie.
seems an odd request. Considering the entire skywalker saga is based on Anakin being a slave, his mum being a slave, then in the OT Leia is a slave, and in Last Jedi there are a whole stable full of slave children. Slavery all over the shop. Why be coy about it now? Unless they're trying to rehabilitate Boba Fett into an anti-hero but seems a bit late for that now
Oh I wasn't really making a comment on what you posted specifically, just a quirk of star wars that bothers me.
And yet in that Old Republic MMO IIRC smuggler is a light side class while bounty hunter is a dark side one. Which makes no sense to me, I'm talking about the role specifically I suppose more than the two characters.
I'm just waiting to find out that Phantom Menace was actually edited to add a short scene where Watto pays Anakin and his mom for their work
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They're still debating whether to get rid of the filibuster in the Galactic Senate.
Millennial Falcon ==> All Ages Falcon
Death Star ==> Big Not Star
Ghost ==> A Ship
Executor ==> Really Big Ship
Death Star ==> Big Not Star
Ghost ==> A Ship
Executor ==> Really Big Ship
I just thought it was some random sci-fi codename moniker like Millenium Falcon that didn't really mean anything other than being kinda ominous sounding. I'm not really affected by it though so can't comment much further other than the new naming is pretty lazy lol
I'm quite certain that Disney is just worried that product being named "Slave 1" could negatively affect it's sales, especially since people who pay for LEGO playsets tend to be parents. They're just worried about making less money.
I was just about to say, I don't think I ever remember it being called that in the movies.
Where does it come from anyway?
I tried to google that but I can only find in universe "answers".
I think it's a terrible name and I'm not sure we have to stick with it just because some hack writer put in some book.
If I remember correctly, the slave Leia outfit is named the Huttslayer Leia outfit, and that's likely what any Lego Leia figures in that outfit would be called as well, but I don't think there have been any semi recently.
I thought the original story was that Jango was a slave and when he won his freedom his also stole or won the ship, hence the ship's name. It's not "Slave 1" but "Slave Won" as he, a former slave, won his freedom and became something.
There haven't been any for a while, but they must still be allowed because one of the choices in Hasbro's 2020 fan vote for 1/12 scale Star Wars figures was Leia (Huttslayer). The previous release was called (Slave Outfit).
How dumb. Why not SLV-1 or something similar? It looks Starwarsy, its an actual name, and it gets rid of the problem.
Because that's how Lego has been naming other smaller ships that have a name in canon over the past year or so
This seems like bait for reactionary manbaby YouTube channels.
I'll be honest I don't really give a shit either way, it's fine.
I'll be honest I don't really give a shit either way, it's fine.
Feels like something they've been building up to anyway between Clone Wars and Mandalorian. Like if it happened in a comic book or novelization then it doesn't count kind of thing.
It's still Slave 1 on StarWars.com
Slave I
A powerful pursuit craft made famous by Jango Fett in the days of the Republic, this ship was inherited by Boba Fett for his career as a bounty hunter. The aged but effective ship is loaded with hidden defensive and offensive weaponry and equipment, and has a reputation earned from decades of...
www.starwars.com
More than likely the name is not going anywhere in universe.
Wasn't there something about him preparing for an alien invasion in the EU? :D
"Boba Fett's Starship" is not the name of the ship. It's the name of the Lego set.
I'm assuming this is being blown of proportion and they're not actually changing the name of the ship, but if they are then that would be incredibly dumb.
West End Games Star Wars table top role playing game sourcebook circa 1987. It's where a lot of early Star Wars details come from like ship model names, manufacturing companies, alien race names and planet names and a ton of other stuff come from, it was the earliest official Star Wars Bible. Note it was not given a model name at that time.
It's a cool little time capsule considering it predates the expanded universe books as well
Perhaps intentional so people buy all stock of Slave I and when that sells out they can raise price of BF Starship