I have always been a fan of the Star Wars Saga and decided to create a 3D version of the Millennium Falcon with a cutaway and an inside look of the ship itself.
The life of a smuggler doesn't afford such luxuries. Kinda like a modern day trucker, he probably pisses in bottles, shits in a bucket with an air tight lid and sleeps on an unrolled mat. Let me guess, you're probably wondering where he takes his bubble baths too, right?
@@eamonia When you strip down to bare essentials, there really isn't much a person really needs besides food and shelter. That why trucker has their own place to showers on their way to their destination.
@@Halfscreen i see, that sounds like very tiring work. Channels like you should get a lot more attention than a youtuber who paid an editor for 3 minutes of work. I *really* love your hard work and videos, i salute you good sir
@@hansandhispanzerfaust6236 Appreciate the love. I started these animations mainly because I love 3D modeling and animation. I know it can be better, but I'm just a one-man team.
Given that this is a design for commercial use, I've always been baffled how it could carry enough cargo, either by mass or volume, to break even. Even with the pod in the mandibles, it seems like an extraordinary amount of space is wasted.
Well, for one this deck plan has about half the cargo space that other versions (all by Lucasfilm) have. Second, he likely makes all of the real money transporting spice (narcotics) in those hidden compartments. One of those compartments packed full could turn him a profit, all four packed full can turn a profit for him and his boss.
@@patrickstewart3446 The YT-1300 was presented as a commercial freighter, something that, you know, could make a profit running legitimate cargo. Unless the price per m^3 is insane, even if everything but the engines and crew quarters was converted to cargo, you'd only have the volume of 2 or maybe 3 40' cargo trailers. Hardly enough to make your monthly payments on. *THAT* was the point I was making.
@@kfeltenberger It also had attachable exterior cargo containers remember. Like a cargo boat today, it uses containers to increase its space usage. It could also be paid to just haul those containers to larger ships within a system.
@@ttv_mrjack6749 I'm well aware of that. It doesn't belay the fact that the ship itself is rather large for the volume of cargo that it can move, either internally or through an external pod. You need to be able to move enough cargo to economically break even or the bank is never going to underwrite a loan because "smuggling" isn't an acceptable revenue model.
YES! I said that way back in the 80s. Real cargo ships are 80-90% open space for, you know, cargo. Look at modern container ships. Vast amounts of real estate for containers and a small, but sufficient, amount for the crew and engines. Same thing with semi trucks. A relatively small truck in the front and 3500 cubic feet for, you know, cargo
The best ever little set from empire strikes back was the lift tube, there should b an entrance on the port side similar to the gun turret entrance, in rise of sky walker there is none of thar, just a hatch that opens above a corridor, balderdash I say, think how cool it would look in the background as crew run for the sleeping quarters, still the open closet (Cape room) has all the detail, design & panache of the original top hatch elevator, there's lots of interior layouts all disappointing, I designed an interior at 13 & that was more stylish & practical, & those escape pods look like coffins, the med bed had a coridoor runnining parallel to it, they change the rules as they go along
I like this video as it shows the inner and outer workings of everyone's favorite smugglers ship and all the modifications made to it by Lando Calrissian and later by everyone's favorite smuggler and suave lady's man Han Solo.
it will be great to see a realistic view from the cockpit, i always imagine the right side of the ship must be on sight, seen from half of the pilot and copilot view.
A proper freighter design would be a big box, with engines in external pods, big cargo door/ramp fore-and-aft, cockpit at top-center with cameras around the doors. This could load from both ends, could tow or push containers as needed, and could even accept absurdly-long payloads by letting them pass through and tie down with their center inside the cargo bay and both doors open. Dramatically, the big cargo bay would be perfect for gunfights or hide-and-search type conflict, as well as allowing for the ever-popular "open the door and blow it into space" tactic. It could even be used to smuggle a fighter-type ship into a restricted area, or rescue one in a "scoop it up and go" way.
You know, the Millennium Falcon could also be like a Recreational Vehicle in space! This would be accurately depicted in the form of Eagle 5 in Spaceballs, which was a literal RV in space, in this case being a 1986 Winnebago motorhome with space wings, engines, etc.! Personally, my grandmother used to have a 1980s Winnebago VERY SIMILAR to Eagle 5, just without the space wings etc.! I might have went off topic, but think about it, if there was a spaceship that could be the perfect space motorhome, the YT-1300 is the best choice!
I would love to see your look inside of a CR-90 Corvette, as that is another of our most iconic and precious vehicles (with a little figure of Princess Leia inside of course :). As well as the Slave-1 of course, as others have already requested. Both of these I think are considered ultimate fan favorites, like the ones you've already done. Great Work!!
