Concerning the head, the Haynes Owner's Workshop Manual of the Falcon does have one it its blueprints. It's located in the crew's quarters and is called a "refresher," with a sonic shower opposite. When I noticed that other such reference books lacked the inclusion of the necessary facilities, and having received engineering training from the USN, I wondered what else might have left out of the supposed "plans" in the books out there. The most notable of these is "Star Wars Complete Vehicles Incredible Cross-Sections." When I noticed the lack in one of the vehicles in which such a room was needed, I carefully examined the rest of them. They were also missing a head or refresher. I reached out to both the publisher and author by email. The publisher never responded, but the author was pissed off that I had even the tiniest bit of criticism of his work. His reply was rude and disrespectful. Interestingly enough, he didn't deny he'd left the head out of his plans. Personally, I think he just forgot to include this necessary component in his zeal to cram as much technical "stuff" into his plans as possible, ignoring the mundane in favor of the more exciting things.
The model for the first design was also slightly remodelled to become the Tantive IV, the model was about twice the size as the Star Destroyer that captured it at the beginning of the movie! :D
Another interesting reason for the position of the cockpit was personal preference. Assuming my memory isn't failing me, alongside durability, most corellian cargo ships of the same or similar class as the falcon were known for their modularity, with various parts of the ships being relatively "easily" swapped out and replaced with other components or simply rearranged. Thus, if the owner of the ship wanted it to be so, they could replace the side mounted cockpit with a module that would fit between the cargo clamps, placing the cockpit on the front of the ship.
My elephant in the room regarding the Falcon is that one _should_ easily be able to see the right side to the front of the ship from the cockpit, almost obstructively, but it's not in any shots looking out. You'd never be able to physically see anything from 6 oclock all the way to 11 oclock.
The ship has a huge history in Legends. When it was first manufactured, it was fed too much fuel and the thruster control jets spiraled the ship out of control and nearly destroyed the assembly line. Then it had gotten several names. Two of which was Stellar Envoy until it had crashed into a cliff, then was in the process of being restored was named Gone to Pieces, before eventually getting renamed the Millennium Falcon. The source material can be found in Star Wars Millennium Falcon, where Han and Leia's grand daughter Allana asks to go on a little space trip to try and unravel the mysterious history of the ship and actually encounter one of the previous owners before Lando when it was the Stellar Envoy.
In the plastic model universe of Star Wars there's an interesting looping of designs: The original Millennium Falcon model was bashed together from existing plastic kits. When MPC released their SW plastic kit models (circa 1980's) they were essentially 'copying' their competitor's kits albeit highly repurposed. lol. If you compare an R2-D2 kit to the Millennium Falcon kit you can see a few shared kit elements that are different only in scale. For the record Joe Johnston is a jenius. There's a real (reel?) art to this kind of kit-bashing and guys like Joe Johnston and Mark Stetson are some of the best in the business. They make it look easy.
As for the placement of the cockpit, the original plan was for the Falcon to turn when in flight - putting the cockpit in a more sensible position up top.
In Phantom Menace, they mention the Hyperdrive is leaking and they need to refuel and repair the ship, so fuel is mentioned at least once in the prequels.
@@mifander2222 it's also mentioned in revenge of the sith. Obi-wan asks if he can refuel his ship when he arrives on the planet general grievous is on.
That was great - thank you! Although I really hoped that you would include an explanation about the gun turrets. I wondered how they moved/turned around, as on the old toy version from the 70’s it was just the guns that spun. From looking at the more accurate models of today and images, there’s a fixed wish bone type connection at the back that has lead me to suspect that the whole circle on the top (around the base of the gun) is what spins around. It would be cool to see if someone could clarify this up😉👍
On the outside (of the Millenium Falcon) only the gun turrets spin. On the inside, only the seats the gunners use and the targeting systems they're using spin. This is shown best in Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope.
Yup. When looking at photos of the original model, I spotted both an American Sherman tank suspension, AND a German Panzer IV suspension on the side, in front of the cockpit...
I already knew mostly everything on this list. Having the owners manual handbook tends to help. But the last part involving the different parts used for the ship. That I didn't know. But Star Wars is a big thing. Its hard to keep track of everything.
I'd like more commentary on how the gunner seats work with the gun turrets. Assuming some sort of artificial gravity well to allow them to sit like that. Always wondered.
FYI: Science-fiction authors have been using that term, usually abbreviated as " 'freshers' " for about 60 years---maybe more. I remember reading it in books by Robert Heinlein, considered "The Dean of Science-fiction Writers," and instantly understanding what they meant, since in our time they're called "Rest Rooms," "Comfort Stations," and "Ladies' Retiring Rooms." I always assume toilets are present in space ships, just as I assume they have bathrooms in earlier movies and TV shows, although while they often showed bathtubs and/or shower stalls, they almost never showed the actual toilets. The thing that always puzzled about _Star Wars_ is the _sleeping_ arrangements (and why poor Anakin-kid ended up sleeping in a cold metal cavern with only a flimsy blanket in "Phantom Menace"). Stay safe.
The burger story is a false myth It was actually based on some dirty dinner plates, the part about the original design needed changing is correct though, if I had the link I'd share it but I'm sure I'd be easy enough to find.
Great video, however you never mentioned the Millennium Falcons rotating cockpit? An abandoned concept from the original movie due to time and money constraints, but something a lot of SW fans still aren't aware of. 😊
Guess that was brought back for the B-Wing. The idea makes no sense to me though - either your control column or your frame of reference would change as the ship rotates. Unless you lock it in 90 degree intervals and also lock the cockpit for the situation you want once you're there.
There is actually an 11th secret of the Millennium Falcon. It was used by Stanley Kubrick for one of the buildings in his dystopia city that Decker hunts the replicants in, and also some of the other early space vehicles from Star Wars . As it was filmed at Pinewood Studios in the early eighties.
