Lego will cease production of the 'Jabba's Palace' set following complaints from Austria's Turkish community that Jabba, the hefty slug-like hookah-smoking alien of 'Star Wars,' has a residence that resembles a mosque. Production will end in 2014.
Muslim critics argued that the Lego set closely resembled Istanbul's Hagia Sophia, and that the film's oriental and Asian figures had "deceitful and criminal" personalities – a criticism published in a January statement by the Turkish Cultural Community of Austria (TCA).