I think the Millennium Falcon has one flaw (that i can think of), the back of the hallway ring has a wall between the other side. If a blockage occurred and someone was back there and couldn’t break through it, they would get trapped and in an emergency situation, that would *not* be good
does it really not have a bathroom? i always wondered how you would go to the bathroom in that thing but i guess you have to hold it until you land lol.
Nicely done, I'm currently reading Han Solo At Star's End. I really feel this is the story we should have seen made into a movie instead of the one Disney cranked out.
I literally just re-read the Han Solo Trilogy. Would have been an awesome movie. Disney RUINED the entire Star Wars franchise, in my opinion. (FYI, the trilogy is "Stars End", "Revenge" and "Lost Legacy". Available on the amazon kindle.
Quick question I don't believe has ever been touched on. Do you know whether the Falcon is capable of moving under the water? Could Han, Chewie or Rey have actually gone underwater without risking damage to the ship? I've always wanted to know that as a child.
Given how a space ship needs to be air tight to function Id say its plausible depends on if the hull can rust however. I wouldn't try to open the hanger bays bellow sea level regardless however
I didn't see where the smuggling cargo area was, where everyone hid when the Millennium Falcon was on the Death Star, or where the exterior hatch was that Lando Calrissian used to rescue Luke, after Darth Vader dropped the "I am your father" bombshell, and cut off his son's hand
You know one thing I have always wondered is how many times the Falcon lost that sensor dish on her dorsal hull and the quad turbo laser cannons as I remember she lost them in Solo:A Star Wars Story Return of the Jedi and The Last Jedi.
I have a yt 1300 mellenium falcon. Does anyone know how to get the back lights to work??? I cant seem to find where lights can be restored. AAA, AA Batteries??? What is the source for lights??? I would like to get the lights working
Nice video! A walk through in the Millennium Falcon would be a nice add up! Also: additional information about the interior sections and panels woud have been very striking and finishing your detail video about this magnificent and most famous vehicle in the world!! Let me know if you are able to take my advice!
Some referred it as: "the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy." I always didn't care about this. To me the Millennium Falcon is the most beautiful starship ever created. I wish, it would be real.🤗
@@Halfscreen Ugh, deadlines will do that every time. I've overlooked things myself even without a deadline adding pressure, lol. Oh well, the smuggling compartments are a minor detail.. Here's an idea ; if you're able to create a segment for the compartments, you could tack it on at the end of this video as a "bonus feature" and re-upload this video as "updated"? Just a thought - you probably have enough to work on, lol. Anyway, great videos - they bring an element of authentic "real life" logistics to an otherwise fictional concept. :-)
@@BlackieNuff Well, this was my first attempt at creating a detailed layout animation. I have to see if adding a bonus feature is possible on YT. I will have to look into it. BTW...do you know anything about the CR-90 corvette?
@@Halfscreen I can't say that I do. In fact, I only just learned of that "Corvette" model through your video. Is that the formal name of what we otherwise know as the "Tantive iV", or is it just similar? Right there, shows how limited my knowledge is, haha. Sorry I could not be of some help.
Just to help all those dancing in the aisle, trying not to soil themselves: You'll find the head (bathroom, aka refresher) in the crew quarters, semi-attached. It just isn't noted on most videos/books because nobody really cares and this is a polite society that doesn't speak of toiletries in public ;)
@@Halfscreen Well, according to Star Trek, the Enterprise only has ONE bathroom for the whole ship. Talk about jumping around in the hallways. And yes, this IS canon. lol
@@Halfscreen The crazy thing is that its in the middle of the ship. So if you are on the bridge and you have to use the bathroom, you arent coming back anytime soon. lol
The life of a smuggler doesn't afford such luxuries. Kinda like a modern day trucker, he probably pisses in bottles, shits in a bucket with an air tight lid and sleeps on an unrolled mat. But actually, yeah you're right. I had a book when I was a kid that had a cutaway of the Millennium Falcon with a small head tucked away in there somewhere.
An interesting tidbit of information is that during the development phase of the first movie, some press releases for _Space: 1999_ which was currently in production at the time were released and it showed the Moon base Alpha's Eagle ships. By an unbelievable coincidence their ship looked almost exactly like the one that was being developed at ILM, especially the cockpit. So, in order to not seem like they were copying them, George Lucas decided to push the Falcon in a different direction. And thank goodness for that! And befittingly, both the Eagle and the Millennium Falcon have become some of the most iconic and revered spaceships in all of fiction.
ok so....the layout of the Quad Cannons always bugged me. In Episode 4, it shows Luke and Han at the controls, but where they sit, where the laser banks hang....it just doesn't make sense. I get its sci-fi but has anyone else noticed that? I feel like they'd be sitting on their backs or something idk.
