Let’s take a deeper look at the features highlighted for this build of the Slave 1 and some of the play functions. One of the built-in functions made with Technic liftarms is a grip. It can be neatly folded away. As Han, Chewie and the droids are captured by the Ewoks, Leia has already met the forest dwelling bears, who oddly had a new outfit for the Princess and braided her hair. The Endor Forest version of Leia has only appeared once in the soon to be retired Ewok Village UCS set.

The finished build of the Slave 1 is quite the view. For a 1,000-piece design, and the odd shape of the Slave 1, I think the design team pretty much nailed it. If you don’t already own the Ultimate Collector Series ship, it’s almost a no brainer to get this and experience the build and play features, as this definitely outshines the previous non-UCS sets. If you’re a minifigure collector, you know you’ve got to have the exclusives with the unique 20th Anniversary Edition print. All said and done, this is a safe bet to re-live the Classic Star Wars theme that started two decades ago. As well as being an actor, Carrie was a keen author and also helped to polish a number of high profile Hollywood scripts including Hook, Last Action Hero, Sister Act, Lethal Weapon 3 and of course many of the Star Wars movies. She also spoke of her struggles with mental health and was a strong advocate of removing the sigma connected to suffering with bipolar and other mental health issues. In a romance, the declaration of love would lead directly to bliss and the conclusion of the narrative. But Star Wars isn’t a romance, and true love leads not to marriage and happily ever after, but to a manically gendered mess. At the beginning of Return of the Jedi, Leia, who up to this point has mostly been dressed in utilitarian but recognizably female attire, suddenly starts switching wardrobes. First she disguises herself as the male bounty hunter Boushh. Then she switches to the sexed-up slave bikini. Obviously, a good part of the motivation for the slave Leia costume had to have been fan-service. The outfit caters both to hormonal pubescents, for whom Princess Leia was already a sex symbol, and to Lucas’s love affair with all those old adventure serials, with Leia playing Dale Arden, and Jabba as Ming the Merciless.With Star Wars return to the big screen with last years The Force Awakens, Carrie Fisher reprised her role as Leia Organa, now a General of the Resistance. This older version of Leia marks one of the Princess’ last LEGO appearances. Slave-1 is a 1,996-piece set released in January 2015. It is a Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series (UCS) that includes redesigned Boba Fett and Han Solo minifigures, a new Bespin Guard minifigure, and a Stormtrooper. It is appropriate for ages 14 and above. Similar to many previous iterations of the Slave I, the model includes a redesigned compartment for the Han Solo in Carbonite piece, positionable laser cannons, a redesigned control area, concealed missile launchers, and laser cannons, and redesigned wings. An exceptional model, one which will be talked about for years to come. Appearing in her ‘Slave’ outfit, this Leia minifigure was originally coloured in the standard yellow skin tone and also included a fairly generic brown hair piece. Slave Leia would make further appearances in set 6210: Jabba’s Sail Barge in the new flesh tone and again in the 2013 revamp of the same set, where Leia included a brand new and unique hair element. One of the most elusive versions of Princess Leia, is her Cloud City variant included in set 10123: Cloud City. This Leia featured another different hair piece and the classic yellow skin tone. Despite many LEGO sets being re-released over the years, this version of Leia has never reappeared. On the top right of the box is an updated, monochrome version of the classic LEGO Star Wars logo, now in pseudo-metallic silver.

According to the narrative, Leia dresses as a man to fool Jabba and rescue Han, and then dresses in the bikini because she’s forced to by Jabba. But you could also see the story as a sublimated reaction to Leia’s emotional and sexual awakening. Having suddenly discovered her own desires, she has to fit them into her own conception of her own gender. Technic Liftarms are also strategically placed for stability and strength, which will basically hold the structure of the entire build. Laying out the plates reminds me of the silhouette of a midi-sized Millennium Falcon. The third fold showcases the 4 other sets that are part of the 20th Anniversary series, while the fourth fold shows a few key film scenes, including a large image of the ship on the Cloud City landing platform as carbonite-frozen Han is loaded into the cargo bay. The mysterious bounty hunter, Boussh appears at Jabba’s Palace to bargain for Captain Sols’s life, little did Jabba and his cronies know that Boussh was actually Princess Leia in disguise. This version of Leia has only ever appeared in a single set, 2012’s updated version of Jabba’s Palace, which ditched the Slave version of Leia in favour of her more menacing alter-ego Boussh. LEGO 75243 Slave I – 20th Anniversary Edition includes 1,007 pieces and 5 minifigs. The set is available at the LEGO Shop Online starting April 1 ( USD 119.99 | CAD 159.99 | GBP 109.99).

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Struggling with scavengers? Here's how to use the Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga Scavenger ability Two silver lines extend out from the main Star Wars Logo to wrap around the edges of the box, which is a very similar retro look to the old Star Wars 3.75 inch Kenner-issued action figures. Leia rejects the slave identity emphatically; as critic Vom Marlowe puts it, she “strangles Jabba the Hutt with the literal chains of the patriarchy”. Those patriarchal chains aren’t just patriarchal chains, though; they’re also a BDSM fever dream. The specter of adult relationships and adult sexuality causes Lucas, and his film, to freak out, erupting in a cacophony of fetishes: bondage, submission, Orientalism, tentacle sex and rape fantasy. Leia is objectified – but as the woman seeking to free her man, and as the fascinating protagonist running through different outfits and different identities, she’s also the driving subject of the narrative, in a way she almost never is for the rest of the Han-and-Luke focused series.