Millennium Falcon is a fictional space ship in Star Wars franchise. The modified Corellian YT-1300 light carrying vessel is mainly commandeered by the Corellian Han Solo (Harrison Ford) smuggler and his first Wookiee partner, Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew). Designed by Corvian Engineering Corporation (CEC), the modified YT-1300 is durable, modular, and is declared the second fastest ship in the Star Wars canon.
The Millennium Falcon first appeared in Star Wars (1977), and then at The Empire Back Strikes (1980), The Return of the Jedi (1983), The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017), and Solo: Star Wars Story 2018). The ship also made short cameo appearances at Revenge of the Sith (2005), when approaching the Senate Building at Coruscant. In addition, Falcon appears in various Star Wars expanding the universe's material, including books, comics, and games; James Luceno's novel Millennium Falcon focuses on titular vessels. It also appeared in the 2014 Lego Movie in the form of Lego, with Billy Dee Williams and Anthony Daniels repeating their role of Lando Calrissian and C-3PO, and with Keith Ferguson voicing Han Solo.
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Origin and design
The ship initially had a more elongated appearance, but this design similarity with Eagle Transporters in Space: 1999 encouraged Lucas to change the Falcon ' s Design. The original model has been modified, reduced, and used as Princess Leia's ship, Tantive IV . Modelmaker Joe Johnston had about four weeks to redesign the Falcon, and Lucas's only suggestion to Johnston was to "think of flying saucers." Johnston did not want to produce "basic flying saucers", so he created the offset cockpit, the front cargo mandible, and the rear slot for the engine. The design is simple enough to be made in a four-week window. Johnston cites the new production of the Falcon design as one of his most intense projects.
The sound of ships traveling through hyperspace comes from two machine sound tracks from McDonnell Douglas DC-9, with one track slightly out of sync with the others to introduce the phasing effect. For this, the sound designer Ben Burtt added a cooling fan buzz to a motion control rig in Industrial Light & amp; Magic (ILM).
Model and set
Visually, Millennium Falcon is represented by several external and internal models and sets. For Star Wars, a set of partially constructed exteriors and a dressed set like the Docking Bay 94 and the Death Star hangar. In addition to functional landing gear, additional support holds the structure and disguises as a fuel line. The interior set includes right rings corridors, riding trails, cockpit access tunnels, turret rifles, secret compartments, and front grip. The cockpit is built as a separate device that can be shaken when the ship is supposed to vibrate. Some inconsistencies exist between the internal set and the external set, the cockpit access tunnel angle being the most visible.
The effect model for Star Wars matches the exterior set design. The main model is 5 meters long and detailed with various parts of kit. The vessel is represented by a matte painting when Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) sees it for the first time, showing the full upper surface. For the 1997 "Special Edition", the digital model replaces the effects model in several shots, and is used in the new Falcon shot taken from Docking Bay 94.
For The Empire Strikes Back , a newly built external set. In the spring of 1979, Marcon Fabrications, a heavy engineering company serving the petrochemical and oil industries of Britain, was employed to build a full-scale external scale model capable of "moving as if to take off." Built in secrecy by the project code name of the Magic Roundabout, the company hired the Sunderland North West Sunderland hangar in Pembroke Dock, West Wales. The model, which took three months to build, weighed over 25 tonnes long (25 t), measured 65 feet (20 m) in diameter and 20 feet (6.1 m) in height, and used compressed air compressed to 1 , 5 inch (38 mm) movement hovering around the set. It was later dismantled and shipped to Elstree Studios, Hertfordshire, for filming. Today, the Pembroke Dock museum has an exhibit about the project.
Along with the full-size Falcon mock-up, a new miniature model was created for Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back to enable PSAs to film more. intricate deep rolls and unlikely pitches with a five-foot model. This model can be mounted on dreadlocks that allow the ILM to simulate very difficult maneuvers when the ship tries to outrun the Imperial Tie-Fighters during the asteroid-field-escape scene of the film. The new model, measuring approximately 32 inches in length, features several different surface features of the five-foot model including an updated landing gear and different surface greeblies. Model 32 "is the most widely depicted version of Millennium Falcon in toys, kit models, and promotional materials for Star Wars universe before the release of The Force Awakens .This model is reused for Star Wars, Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
As in Star Wars , the location set is changed around the set of ships. The only major design change is to add a landing gear where the disguised undercover line is in Star Wars. As this set includes the port side, which gives a set of seven landing gear. The internal set is slightly reinstalled from A New Hope and features a sliding cockpit door, larger cargo, additional corridor to the port, and equipment room. Two newly created interior sets are not shown to connect to the rest of the set: the top hatch that uses Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams) to save Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), and the compartment where Luke is resting on the bed.