So, to address some of these. 9. I used to be firmly against the "tugboat" theory, and I'm still against that being the original purpose of the YT-1300. However, I've come to accept that it's one of the many uses people figured out after the fact, either intended by CEC or developed by third parties (mainly due to the fact that it's been canonized). Still, I want to address some misconceptions about the Millennium Falcon specifically and the YT-1300 in general that people have about it. - "There's no use for light hauling craft": There's always going to be a use for light hauling craft. Large bulk and intermodal freighters are going to be the workhorses of a shipping fleet but they're too bulky and generally too slow for low-volume, high-value, high-priority cargo, and it's not profitable to use these for the various "frontier" worlds. This is where smaller ships like the YT-1300 come in. You'd also use ships like this for charter flights. - "There's not enough internal space for cargo": For most people, the only YT-1300 people are familiar with is the Millennium Falcon. Here's the thing about the Falcon, though - it's NOT a freighter in its particular configuration. The original model the Millennium Falcon started off as was a YT-1300FP, which is a mixed-traffic variant designed to carry both passengers and cargo, and it's been further modified to use the forward hold as a lounge and the center rear hold as an extended engineering bay for the upgraded and much larger hyperdrive. Furthermore, the internal corridors of the vessel have been rerouted from the original circular hallway, removing one of the Port-side holds in favor of additional living quarters and bigger power banks for the quad laser cannons. This is all from the original Haynes manual for the ship. The YT-1300F, the dedicated cargo variant of the YT-1300, has far larger cargo holds than the Falcon, significantly reduced living quarters, and a far more efficient internal layout. - "Obviously the mandibles are supposed to be used for something, why else would they be there?" and "The offset cockpit makes no sense unless it's meant to see past a much longer attachment": More Haynes Manual stuff applies here. The YT-1300 isn't the first YT-series freighter to have an offset cockpit, this design choice goes back to the YT-1200 and YT-1250. These previous ships have a single overhead crane and a large cargo door at the front of the ship, leaving no room for a front-mounted cockpit. The front cargo door remained a feature on the YT-1300 as well, although the mechanical crane was replaced with a multipurpose magnetic grappler and light tractor beam system capable of being used to load cargo, dock small auxiliary craft, and connect further attachments. Which can include an intermodal freight module, but again I must stress the fact that that's not the sole purpose of the YT-1300. As a side note, I'd also like to point out that there is a center cockpit variant and an "armored" variant that eliminates the cockpit altogether and allows the ship to be flown from the pilot station in the forward hold (if you're wondering, the console Han Solo sat at while Luke was undergoing basic force training during the trip to the Alderaan system in A New Hope is the pilot station), both at the expense of the magnetic grappler system and front loading door. The center-cockpit design sandwiches a streamlined central cockpit between and slightly above the mandibles. The armored variant bridges the mandibles entirely, looking a bit like the Millennium Falcon From _Solo_ but without the cockpit. - "The engines are overbuilt for a freighter, therefore it must be designed to push a much larger load. Therefore, it can ONLY be a tugboat": People who make this argument are, honestly, idiots. Star Wars isn't Star Trek, they're not a post-scarcity economy and their system is highly capitalistic. Ship manufacturers have to appeal to potential customers beyond simple practical use. And while there may not be a practical purpose to making a light freighter fly like a heavy fighter, there's definitely a marketing reason for doing so. Again, I have to mention the original Haynes manual, as it explicitly states that the YT-1300's engines were intentionally overbuilt to make it fun to fly to appeal to starship enthusiasts, vacuum jockeys and other people who would quickly get bored with a slower but more efficient vessel. Now, one additional argument I have against the idea that the YT-1300 is a dedicated tugboat is the fact that having a dedicated tugboat going around without pushing anything would be out-of-place. 7. Just to go back to the internal space argument from 9 for a bit, the kitchenette on the Falcon is another example of how the ship has been completely repurposed from its original role as a mixed-traffic light freighter to a personal transport ship capable of housing a few people for extended periods of time. On a separate note, access to fresh food is a gift in and of itself when previously your only option was stale rations, and the kitchenette is something to facilitate that. 6. Again, the mandibles are multi-purpose. They're not just for pushing cargo. And in between them is, again, a cargo loading door. 5. In legends, the Falcon's temperamental hyperdrive wasn't always just a malfunction. The ship was equipped with three droid brains that effectively made the ship sentient with a limited degree of free will, and it wanted to fight the Empire.
Using the speculated size of our own galaxy, and the line from the movie "...she'll make point five past light speed" (if my math is correct) it would still take 70,622 years for Han and Chewie to travel from one side of the galaxy to the other. Thank goodness for movie math.
@@1pcfred the next Star in our galaxy is 4 light years away ... that would still be a travel time of 2.6 years. But they jump into hyperspace and travel there so maybe hyperspace is much more compressed (or Lucas was simply shit with measurement units of speed and space)
The cockpit was the cockpit from the original design. And as others have mentioned, the original design became the bases for the design of the CR90 Corvette Blockade Runner (Tantive IV).
There's no room for a kitchenette towards the edge of the hull. The hull tapers down thus internal volume would mean a floor to ceiling height of a few feet at most. Barely any room to crawl let alone stand up. Any kitchen area would have to be located off the central cargo/living area.
The Cockpit is on the side because originally it was meant to fly on what is its side with the cockpit up top, when it landed it rotated 90 degrees for the landing legs. It was similar to the B-Wing in having a rotating cockpit. However it created a problem when trying to access the tunnel when flying with the cockpit at the top. Lucas said it was meant to be a hamburger with a bit taken out but fly like a Mola fish with the cockpit at the top. The mandibles are for attaching cargo freights, of course this also them became a problem for the lights and missiles inside and center of the mandibles. That's why there are so many versions of the MF because each film wanted different things added and then there is the difference between practical model, miniature model and CG model.
Talking of the kit bashing that went on for the modelling of the Millennium Falcon, Adam Savage mentions this and other models on his own TH-cam channel. He along with Jamie Hyneman, Tori Belleci and Grant Imahara (RIP you are missed Grant), all worked on later releases of the movie series in prop making. Of course Adam was also in front of the camera, for things such as Mythbusters, but also Sesame Street when you and tings like The Expanse more recently.
