In the new LEGO Star Wars Mandalorian spin-off set released earlier, players may find that the set 75312 is named "Boba Fett's Starship" rather than the usual "Slave I". Later, Michael Lee Stockwell, chief designer of LEGO Star Wars, revealed that it was Lego deliberately avoiding the name "Slave One": "We don't call it 'Slave One anymore,' it's Boba Fett's starship." ”
Lego Star Wars chief designer Jens Kronvold Frederiksen added: "Everyone is abandoning the name 'Slave One', which has not been publicly announced, but Disney no longer wants to use it."
Slave One is one of the most famous spaceships in the entire Star Wars world, belonging to two generations of the best bounty hunters, Jango Fett, the genetic template of the Galactic Republic Clone Army, and his son, who is actually his full clone, Boba Fett.
In 1980's Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Slave One debuted as Boba Fett's ship, loaded with the carbon-condensed Han Solo to Tartouyne to receive a bounty; in 2002's Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Slave One appeared as Jango Fett's ship, in a different livery, and engaged in a fight with the Jedi fighter piloted by Obi-Wan Kenobi. In the recent hit Star Wars episode The Mandalorian, Boba Feit returns with Slave One to assist the protagonist, The Mandalorian, in protecting "Little Yoda" Gugu.
The ship was set up as a Firespray-31-class attack patrol boat in the World of Star Wars, which had been heavily modified, and Koshka Frost, a passerby bounty hunter character from the card game, was set to own one of these ships as well. What distinguishes them, however, is the name "Slave One." The name fits well with the identity of the Fett father and son as a bounty hunter with his own skills, maverick and high skill.
Now that Disney and Lego are going to stop using this name, what will they call this ship in the future? Just like the suit, with the childish name "Boba Feit's Starship"? So what if there was a plot involving it being used by Jango Fett? Replace it with "Jango Fett's Starship"? What is the purpose of such a hassle?
According to some sources, the name change may be in preparation for the upcoming episode "The Book of Boba Fett" later this year, and in order to be able to be promoted smoothly, the derivatives related to Boba Fett need to remove the word "slave".
The association with "slaves" is removed because it is reminiscent of the history of the enslavement of black Americans and involves racial discrimination. Beginning with last summer's "Black Life" movement, many industries in the Western world have begun to eliminate terms such as "slave", "master", etc., and in their view, not using these words and avoiding and glorifying the past can solve the problem of racial discrimination, and black people seem to be happy to see this. Now this trend is finally spreading to Star Wars.
In the affirmative action movement in the Western world in recent years, more and more of the existing titles of the past have been eliminated because they do not conform to the current political correctness, and even the film history classic "Gone with the Wind" has been removed from the shelves of HBO MAX because of the problem of "racial discrimination", and then there have been absurd dramas such as the famous British queen Anne Boleyn by black people. The three-episode short series "Anne Boleyn" lived up to expectations with an IMDB rating of less than 4 points, was dubbed "a bad joke" by netizens, and looked forward to seeing "a film with black Southern planters and white slaves in the United States."
The history of the entire Western world, and especially the United States as a whole, is based on the history of the slave trade and the slave economy, and their racial discrimination and sexism have always been deep-rooted problems. However, with the unfolding of the impact of the "Black Life" incident, the Western world has increasingly adopted a modified and avoidant approach to past problems, but we all know that "forgetting the past means betrayal", this kind of hypocrisy of whitewashing Taiping is ultimately just deceiving themselves, and when the traces of the past are smeared, whites and blacks can find new targets of discrimination - this is the case with the endless discrimination and attacks against Chinese in American society.
Therefore, whether it is Lego or Disney, this name change event is the same as the affirmative action movement in the Western world, which is really ridiculous and hypocritical operation.