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Originally Posted by kylactus

Why stop there? mabey they should re edit ROTJ so the palace looks less "ethnic" wile were at it Jabba is offensive to overweight people, no? all 80s movies are insensitive! Back to the future, It should not be "Irainans" that shot Dock over the platonium, it should be "extremists" and don't watch Raiders! Indy blows away an innocent man for puting on a cultural sword display in public! And only the three white Ghostbusters had PHDs whats up with that! more to the point lookin at my lego mini figs....alot of yellow there... not very diverse... shame on you Lego.

Not to pick on you but it was Libyans that shot him. Kinda of a thing I have, correcting people on movie stuff.

Back on topic, people these days are nuts! We are all so concerned that we will offend someone so we allow everyone else to push us around they way they want it. People need to grow up, stand up, and man up! Who the heck cares if it offends someone? It likely wouldn't anyway, but if it did that person who was offended has a problem with their mind.

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Originally Posted by MeLikeJinx

So lame... they should have taken away all the Lego Indy sets too then because all the bad guys resembled you know who. But anyway... was Lego Jabba really that popular to begin with? I mean like were people buying him up before?

I always thought someone would have raged over IM 1, since the 10 Rings group is all made up of "you know who". But even with Indy you're right, and they also made 3.75 in. figures of the Cairo swordsman and assassins.

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Originally Posted by CMIII

Actually it was the Libyans

Beat me to it!

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Originally Posted by BlackRazor

Because Jabba The Hutt is a villain in the Star Wars films, the group claimed the alleged close resemblance reinforced negative stereotypes about Muslims.

“This does not belong in children’s bedrooms,” Kilic told NBC. “And the minaret-like tower features machine guns. Children will become insensitive to violence and other cultures.”
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Man, is that a reach! So they think people are so stupid they'll think Jabba is a Muslim?

Good post! Well I have seen fat Muslims, but none that looked like Jabba. Or none that ate live frogs, had Rancor pits, or guards that look like green pigs. This is sci-fi for goodness sakes, it ain't real! And what about the "machine guns" (laser guns, what a fool) on the Falcon and other starships, or with the Indy sets, or even the Blasters and machine guns every Star Wars/Trek, Joe, Cobra, Indy, Transformer, Marvel, etc. figure carries? If that were the case they couldn't sell any figures or toys ANYWHERE! Man, Kilic should put the pipe down and take off his rose-colored glasses. Wake up, dummy!


Sorry for the rant, but likely most here agree!

(EDIT: Don't forget the prince of Persia sets! They would be the worst of all!

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Originally Posted by brickflick

So - when are they making a real - maybe even full sized - Lego mosque ?

Ha ha! No, wont happen. Because there would those too tempted to make fun of it, or put a scale bomb making kit in the basement, or something "racist" (even though Muslims are not a race, but a belief). Or they would just get angry like they did over that youtube video making fun of their "god" profit (misspelled purposely). Lego will not open that box of snakes, by making that set.



If I'm allowed to post links, here is another article. If not, please remove.
Star Wars toy is racist

I also read where someone said: "The terrorist Jabba the Hutt likes to smoke a hookah and have his victims killed. It is clear that the ugly figure of Jabba and the whole scene smacks of racial prejudice and vulgar insinuations against Asians and Orientals as people with deceitful and criminal personalities.

Yeah, cause all the Asians and Middle Eastern people I know look like big slugs smoking, eating frogs and killing people with huge monsters.