It worked all the time in the Original three movies. However, as R2D2 stated was that it had been turned off or disconnected. It was not broken or damaged. Did you even see the first movies? I know which one this happened in. Do you?
Referring to the hyperdrive? Turned off by Imperials in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. Also failed when leaving Hoth, thus the asteroid chase and the piggy-backing on a star destroyer in the same movie.
Where did you get the 6.13 Quadrillion Miles Per Hour speed from? I only ask because 6.13 Quadrillion Miles equates to just over 1000 light years, and other sites list the falcon's speed at 10 to 15 times that.
If the cockpit swivels and was adjustable to be always on the horizontal surely the falcon could then pivot on its side and have a clear view over the cargo its pushing. That would be my design input. You can have that one for free George.
The fastest hunk junk in the Galaxy known as The Millennium Falcon is one my favoaite in Star Wars , I mean next to Luke's classics X--Wing .And the Imperial Shuttle from Jedi .So I would say those are the three coolest ships in all off Star Wars .But those are the ones I like in those movies .And you peeps over the U.K keep cool and calm .The best for you and anybody else on my home ground of the North American Not to think about stress ,find things to do and keep cool under pressure .And aft all you peeps came up that cool under pressure ,also stay safe and mask up !
@@santanamauricio There's no velocity to create momentum, you just counter what ever force acts on the cargo? (Not that any of this matters in a space fantasy 😅🤣)
He added and upgraded many of the Falcon's offensive and defensive systems. The upper and lower turrets were originally twin cannons and he upgraded them to quads and added automation to allow them to be controlled from the cockpit. He added the hidden swivel gun in the right mandible and missle launchers between the mandibles. Hull armor was upgraded throughout the ship. Shield generators were replaced with military grade units. Saying that the Falcon is a modified YT-1300 is an understatement.
Hydrazine is typically only used in thrusters these days. Monopropellant over catalyst is very reliable for a thruster that is on-off cycling, and is stable in long term storage. Has low thrust for the mass though. Main launch engines typically burn kerosene or hydrogen with oxygen. Kerosene is energy dense and easy to handle. Most common for first stage. Hydrogen is cheap and efficient, the exhaust is water vapor, but it is difficult to store and handle with lower energy density (needs a bigger tank). Most common on upper stages. Liquid methane is starting to be used (Starship) as a middle ground between kerosene and hydrogen. An important factor in rocket thrust is the velocity of the molecules. Velocity of gas molecules is dependent on temperature and mass of the molecule. Temperature is limited by the material of the engine. H2O molecules have lower mass than CO2, so they have higher velocity, therefore more thrust for the temperature. Both hydrogen and Kerosene engines are run rich to control temperatures as well as producing H2 and CO molecules which are lighter and faster.
Puh - not really true, that the smaller falcon uses the lower scaled kit parts: the 5foot falcon has the Scale 1/12 12-Cylinder-Ferrari 312B Engine parts on the top of the mandibles, the 32" Falcon uses the Scale 1/12 V8-Ford-Engine Parts from the Tyrrell P34 (both kits made by Tamiya). The 5Footer is much more detailed with modelkit parts as the 32" falcon...
I always thought they might have added another YT 1300f Corellian freighter somewhere in the films.. if they were built in large numbers, you’d imagine you’d see more
There's one in the background during the spaceport scene in Revenge of the Sith, it's unnamed in canon but it's actually one of the two YT-1300s that eventually ended up as part of the Millennium Falcon in Legends, the Stellar Envoy. In one of the reworked versions of A New Hope we also see a YT-2400 landing at Mos Eisley space port. Again, this ship goes unnamed in canon but in Legends this is Dash Rendar's Outrider. Other YTs appear on occasion in licensed media.
Seen Millennium falcon in episode 3 and space balls aslo Star Trek game battlefront 2 as a Easter eggs too as fast ship in galaxy sister ship of flaco in Star Wars rebel assault 2 games
Actually the cockpit design was based on the B-29. The trick of adding scale parts on the outside of a model has a long history in FX. They're called "greeblies." The original Battlestar Galactica was built the same way. Parts from the Revell Saturn V kit are easily discerned.
For the Cockpit question. Yes they could have put in the center of the ship over the mandibles, but then it wouldn't have a unique difference between it and all other starships including Star Trek and Babylon 5 including the Whitestar.
Can someone please explain the gunner positions on the falcon? When Luke and Han run to the gun turrets after Obi wan dies, they go up and down a ladder. But in the next scene they look at each other as if sitting at the ends of a horizontal tube. This would make them like waist gunner positions, shooting out the sides of the ship. But the guns are top and bottom. This has pissed me off since the first time I saw the movie in the 70s. Makes no sense since the guns are in front of them and they aren't strapped into seats facing up and down respectively.
If I recall correctly (?), the gunner's stations are in a zero-gravity "well" in the center of the ship. The top gunner is sitting with their feet straight up, and the belly gunner is sitting with their feet straight down. Camera angles make them appear to be beside each other.
@@jedironin380 Thank you. That thought had actually crossed my mind, but I figured I was over thinking it. It'll still bug the shit out if me every time I see it, but thanks again for the explanation. I appreciate it.
If anyone wants more real history on the YT-1300 look up Stock Ships from westend games rpg. There a few novels and tech books from the original movies. As for the kitchen, that was in the novels. As for the Disney sequels, they're not canon so dont bother. Corllian Engineering Corporation, is by far the best ship manufacturer. Almost all the YT series have a circle shape for the main body. The best features of the engineering is that they are literally Mopar. Any other ship engineering, mods, weapons, shield generators, etc. Can and will configure to Corellian engineering. Its 100% modifiable, meaning the cockpit can be placed literally anywhere on the ship. U can rearrange the interior to how u want it. This why the falcon never had a kitchen, it was removed. Also han had the hidden deck plates for smuggling. Also fun fact BlasTech works the same way, heavily modifiable and easily configured to the the person.
