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 Post subject: 1:1 Millennium Falcon PostPosted: 2008-10-28 10:10pm
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Apparently, this guy is serious:

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



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 Post subject: Re: 1:1 Millennium Falcon PostPosted: 2008-10-28 10:28pm
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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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 Post subject: Re: 1:1 Millennium Falcon PostPosted: 2008-10-28 10:51pm
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That is both insane and awesome at the same time. How cool would it be to have the Falcon as a guest house?


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



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 Post subject: Re: 1:1 Millennium Falcon PostPosted: 2008-10-29 12:21am
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Didn't Vympel link to an article showing the Falcon to be more like 35-37 meters?



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 Post subject: Re: 1:1 Millennium Falcon PostPosted: 2008-10-29 12:33am
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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.

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 Post subject: Re: 1:1 Millennium Falcon PostPosted: 2008-10-29 12:48am
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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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 Post subject: Re: 1:1 Millennium Falcon PostPosted: 2008-10-29 03:05am
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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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 Post subject: Re: 1:1 Millennium Falcon PostPosted: 2008-10-29 09:35am
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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.


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. :D



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 Post subject: Re: 1:1 Millennium Falcon PostPosted: 2008-10-29 12:08pm
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I wish I had the money to do this. I'd live in it, but I'm not sure what the cockpit would be. :D


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



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 Post subject: Re: 1:1 Millennium Falcon PostPosted: 2008-10-29 06:53pm
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That's where you put your video game system. Duh. :)


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



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 Post subject: Re: 1:1 Millennium Falcon PostPosted: 2008-10-29 07:05pm
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That's where you put your video game system. Duh. :)


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


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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 Post subject: Re: 1:1 Millennium Falcon PostPosted: 2008-10-29 07:22pm
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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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 Post subject: Re: 1:1 Millennium Falcon PostPosted: 2008-10-29 07:58pm
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 Post subject: Re: 1:1 Millennium Falcon PostPosted: 2008-10-29 09:05pm
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Lord Poe wrote:
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.


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. :wanker: Thank God Brown had it right.

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



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


Here ya go: Ship Of Riddles



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 Post subject: Re: 1:1 Millennium Falcon PostPosted: 2008-10-29 10:38pm
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Lord Poe wrote:
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.


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



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 Post subject: Re: 1:1 Millennium Falcon PostPosted: 2008-10-29 10:44pm
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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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 Post subject: Re: 1:1 Millennium Falcon PostPosted: 2008-10-29 11:18pm
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Lord Poe wrote:
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.


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


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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 Post subject: Re: 1:1 Millennium Falcon PostPosted: 2008-10-31 05:44pm
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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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 Post subject: Re: 1:1 Millennium Falcon PostPosted: 2008-10-31 05:47pm
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I saw some web site hits coming from this board so I thought I'd check it out.


Welcome! Hope you enjoy your stay.

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



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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.


:shock: Who makes those?



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Chris Lee wrote:
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.


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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 Post subject: Re: 1:1 Millennium Falcon PostPosted: 2008-11-01 01:55pm
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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.

Well you are certainly sufficiently Star Wars crazy enough for this place. :D
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?



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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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 Post subject: Re: 1:1 Millennium Falcon PostPosted: 2008-11-02 12:13am
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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.



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