If you watch the first movie (now Episode 4: A New Hope), they are effectively laying on their backs relative to the rest of the vessel. You see Han and Luke climbing the ladder to the turret, then they step from the ladder (vertical) to the gun port with the ladder now behind each of them (horizontal from their perspective).
No one ever mentions the forward laser cannons. The quad turrets and concussion missiles? Sure. But in RotJ, the Falcon fires from its forward mandibles (yes, the mandibles and not the middle, so, not the quad turrets) at a pair of TIE Interceptors near a Rebel frigate and at the Death Star's power core. It's the visual for a laser blast, it's the sound effect for a laser blast, and from an in-universe perspective, you don't fire a half-dozen missiles to take out a TIE because that's just a waste of ordnance. And I don't get why this is universally overlooked.
Don't forget the small auto guns haun installed on the ship for deffence from ground troop assault . Shown on the ice planet hoth . Guess you could call them his hole cards. When he trying to escape unhappy coustomers
There was something in a novel about what Han and Chewie called 'The Money Lane': where the laser quads' fire overlapped, meaning either gunner can score a hit depending on who has the better eye and reflexes. Chewie seemed to have the slight edge on Solo with that!
Technically, the Falcon is a YT-1300 f/p hybrid. At least, it is in Legends, which establishes where Lando got it from. Also, it indicates its appearance in RotS.
in the real world an aircraft capable of being as good as the millenium falcom would be the P-61, its a night fighter, twin-engines, stylish black paint, 4x .12mm machineguns on a rotative turret and a fucking 19km radar, also, the speed is very high for this kind of aircraft
Hmm… is this based on the official Lucasfilm’s specs? I always assumed you can run a complete 360° around inside the Falcon. But in your schematics, it looks like the passage at the back is partitioned by a wall?
Tractor comes from the Latin word for "pull," trahere, so by definition a tractor is something that pulls, a task the Millennium Falcon isn't equipped to do. If anything it's closest to a locomotive in that it can be used to push very heavy loads.
You left out the removable floor panels used for smuggling. This is where we see the group from ST Ep IV : A New Hope emerge after the stormtroopers leave the Falcon.
@@ct_cartoonist53 Somebody mentioned there is a bathroom on the ship, but it wasn't labeled as a bathroom or restroom. I have to go digging on the comment section.
Picture it like a Ford F-350 with a fifth wheel hook up in the bed and an extended cab. You can haul some stuff in the bed and back of the cab, or you can hook up a horse trailer and haul more stuff.
The older pre Disney layouts had far more space. Pretty much the whole back section was a large cargo bay with most of the propulsion systems located below deck (as seen in Ep V). Why this layout tries to cram everything on this deck I have no idea.
It was intended to haul (or in fact push) external freight... not load up inside with tons of amazon space deliveries 🤦♂️ good grief, it would be limited even if it did have more space... as it deals with huge external loads it is pretty much fit for purpose with its industrial sub-lights
Craft is both singular and plural when pertaining to aircraft or watercraft. Crafts is the plural of a hobby or a job as in arts and crafts. Crafts, when referring to spacecraft, watercraft, or aircraft is improper English. Also, it is "holds" and not "hulls". Thanks for an informative video!
Am I the only one confused by the top and bottom gun turrets ? Are they facing down and up where is the window they look out from ? In the movie they look like they are horizontally opposed . That top bottom orientation would make forward and rear vision impossible
The windows are facing up and down, the guns swivel and can aim in any direction from 90 degrees ahead, behind or to the side to straight up or above for the top turret or down for the bottom turret. The TIES they were shooting in the movies were either above or below the Falcon. You can get a better idea in the scene where Rey and Finn steal the Falcon, the turret gets stuck so Rey turns the ship at an angle to get the shot.
@@ll7868 I guess what throws me off is the gravity issue in boba fetts ship his seat swivels when the ship rights itself Luke would have to be hanging face down to enter yet jumps in normally and thumbs up to Han as if they were level
@@fusion451 The turrets were designed after the B-51 Bomber, the seats work in the same way, enter normally and they swivel into operational mode. If they're both facing forward, back or to the sides Han would be above Luke, if they're both facing up and down at the same time like in the thumbs up scene they're behind each other facing opposite directions.
@@ll7868 Orientation still wonky they be virtually blind to anything directly in front or behind them B17 bombers had bubble turrets for a 360 degree view and fore and aft tail gunners with 180 degree view not to mention they have no harnesses to hold them in place
@@fusion451 That's why they had auto-targeting and monitor screens. They don't need to see with their eyes. The turrets on the Falcon can be manually controlled from the cockpit or the control board in the lounge area as well but an actual gunner can react faster. An R2 unit can also control them from a port next to the ladder.
