Hasbro Responds to Sexist Removal of Rey in Star Wars Monopoly

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(NOT-SO) SPOILER ALERT for ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ — There’s a girl in it.

Now that we have that out of the way, that girl — Rey, the heroine of Episode VII — is a major part of the movie and that implies she’d be a major part of the marketing, too.

In the first trilogy, Princess Leia Organa was the sole reason little girls had any reason to care about Star Wars. The second trilogy’s pull for the female Jedi was Princess Padme Amidala (mama of Leia and her brother Luke, which you may know).

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