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

J

 

[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:




J

 

[nkg]

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.....??

J

 

[Treadwell]

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

 

[nkg]

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