The 5-foot-long (1.5 m) effect model of Star Wars is modified to reflect the additional landing gear, and several new models are built, including approximately the US Dollar Quarter-equivalent. For the 1997 Special Edition, the CGI model replaces the effect model during approach and landing in Cloud City.
No new model or set created for Return of the Jedi . Some of the full-scale ships were used to cut off scenes from films where some characters climbed Falcon in a sandstorm at Tatooine. In the scene when Han demands an appointment from Lando not to damage Falcon, Falcon is represented by a background drawing. It is also in matte paintings of the entire hangar bay.
The internal and external sets are removed after filming on Return of the Jedi ends. The effects models are kept by Lucasfilm and some have been exhibited from time to time.
The digital version of Falcon appears briefly on Coruscant in Revenge of the Sith . Lucas said the ship was Falcon and not another ship of similar design. The CGI version of the ship also appears at Disney's attractions Star Tours: The Adventures Continue.
On June 3, 2014, TMZ confirmed that Falcon will be back for Star Wars: The Force Awakens when it leaked the photo from the movie set, showing a Falcon scale version of Falcon is being built. The Falcon shot effect appeared in the teaser trailer for The Force Awakens, released on November 28, 2014. This ship version is the original 1977 original 5 foot model of recreation, with additional detail reflecting the passing time. The most noticeable change is the arrangement of the rectangular sensor above the upper hull, which replaces the circular disk of the first three films.
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Overview
Han Solo won the Millennium Falcon of Lando Calrissian in a 'sabacc' card game a few years before the film A New Hope. In Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness) and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) chartered ships at Mos Eisley Cantina to deliver them, C-3PO (Anthony Daniels), R2-D2 (Kenny Baker ), and the stolen Death Star plans to Alderaan. When the Falcon was captured by the Death Star, the group hid themselves in a smuggling compartment built into the floor to avoid detection during a ship search. Solo then collects his pay to send them to Rebel's hidden headquarters and departs bitterly, but returns to help Luke destroy the Star of Death.
Solo pilot Falcon, with Chewbacca, Leia, and C-3PO aboard, to avoid Imperial Starfleet at The Empire Strikes Back, where they took refuge in Cloud City, where Darth Vader (David Prowse/James Earl Jones) captures Solo. Lando Calrissian helped the others flee and, at the end of the film, he set out in Falcon to track Solo and his captor Jabba the Hutt. Calrissian again flew the Falcon during the climax of Return of Jedi, with Nien Nunb as co-pilot, to destroy the second Death Star. Before the second Death Star was destroyed, Lando accidentally damaged the ship by crashing a circular sensor device antenna on a pipe or random circuit in the second Death Star. Lando and others still managed to destroy the Galactic Empire.
In Star Wars: The Force Awakens, set about 30 years after Return of the Jedi , Falcon belongs to a scrap seller named Unkar Plutt on the planet desert Jakku, stolen from Solo and Chewbacca a few years earlier. Scavenger Rey (Daisy Ridley) and former Finn stormtrooper (John Boyega) stole Falcon to escape an attack by First Order, which has been targeted to have their BB-8 droid. During the chase sequence, Falcon demonstrates an atmospheric performance of 60 degrees per second, and 90 degrees per second. They were captured by smugglers, who were driven by Solo and Chewbacca, who reclaimed the Falcon for themselves. Forced to flee at the Falcon from an ambush by debt-stricken parties, Solo reluctantly agrees to help Rey and Finn return BB-8 to the Resistance.
The Falcon reappears in Star Wars: The Last Jedi , still on Ahch-To with Rey and Chewbacca. Later in the film, Chewbacca and Rey bring the Falcon to Crait, where the Resistance is attacked by the First Order. The Falcon lost his sensor plate for the second time in Crait, after being shot by a TIE fighter. After the battle, surviving Resistance personnel leave Crait on board the Falcon.
