Disney Rumored to Be Phasing Out 'Slave Leia' from Star Wars

Walter Hudson | 6:00 AM on November 04, 2015

She’s triggered the sexual awakenings of adolescent boys for generations. Alas, Princess Leia’s slave costume from Return of the Jedi appears to be on the way out. Making Star Wars reports:

Today reader Randolph Cromwell sends us this from Star Wars comic artist J Scott Campbell on Facebook:

It looks like were there is smoke there is fire. The rumor appears to now have some legs. Perhaps because of the recent controversy around the costume and its level of appropriateness for conservative parents and its title for more liberal parents has just made the outfit something to stay away from.

We can’t have nice things.

H/T IGN

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Walter Hudson serves as a first-term member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, elected as a Republic from an exurban district of the Twin Cities. Hudson formerly served as a city council member in Albertville, Minn., and hosted a nightly radio show on Twin Cities News Talk AM 1130. He returns to PJ Media many years after having been a regular contributor and serving as an associate editor for the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

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