I think anyone putting too much stock in the ROTS Falcon probably needs to relax a little. It was a stupid little Easter Egg. If I was directing Solo, I'd hardly want to be beholden to some "blink and you'll miss it" background trivia just to keep nerds from hyperventilating.
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Hey.....I don't know if Hunk a Junk mentioned it or sparked my train of thought regarding the front 2 landing gears......
Well,....the gear boxes are quite big.....
.http://www.candykiller.com/mfbuild/underside.jpg
Han is a smuggler.....would you stash something in a cargo hold?
in SW (ANH)....we know Han jettisoned Jabba's cargo at the first sign of an Imperial check point....
What if he jettisoned the gar boxes full of pruck?
So by ESB he's using his reward money to put the Falcon right again
.......????
J
I don't know why-- but I always assumed the stock Falcon model was a tug for larger cargo modules.