Kessel Run
In the initial film, Solo boasted that Falcon made Kessel Run in "less than twelve parsecs". Since parsecs are units of distance, not time, different explanations have been provided. In the fourth manuscript, Kenobi "reacts to Solo's stupid efforts to impress them with the wrong information". In the expanded universe, Kessel Run is the path from Kessel past the Maw Black Hole Cluster: used by smugglers to transport precious Glitterstim spices; and boasting Solo refers to its ability to move the ship closer to Maw's black hole and therefore shorten the distance traveled. In the Star Wars audio DVD commentary, Lucas commented that, in the Star Wars universe, traveling through hyperspace requires careful navigation to avoid stars, planets, asteroids, and obstacles and that because no long-distance travel can be made in a straight line, the "fastest" vessel is a ship that can plan the "most direct path", so that it travels the least distance.
In its pre-release line novelization is: "less than twelve standard hours".
In the movie Solo: The Story of Star Wars, Kessel Run of Solo is described in detail, giving another explanation for the "parsec crown" of pride. Due to integrating the damaged Lando L3 memory modules, the ship's navigation capability is enhanced to assist in taking "shortcuts" near the black hole.
Ownership
The Falcon has been described several times in the franchise, and ship ownership often arises during its historical annotations.
- Before Star Wars , Falcon belongs to Lando Calrissian. He lost it to Han Solo in gambling debt payments. This time period is also referenced in Solo: Star Wars Story .
- Following the The Empire Strikes Back , Leia, Chewbacca, and Lando took over Falcon after the Solo hybernation in carbonite and captured by Empire and Boba Fett.
- During the Return of Jedi , Solo left Tatooine above Millennium Falcon, and upon arrival at the meeting place for the Rebel fleet he borrowed Falcon i > to Lando, who uses it to assist in the Battle of Endor and the destruction of the second Death Star.
- Following the Return of Jedi , Falcon event was stolen from Solo, ending on Jakku planet under the ownership of a secondhand dealer, Unkar Plutt, 30 years after the Battle of Endor. In The Force Awakens, Rey and Finn confiscated the ship to escape from the planet, only to be discovered by Solo and Chewbacca, who promptly retook the ship.
- Following Solo's death, Rey shoots Falcon , with Chewbacca as his co-pilot. Novelisasi The Force Awakens writes that Chewbacca is willing to release the captain Falcon to Rey.
- Following the <<> The Last Jedi event the ship became the operating base for the remaining 300 members of the Resistance.
Cultural influence
Joss Whedon calls Millennium Falcon one of his two inspirations for his Firefly television show. The Falcon and Falcon 's different forms appear in Star Trek: First Contact Blade Runner > Spaceballs , and Starship Troopers . The manga series Berserk includes the Millennium Falcon arc . In the manga and other anime series, Hellsing , Millennium Falcon is briefly referred to the comedic effect. Robot Chicken sketch comedy skit series aired a sketch entitled "Emperor Call Calls," in which Palpatine received news of the destruction of the Star of Death with unbelief, at one point angrily asked "What is an aluminum eagle?"
In 2010, Adidas also released a pair of Stan Smith trainers inspired by Millennium Falcon, as part of Adidas Originals Star Wars campaign .
SpaceX stated that its Falcon rocket was named after the Millennium Falcon.
In 2015, manufacturers of the DeAgostini and Model-Space scale models introduce a monthly installment model of the Millennium Falcon . This model is a 1: 1 replica of the miniature taking of the 32 "inch image The Empire Strikes Back .
Toy
Kenner, Hasbro, Steel Tec, Master Replicas, Code 3 Collectibles and Micro Machines have all released the Millennium Falcon toys and puzzles, including the Transformers version of the ship.
Hot Wheels has created a flagship model for their Star Wars starship line and version as a car. It is also available as a Hot Wheels playset.
Lego has released several versions of Millennium Falcon in various sizes. The 5,195-piece Lego model (part of Star Wars "Ultimate Collectors Series") is physically the largest Lego sold by the company, until it was topped in 2008 by Lego Taj Mahal. In September 2017, Lego released the updated version of "Millennium Falcon" in Star Wars "Ultimate Collectors Series". With the new interior and more detail than the 2007 model, the 7.541-piece model is the largest commercially available Lego set (by a sizeable difference), and also the most expensive set at $ 800. Lego also makes the Falcon version to join the latest Star Wars movie , Solo . This is called Kessel Run Millennium Falcon.
See also
- List of Star Wars spacecraft
References
External links
- Millennium Falcon at StarWars.com Databank
- Millennium Falcon on Wookieepedia, Star Wars wizard Star Wars
- Millennium Falcon Note: information for the model builder
- How quickly Millennium Falcon ?: a mind experiment
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