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Star Wars Fans Plan Full-Size Millennium Falcon Replica
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC reports on a fan-run project to build a full-scale replica of Han Solo's Millennium Falcon. The ship, 31 feet tall, 114 feet long, and 81.5 feet wide at its widest point, will be built on a plot of land in Tennessee. Since this project is obviously too big for any one fan, or even a small group, they're going to crowdsource some of the construction. Their website has continual updates about various parts of the build, with many, many pictures. For example, here are a couple shots of the Quad guns and cockpit console. Project leader Chris Lee says he bought the land in Tennessee, 88 acres, for this purpose. He says he'd like to 'develop it into more of a creative retreat, like a Maker camp ... where a school could send kids.' The Force is strong with this one!"
don't remember seeing PVC pipe on the millenium falcon
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Project leader Chris Lee says he bought the land in Tennessee, 88 acres, for this purpose. He says he'd like to 'develop it into more of a creative retreat, like a Maker camp ... where a school could send kids.' The Force is strong with this one!"
Yes, well, schools are about learning. What does a full scale toy from a motion picture franchise bring to the table? I mean, I can see maybe a bed and breakfast situation, but come on â" a âoemaker campâ for making full scale nerd toys is educational how? Perhaps if the children want to go into the business of building Hollywood props or aspire to work for the Mythbuster guys. But reallyâ¦
By the way, Iâ(TM)m dying to know if this guy is marriedâ¦
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http://www.deadline.com/2012/12/what-hell-hath-disney-lucasfilm-wrought-star-wars-meets-extreme-home-makeover/
Those padawans better learn quick how to build their own light sabers when the hillbilly fundamentalists mass at the gates with pitchforks in hand.
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will probably require that they take it down.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
i dont remember any millenium falcon without lazers... this is a MUST
They should have made it out of stone so it'd be a monument like the replica of the Parthenon they have there, but then it wouldn't fly so....
Interesting how they'll resolve this one
Let me know when they build a full-scale replica of the TARDIS.
"long time ago in a galaxy far away"
It's a little-known fact that Chewbacca was 8 delfloblorgs tall, which works out to around 6.283 centimeters. This model is far too large.
There was actually a noticeable tech industry presence in the Tennessee Valley and northern Alabama last time I was in the area. Lots of incentives being offered to start a business.
Now Millville, NJ? Those are the rednecks you are looking for.
Maxim: People cannot follow directions.
Increases in truth directly with the length of time spent explaining them
...especially since you could build one of these instead. and actually fly it for real.
If you're not yet a pilot, then build the RV-12 light sport model and get your light sport pilot certificate in only 25 hours of flight training.
Wanna do something to help encourage (high school age) kids in the field of aviation technology? Start an Eagles Nest Project where a mentor organizes an RV-12 building project with a high school, and the kids involved actually get to build the plane from a kit, and get some free flight instruction too.
Can't believe I'm the first one to take a swing at this joke...
Maybe when they're done, they can sell it to Disney for use at Disneyland.
So.. your fully functional R2D2 can fly, right ? Like it did in the movies ? ...that ability to fly would have come in handy in a lot of situations.. but somehow r2d2 forgot how..
How come they're not making it out of meat-space Minecraft blocks?
I doubt the inside of the ship can fit inside the outside of the ship.
If you went through all the film and mapped out what the inside of the ship looks like, I doubt it will fit inside what the outside looks like.
as we don't have technology to make hyperdrive yet (or maybe if someone from Zone 51 can leak the needed information...)
Subject says it all.
You MAY suffer the consequences !! You MAY find a hole !! You MAY find a leprachaun and hos pot o' gold !! Then again, may be NOT !! Why not wait until I have BUILT THE FUCKING THING !!
The linked article is about a show shot a YEAR ago.
Strike one. It was done before Disney bought Lucas et al.
The actual story is about a bunch of members of the 501st (a fan-run group) helping to rebuild the home of a firefighter who was a huge Star Wars fan and lost his house and his collection to the wildfires.
Strike two. It was not even endorsed or sponsored by Lucas et al.
The interview actually mentions some really heartwarming interview clips from members of the 501st that paint Star Wars and its fans in an awesome light.
Strike three. It builds brand recognition by showing extreme fandom in a positive manner.
You're out. Next batter please.
The little astro-droid did no such thing. He rode around in spaceships and a party barge but nothing else. I can assure you sir, for I have seen all three movies many times, that R2D2 never flew.
Is it going to be fully functional? I would like to see if it really can make the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs
Making those lasers work is probably a project for a high school physics class at this point.
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
But between the prequels and the recent announcement of sale to Disney, all Lucasarts IP is in the process of being flushed from my brains, much like everything disney has been for the past few years.
Anybody else taking this tact, over being indentured to the Senator Palpatine of the 'intellectual property' industry.
Anyone know for sure if the buyout has any bearing on the Bioware mmo that's owned by EA? I'm hoping that got sold as well, because there's a slim chance/hope in hell that Disney would fuck up the game just a little tiny bit less than EA. Just a tad.
I'd forgotten about this SW nerd-o-phile tidbit he he. It's already been solved:
http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=65614
His choice of interior layout is a massive disappointment: redundant corridors, the ring corridor not staying concentric, etc. Epic fail.
There's no-one who knows more about the Falcon than Robert Brown, the only logical layout is his: http://web.archive.org/web/20010426005359/http://www.synicon.com.au/sw/mf/mfplan.htm
http://deckplans.00sf.com/Old_Ships/Old_Gallery.html
I wanna work on this... It'll probably have a lot of "special modifications"
It's just a wood mockup. They get a A for effort, but when nothing works (some of the controls are cardboard?!?) and it just looks like it's made out of what they found in the trash it loses a lot of it's luster. I did the same thing when I was like five with leftover washing machine boxes and a sharpie. This is getting a huge amount of publicity for what it is too. Some of the models don't even look like they're the right scale either (like the back of the cockpit).
I think that a full sized, blow-up replica of Leia from start of ROTJ would have attracted far more attention and sales. Just sayin...
I'd rather have a lifesize blow-up replica of Natalie Portman... and a bowl of hot grits. Thank you.
That guy even has his own Carrie Fisher. Nice. (the young carrie fisher, not the modern one)
... they can take their dates on board. hahahahahaha!
This sig is not paradoxical or ironic.
come on.
The virginity in this one is strong.
but if the fans decide to build a full sized Death Star in the future count me in. I would love to get old and tell my grandchildren while looking at the sky: That is no moon. It's a space station.
We'll say "oh, cool, crowdsource a bunch of money to do something that essentially serves no one" and not think once about crowdsourcing solutions to poverty. And then when those who need assistance ask the government for it we'll call them freeloaders and continue to send our money to build worthless shit like the Millenium Falcon. Good job, people, so proud to be a human right now.
How will he make gravity rotate 90 degrees when going from the access tube to the gunner pods?
Looks nice, but I'd have devoted all the space next to the ramps to cargo where it would be easier to load/unload. I'd have put the head, galley and bunks to the forward where they're out of the way.
These plans all devote an uneconomical amount of space to bedrooms.
Was the MF designed to be a small cargo freighter or was it originally something else? Can't remember.
114 * 81.5 = 9291 square feet, or 1032 square yards. An acre is 4900 square yards. This will be less than a quarter of an acre in area. What are the other 87 3/4 acres for? All the shops selling models of the Millenium Falcon?
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
No. But your comment shows that you associate kids with perversion, so that's troubling.