Then, we saw more of the ship’s backstory when Jango Fett and his “son” — unaltered clone Boba Fett — appeared with it in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002).
George Lucas’s second prequel trilogy film cemented the importance of the Fett family’s starship. Then, Slave I returned in Season 2 of showrunner Jon Favreau and executive producer Dave Filoni’sThe Mandalorian.
When bounty hunter Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) found himself in a bit of a scrape on planet Tython — his charge, Grogu (AKA “Baby Yoda”) was kidnapped by a Dark Trooper squad, and his ship, the Razor Crest, was destroyed by a single strike from Moff Gideon’s (Giancarlo Esposito) Imperial cruiser — Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison), Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen), and Slave I swooped in to save the day.
However, The Walt Disney Company has quietly changed the name of the iconic Star Wars ship, and fans are none too happy about it. In June, astute fans noticed that an upcoming LEGO set was called “Boba Fett’s Starship” instead of the more well-known “Slave I” moniker.
The hunt for Han Solo has brought out the underworld’s most dangerous hunters and acclaimed Star Wars artist Paolo Villanelli’s new BOUNTY HUNTER SHIP BLUEPRINT VARIANT COVERS dynamically depicts them alongside their legendary ships. Fans can see the following characters and vehicles on variant covers throughout September:
Terry Kennedy has similar negative feelings about Disney’s big change:
Firespray????? They renamed bobbas [sic: Boba’s] ship firespray? Dinsey will do anything to ruin the Star Wars franchise. It will always be the Slave I. Go ruin your cartoons with live action movies and leave Star Wars alone.
Firespray????? They renamed bobbas ship firespray? Dinsey will do anything to ruin the Star Wars franchise. It will always be the Slave I. Go ruin your cartoons with live action movies and leave Star Wars alone.
Spartacus Fett called out Disney for lack of action in regard to actual slavery occurring around the world, and even called the starship name change a “Disney fail”:
“Firespray” is a dumb change in a long list of dumb changes to the #starwars universe.
How about instead of just changing the name retroactively – maybe actually do something about real slavery happening in the world today?
#disneyfail #BobaFett #slaveI #mandalorian
“Firespray” is a dumb change in a long list of dumb changes to the #starwars universe.
Finally, Anarki671 replied to a Twitter thread about the post, noting that the name change isn’t even really unique — Slave I has always been a Firespray-31 class ship:
It was a Firespray-31 always, all they’ve done is give it the model name.
It was a Firespray-31 always, all they've done is give it the model name.
No matter how you feel about Boba Fett’s Slave I now being referred to as Firespray, you’ll be able to see the iconic ship again in December 2021 when Favreau and Filoni’s first Mandalorian spinoff, The Book of Boba Fett debuts on Disney+.
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