I loved this video, and the only suggestion I have is a very small annoyance - when people call it the "Millennium FAAlcon." It's the Millennium FAWLcon. Y'know? Like how it's named in the films? FAWLCON. Not FAALCON. It's a silly detail, but it bugs me to no end how even the model makers say FAALCON. The ship's referred to as the FAWLCON. And it's maybe because it's my favourite spaceship ever put on screen. But if Han Solo himself refers to it as the FAWLCON/Falcon, and George Lucas refers to it as THE "FAWLCON" then that's good enough for me. What an odd mispronunciation. I'm just glad the ship exists. Its the ship I'd adore to have whilst adventuring throughout the galaxy 😊
I like the way Lando had the falcon configured. That's how I want have the players on a FFG Star Wars TRPG AoR,F&D and EOTE. But I'm working on condensing it down & organizing it. So it easier. Even listing videos on how to play via TH-cam. But, I'm wondering how to pitch the idea to my family.
Oops, forgot I like how Lando had the falcon configured. But, I would like the cockpit on my left side of the YT-1300 with the dish my right side. But keep the rest of ship the same with Landos config.
@@mike197714 Who says Corellian Engineering Corporation didn't make a variant YT-1300 with the cockpit on the port side instead of starboard? CEC's "stock" light freighters were designed to be customized to the purchaser's specific requirements IIRC, which is why Lando and later Han were both able to modify the daylights out of her, just like real-life hot rodders do to their cars. (In fact, if I'm not mistaken, George Lucas drew inspiration from his real-life hot rodding days when he created Han Solo, a hotshot pilot who, in his spare time, tinkers and modifies the Falcon to get better speed and handling out of her every chance he gets, which is why the old girl is so unreliable sometimes.)
Good arrangement for a basically flat-disk ship. Each gun can cover nearly half the sky without shooting the ship itself. Clearly a defensive setup, as an attack ship would have guns mounted to concentrate fire on a single target, probably in front, because that way it could do damage as it approached.
The rear area is wrong the corridor goes all the way around and the engine room is at the rear of the ship not in the middle . There are official blueprints available.
I have always been a fan of the Star Wars Saga and decided to create a 3D version of the Millennium Falcon with a cutaway and an inside look of the ship itself.
GJ
Do you have information about the well sounding music you use?
were are the sleeping rooms and the bath room ? :)
The life of a smuggler doesn't afford such luxuries. Kinda like a modern day trucker, he probably pisses in bottles, shits in a bucket with an air tight lid and sleeps on an unrolled mat. Let me guess, you're probably wondering where he takes his bubble baths too, right?
@@eamonia When you strip down to bare essentials, there really isn't much a person really needs besides food and shelter. That why trucker has their own place to showers on their way to their destination.
Such a cozy little ship
Really nice internal view of the Millennium Falcon.
My favorite Star Wars ship!!!
I never knew it was a giant forklift and I have been following this for the last 30 years. LOL Thanks.
As far as robot voices go, this is one of the better one's I've heard. But I don't do robot voices, I just won't visit that uncanny valley.
It's understandable, future version won't have robot voices.
I feel like asking what app the robot voice was from, but i also feel like i have used my 1 free ticket pass already, lol 😂
@@hansandhispanzerfaust6236 After spending 30 hours per animation, I just didn't have enough time to create a proper VO.
@@Halfscreen i see, that sounds like very tiring work. Channels like you should get a lot more attention than a youtuber who paid an editor for 3 minutes of work. I *really* love your hard work and videos, i salute you good sir
@@hansandhispanzerfaust6236 Appreciate the love. I started these animations mainly because I love 3D modeling and animation. I know it can be better, but I'm just a one-man team.
Thanks!
Thank again Richard for the super thanks! It's appreciated!
Given that this is a design for commercial use, I've always been baffled how it could carry enough cargo, either by mass or volume, to break even. Even with the pod in the mandibles, it seems like an extraordinary amount of space is wasted.
Well, for one this deck plan has about half the cargo space that other versions (all by Lucasfilm) have. Second, he likely makes all of the real money transporting spice (narcotics) in those hidden compartments. One of those compartments packed full could turn him a profit, all four packed full can turn a profit for him and his boss.
@@patrickstewart3446 The YT-1300 was presented as a commercial freighter, something that, you know, could make a profit running legitimate cargo. Unless the price per m^3 is insane, even if everything but the engines and crew quarters was converted to cargo, you'd only have the volume of 2 or maybe 3 40' cargo trailers. Hardly enough to make your monthly payments on. *THAT* was the point I was making.
@@kfeltenberger It also had attachable exterior cargo containers remember. Like a cargo boat today, it uses containers to increase its space usage. It could also be paid to just haul those containers to larger ships within a system.