If the gunners turret is underneath how the hell do they climb into it ,the angle is just wrong???? Wouldn't you be shooting at the "ground " and Wouldn't you be kinda upside down?
In early paintings they show two lite ion lasers firing from the mandibles . And one or two comics from the late 70s show also. Iv wondered about this . Or was it just a boo boo in art department
To which she would handily remark, "Han make me a sandwich." Chewy would laugh and Han would be like, "Yes your Worshipfulness." and he'd go do so, cause Chewy likes Leia, would bet on her in a fight, and Wookies don't like to lose. 😂😜 Ok smart ass comments aside ... It is smarter with a family crew rather than a couple single guys.
Actually the kitchen upgrade was part of a larger upgrade to the Falcon's living quarters. He also turned part of one of the cargo bays into a small apartment so he and Leia can travel in comfort. In the old cannon they traveled quite a bit when attending to Leia's duties as head of state for the New Republic.
At 1:10 you said it costs 50cr in fuel to run the Falcon per day- "pricey" . However, in Ep.4, OB1 offers Han 17,000cr to take them to Alderaan... thats some markup on your costs- even after blasting out of Mos Eisley. You sure about the 50cr? Wheres the figure from?
Don’t you get it? Even in the Star Wars era, the YT-1300 Freighter is essentially a space going Prius with an Eco engine! 😅......50 Galactic Credits per day is incredibly cheap! It’s like me filling up my ancient 2008 Prius once every 21 days - with 10.5 gallons of fuel lasting me 641 miles between fill ups. Cheap! 😜 P.s. - I’ve owned 3 vehicles I named after the Millennium Falcon. The first was a Lada Niva 4 x4 Jeep. The 2nd was a Thunderstorm Grey Skoda Rapid 130G coupe with a rear engine bored out to 1.4 litres - and a huge cargo compartment in the front + a hidden cargo compartment behind the rear seats! (It also had the same silhouette as a YT-1300 when seen sideways). And was just as easily repairable with hydro spanner’s and alluvial dampeners 😜. The 3rd car was a Mazda MX-3 Coupe. A black flying saucer on wheels with a rear that looked like a YT-1300’s back end. Also lots of cargo space with the rear 2+2 seats folded down. I liked the Skoda the best. It was a TANK, damn reliable, and almost invisible. Until you saw it pulling away like a poor man’s Porsche.....🤣🤣🤣.
Another early design for the Falcon ended up being the Tantive IV in A New Hope.
Concerning the head, the Haynes Owner's Workshop Manual of the Falcon does have one it its blueprints. It's located in the crew's quarters and is called a "refresher," with a sonic shower opposite.
When I noticed that other such reference books lacked the inclusion of the necessary facilities, and having received engineering training from the USN, I wondered what else might have left out of the supposed "plans" in the books out there.
The most notable of these is "Star Wars Complete Vehicles Incredible Cross-Sections." When I noticed the lack in one of the vehicles in which such a room was needed, I carefully examined the rest of them. They were also missing a head or refresher. I reached out to both the publisher and author by email. The publisher never responded, but the author was pissed off that I had even the tiniest bit of criticism of his work. His reply was rude and disrespectful. Interestingly enough, he didn't deny he'd left the head out of his plans.
Personally, I think he just forgot to include this necessary component in his zeal to cram as much technical "stuff" into his plans as possible, ignoring the mundane in favor of the more exciting things.
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Love the Millennium Falcon, such a badass and unique ship.
The model for the first design was also slightly remodelled to become the Tantive IV, the model was about twice the size as the Star Destroyer that captured it at the beginning of the movie! :D
Kitchen next to the shitter- nice Han
“Bit backed up here babe; pass me a beer hon”
Another interesting reason for the position of the cockpit was personal preference. Assuming my memory isn't failing me, alongside durability, most corellian cargo ships of the same or similar class as the falcon were known for their modularity, with various parts of the ships being relatively "easily" swapped out and replaced with other components or simply rearranged. Thus, if the owner of the ship wanted it to be so, they could replace the side mounted cockpit with a module that would fit between the cargo clamps, placing the cockpit on the front of the ship.
My elephant in the room regarding the Falcon is that one _should_ easily be able to see the right side to the front of the ship from the cockpit, almost obstructively, but it's not in any shots looking out. You'd never be able to physically see anything from 6 oclock all the way to 11 oclock.
3:18 you can actually get many variations on where the cockpit is on a stock YT-1300 freighter, as the ship itself is very modular.
Secret 11. The bathrooms in Star Wars are called "Refreshers" . The Han Solo trilogy from the early eighties describes the "refresher" on the Falcon.
I read those as a kid ... loved them. Way better than the Solo movie.
In the cockpit issue, old star wars guides said the design had a modular cockpit design that it could be on left, right, or center
The ship has a huge history in Legends. When it was first manufactured, it was fed too much fuel and the thruster control jets spiraled the ship out of control and nearly destroyed the assembly line. Then it had gotten several names. Two of which was Stellar Envoy until it had crashed into a cliff, then was in the process of being restored was named Gone to Pieces, before eventually getting renamed the Millennium Falcon. The source material can be found in Star Wars Millennium Falcon, where Han and Leia's grand daughter Allana asks to go on a little space trip to try and unravel the mysterious history of the ship and actually encounter one of the previous owners before Lando when it was the Stellar Envoy.
"Improbably long lasting"... nailed it! xD
In the plastic model universe of Star Wars there's an interesting looping of designs:
The original Millennium Falcon model was bashed together from existing plastic kits.
When MPC released their SW plastic kit models (circa 1980's) they were essentially
'copying' their competitor's kits albeit highly repurposed. lol.
If you compare an R2-D2 kit to the Millennium Falcon kit you can see a few
shared kit elements that are different only in scale.
For the record Joe Johnston is a jenius. There's a real (reel?) art to this kind of kit-bashing and
guys like Joe Johnston and Mark Stetson are some of the best in the business. They make it look easy.
As for the placement of the cockpit, the original plan was for the Falcon to turn when in flight - putting the cockpit in a more sensible position up top.
