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Re: Millennium Falcon Opinion
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lugnet.starwars
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Fri, 19 May 2000 20:06:06 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Mike Petrucelli wrote:
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> > OK. Then why was the 40% too small scale used: in ESB when the Falcon is • being
> > chased by TIEs
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> How can you tell?
Because they are flying right near each other. If the size difference were say
10% then I would understand how one could not tell but 40% is very significant
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> > , in ROTJ when the Falcon and Luke's X-wing leaves Tattooine,
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> How can you tell?
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> > and
> > in the dog fighting scence durring the Battle of Endor.
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> How can you tell?
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> > (Basically
> > everytime the outside of the ship is shown flying.)
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> Maybe because it was 'the movies', and strict reality must always fall
> victim to the dictates of showing a good story?
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> That is, you can fit more of the Falcon in the frame if the stage-model is
> smaller. Which makes the scene look better, because viewers can tell that
> it's the Falcon, not just a wall of scrap.
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> That's just a guess. The other rumor I heard was that the size mismatch
> between the interior sets and the exterior set was a mistake in the first
> movie.
Well the usuall rules of canon (canon = concrete information in a ficticious
universe that is consider 'real') are that what we see in the movie is what's
real. Obviously this is a problem with the Falcon which can't exist in
reality.
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> > Lego's Falcon is near
> > perfect external scale compared to their X-wing.
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> That's too bad. The internal-set scale makes a lot more sense, based on
> what the interior of the Falcon is supposed to hold and do. Which is
> probably why it's a more popular choice as the 'correct' scale for the MF.
I agree I prefer the internal scale myself. However to say that TLC screwed up
the scale is an incorrect statement they merely used the one we see when the
ship is flying next to other craft. Luke's X-wing for example.
Hopefully TLC will make a UCS Falcon that is mini-fig internal scale and is all
grey.
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> Steve
-Lord Insanity
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| (...) I'd never say that TLC screwed up the scale, because I know there is no 'minifig scale'. Actually, from that POV, the external-set size is a better 'target scale', because that's what they've used to size the ships they've already released. My (...) (24 years ago, 22-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) How can you tell? (...) How can you tell? (...) How can you tell? (...) Maybe because it was 'the movies', and strict reality must always fall victim to the dictates of showing a good story? That is, you can fit more of the Falcon in the frame (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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