@@ttv_mrjack6749 I'm well aware of that. It doesn't belay the fact that the ship itself is rather large for the volume of cargo that it can move, either internally or through an external pod. You need to be able to move enough cargo to economically break even or the bank is never going to underwrite a loan because "smuggling" isn't an acceptable revenue model.
YES!
I said that way back in the 80s.
Real cargo ships are 80-90% open space for, you know, cargo.
Look at modern container ships.
Vast amounts of real estate for containers and a small, but sufficient, amount for the crew and engines.
Same thing with semi trucks.
A relatively small truck in the front and 3500 cubic feet for, you know, cargo
where is the top hatch and lift ?
The best ever little set from empire strikes back was the lift tube, there should b an entrance on the port side similar to the gun turret entrance, in rise of sky walker there is none of thar, just a hatch that opens above a corridor, balderdash I say, think how cool it would look in the background as crew run for the sleeping quarters, still the open closet (Cape room) has all the detail, design & panache of the original top hatch elevator, there's lots of interior layouts all disappointing, I designed an interior at 13 & that was more stylish & practical, & those escape pods look like coffins, the med bed had a coridoor runnining parallel to it, they change the rules as they go along
I like this video as it shows the inner and outer workings of everyone's favorite smugglers ship and all the modifications made to it by Lando Calrissian and later by everyone's favorite smuggler and suave lady's man Han Solo.
Thanks.
Great video..thanks for the extra insight and quick break down.
Glad it was helpful!
Where was the smuggling compartments that hid the passengers when they landed on the Death Star
I have forgotten to add it in.
@@Halfscreen There are also four seats in the cockpit for navigator and communications.
Great detailed job on this video!
Glad you liked it!
My friend has the Millennium Falcon drone, its bad ass 👍😎
He should do a video of it and posted it on TH-cam.
@@Halfscreen I'll ask him too👍😎
My friend Teddy said he'll try
@@mikeyholterfield9019 😎
it will be great to see a realistic view from the cockpit, i always imagine the right side of the ship must be on sight, seen from half of the pilot and copilot view.
A proper freighter design would be a big box, with engines in external pods, big cargo door/ramp fore-and-aft, cockpit at top-center with cameras around the doors.
This could load from both ends, could tow or push containers as needed, and could even accept absurdly-long payloads by letting them pass through and tie down with their center inside the cargo bay and both doors open.
Dramatically, the big cargo bay would be perfect for gunfights or hide-and-search type conflict, as well as allowing for the ever-popular "open the door and blow it into space" tactic. It could even be used to smuggle a fighter-type ship into a restricted area, or rescue one in a "scoop it up and go" way.
Actually I'd have the cockpit mounted on a hinged swivel allowing it to swing and reposition for optimal observation of the cargo.
Look at the Cardassian freighter from DS9; engines at the back bridge module up front with the middle section for the cargo pods.
You know, the Millennium Falcon could also be like a Recreational Vehicle in space! This would be accurately depicted in the form of Eagle 5 in Spaceballs, which was a literal RV in space, in this case being a 1986 Winnebago motorhome with space wings, engines, etc.! Personally, my grandmother used to have a 1980s Winnebago VERY SIMILAR to Eagle 5, just without the space wings etc.! I might have went off topic, but think about it, if there was a spaceship that could be the perfect space motorhome, the YT-1300 is the best choice!
Given how it was made to be a homebase when being made for the original trilogy that makes sense
I would love to see your look inside of a CR-90 Corvette, as that is another of our most iconic and precious vehicles (with a little figure of Princess Leia inside of course :). As well as the Slave-1 of course, as others have already requested. Both of these I think are considered ultimate fan favorites, like the ones you've already done. Great Work!!
I should have the CR-90 Corvette animation finish by Sunday!
I think the Millennium Falcon has one flaw (that i can think of), the back of the hallway ring has a wall between the other side. If a blockage occurred and someone was back there and couldn’t break through it, they would get trapped and in an emergency situation, that would *not* be good
Health & safety were low priority in the STAR WARS Universe.
The back end is wrong on the official blueprints the corridor goes all the way around
Great videos! I'd enjoy seeing one of the Slave 1, especially since it's been featured again on The Mandalorian.
It's on my to do list.
Very nicely done.
does it really not have a bathroom? i always wondered how you would go to the bathroom in that thing but i guess you have to hold it until you land lol.
There is one near center of the ship, which I later found on some updated schematic.
Nicely done, I'm currently reading Han Solo At Star's End. I really feel this is the story we should have seen made into a movie instead of the one Disney cranked out.
Did you find _Han Solo's Revenge_ ?
I literally just re-read the Han Solo Trilogy. Would have been an awesome movie. Disney RUINED the entire Star Wars franchise, in my opinion. (FYI, the trilogy is "Stars End", "Revenge" and "Lost Legacy". Available on the amazon kindle.