You mean similar to the "B"wing?
Here’s another fact: Fuel wasn’t mentioned in Star Wars until Episode VIII: The Last Jedi!
Or at least - I think
In Phantom Menace, they mention the Hyperdrive is leaking and they need to refuel and repair the ship, so fuel is mentioned at least once in the prequels.
it's also mentioned several times in tcw
@@mifander2222 it's also mentioned in revenge of the sith. Obi-wan asks if he can refuel his ship when he arrives on the planet general grievous is on.
Oh I see I'm wrong, but still, it wasn't mentioned on such a high level or had such an important role in the storyline.
@@xyechenn yeah it's mostly not in films to reduce run times, so it's only mentioned if it's super important
That was great - thank you!
Although I really hoped that you would include an explanation about the gun turrets. I wondered how they moved/turned around, as on the old toy version from the 70’s it was just the guns that spun. From looking at the more accurate models of today and images, there’s a fixed wish bone type connection at the back that has lead me to suspect that the whole circle on the top (around the base of the gun) is what spins around. It would be cool to see if someone could clarify this up😉👍
On the outside (of the Millenium Falcon) only the gun turrets spin. On the inside, only the seats the gunners use and the targeting systems they're using spin. This is shown best in Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope.
I miss the days when a craft had to be out of a planet's gravity well to jump to lightspeed
Yup. When looking at photos of the original model, I spotted both an American Sherman tank suspension, AND a German Panzer IV suspension on the side, in front of the cockpit...
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Amazing... thank you for the info
By FAR my favourite ship in any SciFi / Space Fantasy movie or show!
Serenity is great, too.
The Falcon and Galactica (both, tho thats a different beast altogether).
I already knew mostly everything on this list. Having the owners manual handbook tends to help. But the last part involving the different parts used for the ship. That I didn't know. But Star Wars is a big thing. Its hard to keep track of everything.
The actual M.Falcon spaceship is located at the bottom at the Baltic Sea... the Baltic Sea Anomaly😱
You might want to wait a little while after Chewbacca uses the head.
I'd like more commentary on how the gunner seats work with the gun turrets. Assuming some sort of artificial gravity well to allow them to sit like that. Always wondered.
Toilets in the Star Wars universe are called "Refreshers".
And if you get amnesia and forget how to use it, you need a *refresher* course. 😀
FYI:
Science-fiction authors have been using that term, usually abbreviated as " 'freshers' " for about 60 years---maybe more. I remember reading it in books by Robert Heinlein, considered "The Dean of Science-fiction Writers," and instantly understanding what they meant, since in our time they're called "Rest Rooms," "Comfort Stations," and "Ladies' Retiring Rooms." I always assume toilets are present in space ships, just as I assume they have bathrooms in earlier movies and TV shows, although while they often showed bathtubs and/or shower stalls, they almost never showed the actual toilets. The thing that always puzzled about _Star Wars_ is the _sleeping_ arrangements (and why poor Anakin-kid ended up sleeping in a cold metal cavern with only a flimsy blanket in "Phantom Menace"). Stay safe.
@gecko 1968 Mon Dieu! Privy??? I can picture a ramshackle wooden structure with a sickle moon cutout on the door. Stay safe.
@gecko 1968 I'm kind of glad they didn't use the other name, the one that starts with "sh"! Rimanga sicuro.
I already knew about the design/burger link. Apparently, ILM staff refered to the Falcon we know and love as the Porkburger.
The burger story is a false myth
It was actually based on some dirty dinner plates, the part about the original design needed changing is correct though, if I had the link I'd share it but I'm sure I'd be easy enough to find.
Great video, however you never mentioned the Millennium Falcons rotating cockpit? An abandoned concept from the original movie due to time and money constraints, but something a lot of SW fans still aren't aware of. 😊
Guess that was brought back for the B-Wing. The idea makes no sense to me though - either your control column or your frame of reference would change as the ship rotates. Unless you lock it in 90 degree intervals and also lock the cockpit for the situation you want once you're there.
There is actually an 11th secret of the Millennium Falcon. It was used by Stanley Kubrick for one of the buildings in his dystopia city that Decker hunts the replicants in, and also some of the other early space vehicles from Star Wars . As it was filmed at Pinewood Studios in the early eighties.
Ridley Scott directed Blade Runner.
So, to address some of these.
9. I used to be firmly against the "tugboat" theory, and I'm still against that being the original purpose of the YT-1300. However, I've come to accept that it's one of the many uses people figured out after the fact, either intended by CEC or developed by third parties (mainly due to the fact that it's been canonized). Still, I want to address some misconceptions about the Millennium Falcon specifically and the YT-1300 in general that people have about it.
- "There's no use for light hauling craft": There's always going to be a use for light hauling craft. Large bulk and intermodal freighters are going to be the workhorses of a shipping fleet but they're too bulky and generally too slow for low-volume, high-value, high-priority cargo, and it's not profitable to use these for the various "frontier" worlds. This is where smaller ships like the YT-1300 come in. You'd also use ships like this for charter flights.
- "There's not enough internal space for cargo": For most people, the only YT-1300 people are familiar with is the Millennium Falcon. Here's the thing about the Falcon, though - it's NOT a freighter in its particular configuration. The original model the Millennium Falcon started off as was a YT-1300FP, which is a mixed-traffic variant designed to carry both passengers and cargo, and it's been further modified to use the forward hold as a lounge and the center rear hold as an extended engineering bay for the upgraded and much larger hyperdrive. Furthermore, the internal corridors of the vessel have been rerouted from the original circular hallway, removing one of the Port-side holds in favor of additional living quarters and bigger power banks for the quad laser cannons. This is all from the original Haynes manual for the ship. The YT-1300F, the dedicated cargo variant of the YT-1300, has far larger cargo holds than the Falcon, significantly reduced living quarters, and a far more efficient internal layout.
