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Galactican
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Activating both nacelles at the same time would probably tear the ship apart because they go in the opposite directions. Which reminds me of the famous interview with Harrison Ford when he said, "George, how do you fly that thing?"
Roboted
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I always thought maybe its a space Lorry or Truck as they are often referred to as a frieght lorry, and the size would make more sense as lorries often have sleeping quaters and a cabin.
George Lucus probably just wanted the name to sound cool and didnt give it any chance of a second thought.
ggriffaw
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The relatively small truck analogy makes more sense to me.
The tug boat analogy looks plausible, but tug boats aren't used to cross oceans and I don't think anyone calls them freighters. Tug boats certainly are not agile or fast. Would anyone want to use a tug boat to navigate an equivalent of an asteroid field?
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Toadmeister
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Like a variable geometry wing? Never been done beforeActivating both nacelles at the same time would probably tear the ship apart because they go in the opposite directions. Which reminds me of the famous interview with Harrison Ford when he said, "George, how do you fly that thing?"
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Guns Akimbo
Sr Member
Lol. Are we really going to argue over a fantasy ship? :lol
Whatever floats yer goat man. Carry on. :thumbsup
Funny. And fun. I go with Occams Razor. George said make it a hamburger, right? A zooming, whooshing (in space!) hamburger.
First iteration would look like a flying saucer. Or the Jupiter 2. Not original enough. Add a pointy section. Because, it is a spaceship that will be whooshing through space dogfighting & such. Now it looks too much like a rocket. Still not original enough. Bifurcate the pointy section. Better. Add a weird asymmetrical feature like the control pod off to the side (see the P-82 twin Mustang as an idea maker) and... done.
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First iteration would look like a flying saucer. Or the Jupiter 2. Not original enough. Add a pointy section. Because, it is a spaceship that will be whooshing through space dogfighting & such. Now it looks too much like a rocket. Still not original enough. Bifurcate the pointy section. Better. Add a weird asymmetrical feature like the control pod off to the side (see the P-82 twin Mustang as an idea maker) and... done.
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Dobber
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Agreed, the BOTH look just as wrong to me. As for the core of the ship with the gunwells. The could have just as easily been dorsal/ventral docking ports originally.
For comparison sake, I don't look at it like an ocean going ship....I liken it to smaller freight aircraft, think drug runners and smugglers using smaller twin engine freight planes to get in and out of small airstrips undetected quickly. But also can subscribe to the push freighter aspect as well. The Falcon doesn't really fit into any 1 real world type of vehicle. It is a fictional space traveling vehicle after all but that's just me.
Chris
I was there at ILM with George in the 70's when these ships were being built, i definately remember him saying it was a small military escort ship that had been modified to smuggle, thats why he made sure the modelers used tanks in the construction. The use of F1 Parts was to give the look of Speed. The mandibles toe in because it was meant to resemble chopsticks for picking objects up, George had a love of Samurai and wanted the Falcon to look Japanese and Exotic. Did you know the cockpit idea originally came from a Banana pushed into the model? Originally the Falcon was inspired by Picasso's Paintings, it was supposed to fly vertically so the cockpit was a cylops eye, from the back the engine resembled a butt crack and the Satelite dish was a breast, the mandibles arms.
Another little know fact is that i just made aaaall that up! :lol Its Star Wars, it doesnt have to make sense, but im sure we will see more of the Falcons Origins in the Han Solo Film.
Another little know fact is that i just made aaaall that up! :lol Its Star Wars, it doesnt have to make sense, but im sure we will see more of the Falcons Origins in the Han Solo Film.
I hope they avoid too much back story on the Falcon myself!
I mean now we can speculate, converse, imagine,.........just like we did with the force until George gave us the awful backstory of midi chlorians:facepalm
Agreed wholeheartedly. I remember thinking how awkward and imagination-killing was the revelation that the Force was reduced to an obscure chemical process. Some things are best left a bit of a mystery.
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*pushes up nerd glasses* Actually, it was hidden inside the shell of an automated grain barge, taking the place of its droid-brain control center.
ETA:
This is what George was going for with the "pirate ship":
An old rusty tramp steamer, which operate as independent cargo haulers.
As for this debate...
...I counter with Ferdinand Porsche: "Perfection is attained through neither function alone, nor form alone, but the aesthetic synthesis of the two." (Only in German...)Funny, I had always heard: Form follows function.
--Jonah
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Thomas Guycott
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A myth, actually, confirmed by Joe Johnston himself: Lucas just wanted anything that didn't resemble the original Pirate Ship model, and Johnston pursued the saucer concept.
And while we're on the subject: the Pirate Ship design fit the profile of a light freighter even less! It's just a straight tube with no cargo space whatsoever!
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*pushes up nerd glasses* Actually, it was hidden inside the shell of an automated grain barge, taking the place of its droid-brain control center.
ETA:
This is what George was going for with the "pirate ship":
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_adQFJxToE...BouOTVnSyk/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/ssorepuki.jpg
An old rusty tramp steamer, which operate as independent cargo haulers.
As for this debate...
...I counter with Ferdinand Porsche: "Perfection is attained through neither function alone, nor form alone, but the aesthetic synthesis of the two." (Only in German...)
--Jonah
I WAS going to counter with, " yeah but it was Dr. Porsche who was going to name the beetle "the strength through joy car!"......but nevermind!...that was Hitler!
I respectfully retract my attempt at wit!
This is more like the Falcon:
Navy Mark V Spec Ops boat:
And before you say "Hey it's not a freighter!" Well it does deliver things; SEAL teams and whoop*ss. Well unless it's ordered to surrender to Iran...
Navy Mark V Spec Ops boat:
And before you say "Hey it's not a freighter!" Well it does deliver things; SEAL teams and whoop*ss. Well unless it's ordered to surrender to Iran...
Zombie_61
Master Member
Yeah, but it works for the joke.Activating both nacelles at the same time would probably tear the ship apart because they go in the opposite directions. Which reminds me of the famous interview with Harrison Ford when he said, "George, how do you fly that thing?"
