My Very Easy Method for Spotting Millennium Falcon Differences

[Jaitea]

Just making a modification to my first post

...about the Quad lasers....I don't think that the Quads were broken off the turret....I think they were modded to allow fibre optics to be added

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[JediMichael]

Never noticed the little lights on the tips on the guns. Are there any shots in Jedi where you can actually see them light up?

 

[Treadwell]

Do we know, though, that the fiber optics weren't there in ANH? Because I'm pretty sure they'd given up on that technique* after the first film.

(*for guns that is)

 

[Jaitea]

Do we know, though, that the fiber optics weren't there in ANH? Because I'm pretty sure they'd given up on that technique* after the first film.

(*for guns that is)

I can't be certain,...but the reference pics of the 5 footer at the time of ANH,....the quads are definitely on a fork gimbal, allowing the guns to swing to pretty good angles

Afterwards....possibly when she was being modded for ESB....the fork is missing & a rod/tube connects the Quad in a fixed position

ANH:




Afterwards:




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[3Dsf]

Hm. It looks to me like the fibres in the cannon tips were present for Star Wars/ANH. But the tubes or wires or fibres visible today shoved in the back of the cannon assembly definitely weren't present then.

 

[Jaitea]

Hm. It looks to me like the fibres in the cannon tips were present for Star Wars/ANH. But the tubes or wires or fibres visible today shoved in the back of the cannon assembly definitely weren't present then.

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Perhaps its something they had intended on doing for ANH,....but either ran out of time or decided they didn't want to loose the dexterity of the hinge.....??

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[Treadwell]

I think that brings us back to the fork having been broken, and the shaft is just a quick fix.

 

[3Dsf]

All I know is that the cannon detail looked fantastic originally, and looks dreadful now!

 

[Jaitea]

I think that brings us back to the fork having been broken, and the shaft is just a quick fix.

Yep,...you're right

J

 

[Jaitea]

Headlights

Just thought I'd mention that the headlights on the Falcon are only on when the pilots need to see where they are going. The only times the Falcon switches on headlights are when she enters the Asteroid cave/space slug in 'Empire' & when she enters the Death Star II tunnel in 'Jedi' (Disney Star Wars can do its own thing)
After the Falcon splits up from the rest of the squadron inside the Death Star II tunnel headlights are off again

EDIT: this also excludes the full size set which confuses things,....full size set of the X-Wings also has lights on wings etc

ESB

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[publiusr]

Audubon birding books have less detail

 

[Hunk a Junk]

ANH:

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Afterwards:

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J

Seeing as this got bumped, just noticed the gun port window frame is a more noticeable blue color after the ESB modification. So was it actually repainted or is it a trick of the photo? Because it almost looks similar to TIE blue that could've been loaded in an ILM airbrush when a touch up was needed. I don't want my ANH 5-footer Bandai PG Falcon to have an ESB modification on it. That would be heresy!

 

[JediMichael]

I had forgotten about this thread.
After just spending the last 5 months redoing that MPC Falcon and looking at pictures constantly of mainly the 5 footer, I can see so many little differences now. Still probably not as much as some of you guys.
At a quick glance, there are certain parts that really stand out. Mostly, the shape of the cockpit and that decal on the top of the 5 footer, which isn't there on the 32". I imagine that decal is not there because they couldn't find one in the smaller scale, but, just incase, wanted to know if anyone knows for certain.
I've not really looked over the studio model of the 32" that much, so not sure of what decals are there or not there.
Considering they didn't have any type of 3D printer to make perfect smaller size pieces, they did a pretty good job of rebuilding it in a a smaller scale, and with the whole time frame of knowing a movie needed to be filmed soon.