- "Obviously the mandibles are supposed to be used for something, why else would they be there?" and "The offset cockpit makes no sense unless it's meant to see past a much longer attachment": More Haynes Manual stuff applies here. The YT-1300 isn't the first YT-series freighter to have an offset cockpit, this design choice goes back to the YT-1200 and YT-1250. These previous ships have a single overhead crane and a large cargo door at the front of the ship, leaving no room for a front-mounted cockpit. The front cargo door remained a feature on the YT-1300 as well, although the mechanical crane was replaced with a multipurpose magnetic grappler and light tractor beam system capable of being used to load cargo, dock small auxiliary craft, and connect further attachments. Which can include an intermodal freight module, but again I must stress the fact that that's not the sole purpose of the YT-1300. As a side note, I'd also like to point out that there is a center cockpit variant and an "armored" variant that eliminates the cockpit altogether and allows the ship to be flown from the pilot station in the forward hold (if you're wondering, the console Han Solo sat at while Luke was undergoing basic force training during the trip to the Alderaan system in A New Hope is the pilot station), both at the expense of the magnetic grappler system and front loading door. The center-cockpit design sandwiches a streamlined central cockpit between and slightly above the mandibles. The armored variant bridges the mandibles entirely, looking a bit like the Millennium Falcon From _Solo_ but without the cockpit.
- "The engines are overbuilt for a freighter, therefore it must be designed to push a much larger load. Therefore, it can ONLY be a tugboat": People who make this argument are, honestly, idiots. Star Wars isn't Star Trek, they're not a post-scarcity economy and their system is highly capitalistic. Ship manufacturers have to appeal to potential customers beyond simple practical use. And while there may not be a practical purpose to making a light freighter fly like a heavy fighter, there's definitely a marketing reason for doing so. Again, I have to mention the original Haynes manual, as it explicitly states that the YT-1300's engines were intentionally overbuilt to make it fun to fly to appeal to starship enthusiasts, vacuum jockeys and other people who would quickly get bored with a slower but more efficient vessel.
Now, one additional argument I have against the idea that the YT-1300 is a dedicated tugboat is the fact that having a dedicated tugboat going around without pushing anything would be out-of-place.
7. Just to go back to the internal space argument from 9 for a bit, the kitchenette on the Falcon is another example of how the ship has been completely repurposed from its original role as a mixed-traffic light freighter to a personal transport ship capable of housing a few people for extended periods of time.
On a separate note, access to fresh food is a gift in and of itself when previously your only option was stale rations, and the kitchenette is something to facilitate that.
6. Again, the mandibles are multi-purpose. They're not just for pushing cargo. And in between them is, again, a cargo loading door.
5. In legends, the Falcon's temperamental hyperdrive wasn't always just a malfunction. The ship was equipped with three droid brains that effectively made the ship sentient with a limited degree of free will, and it wanted to fight the Empire.
Using the speculated size of our own galaxy, and the line from the movie "...she'll make point five past light speed" (if my math is correct) it would still take 70,622 years for Han and Chewie to travel from one side of the galaxy to the other. Thank goodness for movie math.
The Star Wars Universe does not take place in our galaxy. It was a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.
@@1pcfred the next Star in our galaxy is 4 light years away ... that would still be a travel time of 2.6 years. But they jump into hyperspace and travel there so maybe hyperspace is much more compressed (or Lucas was simply shit with measurement units of speed and space)
@@nemo99nemo83 Han did the Kessel run in 10 parsecs!
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12. And parsecs are a measure of distance, not time, so he's actually bragging about taking a shortcut.
@@VestedUTuber Han did it in 10 but he's a modest man.
Han's anniversary gift to Leia:
Here's your Falcon kitchen. Now, make me them space sandwiches!
Good video 👍
My favorite ship in all of science fiction
It seems it's bigger on the inside as opposed to outside.
You didn't mention that the full sized version of the (millennium falcon ) was made and built were I live, in the Dock yards of (South Wales uk) 👍👏
Han: "Get back in the galley wench, and make me a sammich."
Leia: "What did you say?"
Han: "I was talking to Rey."
The cockpit was the cockpit from the original design. And as others have mentioned, the original design became the bases for the design of the CR90 Corvette Blockade Runner (Tantive IV).
It was also seen very briefly in Star Trek: First Contact during the battle with the Borg. There's a YT channel or two that shows it.
There's no room for a kitchenette towards the edge of the hull. The hull tapers down thus internal volume would mean a floor to ceiling height of a few feet at most. Barely any room to crawl let alone stand up. Any kitchen area would have to be located off the central cargo/living area.
The Cockpit is on the side because originally it was meant to fly on what is its side with the cockpit up top, when it landed it rotated 90 degrees for the landing legs. It was similar to the B-Wing in having a rotating cockpit. However it created a problem when trying to access the tunnel when flying with the cockpit at the top. Lucas said it was meant to be a hamburger with a bit taken out but fly like a Mola fish with the cockpit at the top. The mandibles are for attaching cargo freights, of course this also them became a problem for the lights and missiles inside and center of the mandibles. That's why there are so many versions of the MF because each film wanted different things added and then there is the difference between practical model, miniature model and CG model.
Talking of the kit bashing that went on for the modelling of the Millennium Falcon, Adam Savage mentions this and other models on his own TH-cam channel. He along with Jamie Hyneman, Tori Belleci and Grant Imahara (RIP you are missed Grant), all worked on later releases of the movie series in prop making.
Of course Adam was also in front of the camera, for things such as Mythbusters, but also Sesame Street when you and tings like The Expanse more recently.
Bucks County community College in Pennsylvania built a live size version of the falcon
It worked all the time in the Original three movies. However, as R2D2 stated was that it had been turned off or disconnected. It was not broken or damaged. Did you even see the first movies? I know which one this happened in. Do you?
Referring to the hyperdrive? Turned off by Imperials in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. Also failed when leaving Hoth, thus the asteroid chase and the piggy-backing on a star destroyer in the same movie.
Where did you get the 6.13 Quadrillion Miles Per Hour speed from? I only ask because 6.13 Quadrillion Miles equates to just over 1000 light years, and other sites list the falcon's speed at 10 to 15 times that.
