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The Millennium Falcon, ID-Sketching-Style

Spencer Nugent wields his skills for the light side

By Rain Noe - December 16, 2015

in Star Wars | Sketching

Just a couple days to go until Star Wars: Episode VII airs! In the meantime, tide yourself over by watching Spencer Nugent crank out the Millennium Falcon, ID-sketching-style, then digest the hard-hitting facts below:

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Trivia question: Where in the movie timeline does the version of the Falcon that Nugent drew fall? And what gives it away in the drawing?

Random observation #1: Han Solo and Chewbacca are like the K-9 Unit of the galaxy.

Random observation #2: The ship is called the Millenium Falcon. The Star Wars universe is filled with weird animals that have names like "gundark" and "taun-taun." But somehow there are also falcons, enough of them that a smuggler sees one and names a ship after it. And since the movies are set "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away," that means that falcons have not only existed for a very long time, but they've also somehow mastered the interplanetary travel necessary to make it to Earth. Yet all they do here is sit around on people's gloves wearing little hoods.

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Thom Edley

9 years ago

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"Falcon" means something completely different. It's a coincidence that they share words with us (and speak english), but they can mean something different. Like "parsec", which is, in that culture, a measure of time rather than distance.

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Sean Horita

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Trivia answer is between Episodes 4 and 5 (or Episodes 1 and 2, for those of us who deny that the second Lucas trilogy ever happened). Radar dish was knocked off in RotJ.
I will go further to add that this is a M Falcon circa earth years 1979 because the sketch was done completely analog without any of that CGI nonsense.

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