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Re: Keep in mind that it's not the Tantive.
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Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:39:13 GMT
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BTW - also bear in mind that only in the 'expanded universe' (everything Star
Wars OUTSIDE the movies) is the ship even identified at all. At no time IN the
movie is the ship refered to as anything other than "The Princess' Ship".

And now a bit of Behind the Magic trivia: Almost up until filming began, the
'Blockade Runner' ship was actually going to be the Millennium Falcom, until
George Lucas came up with the 'smashed hamburger' design idea. The BR was
almost scrapped until someone realised they still needed a ship for the opening
scene.

In lugnet.starwars, Jason Fabisch writes:
It clearly states it is a Rebel Blockade Runner, but not necessarily the
Tantive IV (or whatever the number was).  I have seen pictures of all Blue
and all Red RBR's.  But the diplomatic crafts have to have red on them
somewhere.  So maybe we could see the whole thing in Red, who knows, it only
states that it "features" a new red color.  I wouldn't call a red stripe a
main feature to brag about.

Jason.



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  Re: Keep in mind that it's not the Tantive.
 
(...) There is at least a little bit of grey area when it comes to the use of names not actually in the movies. We are evidently getting a Lobot figure in Jan. I just watched the trilogy last night and noticed that the name Lobot is not even in the (...) (23 years ago, 23-Sep-01, to lugnet.starwars)

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  Keep in mind that it's not the Tantive.
 
It clearly states it is a Rebel Blockade Runner, but not necessarily the Tantive IV (or whatever the number was). I have seen pictures of all Blue and all Red RBR's. But the diplomatic crafts have to have red on them somewhere. So maybe we could see (...) (23 years ago, 22-Sep-01, to lugnet.starwars)

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