Hasbro Cites ‘Insufficient Interest’ in Adding Rey Token to Monopoly We’re now in Year Two of #WheresRey, a hashtag that points out and asks why Rey, a leading protagonist in the new Star Wars trilogy, isn’t as prominent in the toy lines as her male counterparts. While there has been some improvement over the past several...
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The Star Wars franchise has much to celebrate this year: The Last Jedi is coming out, it’s been 20 years since the first Special Editions came out and changed/revitalized the fandom, and it’s the 40th Anniversary of when A New Hope first blasted its way into our hearts! So naturally, Hasbro is launching a string of new toys and...
Hasbro debuted the new Monopoly: Star Wars Rey piece at Toy Fair 2016 in New York. As many of you know, Hasbro caught quite a bit of crap from fans who were pissed that Rey was not originally included in Monopoly: Star Wars. Hasbro responded to our inquiry about the situation, claiming that, since the game was released a few months prior to Star...
Well, it’s about time! When I started the #WheresRey campaign months ago after seeing the Hasbro/Target set featuring zero female characters, I never thought it would explode the way it did. However, leaving her out of the Star Wars Monopoly set was so egregious that even director J.J. Abrams was upset by it. Especially after that lame...
On this week’s 23rd episode of the Legion of Leia podcast, writer and LoL movie reviewer Witney Seibold joins myself and my co-hosts Anastasia Washington and Sabina Ibarra. Witney co-hosts the B Movies Podcast along with my Most Craved co-host William Bibbiani. This week we take on the #WheresRey controversy. As you may know, it was...
On this week’s Most Craved, my co-host William Bibbiani and I take on the #WheresRey controversy. As you may know, on Tuesday there was a big debacle on the Internet after it came to light that Hasbro‘s Star Wars Monopoly game allows you to play as Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Kylo Ren and Finn. Who’s missing? Only the...
UPDATE – 6:53PM PST: I just heard from my friend Carrie Goldman who’s eight-year-old daughter Annie Rose wrote the original letter to Hasbro about Rey being missing from the Star Wars Monopoly game. Hasbro’s official Twitter account just tweeted at her saying this: “We love your passion for Rey, and are happy to share that...