Following the lead of retailers like Amazon, eBay, and Walmart—who all recently stopped selling merchandise emblazoned with the Confederate flag following the shootings in Charleston—Warner Bros. says it will stop licensing toy versions of the Dukes Of Hazzard’s General Lee. The orange car, which features a big-ass Confederate flag on its roof, is a big feature of the show, and though Warner Bros. says there’s only “one licensee producing die-cast replicas and vehicle model kits featuring the General Lee,” it has still “elected to cease the licensing of these product categories.” Customers will still be able to buy T-shirts or other merchandise featuring an image of the car, but the vehicle will be missing that rooftop flag, something AutoTrader was already running with in a recent commercial series:
Interestingly, back in 2012, Warner Bros. refuted a rumor that the Confederate flag would be removed from models of the car, telling The New York Times that the company “[was] not and [is] not planning to change design of the General Lee on merchandise.”