Posted on 02/16/2021 5:14:44 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Toy industry giant Hasbro has ceased production on the “Cara Dune” action figure following Gina Carano’s firing from Disney’s streaming series The Mandalorian.
On Monday, online retailer BigBadToyStore announced it would cancel all existing preorders of Cara Dune action figures in response to outrage over Carano’s social media profiles — which prompted Lucasfilm, owned by Disney, to fire her from the popular show. Carano faced backlash after linking modern American cancel culture to the Holocaust in a since-deleted message.
“Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” a Lucasfilm spokesperson said in a statement at the time. “Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
“The ‘Star Wars’ Black [Series] Cara Dune figure was released in 2020 and sold out not long after the inventory was received,” a spokesperson for BigBadToyStore told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement delivered by e-mail on Monday. “Hasbro planned for another production run and we were accepting preorders from that production run. Due to recent events, Hasbro was no longer approved to produce any more of this figure.”
Meanwhile, Carano has doubled down, railing against “cancel culture” in statements following the decision. “I am sending out a direct message of hope to everyone living in fear of cancellation by the totalitarian mob,” she wrote on Twitter Friday. “I have only just begun using my voice which is now freer than ever before, and I hope it inspires others to do the same. They can’t cancel us if we don’t let them.”
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Awesome!
How much more is President Trump worth than Joe Biden currently?
ebay will ban them next. Didn’t they ban cnfederate flags at a point?
He better get moving.
Hasbro didn’t cancel. DisneyCorp is prohibiting them from making any more
I don't know but over the next four years the Biden Family syndicate is going to be working real hard to narrow the gap.
Disney cancelled a woman who had a different opinion. Including the toys representing her character.
Fifty years from now, no one is going to look at “woke” and “cancel culture” as a bright spot in this nation’s history. They’ll do studies about the mania that gripped one half of the nation to ostracize and deny the other half.
They sold out last year
the toys of the 70s are a factor in the nostalgia that drives this show
the toys of the 70s are a factor in the nostalgia that drives this show
I bought a couple of Confederate items before https://gadsdenandculpeper.com/ wasn't allowed to sell them.
They might be running the racket!
Yep. Just increased in value.
Or a big card board box. I always had more fun with those as a kid.
Ugh. Not surprised.
Ah, OK. Thanks.
I’d like to see a Babylon Bee article on baby yoda falling from grace and getting banned from the series.
Not as valuable as this one. Hillary Clinton in prison orange. Hasn't been banned. $90
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Crooked-Hillary-Clinton-Funko-Pop-The-Vote-Hillary-for-Prison-campaign-Custom/192366815889?hash=item2cc9f4aa91:g:VYIAAOSw3WxZ5hWV
Makes me glad my kids are grown, and I don’t have any grandchildren to buy toys or collectible figures for. Stars Wars in 1977 just about broke me. My oldest son (54) still has some of his stuff from back then. He had the figures (not in package), that he kept in a special Star Wars case, the big Millennium Falcon that opened up, and the 12 or 18 inch Darth Vader figure with the separate light saber.
There is one left on Amazon going for $144.49.
I’m assuming that is way up from the normal price.
Time for me to go get one before they’re taken off the shelves!
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