RUMOR: Disney to Eliminate "Slave Leia" From All Future STAR WARS Merchandise

RUMOR: Disney to Eliminate "Slave Leia" From All Future STAR WARS Merchandise

Sources say that Disney is retiring the sexualized portrayal of Carrie Fisher's Princess Leia from any future merchandise. Learn more after the jump.

By DAGuess - Nov 03, 2015 04:11 PM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars
Source: newsarama.com

In a time of increased attention and discussion about significant social issues such as sexism and gender equality, it may come as no surprise that the famously sexual depiction of Princess Leia as "Slave Leia" in Return of the Jedi has attracted some scrutiny of its own.  

While many are quick to defend "Slave Leia" with arguments that the costume is no more revealing than a bikini, it is hard to deny the association with sex and bondage that helped catapult Fisher to geek sex icon status.  Sources now report that Disney is looking to distance their newly acquired princess from the image used in many a fanboy fantasy, and will be discontinuing all future merchandise with depictions of "Slave Leia."
 
Fisher, who is reprising the role of Leia in Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been quoted as saying to actress Daisy Ridley to fight for your outfit.  Don't be a slave like I was . 

Additionally, artist J. Scott Campbell who works in merchandising for Marvel and the Star Wars franchise stated on his Facebook that Daisy Ridley won’t have to fight against anything.  Disney is already well on it’s way to wiping out the 'slave' outfit from any future products period. You will NOT see any future merchandising featuring the slave outfit ever again Trust me […] I’ve heard it from two sources. We can’t even draw Leia in a sexy pose at Marvel, let alone in that outfit! We also had a 3-D[Slave Leia] statue killed at a major manufacturer because there will no longer be any [Slave Leia] merchandise.

So what are your thoughts?  Is the possible elimination of "Slave Leia" from future merchandising a big deal, or has Disney crossed the line with a beloved (albeit barely dressed) geek symbol?  Leave your thoughts below.

 

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0bstreperous
0bstreperous - 11/3/2015, 5:51 PM
i bet Carrie could still fit into the outfit

shame no slave leia hot toy
EricBorder
EricBorder - 11/3/2015, 5:59 PM
Can't wait for Star Wars looks amazing, so this doesn't really bother me much,

But....

"We can’t even draw Leia in a sexy pose at Marvel, let alone in that outfit!"

LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 11/3/2015, 6:05 PM
With all due respect to Disney, how is Slave Leia's design any different from Jasmine in Aladdin?



DAGuess
DAGuess - 11/3/2015, 6:14 PM
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 11/3/2015, 6:24 PM
A young woman literally chained up, forced to wear skimpy clothing, for the amusement of a huge oozing bloated slug monster... is not exactly the most subtle expression of male adolescent sexual frustration...

And particularly coming after her one of her most awesome moments in the entire trilogy (revealing that she was actually rescuing Han) only again to find herself a hapless prisoner in yet another kinky dungeon setting... Yeah. It's probably best we go past this.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 11/3/2015, 6:26 PM
Not to mention the very real issue of real sex slavery. While Return of the Jedi hardly glamorized it, there's an argument to be made that it was trivialized and hardly given the appropriate weight it deserves.
Visualiza
Visualiza - 11/3/2015, 6:27 PM
If true, a good call. Because it's beloved, ingrained in pop culture, is nostalgic, or however you'd like to put it, doesn't mean that it's right. The same sort of excuses were used to defend...actual slavery.
Darth258
Darth258 - 11/3/2015, 6:31 PM
This Disney deal is becoming a joke...
Matador
Matador - 11/3/2015, 6:45 PM
SO she was hot at one point still beautiful during her time as slave Lea she left great pin up girl art nothing wrong with that.


TheRationalNerd
TheRationalNerd - 11/3/2015, 6:55 PM
@Darth258

They've already banned the usage of cigarettes and cigars in their marvel films. lol I kid you not.
Darth258
Darth258 - 11/3/2015, 7:04 PM
@TheRationalNerd

Well.. that happened in a lot of other features too.. Look at Costantine for exemple.
But i guess if that's for the "Slave" part it's understandable and it just need a name change, if it's for the appearance it's totally idiotic.
Darth258
Darth258 - 11/3/2015, 7:07 PM
@FrozenJoy

Besides having the Expanded Universe erased and the SW games that LucasArts was developing cancelled, yes it was a good businnes deal.
Darth258
Darth258 - 11/3/2015, 7:21 PM
Just because for some people Star Wars it's just 3 or 6 movies..
infiniteone
infiniteone - 11/3/2015, 7:38 PM
Darth258
Darth258 - 11/3/2015, 7:38 PM
I get that, but when in your mind there are Mara Jade, Han's kids, the New Jedi Order it's hard to let it go...

