NEW (OLD) MILLENNIUM FALCON from SOLO the movie
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kamandi
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More Ship of Riddles problems are created by having an escape/mission pod at the nose:
1) Access: The main hold area would need a door where we saw Luke practicing with his lightsaber in the first SW. There's support frames and a large black pipe running through there. No room to crawl around. Perhaps the passenger(s) are in the pod during takeoff. I hope they "go" before takeoff, not much room for a toilet.
2) Let's say they cheat and there's a tunnel anyways (probable retcon): The 5 foot model has some type of port tucked in the jaw area:
Based on this shot of Han the access tunnel can be no higher than 3.5 feet. Keep that in mind if we see a character walk upright to get into this thing.
3) Why put it there? If you need escape pods there are two debated escape pod/docking hatches. Here's their chance to define at least one as an escape pod. They need to pop those off anyway since they're too small to hide the classic pods.
1) Access: The main hold area would need a door where we saw Luke practicing with his lightsaber in the first SW. There's support frames and a large black pipe running through there. No room to crawl around. Perhaps the passenger(s) are in the pod during takeoff. I hope they "go" before takeoff, not much room for a toilet.
2) Let's say they cheat and there's a tunnel anyways (probable retcon): The 5 foot model has some type of port tucked in the jaw area:
Based on this shot of Han the access tunnel can be no higher than 3.5 feet. Keep that in mind if we see a character walk upright to get into this thing.
3) Why put it there? If you need escape pods there are two debated escape pod/docking hatches. Here's their chance to define at least one as an escape pod. They need to pop those off anyway since they're too small to hide the classic pods.
scifiguy67
Active Member
Didn't they use an escape pod thing in TLJ?... really can't remember I only seen the film once.
^ Yep. And the "full size" OT exterior set is about 40% of actual derived size per model scaling, so I side-eye every time I see actors compared against it as argument data points. I agree, though, the saucer rim is way below average full-headroom height. Ditto the "floor-to-ceiling" height in the jawbox. However, gonna wait to see if the craft being entered in the trailer is, in fact, that mini-ship before I start sharpening my pitchfork.
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ggriffaw
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Some photos of the upcoming toys indicate plot points in the movie, not just the general look of the ships or characters.
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astroboy
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A, i don't mind about a hasbro-toy (or the old ertl-toys). They have always been a "toy-interpretation" of the ships in the movies an had a lot of "features" never seen or used in the movies, not a reference for "the real thing". For me these things where always toys and look inaccurate (in never liked them because of this), because little children don't care about a "real scale look".
Nobody would argue about the cockpit-front swiveling open in the movie to get to the pilot-seat, because every one knows, that's just for the toy-figures, or a freight-room right inside the engine-area...
So it's still possible, that there will be no separate ship or escape-pod in this front-area at all... just wait for the movie or pictures from it, then we see...
Nobody would argue about the cockpit-front swiveling open in the movie to get to the pilot-seat, because every one knows, that's just for the toy-figures, or a freight-room right inside the engine-area...
So it's still possible, that there will be no separate ship or escape-pod in this front-area at all... just wait for the movie or pictures from it, then we see...
C'mon astroboy, everyone knows it's a cargo access bay, uh... I mean torpedo bay, uh... er... escape pod hatch, or...uhm... whatever the hell we want it to be.
As far as I'm concerned it's now 'The Room of Requirement" located on Hogwarts seventh floor.
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The Kitbasher
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I think the internals of the Falcon were heavily modified since the "Lando's era", maybe at that time there was no tubes blocking the way from main hold to the escape pod, maybe later Han dismissed that pod and made modifications that made those tubes necessary.
P.S.: the missile/torpedoes are inside the upper jaw, not in the space between.
P.S.: the missile/torpedoes are inside the upper jaw, not in the space between.
The Kitbasher
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Everyone seems to forget the Falcon had an escape pod in the TLJ that ejected somewhere out of the back. Still trying to figure out where that was located.
Inside the rear gearbox, next to the landing gear.
Hunk a Junk
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The Kitbasher
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Not the same place, the pod is located to the right of that mark, next to that "greeblie zone" at the center, at least in TLJ. No clue about where could be the escape pods in ANH.
Guns Akimbo
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Jaitea
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robn1
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Hunk a Junk
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I stand corrected. I looked at a dimmer screen shot from when the pod launches.
SteveStarkiller
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holy crap, this actually explains everything about that weird design. This is the same nose shape as on TFA also...how did they know that far in advance?
