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

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.

Comments

Overheard in the background...

[Anonymous Coward]

What a piece of junk!

Parsecs

[pavon]

No word on how fast it can make the Kessel run

I think you meant how short it can make the Kessel run.

Re:Parsecs

[Isotopian]

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.

Re:Parsecs

[geekoid]

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.

Re:Parsecs

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Parsecs

[Jarik C-Bol]

hey, the Han Solo trilogy clearly explains why and how the Kessel run records are measured in parsecs.

Follow the superhero story link in TFA...

[BobMcD]

Follow the superhero story link in TFA, that one's really touching, too.

Re:*Awkward Shuffle*

[addsalt]

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!

[morphotomy]

Dibs on that shit when the kid kicks the bucket!

Re:Good to be thinking of feelings, but

[Chris Tucker]

"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.

Yes, but

[Megahard]

The kid next door is building a Death Star.