Apparently, this guy is serious:

http://chrislee.tv/falcon/blog/falconblog.html

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"Brian, if I parked a supertanker in Central Park, painted it neon orange, and set it on fire, it would be less obvious than your stupidity." --RedImperator

That is both insane and awesome at the same time. How cool would it be to have the Falcon as a guest house?

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Ernest Rutherford, 1871-1937

73% of all statistics are made up, including this one.

I'm waiting as fast as I can.

If I ever came into an insane amount of money, I would.

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"Brian, if I parked a supertanker in Central Park, painted it neon orange, and set it on fire, it would be less obvious than your stupidity." --RedImperator

Didn't Vympel link to an article showing the Falcon to be more like 35-37 meters?

114' is equal to 35 and a hair metres.

I'd always thought that the lounge area with the game table would be a cool thing to replicate for a room of a large nightclub. In the same club, of course, you'd have to have the Mos Eisley Cantina.

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The bathrooms would be the white-walled Tantive IV interior. Someone should make a whole club out of Star Wars sets. Of course, the people most likely to be awed by that are not the sort of people who go to clubs, so maybe it's not such a great idea.

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Maybe that would be the point. An untapped market, now with a place to go that they are comfortable in.. Think of the moneymaking potential!

I wish I had the money to do this. I'd live in it, but I'm not sure what the cockpit would be.

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- Alyrium Denryle, on HAB's policy of "Too much is almost enough"

"The jacketed ones are, but we're talking carefully-placed shits here. "-out of context, by Stuart

That's where you put your video game system. Duh.

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In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
Ernest Rutherford, 1871-1937

73% of all statistics are made up, including this one.

I'm waiting as fast as I can.

Has anyone made a three dimensional, encompassing game screen? That would be awesome... although a bit disorienting.

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To paraphrase Zapp Brannigan: What makes a man Russian? Is it lust for power, gold, or were they simply born with a heart full of communism?
-Shroomy

Privacy is just one of the many things you say, "Fuck it" to in the military in exchange for being allowed to legally blow people up.
-eion

I'm not afraid of them, but I'm not going to snuggle one, either. At best, we coexist so long as they understand that I can kill them at a whim.
-Lagmonster on spiders

Yes. There are full-scale simulator games (fighter jets, battlemechs, etc.) where you strap into a cockpit and handle the controls as if you were sitting in the real thing, with screens providing input all around you.

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It's interesting that this guy found Robert Brown's findings on the Falcon's dimensions more spot on than anything Lucasfilm ever released. However, I believe he is going with the latest interior layout of the Falcon provided by Lucasfilm for the "Complete Blueprints" book. Yet again, we see the intellectual theft Lucasfilm lately has been famous for. Note that Brown's fix for the Falcon's interior is virtually intact for the Lucasfilm version, even the little "hallway" getting to the quad guns Brown created out of overall practicality, but is not screen accurate:

Robert Brown Version

New Lucasfilm Version

The difference is, they have moved thelounge from the centerline, to more "east" in the interior. It will be interesting to see this guy's fix on the full size version, as IIRC, Brown placed it in the center to correspond to the center "box" on the Falcon seen topside, and the overhang in the interior ceiling on the set version.

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"Brian, if I parked a supertanker in Central Park, painted it neon orange, and set it on fire, it would be less obvious than your stupidity." --RedImperator

Certainly ambitious.

I hate how everyone assumes the engines and their support must be thinner and lighter than the row of boxes against the back of my old garage. Thank God Brown had it right.

Poe, do you have the url for the archive search still, I'd like to have it.

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Here ya go: Ship Of Riddles

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"Brian, if I parked a supertanker in Central Park, painted it neon orange, and set it on fire, it would be less obvious than your stupidity." --RedImperator

How does someone "steal" intellectual property that they already own?

You can steal someone else's creativity morally even if you own the rights to the franchise. Property law is just a governmental solution to a social problem; it does not accurately represent all moral issues.

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"You know what the problem with Hollywood is. They make shit. Unbelievable. Unremarkable. Shit." - Gabriel Shear, Swordfish

"This statement, in its utterly clueless hubristic stupidity, cannot be improved upon. I merely quote it in admiration of its perfection." - Garibaldi in reply to an incredibly stupid post.

The Fifth Illuminatus Primus | Minimod | Warsie | Skeptical Empiricist | Undergraduate Student | Florida Gator | Peakist | Sustainability Advocate | Libertarian Socialist |

What I meant by that was, there was no mention of Robert Brown whatsoever. Yet many of his findings were incorporated into this final design, and Lucasfilm has known about him and his pioneering work for as long as they've known Curtis Saxton. The little "hallway" to the quad guns is a very telling example. Brown fought with many Lucasfilm reps over the years, and their "official" deckplans of the Falcon's interior, andwas basically brushed off. "Fuck you, we're Lucasfilm. Our deckplan is accurate." Each one of these deckplans have fallen to they wayside over the years, and look what they're left with; a virtual line by line recreation of Robert's deckplan.

I haven't read his webpage in years, but I believe Robert accurately located the Falcon's miinigun before these guys did.

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"Brian, if I parked a supertanker in Central Park, painted it neon orange, and set it on fire, it would be less obvious than your stupidity." --RedImperator

Hi guys.

I'm the insane guy mentioned above.

I saw some web site hits coming from this board so I thought I'd check it out.

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Chris Lee
TB/TK-326 - Trooping Since 1997
Full Scale Falcon
R2-G4

Welcome! Hope you enjoy your stay.

Cool project, I wish I had the time and the money to do something like that.

You aren't insane- you are dedicated. And we respect that



Who makes those?

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To paraphrase Zapp Brannigan: What makes a man Russian? Is it lust for power, gold, or were they simply born with a heart full of communism?
-Shroomy

Privacy is just one of the many things you say, "Fuck it" to in the military in exchange for being allowed to legally blow people up.
-eion

I'm not afraid of them, but I'm not going to snuggle one, either. At best, we coexist so long as they understand that I can kill them at a whim.
-Lagmonster on spiders

Welcome, Chris!

I did an article on the Falcon's demise at Elstree Studios on my webpage. There's a few more pictures there (Taken by Pete Briggs)
than the sw.com article: THE FATE OF THE MILLENNIUM FALCON

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"Brian, if I parked a supertanker in Central Park, painted it neon orange, and set it on fire, it would be less obvious than your stupidity." --RedImperator

Well you are certainly sufficiently Star Wars crazy enough for this place.
Welcome. If you can find the time, start a thread about your project and maybe keep it updated with some pictures. I'm sure everyone here would like to watch the progress of this most awesome project.

I am reminded of Field of Dreams. Will you be giving tours when this is finished?

Directed to Chris Lee:

A friend of mine had a question: are you going to build the hyperdrive in the aft section? It seems to me that it would take up a ton of otherwise useful space.

(I didn't use the PM because I thought that the answer might be of general interest.)

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In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
Ernest Rutherford, 1871-1937

73% of all statistics are made up, including this one.

I'm waiting as fast as I can.

Excuse me? The entire project is taking up otherwise useful space. This isn't about efficiency. It's about doing something way cool because you can.
If it doesn't have a hyperdrive it's not the Falcon. It's that simple.