Love it. Maybe next one imperial star ship
I'm working on Blockade Runner next........If i can find a good 3D model of the one imperial star ship. I hate using low quality 3D models.
The Millennium Falcon =the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy!!
It's on the Corporate Sector Authority's _Red List_ !
The junky exterior was done on purpose as a form of camouflage.
Quick question I don't believe has ever been touched on. Do you know whether the Falcon is capable of moving under the water? Could Han, Chewie or Rey have actually gone underwater without risking damage to the ship? I've always wanted to know that as a child.
Given how a space ship needs to be air tight to function Id say its plausible depends on if the hull can rust however.
I wouldn't try to open the hanger bays bellow sea level regardless however
I doubt that the hull would hold up against all the weight (or density) of the water pressing against it as it moved. Not exactly dusting crops.
I didn't see where the smuggling cargo area was, where everyone hid when the Millennium Falcon was on the Death Star, or where the exterior hatch was that Lando Calrissian used to rescue Luke, after Darth Vader dropped the "I am your father" bombshell, and cut off his son's hand
I have flown the Falcon over 140 times.(In GE) Great little ship.
I do not like to compare youtubers, but I think that in this video the details are better than the Jared Owen's video.
I WANT ONE! I have since the movie came out!
Could you some videos on Star Trek vessels?
Eventually.
Must have been weird inside the gun turret tunnel as gravity switched 90 degrees.
You know one thing I have always wondered is how many times the Falcon lost that sensor dish on her dorsal hull and the quad turbo laser cannons as I remember she lost them in Solo:A Star Wars Story Return of the Jedi and The Last Jedi.
I have a yt 1300 mellenium falcon. Does anyone know how to get the back lights to work??? I cant seem to find where lights can be restored. AAA, AA Batteries??? What is the source for lights??? I would like to get the lights working
Given the lay out and design, this ship can be reality to be built and used in the real world.
Nice video! A walk through in the Millennium Falcon would be a nice add up! Also: additional information about the interior sections and panels woud have been very striking and finishing your detail video about this magnificent and most famous vehicle in the world!! Let me know if you are able to take my advice!
I can look into it, but I have a large request for more technical animation. Thanks for requests and suggestions pixeljunky. 😄
Some referred it as: "the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy."
I always didn't care about this. To me the Millennium Falcon is the most beautiful starship ever created. I wish, it would be real.🤗
If I ever win the lottery, I'm building a Millennium Falcon house.
I wish for you, that this dream of yours come true.🙂
Hey any you can do the VCX100 - Ghost? I have not seen any good version of the deck plans for the Ghost online.
Not sure since my SW materials ain't do so well lately on YT.
No mention of the secret smuggling compartments?
No.....I needed to have the animation done in a week and forgot about it.
@@Halfscreen
Ugh, deadlines will do that every time.
I've overlooked things myself even without a deadline adding pressure, lol.
Oh well, the smuggling compartments are a minor detail..
Here's an idea ; if you're able to create a segment for the compartments, you could tack it on at the end of this video as a "bonus feature" and re-upload this video as "updated"? Just a thought - you probably have enough to work on, lol.
Anyway, great videos - they bring an element of authentic "real life" logistics to an otherwise fictional concept. :-)
@@BlackieNuff Well, this was my first attempt at creating a detailed layout animation. I have to see if adding a bonus feature is possible on YT. I will have to look into it. BTW...do you know anything about the CR-90 corvette?
@@Halfscreen
I can't say that I do. In fact, I only just learned of that "Corvette" model through your video. Is that the formal name of what we otherwise know as the "Tantive iV", or is it just similar?
Right there, shows how limited my knowledge is, haha.
Sorry I could not be of some help.
@@BlackieNuff No problem because my next video is about the CR-90.
Just to help all those dancing in the aisle, trying not to soil themselves: You'll find the head (bathroom, aka refresher) in the crew quarters, semi-attached. It just isn't noted on most videos/books because nobody really cares and this is a polite society that doesn't speak of toiletries in public ;)
So far, I have created 4-6 animations on these Star Wars ships/vessel, I haven't seen any restroom so far.
@@Halfscreen Well, according to Star Trek, the Enterprise only has ONE bathroom for the whole ship. Talk about jumping around in the hallways. And yes, this IS canon. lol
@@Halfscreen The crazy thing is that its in the middle of the ship. So if you are on the bridge and you have to use the bathroom, you arent coming back anytime soon. lol
The life of a smuggler doesn't afford such luxuries. Kinda like a modern day trucker, he probably pisses in bottles, shits in a bucket with an air tight lid and sleeps on an unrolled mat. But actually, yeah you're right. I had a book when I was a kid that had a cutaway of the Millennium Falcon with a small head tucked away in there somewhere.
