The "Slave 1"
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lolI see what you did there. And raise you a
bwayne64
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Ok sorry, darned internet. Can't always tell what people are replying about. People take me wrong all the time, even when I put the smiley face in. Mea culpa . ; )Rolling eyes about people being offended by everything not your post.
joberg
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And in Democracies, Freedom has its limits also...
Solo4114
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From the looks of things, if Disney is really changing the name of Slave 1, it's not happened yet because the official Star Wars site is still calling the Slave 1, Slave 1.
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
So....just to be extra-super-duper-ooper clear...
...this is a lot of outrage about a thing which is, by all current evidence, not happening?
Or to the extent that it is, it's just happening within the context of toy sales?
Can we put this topic to bed, then? Like, lock the thread and just move on?
Master Boda
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Agreed on putting this topic to bed,this new age of cultural stupidity is only getting worse.Some of us in psychology joke that the “terrible two’s” are lasting a lifetime.
I don't believe anyone is offended by offended people. Those are feelings that can be valid but not necessarily shared.I love how so many folks are offended by people being offended that they have to point out the offended folks position repeatedly there by perpetuating the infinite offence cycle they find so offensive..... Oh....the irony....
I think the problems arise when a person says they're offended, then campaign to have aspects of society, or even society as a whole, changed over their offence. Then it's compounded by those taking the stand of a social 'champion' that wants change, not for themselves, but for the betterment of ALL society.
joberg
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A fascistic approach disguised as a "betterment of all in that society"
Bigdaddy
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All this "outrage" about the idea of a name change (it hasn't happened)...are my fellow old school SW fans really that fragile and delicate?
This is what happens when you drag your favorite toy around for over four decades bragging about how great it is. Other people get interested and start adding and changing things, pretty soon it's not the same toy you fell in love with all those years ago.
If the potential name change "offends" you (I know, the ego can be fragile...), maybe you should count yourself lucky that life hasn't thrown you any actual problems.
I only know about DSW news from the RPF, because I don't give a hoot about what butchering has been going on at LFL. I've never seen an episode of Mando, for me there is no baby Yoda, no CGI Luke, Boba is still being slowly digested, his ship is likely rotting away or was sold for scrap by jawas.
Michael Bergeron was correct, it's not Disney or LFL, it's the fact that so many people flocked to anything with the logo slapped on it, the bigger the fan base the more a company needs to water down the content to have a broader appeal.
I really don't care what they call Boba's ship but a CGI Luke?! All I can say is NOOOOOOOOOO!
This is what happens when you drag your favorite toy around for over four decades bragging about how great it is. Other people get interested and start adding and changing things, pretty soon it's not the same toy you fell in love with all those years ago.
If the potential name change "offends" you (I know, the ego can be fragile...), maybe you should count yourself lucky that life hasn't thrown you any actual problems.
I only know about DSW news from the RPF, because I don't give a hoot about what butchering has been going on at LFL. I've never seen an episode of Mando, for me there is no baby Yoda, no CGI Luke, Boba is still being slowly digested, his ship is likely rotting away or was sold for scrap by jawas.
Michael Bergeron was correct, it's not Disney or LFL, it's the fact that so many people flocked to anything with the logo slapped on it, the bigger the fan base the more a company needs to water down the content to have a broader appeal.
I really don't care what they call Boba's ship but a CGI Luke?! All I can say is NOOOOOOOOOO!
I don't think anyone is offended by the name change. It's the reason they are changing it. It's unnecessary and only to get out in front of an imaginary problem that Disney thinks will come from angry Twitter mobs. I would bet money that absolutely no one has complained about his ship being called "Slave I". It's virtue signaling.
This thread is what happens when we have to wait a year for new SW content.
This really didn't need it's own thread. It could have easily been merged into the pre existing ones that already discussed/ debated this at length. Just like the ST/ PT thread didn't need it's own thread, and again covered all the same ground as pre-existing threads. There's certainly merit to these discussions but why they needed to be isolated into new individual threads feels unnecessary and contentious to say the least.
Jagjaguwar
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Solo4114
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1. It's not virtue signaling. It's trying to appeal to the broadest possible market. Virtue signaling would be if there was a controversy over the name, and then LEGO said "We're sick of all these woke SJWs ruining everything! We're keeping the name, and anyone who disagrees can step on a LEGO brick!" In other words, signaling their own personally held virtue to try to receive plaudits from folks who share that opinion. I promise you, LEGO doesn't care one way or the other about what the name actually is. They just wanna sell the most toys.
2. It's not happening beyond LEGO. Again, this is not happening outside of LEGO as far as anyone can tell.
3. There is no point #3.
4. Have I mentioned it isn't happening outside of LEGO? Because it's not happening outside of LEGO.
I don't know if it's true, but in this video he says the ship is still officially called the Slave1, it just won't be called that in/on any marketing/merchandise- meaning the ships name hasn't officially changed, just that you'll never see/hear it called that ever again.
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