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Re: size of Lego MF revisited
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Date: 
Fri, 14 May 1999 09:38:43 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Ben Fleskes writes:

[2] Common Star Wars folklore includes the story of how George Lucas was not
happy with the initial concepts of the Millennium Falcon as they looked to
Space 1999ish.  He finally held up the hamburger he was eating and told his
model builders to build a model that looked like it.  Hence the Flying
Hamburger/Saucer concept.

That's actually true- I've seen the original models.  It blew.  The concept
modeler for A New Hope really left something to be desired... although his Star
Destroyer was interesting.

At any rate, there are lots of food references- for example, the TIE Bomber is
often referred to as a "Double Chili TIE".

Another Falcon story is that the cockpit was originally supposed to rotate.
They didn't build it into the model, and later re-used the idea for the B-Wing
(and, of course, the Outrider in _Shadows of the Empire_).

eric



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  Re: size of Lego MF revisited
 
(...) Star (...) IIRC, the original Millennium Falcon model eventually mutated into the Rebel Blockade Runner (aka Tantive IV, aka Corellian Corvette). Chad (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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  size of Lego MF revisited
 
As if this hasn't been hashed enough already, here is some more info for everyone. Given you are tyring to build a Lego Millennium Falcon in 'minifig' scale. And given that the Lego Y-wing and X-wing are minifig scale, here are a few numbers Length (...) (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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