Rumor: Disney Trying to Quietly Remove ‘Slave Leia’ Outfit from Future Products and Images 2 2

[MR SigS]

Does this mean cosplayers who feel empowered by the costume are to be ridiculed?

Old news, but is it working?

 

Edited July 25, 2022 by MR SigS

[theCapraAegagrus]

This is why physical media is king, folks. You can't change my property.

[mtracy64]

Is it working? I don't know, wasn't the only goal to keep Disney's reputation as pure as virgin snow? The only impact I saw was prices doubled or tripled on existing iconage featuring the outfit. I already had the pieces I wanted, so I suppose it worked for me. It's interesting that there was no mention of Oola. In checking whether eBay selling prices are still up seven years later (they are), I found an interesting photo of the Gentle Giant Oola mini-bust. Mine is sealed, so I didn't know the costume could be pushed aside like this . . .

[MattTheDuck]

On 7/25/2022 at 8:39 AM, mtracy64 said:

Is it working? I don't know, wasn't the only goal to keep Disney's reputation as pure as virgin snow? The only impact I saw was prices doubled or tripled on existing iconage featuring the outfit. I already had the pieces I wanted, so I suppose it worked for me. It's interesting that there was no mention of Oola. In checking whether eBay selling prices are still up seven years later (they are), I found an interesting photo of the Gentle Giant Oola mini-bust. Mine is sealed, so I didn't know the costume could be pushed aside like this . . .

I wouldn't classify that as a mini-bust.

[rexinnih]

Captain Kirk would approve 

[MetalPSI]

On 7/24/2022 at 6:21 PM, MR SigS said:

Does this mean cosplayers who feel empowered by the costume are to be ridiculed?

Old news, but is it working?

 

To think, Harrison Ford was doing her in this time period

[▫️]

On 7/25/2022 at 3:21 AM, MR SigS said:

Does this mean cosplayers who feel empowered by the costume are to be ridiculed?

Old news, but is it working?

 

Disney can quietly remove it, I’ve already tarnished the image enough.

[Larryw7]

Lots of people have wanted to remove Princess Leia's slave outfit.

[Buzzetta]

It's been a topic of discussion since November of 2015 and applies to merchandising.

 

 

 

[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

On 7/25/2022 at 4:57 PM, Larryw7 said:

Lots of people have wanted to remove Princess Leia's slave outfit.

[Galen130]

Disney can....

[mtracy64]

On 7/27/2022 at 11:56 AM, Galen130 said:

Disney can....

They can do that for other reasons too - renaming Boba Fett's ship from 'Slave 1' to 'Firespray Gunship', throwing out decades of Expanded Universe content and creating an inferior replacement, killing off Asajj Ventress, and of course for The Last Jedi and The Rise Of Skywalker.

[Galen130]

On 7/27/2022 at 5:05 PM, mtracy64 said:

They can do that for other reasons too - renaming Boba Fett's ship from 'Slave 1' to 'Firespray Gunship', throwing out decades of Expanded Universe content and creating an inferior replacement, killing off Asajj Ventress, and of course for The Last Jedi and The Rise Of Skywalker.

Yeah, I meant Disney in it's entirety.  Walt is rolling over in his grave.  I'm not going to get into that on the boards, though. 

[fett]

maybe Disney can bring him back from the dead and make him part of the MC(WHO?) 

Edited July 28, 2022 by fett

[mtracy64]

 

[shadroch]

On 7/27/2022 at 4:05 PM, mtracy64 said:

They can do that for other reasons too - renaming Boba Fett's ship from 'Slave 1' to 'Firespray Gunship', throwing out decades of Expanded Universe content and creating an inferior replacement, killing off Asajj Ventress, and of course for The Last Jedi and The Rise Of Skywalker.

People change ships. I don't drive the same car I did twenty years ago so why not bounty hunters?  Had it been Slave 7, it would have shown a pattern, but unless Slave 1 was the only ship he ever owned, i'd expect him to move up to a bigger and better ship every few years. Isn't that the intergalatic dream?

[mtracy64]

On 7/31/2022 at 11:18 AM, shadroch said:

People change ships. I don't drive the same car I did twenty years ago so why not bounty hunters?  Had it been Slave 7, it would have shown a pattern, but unless Slave 1 was the only ship he ever owned, i'd expect him to move up to a bigger and better ship every few years. Isn't that the intergalatic dream?

The D+ show The Book Of Boba Fett showed Fett and Fennec Shand recovering the ship after he got free of the sarlacc pit he fell into in Return Of The Jedi. It's the same ship Jango Fett had in Attack Of The Clones. 

[shadroch]

I am outraged. Boycott disney Now!!!!!!!

[mtracy64]

Hell, I tried, I really did. I didn't get into comics until my late 30's, about 20 years ago. I changed groups at work and became fast friends with a guy who collected all genres since the 1960's. He got me hooked on Star Wars first, then started throwing E.C.'s, Planets, Crime Does Not Pay, etc. at me. I quit Star Wars cold turkey, comics and novels, as soon as I heard about the de-canonization of all the stuff I'd read. For a long time, the only "new canon" thing I'd read was 'Dark Disciple', which I bought before I knew about new canon. Then I saw The Force Awakens - not a great movie, but not bad either. It set up some decent possibilities, which we now know were subsequently crapped all over. I thought Rogue One was very good, and Solo was decent. Verizon offered me a year of D+ free, so I got it to catch The Mandalorian, Clone Wars Season 7 and Rebels, all of which I enjoyed. I picked up the Bloodline novel at some point and really enjoyed it, and Zahn's pair of Thrawn trilogies were excellent. Then I started picking up TPBs of the Darth Vader comics, which led me to some of the other Marvel Star Wars comics. I have zero interest in the First Order timeframe and I'm underwhelmed by The High Republic, but much of the rest is good and I'm enjoying the D+ shows. I suck, I guess.

[Cat]

They seem to be more rebranding it 'Huttslayer' Leia, judging by the comics I saw. Who knows, though. I guess it's lucky they released a Black Series version already, even if it wasn't that great (side effect of joints and no way to hide them).