The MFs Length, Norwegians Attack Hoth,&OtherUntoldTales

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The MFs Length, Norwegians Attack Hoth,&OtherUntoldTales

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I was reading through the "From SW to IJ, the best of the LucasFilm Archives, and I came upon these intriguing/humorous discoveries.

Are you sure it's ONLY that long???
According to the book, the Millenium Falcon's model - supposedly full-size, used in the Hoth hangar, is only 60ft long. Would this be considered canon? I ask for this reason:

I did some rough scaling on the matter, from the scene where the MF is attached to the ISDs bridge; it turns out that if we use that measuring across the hull of the ISD, the MF can be only multipied roughly ten times. IE- The ISD would be roughly 600ft in length. SIX HUNDRED FEET??? That is NOT 1600 meters. Is there anyway that can be reconciled?

And this guy is only this long...
The X-Wings wing-span is 40ft, based on the model made for the Dagobah crash.

Well at least this one seems ok...
The Executor was conceptialized to be 11 times longer than the ISD....1600m? Or 600ft?

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The treads used on the Jawa Sandcrawler came from German Panzer tanks.

Norwegian's Attack Hoth
The Imperial attack force on Hoth was originally going to be Norwegian tanks. THAT would've been interesting.

Neuclear?
In the story boards for TESB, Cloud City's reactor shaft was supposed to be a neuclear shaft. Good spelling there, GL.

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As far as the Falcon's length goes, Bob Brown has covered it pretty extensively. Check out the Millennium Falcon pages.
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FYI: Lucas was known for having pretty bad spelling.

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Darth Garden Gnome wrote: Norwegian's Attack Hoth
I hope Varg Vikernes isn't going to be part of the assault....
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We'll have to dig up the reference to the ISD being a mile long. I'm sure there's something canon about it.

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[quote=Some guy on the board]Well at least this one seems ok...
The Executor was conceptialized to be 11 times longer than the ISD[/quote]

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Darth Garden Gnome wrote: Are you sure it's ONLY that long???
According to the book, the Millenium Falcon's model - supposedly full-size, used in the Hoth hangar, is only 60ft long. Would this be considered canon?
The 'full-scale' model used in the films is not full size. The best way of proving this is the diameter of the cockpit, which is only about 7' (+/- 1'). It would be impossible to fit the full-size cockpit set into a tube with that diameter.

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Darth Garden Gnome wrote:
Rommel's Legacy
The treads used on the Jawa Sandcrawler came from German Panzer tanks.
I wanna se that panzer. No one used treads looking like those on the crawler.
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