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Report: Hasbro Stops Making Gina Carano’s ‘Star Wars’ Action Figure
Breitbart ^ | 16 Feb 2021 | NATE CHURCH

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cancelculture; disney; ginacarano; hasbro; hasbrohasbeen; lucasfilm; starwars; themandalorian
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Awesome!

How much more is President Trump worth than Joe Biden currently?


21 posted on 02/16/2021 5:51:16 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: steveo

ebay will ban them next. Didn’t they ban cnfederate flags at a point?


22 posted on 02/16/2021 5:53:27 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
One of my best friends has a whole room in his house dedicated to collecting Star Wars figures.

He better get moving.

23 posted on 02/16/2021 5:54:49 PM PST by real saxophonist (The mouse doesn't understand why the cheese is free.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Hasbro didn’t cancel. DisneyCorp is prohibiting them from making any more


24 posted on 02/16/2021 5:55:24 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
How much more is President Trump worth than Joe Biden currently?

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.

25 posted on 02/16/2021 5:55:37 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


26 posted on 02/16/2021 5:55:51 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: RandallFlagg

They sold out last year


27 posted on 02/16/2021 5:56:19 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: goodolemr

the toys of the 70s are a factor in the nostalgia that drives this show


28 posted on 02/16/2021 5:57:54 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: goodolemr

the toys of the 70s are a factor in the nostalgia that drives this show


29 posted on 02/16/2021 5:57:54 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: a fool in paradise
Didn’t they ban cnfederate flags at a point?

I bought a couple of Confederate items before https://gadsdenandculpeper.com/ wasn't allowed to sell them.

30 posted on 02/16/2021 5:58:32 PM PST by real saxophonist (The mouse doesn't understand why the cheese is free.)
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To: real saxophonist

They might be running the racket!


31 posted on 02/16/2021 5:58:45 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: steveo

Yep. Just increased in value.


32 posted on 02/16/2021 6:00:13 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (Sarcasm. It's my only natural defense against stupidity!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Or a big card board box. I always had more fun with those as a kid.


33 posted on 02/16/2021 6:00:46 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page)
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To: a fool in paradise

Ugh. Not surprised.


34 posted on 02/16/2021 6:02:24 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Only a moronic, suicidal group would try a Great Purge 2021 on an armed American. We're ready!)
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To: a fool in paradise

Ah, OK. Thanks.


35 posted on 02/16/2021 6:09:26 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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To: HangnJudge

I’d like to see a Babylon Bee article on baby yoda falling from grace and getting banned from the series.


36 posted on 02/16/2021 6:21:14 PM PST by Rebelbase (COVID misanthrope)
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian
Yep. Just increased in value.

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

37 posted on 02/16/2021 6:27:41 PM PST by roadcat
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


38 posted on 02/16/2021 6:30:21 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: steveo

There is one left on Amazon going for $144.49.

I’m assuming that is way up from the normal price.


39 posted on 02/16/2021 7:36:39 PM PST by TigersEye (Will the Younger Dryas Impact you? )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Time for me to go get one before they’re taken off the shelves!


40 posted on 02/16/2021 7:41:00 PM PST by ro_dreaming ("A nation that forgets its past has no future." - Winston Churchill)
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