Disney Removes ‘Slave I’ as the Name of Boba Fett’s Ship, and a Boba Fett Actor Had Thoughts
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Star Wars fans are reacting to news that Disney will no longer use the name “Slave 1” to refer to Boba Fett’s ship. That includes the actor who played Fett in the Star Wars Special Edition.
The controversy started after someone noticed that an upcoming Star Wars LEGO set was listed as “Boba Fett’s Starship,” with no mention of the name “Slave I.”
Fett’s ship has been called “Slave 1” ever since the release of The Empire Strikes Back. Although it was never said on-screen, the name was used on toys, comics, trading cards, and other merchandising at the time. Today, most dedicated fans could identify the ship as the Slave I just as easily as they could the Millennium Falcon.
However, with Disney now in control of Star Wars, the galaxy George Lucas created has taken a much more politically correct, “woke” worldview. And it seems “Slave I” is a casualty of that overly-sensitive thinking.
As fans debated online whether the removal of “Slave I” from the LEGO set was intentional, Jedi News found a quote from a month-old interview confirming it.
They report that during a LEGO Fan Media Days event last month, LEGO Star Wars Design Director Jens Kronvold Frederiksen revealed that Disney specifically told them to rename the set “Boba Fett’s Starship.” “It’s probably not something which has been announced publicly,” he said. “But it is just something that Disney doesn’t want to use anymore.”
Fans, as you might expect, ridiculed the change.
Several years back, Hasbro renamed the “Princess Leia in Slave Outfit” action figure to “Princess Leia as Jabba’s Prisoner.” Fans still mocked the idea, however.
Even Mark Austin, who played Boba Fett in scenes for the Special Edition of A New Hope, chimed in on his Twitter account. He seemed to find the change worthy of mockery. He also suggested not purchasing products that change the name.
He also posted Slave I appreciation tweets.
We even had to post this.
Neither LEGO nor Disney has commented on the controversy.
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