Unreal..✔️
would be awesome an stl file of this 3d model to print it
Were's the little hatch on the roof that luke is taken through in the empire strikes back, you said they were heat exhaust vents????
I'm not sure if the schematic mentioned anything about hatch on the roof.
Adult Cane Corsos can have a average of 700 psi which is higher that a lion.
What about the USS Discovery from 2001: A Space Odyssey? Would love to see that.
OK, but where are the restrooms?
Туалет и душ в космосе.
Damm!!! This information can´t fall in the hands of the empire!!!!
An interesting tidbit of information is that during the development phase of the first movie, some press releases for _Space: 1999_ which was currently in production at the time were released and it showed the Moon base Alpha's Eagle ships. By an unbelievable coincidence their ship looked almost exactly like the one that was being developed at ILM, especially the cockpit. So, in order to not seem like they were copying them, George Lucas decided to push the Falcon in a different direction. And thank goodness for that! And befittingly, both the Eagle and the Millennium Falcon have become some of the most iconic and revered spaceships in all of fiction.
Yes....The Millennium Falcon is probably the most iconic spaceships in Star Wars.
@@Halfscreen Maybe, but I'm a huge X-Wing fan!
@@techboysf I'm currently working on the X-Wing.
@@Halfscreen I know you are, and I can't wait!
So Han & Chewy slept in the same room? Why is the engineer panel not in the cockpit?
Or closer to the engine room. Maybe it is near the recreation quarters since that would be where the crew would spend a lot of the time .
"The top is for the gun turret, while the bottom is for the quad laser turret."
ok so....the layout of the Quad Cannons always bugged me. In Episode 4, it shows Luke and Han at the controls, but where they sit, where the laser banks hang....it just doesn't make sense. I get its sci-fi but has anyone else noticed that? I feel like they'd be sitting on their backs or something idk.
The artificial gravity field is rotated through 90 degrees in the area of the turrets.
If you watch the first movie (now Episode 4: A New Hope), they are effectively laying on their backs relative to the rest of the vessel. You see Han and Luke climbing the ladder to the turret, then they step from the ladder (vertical) to the gun port with the ladder now behind each of them (horizontal from their perspective).
Top hatch locale? Escape Pods?
Its located near the engine room.
I like the TTS.
The Rogue Shadow from Star Wars the Force Unleashed video game
You have good taste there love the rouge shadow
Whats the music in the backround?
Away - Patrick Patrikios and Glacier - Patrick Patrikios. Its free on google audio library.
@@Halfscreen im sorry but its neither of them?
@@Halfscreen it starts 1:29 in the video
@@roxander I looked at the original AE,
it should be Away or Glacier.
'' She made the Kessel Run in 2.4 parsecs ''
12 parsecs
No one ever mentions the forward laser cannons. The quad turrets and concussion missiles? Sure. But in RotJ, the Falcon fires from its forward mandibles (yes, the mandibles and not the middle, so, not the quad turrets) at a pair of TIE Interceptors near a Rebel frigate and at the Death Star's power core. It's the visual for a laser blast, it's the sound effect for a laser blast, and from an in-universe perspective, you don't fire a half-dozen missiles to take out a TIE because that's just a waste of ordnance.
And I don't get why this is universally overlooked.
Can you an animation of a lightsaber and assembly?
I thought about it, but someone on TH-cam has created on already.
th-cam.com/video/KduIzGhnb5c/w-d-xo.html
@@Halfscreen My bad, you're animations are incredible .
@@moeomoton520 No need to apologize, I'm always on the lookout for new ideas.
@@Halfscreen Hey! What about an Imperial probe Droid or R2D2?
It kinda looks like the dish would be in the line of fire from the central turret gun if it turns and shoots horizontally.
Don't forget the small auto guns haun installed on the ship for deffence from ground troop assault . Shown on the ice planet hoth .
Guess you could call them his hole cards. When he trying to escape unhappy coustomers
Were is the bathroom?
Good question, I don't know.
I would love to see a videos on SW ships blindspots.
There was something in a novel about what Han and Chewie called 'The Money Lane': where the laser quads' fire overlapped, meaning either gunner can score a hit depending on who has the better eye and reflexes. Chewie seemed to have the slight edge on Solo with that!
Please please do one of these vids on the Outrider from Shadows of the Empire
I will look into it.
Technically, the Falcon is a YT-1300 f/p hybrid. At least, it is in Legends, which establishes where Lando got it from. Also, it indicates its appearance in RotS.
Yeah, and I read some non canonical story where Leia got a boob job but that's also just fake STAR WARS.
All that fancy stuff and no rest rooms to be seen. They must had bladders of steel.