If the cockpit swivels and was adjustable to be always on the horizontal surely the falcon could then pivot on its side and have a clear view over the cargo its pushing. That would be my design input. You can have that one for free George.
Lmao! The most romantic wedding present ever. A kitchen. I hope he got her sone cleaning supplies to go with it.
The fastest hunk junk in the Galaxy known as The Millennium Falcon is one my favoaite in Star Wars , I mean next to Luke's classics X--Wing .And the Imperial Shuttle from Jedi .So I would say those are the three coolest ships in all off Star Wars .But those are the ones I like in those movies .And you peeps over the U.K keep cool and calm .The best for you and anybody else on my home ground of the North American Not to think about stress ,find things to do and keep cool under pressure .And aft all you peeps came up that cool under pressure ,also stay safe and mask up !
Do you think we’ll see the Falcon again in anything? Hope so!!
In a galaxy full of gravity manipulation technology the amount of cargo a craft can hold should be based on space not weight surely?
momentum and mass doesn't disappear in anti-grav/
@@santanamauricio There's no velocity to create momentum, you just counter what ever force acts on the cargo? (Not that any of this matters in a space fantasy 😅🤣)
90 years old . Star Wars' version of a T-Bucket Hearse Hot-rod . Like Grandpa Munster's Car .
The most useful thing in space to come out of the trash compactor.
I herd the idea for the cockpit window came from the cockpit of a Boeing B29 Super fortress.
The satellite dish on the opposite side of the ship from the cockpit is also used to aid the pilot to navigate as the cockpit isn't central.
sensor dish. no DirecTV in space.
The Millennium Falcon also makes an appearance outside the diner in Spaceballs : The Movie!
I have always wondered where they sleep.
The bit about the kitchen went from sweet to absolutely stupid when they tried to play the pr game.
the YT1300 is by far one of my most favorite star ship designs
The Millenium Falcon is a YT 1300, unless you are referring to the Scoundrel's Luck which is a fan fic ship created by Calamity SI
@@seajaye9540 yup sorry made a mistake
@@seajaye9540 thanks fix it
We need an updated version, the schematics should be different again for the falcon from the solo a star wars story film.
That's 8 minutes of nerding out that I'll never get back.
Han also added star destroyer armor plating.
He added and upgraded many of the Falcon's offensive and defensive systems. The upper and lower turrets were originally twin cannons and he upgraded them to quads and added automation to allow them to be controlled from the cockpit. He added the hidden swivel gun in the right mandible and missle launchers between the mandibles. Hull armor was upgraded throughout the ship. Shield generators were replaced with military grade units. Saying that the Falcon is a modified YT-1300 is an understatement.
The hull was actually made out of Valyrian steel.
As Darth Vader might have said: 'I find your over-use of the word "canonical" ... disturbing.'
Nice update video from information from a Star Wars specs text book wrote 20 years ago
Does anyone know how many were built
Where are the windows Luke and Han were looking through when using the lazer turrets in a new hope after escaping from the death star
top and bottom center of the disc is where the *LASER cannon mounts are located.
So Han flew around in the space equivalent of a souped up Semi
Air Force KC-135. Is over 60 years old and still in service. Well the frame and some parts
Real life spacecraft fuel is called Hydrazine and it’s also quite toxic stuff.
Isn't most fuel toxic in one way or another, due to chemical make up and the effects of burning it? 🤔
Hydrazine is typically only used in thrusters these days. Monopropellant over catalyst is very reliable for a thruster that is on-off cycling, and is stable in long term storage. Has low thrust for the mass though. Main launch engines typically burn kerosene or hydrogen with oxygen. Kerosene is energy dense and easy to handle. Most common for first stage. Hydrogen is cheap and efficient, the exhaust is water vapor, but it is difficult to store and handle with lower energy density (needs a bigger tank). Most common on upper stages. Liquid methane is starting to be used (Starship) as a middle ground between kerosene and hydrogen.
An important factor in rocket thrust is the velocity of the molecules. Velocity of gas molecules is dependent on temperature and mass of the molecule. Temperature is limited by the material of the engine. H2O molecules have lower mass than CO2, so they have higher velocity, therefore more thrust for the temperature. Both hydrogen and Kerosene engines are run rich to control temperatures as well as producing H2 and CO molecules which are lighter and faster.
Puh - not really true, that the smaller falcon uses the lower scaled kit parts: the 5foot falcon has the Scale 1/12 12-Cylinder-Ferrari 312B Engine parts on the top of the mandibles, the 32" Falcon uses the Scale 1/12 V8-Ford-Engine Parts from the Tyrrell P34 (both kits made by Tamiya).
The 5Footer is much more detailed with modelkit parts as the 32" falcon...
The cockpit is optional. Some were automated
I always thought they might have added another YT 1300f Corellian freighter somewhere in the films.. if they were built in large numbers, you’d imagine you’d see more
There's one in the background during the spaceport scene in Revenge of the Sith, it's unnamed in canon but it's actually one of the two YT-1300s that eventually ended up as part of the Millennium Falcon in Legends, the Stellar Envoy. In one of the reworked versions of A New Hope we also see a YT-2400 landing at Mos Eisley space port. Again, this ship goes unnamed in canon but in Legends this is Dash Rendar's Outrider.
Other YTs appear on occasion in licensed media.
I thought the bathroom would be called the “poop deck” not “the head”
Didnt know the Falcon had the T-1000 fueling it's engines
🤔 so... at 2:07 & 2:30, we're saying the toilet is right next to and same room as the kitchen
A single man can just survive on left over sauce packets in the bowels of the fridge.
Seen Millennium falcon in episode 3 and space balls aslo Star Trek game battlefront 2 as a Easter eggs too as fast ship in galaxy sister ship of flaco in Star Wars rebel assault 2 games
Actually the cockpit design was based on the B-29. The trick of adding scale parts on the outside of a model has a long history in FX. They're called "greeblies." The original Battlestar Galactica was built the same way. Parts from the Revell Saturn V kit are easily discerned.
