Make-A-Wish Builds A Millennium Falcon Fort For Boy

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Make-A-Wish Builds A Millennium Falcon Fort For Boy

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @06:06AM from the it's-fast-enough-for-you-old-man dept.

Thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and a production crew from Little Mountain Productions, a 9-year-old is getting the best fort ever. The crew is making him a Star Wars-themed fort with a gigantic Millennium Falcon with solar-powered LED interior and exterior lighting to sit on top. No word on how fast it can make the Kessel run, but lets hope the kid gets a long trip.

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Overheard in the background... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-23 06:12 · Score: 5, Funny

What a piece of junk!
1. Re:Overheard in the background... by kellyb9 · 2010-06-23 07:17 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  She's got it where it counts, kid.
Parsecs by pavon · 2010-06-23 06:13 · Score: 3, Funny

No word on how fast it can make the Kessel run
I think you meant how short it can make the Kessel run.
1. Re:Parsecs by Isotopian · 2010-06-23 06:41 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  I'm getting a little tired of people saying that. It may very well have been Lucas not knowing what a parsec was, but it has long been corrected in the canon. The Kessel run was a smuggling route that skirted the Maw black hole cluster. The more daring pilots would take uncharted routes that brought them dangerously close to singularities - hence the bragging of "the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs." Yes, George probably just made an astronomy boo boo. But that was corrected a long time ago in lore, and it's just tiresome when people point that out, not witty.
  
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2. Re:Parsecs by geekoid · 2010-06-23 06:46 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  And it was corrected in the lamest way possible.
  It would have made more sense if the ships drive bent space. This would have the side benefit of explaining how they can get around so fast.
  It also make more sense because Lucas was clearing trying to have Han boast about the ship engine. This ties in to Lucas love for hotrods at the time.
  If the Kessel run was 20 parsecs, but the ship bent space around itself so the ship only need to travel 12 parsecs, this would be the space craft equivalent to shaving seconds off a drag race.
  In fact, I assumed that's what he meant when I say SW the first time.
  
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3. Re:Parsecs by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-23 07:14 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Corrected? The movie says what it says, there's no "correcting" to be done. Han's bragging line is what people call "techno-babble". Neither of the sequels make any explanation of this bit of techno-babble, nor do they need to, any more than someone would need to explain what a "hydrospanner" is.
  Techno-babble permits inane crap to help move the story from one plot point to the next. When done well, it works like this:
  Brandon's Mom: Where are you going with those fireworks?
  Brandon: Well, the Protector got super-accelerated coming out of the black hole, and it, like, nailed the atmosphere at Mach 15, which, you guys know, is pretty unstable, obviously, so we're gonna help Laredo guide it on the vox ultra-frequency carrier and use Roman candles for visual confirmation.
4. Re:Parsecs by morari · 2010-06-23 10:31 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Star Wars is about as far from real science fiction as the Lord of the Rings. Explaining it all away in technical terms is like trying to put a realistic spin on Sleeping Beauty.
  
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5. Re:Parsecs by Jarik+C-Bol · 2010-06-23 12:47 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  hey, the Han Solo trilogy clearly explains why and how the Kessel run records are measured in parsecs.
  
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6. Re:Parsecs by Jarik+C-Bol · 2010-06-23 12:52 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  just because a parallel space is not bound by the laws of the speed of light does not mean that planets don't exist in the parallel locations. The way i always understood it was that hyperspace in star wars was sort of like crawling under the rug, the floor is different down there, but if you run into the couch, it still hurts. (objects of mass effect both locations)
  
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She's got it where it counts, Kid by 16K+Ram+Pack · 2010-06-23 06:13 · Score: 2, Informative

Seriously, they do some real nice stuff for these kids.
They are the Best! by GregC63 · 2010-06-23 06:19 · Score: 2, Insightful

Make a wish is a fabulous organization! Kudos to them and Little Mountain Productions for giving this young man a ray of sunshine!
Follow the superhero story link in TFA... by BobMcD · 2010-06-23 06:36 · Score: 3, Informative

Follow the superhero story link in TFA, that one's really touching, too.
Is it wrong... by kentrel · 2010-06-23 06:37 · Score: 2, Funny

... to hope the kid hurries up and dies so we can bid for it on ebay? Am I right!?
Not be a ghoul by Itninja · 2010-06-23 06:52 · Score: 2, Interesting

But what happens to this thing after the boy dies? Usually MaW gives activies (i.e. Disneyland trips or visits with a rock star), not physical things.

Wonder if the parents will sell it for a (sure to be) tidy sum. Not sure what I would do in the same situation.

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Re:*Awkward Shuffle* by addsalt · 2010-06-23 07:10 · Score: 3, Informative

Make a wish is not just for kids that are dying. It is for kids that have not gotten to be a kid because they have been kept in a hospital for most of their childhood.
Dibs! by morphotomy · 2010-06-23 07:11 · Score: 3, Funny

Dibs on that shit when the kid kicks the bucket!
Re:Good to be thinking of feelings, but by Chris+Tucker · 2010-06-23 07:34 · Score: 3, Funny

"For every problem, there is at least one solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
As amply demonstrated by the bonehead comment above that sig.

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Re:Next wish.... by Locke2005 · 2010-06-23 07:40 · Score: 2, Funny

They should try to dig up Alec Guinness as well.

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Re:Those darn kids... by Nos. · 2010-06-23 07:48 · Score: 2, Interesting

Yup, a great charity. One of my nephews took a trip to Florida to do all the theme parks and space centre there. They had a great time. My sons are also eligible, but we'll give them a few more years before we starting thinking about a wish for our oldest (4.5 years). We're thinking one wish will be a trip for sure, maybe both, but its up to them to decide when they're old enough
Yes, but by Megahard · 2010-06-23 07:54 · Score: 4, Funny

The kid next door is building a Death Star.

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Re:I want to be the first asshole to say... by masmullin · 2010-06-23 08:56 · Score: 2, Funny

If I had a quarter for everytime I heard that .....
Re:Good to be thinking of feelings, but by antibryce · 2010-06-23 09:16 · Score: 2, Insightful

even if you pull all the money spent on stuff like this across the entire world it probably amounts to less than 0.01% of all the money spent on researching disease cures. It'd be a drop in the bucket. Or we can spend that drop making a dying kid's wish come true.
what's the point of living a long life if you can't bring happiness to someone else?