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 Despite being the lead of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Rey is mysteriously absent from many toy sets—echoing past concerns regarding Disney characters Black Widow and Gamora. UPDATE, 1/5/2016: Hasbro released a statement Tuesday addressing Rey's absence in the Star Wars: Monopoly game, writing that she was not included for fear of "spoilers" and revealing "a key plot line in that she takes on Kylo Ren and joins the Rebel Alliance." RELATED: Star Wars: The Force Awakens: An Exclusive EW Gallery of New Photos 
 
 Reached for comment, a Hasbro spokesperson said in a statement to EW, “The Star Wars: Monopoly game was released in September, months before the movie’s release, and Rey was not included to avoid revealing a key plot line that she takes on Kylo Ren and joins the Rebel Alliance.” 
 
 The spokesperson added that Rey is featured in several Hasbro games, including Hands Down, Guess Who, and chess, and that “fans will see more Rey product hitting store shelves this month, including 6-inch and 12-inch Rey action figures. Star Wars is a game-changer, awakening the feminist force in little girls everywhere Read more 
 
 Rey, played by Daisy Ridley, is a central character in the latest chapter of the Star Wars film franchise, The Force Awakens, which hit the $1.5bn (£1.01bn) mark at the global box office this weekend. The hashtag took aim at the glaring lack of Ridley’s Jakku scavenger heroine Rey from a Target exclusive toy six-pack that included her three new male co-stars John Boyega (as Finn), Oscar Isaac (as Poe Dameron), and Adam Driver (as the Sith junior lord Kylo Ren) alongside Chewbacca, an unnamed Storm Trooper, and an unnamed First Order pilot. The scavenger from Jakku, Rey is also a keen pilot that mans and repairs the film series’s star vehicle, the Millennium Falcon. And it’s Rey, not Finn or BB-8 or Poe Dameron or Kylo Ren, who earns respect and a job offer from the most famous smuggler in the galaxy. It reminded them too well of how Star Wars studio Disney similarly treated Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow this year in its male-centric rollout of Avengers toys. Mark Ruffalo, who plays Dr. Bruce Banner/The Hulk in the Avengers film, publicly called out Marvel for the mishap, tweeting, “Marvel, we need more #BlackWidow merchandise for my daughters and nieces. Pretty please.” 
 
 
 
 “It’s frustrating and stuff, and it bums me out,” added Guardians director James Gunn of the Gamora toy snafu. This article is over 3 years old 
 
 A new edition of the board game for The Force Awakens includes Finn, Kylo Ren, Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader tokens – with the notable absence of Rey, the film’s lead 
 
 She has been embraced by fans as this generation’s new film hero, but in the most recent release of the Star Wars Monopoly game, Rey is nowhere to be seen. In a warehouse far, far away, the galaxy's top Star Wars collector holds court Read more 
 
 “Rey and Phasma feature prominently across hundreds of products, and are selling exceptionally well,” Disney’s senior vice president and head of licensing for Lucasfilm, Paul Southern, said. #WheresRey pic.twitter.com/TvYUeiA49o 
 
 A trending hashtag #WheresRey has been charting the absence of Rey from chain store shelves selling the film’s official merchandise. Fans will also be seeing a lot more of Rey with a new wave of product coming in January.” 
 
 Other recent action films, including Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy, have come under fire for toy lines that focused on male characters.
– A certain female protagonist of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is missing from some of the toys related to the movie, leading fans to wonder #WhereIsRey on Twitter, Entertainment Weekly reports. Daisy Ridley's character—arguably the main hero or at least one of the main heroes of the new movie—is not a token in Hasbro's new Star Wars Monopoly game, which instead offers players the chance to play as John Boyega’s Finn, Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker, Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren ... or Darth Vader, who doesn't actually appear in the new film. Hasbro's response to the outcry—beware, spoilers ahead: "The Star Wars: Monopoly game was released in September, months before the movie’s release, and Rey was not included to avoid revealing a key plot line that she takes on Kylo Ren and joins the Rebel Alliance," a spokesperson says in a statement, adding that Rey is included in other Star Wars-themed games the company has released. But, as the Guardian reports, Rey is notably absent from other toys, including a toy version of the Millennium Falcon that includes figurines of Chewbacca, Finn, and BB-8 (the latter two never pilot the ship, while Rey does). A Disney rep told the Daily Beast in December that Rey will feature more prominently in toys released this month.