Disney Drops Slave 1 Name in Favor Of 'Boba Fett's Starship'

[alaskanseminole]

Does this mean my 1980 Slave 1 just tripled in value?

Disney Drops Slave 1 Name in Favor Of 'Boba Fett's Starship' - IGN

Boba Fett may be getting ready to rename his iconic starship. An upcoming Mandalorian-inspired LEGO reveals that Disney is no longer calling this ship Slave 1, instead referring to it as "Boba Fett's Starship."

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[The Tradition]

MOAR stupidity, please.

America is hungry for it.

 

[BubsFinn]

Good move, Disney. I hope they digitally erased that Confederate flag decal on the bumper too.

 

[millah_22]

MOAR stupidity, please.

America is hungry for it.

Then keep up the posting.

 

[SolidSnake]

Boba Fett’s Starship. Going with the “Washington Football Team” of name changes. They really aren’t creative at all anymore.

 

[FAUlty Gator]

Good move. “Prisoner Who Works For Free 1” has a much nicer ring.

 

[alaskanseminole]

Boba Fett’s Starship. Going with the “Washington Football Team” of name changes. They really aren’t creative at all anymore.

What else can they do? They can't rewrite history, so they opted to refer to it generically.

 

[SolidSnake]

What else can they do? They can't rewrite history, so they opted to refer to it generically.

They rewrite history all the time.

 

[alaskanseminole]

They rewrite history all the time.

Doesn't mean they should. Correcting? In many cases, yes. Rewrite? Dangerous and slippery slope.

While I'm fine with this (and I'm a die hard Star Wars fan and collector). I would be curious if any black person has ever been offended by the name of Boba's ship. Context should play an important part, not just the word itself. I have a slave drive on my PC. I've also been slave to the lender before. Neither of those contexts should be offensive.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Silly.

 

[Fijimn]

Probably should have corrected the blatant stereotypical accents in the Phantom Menace first

 

[alaskanseminole]

Probably should have corrected the blatant stereotypical accents in the Phantom Menace first

I would think that would actually be 10000x more offensive than Boba's ship name.

 

[UNIowaHawk]

People these days pretend to get so upset about everything. I bet people would even pretend to get upset and offended by Blazing Saddles if it came out in theaters.

 

[ConvenientParking]

I don't look forward to running into someone who cares enough about this to talk about it IRL. Hard to tell who you're dealing with. Fingers crossed it's a Star Wars nerd and not a Dan Bongino fanatic

 

[millah_22]

People these days pretend to get so upset about everything. I bet people would even pretend to get upset and offended by Blazing Saddles if it came out in theaters.

Blazing Saddles would def be controversial if made today.

 

[RonaldMexico]

Blazing Saddles would def be controversial if made today.

Only because the wokesters wouldn’t be able to corral their visceral need for outrage long enough to understand the actual point of the movie.

 

[strummingram]

What a huge difference it will make!

 

[Hawk and Awe]

I’d love to be a fly on the wall for the meetings that decide this stuff. I have to think there’s a compliance person that just drives everybody crazy and they roll their eyes but give a thumbs up so the person goes away.

 

[Urohawk]

Hmm.. so much to unpack here. Boba Fett is a person of color. What does that say about him taking slaves? The actor is Maori who as a people, frequently took slaves until it was banned by the British in 1840. The clone descendants of Jango Fett were people of color put in white armor and called clone troopers. Whitewashing anyone? There is a lot of be angry about......

Or perhaps it's a fictitious ship in a fictitious universe, flown by a fictitious antagonist that no one gave a rats ass about. This is really dumb on Disney's part.

 

[dirtypool]

Was this the Tucker Carlson talking point of the evening in his culture war crusade of things that nobody really called for to be changed outside of disney, but goddamit he is going to be outraged that disney changed it?

 

[hawkeye54545]

Now digitally eliminate Jar Jar Binks. I find him incredibly offensive.

 

[Big Hawk D-Port]

How tough is it to keep from screwing up Star Wars? Apparently pretty tough.

Disney has made a few good contributions but mostly it has been one unforced error after another.

 

[alaskanseminole]

 

[SoDakHawk]

It's dumb because slavery is not a black/white thing. Slavery has existed since the beginning of man and still exists today most prevalent in...Africa, where black people hold other black people as slaves (rival tribes, Christian/Muslim conflicts, etc.). Jews have been slaves, Christians have been slaves, white people have been slaves, black people have been slaves, Asian people have been slaves, Indian people have been slaves, South American people have been slaves. Every single race, creed, and culture, at some point in history, has been subjected to slavery as man has a long history of subjugating those they have conquered.