Mostly if you have those people in the trailer wondering if "it was all real". Meaning all Luke did in the past, one and a half Death Stars destroyed, people on every planet and Coruscant cheering and bringing down statues... all for nothing..

I just hope the new trilogy will be worth all this.
Darth258
Darth258 - 11/3/2015, 7:41 PM
Personally, i'm more excited for the "Anthology" spin-offs.
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 11/3/2015, 8:01 PM
@TheRationalNerd

Really? Disney has banned cigars in MCU films?

Well [frick] them. Thing smokes cigars. At least the Tim Story films referenced Thing liked cigars. If Thing wouldn't be able to smoke cigars in the MCU then I hope they don't get the rights back.

AnthonyLantern
AnthonyLantern - 11/3/2015, 8:31 PM
More likely the Slave Leia items don't sell well. This is about money, not women's rights
Ironbot
Ironbot - 11/3/2015, 9:59 PM
@levitkuz

Jasmine's outfit isn't that quite revealing.

But in all seriousness, the biggest problem people have with the MCU is that they don't smoke? That's suppose to be a problem?

I don't know about you guys, but I was always told that smoking lead to lung cancer, and the idea of supposed role models doing that might not sit well with people against smoking, or parents.
Ironbot
Ironbot - 11/3/2015, 10:01 PM
@levitkuz

Well Fox is a bunch of greedy assholes, so you don't have to worry about them giving back X men or Fantastic Four, cause they won't give them back.
Mercwitham0uth
Mercwitham0uth - 11/3/2015, 10:13 PM
Meh. Don't care.
Ironbot
Ironbot - 11/3/2015, 10:14 PM
@frozenjoy

It's so nice to hear so done being optomisitic about this film, it seems to me like everyone is geared up for this.. And I do mean Everyone..

RextheKing
RextheKing - 11/3/2015, 10:21 PM
I really don't understand why they even merchandised slave Leia in the first place, but I do find this to be stupid. It so called in the name of gender equality right? Well is protecting one gender really equality. Say if Return of the Jedi was different; Luke was chained in only a pair of fancy underpants. Do you think, if they merchandised it, that they would stop merchandising it in the name of gender equality, or just not give a [frick], because it's simply just merchandise of a character's look during a part of a franchise; doesn't mean those selling or buying support slavery of any kind in any way. It's one thing, say if they merchandised Alice Eve's underwear shot, from Star Trek ID, when that scene had no use other than to add sexiness to the film, than merchandising slave Leia, which had a pivotal part in the Star Wars franchise.
RextheKing
RextheKing - 11/3/2015, 10:24 PM
@AnthonyLantern Could be, and if so I take back what I said in my previous comment. If true, they are still using "women's rights" as a reason, even if it wasn't one, just for those PC brownie points.
Ironbot
Ironbot - 11/3/2015, 10:28 PM
@rextheking

The idea of selling this supposed brave, female hero in a sexually suggestive matter like that might send mix messages.

Also, they would never do that to Luke! The franchise would have been destroyed right there! They would have lynched everyone at Lucasfilm!
Ironbot
Ironbot - 11/3/2015, 10:37 PM
I meant to say someone In that other post, I swear this keyboard is going to kill me.
RealNimbus
RealNimbus - 11/4/2015, 6:37 AM
Don't care. Eventually rationalism and santity will come back into fad and we'll move past all this silly "sex is evil, women bodies are sinful" crap. It comes in waves.

Right now regressiveism is on the rise, in time counter culture will push things back to the liberated and progressive side, and they'll make their own disasters, and we'll cycle back down again.


And then the singularity will occur and we'll be free of it all!
RextheKing
RextheKing - 11/4/2015, 10:39 AM
@Ironbot "The idea of selling this supposed brave, female hero in a sexually suggestive matter like that might send mix messages."

Yeah only to those who haven't seen the film. I don't, and I don't see why anyone would care about what message merchandise sends to someone who doesn't understand the significance of the source material.

"Also, they would never do that to Luke! The franchise would have been destroyed right there! They would have lynched everyone at Lucasfilm!"

I highly doubt that.
Ironbot
Ironbot - 11/4/2015, 11:14 AM
@rextheking

All I'm saying is that it's kind of sexist and demeaning to women.
RextheKing
RextheKing - 11/4/2015, 12:03 PM
@Ironbot Don't disgree, but all I was saying reverse the sex, nobody would see it the same way. Protecting the sexualization of one sex is not gender equality. Like I said, I didn't see the point in merchandising slave Leia to begin with, but I see more harm in stopping it, than glorifying in the first place.
Ironbot
Ironbot - 11/4/2015, 1:38 PM
More info on why this is actually a good thing.

http://www.hitfix.com/comedy/the-terrible-unspoken-implications-of-star-wars-slave-leia

Face it fanboys, the eighties are over, you can deny it all you want. But that age of movies is over.
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