Per a report from Jedi News about an upcoming LEGO set called “Boba Fett’s Starship” instead of “Slave I”:
During LEGO Fan Media Days last month, CapnRex101 from Brickset.com and me asked the LEGO Star Wars team, Jens Kronvold Frederiksen (LEGO Star Wars Design Director) and Michael Lee Stockwell (LEGO Star Wars Lead Designer), about the name change as they showed us the set for the first time, and this is what they told us….
Jens: Then, the next one, also from The Mandalorian, is Boba Fett’s Starship.
Michael: Yes, I built another. We’re not calling it Slave I any more. This is Boba Fett’s Starship.
James: OK, why are we dropping the Slave I name?
Jens: Everybody is. It’s probably not something which has been announced publicly but it is just something that Disney doesn’t want to use any more.
While Disney has not officially confirmed that they’ve decided to drop the Slave I name in favor of the more generic “Boba Fett’s Starship”, it is telling that the name of the iconic Star Wars vehicle was not actually mentioned when we last saw it in The Mandalorian Season 2.
Presumably, we will next encounter Slave I in live-action in showrunner Jon Favreau and executive producer Dave Filoni’s first Mandalorian spinoff series,The Book of Boba Fett.
The Mandalorian Season 2 finale episode post credits scene saw Fett and Shand arrive on Tatooine in the ship, kill Bib Fortuna (Michael Carter) in an unceremonious fashion, and take over Jabba the Hutt’s former palace. The Book of Boba Fett will pick up where this scene left off.
There is also a chance that the ship will appear in Filoni’s animated series, Star Wars: The Bad Batch. The show — a Star Wars: The Clone Wars spinoff that follows Clone Force 99 — just reached its midseason point.
From the events our elite squad of clone troopers — Hunter, Wrecker, Tech, Echo, and female clone Omega — have experienced in the past couple of episodes, it appears that a showdown between Boba Fett and bounty hunter Cad Bane (Corey Burton) is coming soon. The famed bounty hunter’s appearance has already been teased by a piece of Boba Fett’s armor hanging on Cid’s (Rhea Perlman) wall.
It is worth noting that the official Star Wars Databank has changed its URL to read “Boba Fett’s Starship” instead of “Slave I”. The description of the vessel reads:
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 successfully capturing fugitives.
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