Changing the name of a fictitious space ship is not going to change facts or history. It's simply an attempt to hide from reality and that rarely works out in the long run.

 

[Dr. Spaceman]

How tough is it to keep from screwing up Star Wars? Apparently pretty tough.

Disney has made a few good contributions but mostly it has been one unforced error after another.

How does this "screw up" Star Wars?

 

[millah_22]

IMO it’s not a big deal and if this ruins Star Wars for you then I guess that’s too bad.

 

[sober_teacher]

Doesn't mean they should. Correcting? In many cases, yes. Rewrite? Dangerous and slippery slope.

While I'm fine with this (and I'm a die hard Star Wars fan and collector). I would be curious if any black person has ever been offended by the name of Boba's ship. Context should play an important part, not just the word itself. I have a slave drive on my PC. I've also been slave to the lender before. Neither of those contexts should be offensive.

I guess I’m curious outside of hardcore fans who knew what the name of the ship was? I’m not sure it was ever referred to by name in any of the movies.

 

[Fijimn]

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Well -- Ep 1-3 were basically about a trade dispute and parliamentary procedure.

 

[GOHOX69]

Will they bring back Jar Jar Binks? Meesa, yousa, not slave talk at all!

 

[Fijimn]

Will they bring back Jar Jar Binks? Meesa, yousa, not slave talk at all!

Or the Trade Federations with an Asian accident.....ya, Lucas pretty much pulled out all the stereotype symbolism in his movies....really lazy stuff.

 

[GOHOX69]

Or the Trade Federations with an Asian accident.....ya, Lucas pretty much pulled out all the stereotype symbolism in his movies....really lazy stuff.

Yes that was rich too

 

[GOHOX69]

Yes that was rich too

Or Watto, the Jewish junk yard collector.

 

[Fijimn]

Or Watto, the Jewish junk yard collector.

At least in Star Wars, it was pretty basic black vs. white and Nazi imagery. Really simplistic stuff.

 

[Jerome Silberman]

Lol. Disney just decided to bring Boba Fett back to life and make him a good guy, of course they were going to drop the Slave 1 moniker, it doesn't work with how they've chosen to take the character.

Weird thing to worry about.

 

[alaskanseminole]

Weird thing to worry about.

But yet someone at Disney worried about a problem that didn't exist and took action.

 

[Jerome Silberman]

But yet someone at Disney worried about a problem that didn't exist and took action.

I would imagine that it's not about solving a current problem, but avoiding future issues.

 

[Big Hawk D-Port]

How does this "screw up" Star Wars?

Disney’s preoccupation with Star Wars has been to make it politically correct. They have woven social justice messaging into their stories with all the subtlety of a villain named “General Grievous”, which would be tolerable if their movies were good. The new trilogy was horrible, so the inescapable conclusion is that Star Wars is more a propaganda tool of a few influential people that somehow have managed not to be fired yet, instead of careful stewardship of a franchise many have an attachment to.

So no, renaming Slave 1 in and of itself is not ruining Star Wars. It is a symptom of the problem that is ruining Star Wars.

 

[Fijimn]

Disney’s preoccupation with Star Wars has been to make it politically correct. They have woven social justice messaging into their stories with all the subtlety of a villain named “General Grievous”, which would be tolerable if their movies were good. The new trilogy was horrible, so the inescapable conclusion is that Star Wars is more a propaganda tool of a few influential people that somehow have managed not to be fired yet, instead of careful stewardship of a franchise many have an attachment to.

So no, renaming Slave 1 in and of itself is not ruining Star Wars. It is a symptom of the problem that is ruining Star Wars.

Your opinion is General Grievous is social justice messaging and not simplistic imagery for simpletons....that's some fascinating stuff right there.

 

[Big Hawk D-Port]

Your opinion is General Grievous is social justice messaging and not simplistic imagery for simpletons....that's some fascinating stuff right there.

No it was a joke referencing the early movies which are not even what we are talking about. He’s basically a bad guy called General Bad Guy, and Disney Star Wars hits you over the head with that same level of woke subtlety.

 

[seminole97]

Or Watto, the Jewish junk yard collector.

Collected slaves too...