Jabba's Palace™61 ReviewsFIND MORE PRODUCTS LIKE THISStar Wars™Rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt's desert palace!LEGO Star Wars Jabba's Palace (4480)8 product ratings5840302010See all 7 reviewsAbout this productSee detailsBuy It NowSee all 4 Brand NewSee detailsBuy It NowSee all Pre-OwnedAll listings for this productAbout this productProduct InformationProduct IdentifiersKey Features5840302010Most relevant reviewsSee all 7 reviewsby Size is fairly big and its an interesting buildThe builds are solid, it takes a while to build both but nonetheless its an interesting build for both setsVerified purchaseCondition: Newby Nice set.Typical superb quality LEGO is known for.Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Newby Quality TransactionProduct was as described and packed well for shipping.Condition: Newby Best lego set for your buck!This is a great set. My son has loved playing with it and the many figures that come with it make it a lot of fun and easy to get a lot of use out of the set.by really neat model.great fun, put together with my son..
all the characters are really cool. To bad they are discontinuing this model..Lego is planning to pull its Jabba The Hutt-themed set off the shelves this year, but it wants you to know that recent accusations of racism are not the reason why. Birol Kilic, head of the Turkish Cultural Association of Austria responsible for the accusations, doesn't appear to agree. He told NBC News that after his group met with the toymaker last week, the company promised to pull the product from shelves by the end of this year. Kilic’s organization argued earlier this year that the set resembled the a former mosque in Istanbul, the Jami al-Kabir mosque in Beirut and a minaret. Because Jabba The Hutt is a villain in the Star Wars films, the group claimed the alleged close resemblance reinforced negative stereotypes about Muslims. “This does not belong in children’s bedrooms,” Kilic told NBC. “And the minaret-like tower features machine guns. Children will become insensitive to violence and other cultures.”
Officials at the world's most valuable toy-maker pointed to a statement from the company indicating that its decision to discontinue the product was not due to criticism: "A few media have reported that the product is being discontinued due to the mentioned criticism. This is, however, not correct," the statement reads. "The LEGO Star Wars product Jabba's Palace 9516 was planned from the beginning to be in the assortment only until the end of 2013 as new exciting models from the Star Wars universe will follow." Lego earlier released a separate statement saying that the components of the toy were all intended to resemble characters and sets from the fictional Star Wars movies. “The LEGO Group regrets that the product has caused the members of the Turkish cultural community to interpret it wrongly, but point out that the design of the product only refers to the fictional content of the Star Wars saga,” the January statement reads. The “Jabba’s Palace” controversy isn’t the first time Lego has been accused of racism.
In 2010, artist Chris McVeigh noticed that almost all of the non-white lego men and women scowl, prompting Wired to explore the issue. The publication found that Hollywood could be in part to blame; Lego sets that are based on famous movies reinforce the racism already apparent in movie industry casting, according to the Wired article. UPDATE: This post has been updated to include comments from Lego. CORRECTION: An earlier version of this post incorrectly implied that Chris McVeigh accused Lego of racism. McVeigh observed that many of the non-white Lego faces scowl, prompting Wired to observe that that could be a function of racism already apparent in Hollywood casting. Check out the "Jabba's Palace" set below:LEGO Star Wars Jabba's Palace4 product ratings5440302010About this productSee detailsBuy It NowSee all 7 Brand NewSee detailsBuy It NowSee all 2 Pre-OwnedAll listings for this productAbout this productProduct IdentifiersProduct Key Features5440302010Most relevant reviewsby Exactly as describedExactly as describedVerified purchase: Yes |
Condition: Newby Good Lego JabbaI bought this used on eBay for my son for a stocking stuffer so we haven't given it to him yet. But I'm sure he'll be happy with it.Lego has denied that it is withdrawing a Lego set after criticism from a Turkish community in Austria who claimed it resembled a famous mosque. The Jabba's Palace set caused controversy earlier this year when it was noticed that it bore a resemblance to the Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul. The model is based on the set featured in the movie Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi from 1983. It comes with models of the gelatinous mobster, as well as other characters from the films. Lego model Jabba's Palace, which retails for £119.99 But taking exception to the toy and its supposed resemblance to mosques in Turkey and Beirut, the Turkish Cultural Community of Austria demanded its removal. “What Lego are recommending parents buy as a Christmas gift? The answer is pure racism,” the Austrian Times reports the group as saying.
According to the Telegraph, the group said that Jabba's smoking of a Middle Eastern water pipe and Princess Leia's famously skimpy metal bikini heightened the offence. It added in a statement: "It is apparent that, for the figure of the repulsive bad guy Jabba and the whole scenery, racial prejudices and hidden suggestions against Orientals and Asians were used as deceitful and criminal personalities.” It also claimed the model is similar to the Jami al-Kabir mosque in Beirut and adds the “Combination of temple building and bunker facilities where shots are fired cannot be appropriate for children between 9 and 14 years old. "One would expect more empathy and responsibility from a manufacturer of toys that has produced toys and models that are good for teaching for decades." Then last week the Turkish community said that Lego had agreed to withdraw the toy. "We want to thank and congratulate Lego for its decision to no longer produce, from 2014, Jabba's Palace, and remove it from advertising," said Birol Kilic, chairman of the Turkish Cultural Community at the time.