Yes based on the B-29, but I think he is referring to the placement at the side, not the physical looks.
Does anyone know if Joe Johnson is considered as director Of any, at least, Star wars show episode? That would be great choice
so which would win in a battle the millennium or the defiant
and for that matter which is faster
Well the Defiant is probably more heavily armored and carries a lot more firepower. Plus it has a cloaking device.
Do the Ebon Hawk next please
if the falcon was used for cargo transport, were they mass produced? why is there only one in the universe?
She is part of the class of ships known as YT-1300. They are very modular in design and can be changed between freighter, pusher, and liner.
For the Cockpit question. Yes they could have put in the center of the ship over the mandibles, but then it wouldn't have a unique difference between it and all other starships including Star Trek and Babylon 5 including the Whitestar.
When the Falcon was designed, Babylon 5 was little more than un-burped gas in a future babies belly...
Paliptine: What the hell is an Aluminum Falcon?
Also I did indeed drop a like, but it broke when it hit the floor, sorry
How much in American measures is 100 metric tons?
I was told the cockpit of the falcon was inspired by the B-29 bomber
Can someone please explain the gunner positions on the falcon? When Luke and Han run to the gun turrets after Obi wan dies, they go up and down a ladder. But in the next scene they look at each other as if sitting at the ends of a horizontal tube. This would make them like waist gunner positions, shooting out the sides of the ship. But the guns are top and bottom. This has pissed me off since the first time I saw the movie in the 70s. Makes no sense since the guns are in front of them and they aren't strapped into seats facing up and down respectively.
If I recall correctly (?), the gunner's stations are in a zero-gravity "well" in the center of the ship. The top gunner is sitting with their feet straight up, and the belly gunner is sitting with their feet straight down. Camera angles make them appear to be beside each other.
@@jedironin380 Thank you. That thought had actually crossed my mind, but I figured I was over thinking it. It'll still bug the shit out if me every time I see it, but thanks again for the explanation. I appreciate it.
@@stevedooley7693 he recalls correctly - the turrets at top and bottom center have local gravity generators.
the cockpit looks like a b29 bomber cockpit
Fuel: Rippinium
Hyper-Fuel: Coaxium
to be Honest I like The Falcon the way it is heck I wish I owned a ship like it but hey a person can dream can't we
Doesn’t surprise me that they had to kit-bash to make these vehicles and vessels from Star Wars
If anyone wants more real history on the YT-1300 look up Stock Ships from westend games rpg. There a few novels and tech books from the original movies. As for the kitchen, that was in the novels. As for the Disney sequels, they're not canon so dont bother. Corllian Engineering Corporation, is by far the best ship manufacturer. Almost all the YT series have a circle shape for the main body. The best features of the engineering is that they are literally Mopar. Any other ship engineering, mods, weapons, shield generators, etc. Can and will configure to Corellian engineering. Its 100% modifiable, meaning the cockpit can be placed literally anywhere on the ship. U can rearrange the interior to how u want it. This why the falcon never had a kitchen, it was removed. Also han had the hidden deck plates for smuggling. Also fun fact BlasTech works the same way, heavily modifiable and easily configured to the the person.
If the gunners turret is underneath how the hell do they climb into it ,the angle is just wrong???? Wouldn't you be shooting at the "ground " and Wouldn't you be kinda upside down?
Yes. I'm pretty sure I read something about this back in the day. The gravity for the turrets is different from the rest of the ship.
@@toddnolastname4485 and there's no ground in space.
No upside to be pointed down in space.
There is a zero g tunnel that leads to both turrets
In early paintings they show two lite ion lasers firing from the mandibles .
And one or two comics from the late 70s show also. Iv wondered about this . Or was it just a boo boo in art department
It was wavering yesterday at my backyard.......🙄
The falcon has a bathroom just don't use it right after Chewie .
Hahaha Han got Leia a kitchen as a wedding gift...I could see that being his sense of humor.
To which she would handily remark, "Han make me a sandwich." Chewy would laugh and Han would be like, "Yes your Worshipfulness." and he'd go do so, cause Chewy likes Leia, would bet on her in a fight, and Wookies don't like to lose. 😂😜 Ok smart ass comments aside ... It is smarter with a family crew rather than a couple single guys.
Cj Skorpion 🤣 true!
Actually the kitchen upgrade was part of a larger upgrade to the Falcon's living quarters. He also turned part of one of the cargo bays into a small apartment so he and Leia can travel in comfort. In the old cannon they traveled quite a bit when attending to Leia's duties as head of state for the New Republic.
Wow nothing says I love you like a new kitchen
At 1:10 you said it costs 50cr in fuel to run the Falcon per day- "pricey" .
However, in Ep.4, OB1 offers Han 17,000cr to take them to Alderaan... thats some markup on your costs- even after blasting out of Mos Eisley.
You sure about the 50cr? Wheres the figure from?
Don’t you get it? Even in the Star Wars era, the YT-1300 Freighter is essentially a space going Prius with an Eco engine! 😅......50 Galactic Credits per day is incredibly cheap! It’s like me filling up my ancient 2008 Prius once every 21 days - with 10.5 gallons of fuel lasting me 641 miles between fill ups. Cheap! 😜
P.s. - I’ve owned 3 vehicles I named after the Millennium Falcon. The first was a Lada Niva 4 x4 Jeep. The 2nd was a Thunderstorm Grey Skoda Rapid 130G coupe with a rear engine bored out to 1.4 litres - and a huge cargo compartment in the front + a hidden cargo compartment behind the rear seats! (It also had the same silhouette as a YT-1300 when seen sideways). And was just as easily repairable with hydro spanner’s and alluvial dampeners 😜.
The 3rd car was a Mazda MX-3 Coupe. A black flying saucer on wheels with a rear that looked like a YT-1300’s back end. Also lots of cargo space with the rear 2+2 seats folded down. I liked the Skoda the best. It was a TANK, damn reliable, and almost invisible. Until you saw it pulling away like a poor man’s Porsche.....🤣🤣🤣.
i new it all, i'm smart