Holy crap that was a comprehensive article. Much more of this stuff, please.
I haven't power-read anything so dense in a long while. And I'm not even a Star Wars fan (other than having been 9 years old when A New Hope (as it's apparently called now) came out in theatres, and therefore having absorbed it all by cultural osmosis ever since.)
Doesn't matter if one is a Star Wars fan... the Millenium Falcon evokes instant nostalgia and smiles in most anyone over 40. And yes, it was fast enough for this old man, anyway.
Has anyone seen "Jodorowski's Dune"? I believe McQuarrie took a lot of his designs directly from that unmade movie into Star Wars.
I highly recommend that documentary as an amazing "what if?" for sci-fi geeks. An insanely ambitious, unmade version of Dune that had cast Orson Welles, Salvatore Dali and Mick Jagger in leading roles... and the concept may have laid the groundwork that allowed Star Wars to be made in the first place.
"A complete history of the Millennium Falcon" like in the URL itself does more justice to this incredibly detailed... document? The site has almost a https://www.folklore.org tint to it, I loved it and I can't wait for space launches get cheaper so some rich folks can build a Millennium Falcon-shaped space hotel. It's one of the coolest and most identifiable ship design ever.
And with all that thinking on models, sizes, and how to build the sets, they still got it wrong. See the link below: the Millennium Falcon interior and exterior dimensions do not match.
Wow. I saw Star Wars first and read the Stainless Steel Rat second, and I always assumed that cover was a knock-off of a TIE fighter, and not the other way around!
I like how it ended up with five legs--four and a spare. (I.e. once they added the front pair for TESB, the front middle one isn't needed anymore, but they left it.)
And that the main reason it was unbalanced without was that half the ship was not even there. (Other being the cockpit tube.)
I found it interesting that their studio has stacks of plastic model kits. It looks like they were using various vehicle parts to embellish the model exteriors with detail or to get nice round circles like on the landspeeder.
I haven't power-read anything so dense in a long while. And I'm not even a Star Wars fan (other than having been 9 years old when A New Hope (as it's apparently called now) came out in theatres, and therefore having absorbed it all by cultural osmosis ever since.)
Doesn't matter if one is a Star Wars fan... the Millenium Falcon evokes instant nostalgia and smiles in most anyone over 40. And yes, it was fast enough for this old man, anyway.