Why is there no kitchen, wet bar or bathroom on the Falcon?
in the real world an aircraft capable of being as good as the millenium falcom would be the P-61, its a night fighter, twin-engines, stylish black paint, 4x .12mm machineguns on a rotative turret and a fucking 19km radar, also, the speed is very high for this kind of aircraft
Good comparison!
She would be an AC-130 gunship.
@@geographyinaction7814 I don't think so
Wow, that internier of the Falcon has remodeled quiet a lot since 1997. Just compared that with my original 1997 Lucasfilm LTD cut through poster :D
Hmm… is this based on the official Lucasfilm’s specs? I always assumed you can run a complete 360° around inside the Falcon. But in your schematics, it looks like the passage at the back is partitioned by a wall?
You are correct this is not right
He should do a detail explanation on the YT-2000 Cortana from the Star Wars X-wing alliance video game
Is zero gravity such an issue that all ships seem to have some kind of gravity generation
Have you ever thought of doing the Eagle from Space: 1999's Moonbase Alpha? And/or even the Moonbase itself?
Not yet.
I think it would be more accurate to call it a 'tractor' rather than a "forklift". It was a long distance freight-pusher, not a loader/unloader.
Tractor comes from the Latin word for "pull," trahere, so by definition a tractor is something that pulls, a task the Millennium Falcon isn't equipped to do. If anything it's closest to a locomotive in that it can be used to push very heavy loads.
Perfect home too
Do serenity, or firefly class please
You left out the removable floor panels used for smuggling. This is where we see the group from ST Ep IV : A New Hope emerge after the stormtroopers leave the Falcon.
Yeah. I forgot to add it in.
@@Halfscreen and the bathrooms ?
@@ct_cartoonist53 Somebody mentioned there is a bathroom on the ship, but it wasn't labeled as a bathroom or restroom. I have to go digging on the comment section.
Doesn't seem to have much cargo space...you know, for a freighter.
Picture it like a Ford F-350 with a fifth wheel hook up in the bed and an extended cab. You can haul some stuff in the bed and back of the cab, or you can hook up a horse trailer and haul more stuff.
@@MrSheckstr OK, so a space F350...that explains why it's always breaking down.
Where's the space RAM 3500 to tow the space F350?
The older pre Disney layouts had far more space. Pretty much the whole back section was a large cargo bay with most of the propulsion systems located below deck (as seen in Ep V). Why this layout tries to cram everything on this deck I have no idea.
It was intended to haul (or in fact push) external freight... not load up inside with tons of amazon space deliveries 🤦♂️ good grief, it would be limited even if it did have more space... as it deals with huge external loads it is pretty much fit for purpose with its industrial sub-lights
No bathrooms or showers huh? lol great video btw!
Bet it has a wet Wookie kind of smell to it.
@@stevedenis8292 i love the smell of wet wookie in the morning!
@@hansandhispanzerfaust6236 doesn't smell like victory but it's something.
@@stevedenis8292 mud, blood, and water, smells nice
Where is the shiny black, faceted ball on a string?
Only freighter that has ever existed which has more corridors than cargo space ;)
Still can't figure out the gun turrets...
I have the legacy millennium falcon toy it’s 3 feet long and decked out
Man, I would love to have a real one, but has to settle for a 3D model instead.
I have that toy !!!
You forgot to detail the smuggling compartments featured in starwars episode 4
Craft is both singular and plural when pertaining to aircraft or watercraft. Crafts is the plural of a hobby or a job as in arts and crafts.
Crafts, when referring to spacecraft, watercraft, or aircraft is improper English.
Also, it is "holds" and not "hulls".
Thanks for an informative video!
Thank for the information. I probably going to need to hire a writer in near future.
WE NEED DASH RENDAR LIVE ACTION SERIES ASAP
Am I the only one confused by the top and bottom gun turrets ? Are they facing down and up where is the window they look out from ? In the movie they look like they are horizontally opposed . That top bottom orientation would make forward and rear vision impossible
The windows are facing up and down, the guns swivel and can aim in any direction from 90 degrees ahead, behind or to the side to straight up or above for the top turret or down for the bottom turret. The TIES they were shooting in the movies were either above or below the Falcon. You can get a better idea in the scene where Rey and Finn steal the Falcon, the turret gets stuck so Rey turns the ship at an angle to get the shot.
@@ll7868 I guess what throws me off is the gravity issue in boba fetts ship his seat swivels when the ship rights itself Luke would have to be hanging face down to enter yet jumps in normally and thumbs up to Han as if they were level
@@fusion451 The turrets were designed after the B-51 Bomber, the seats work in the same way, enter normally and they swivel into operational mode. If they're both facing forward, back or to the sides Han would be above Luke, if they're both facing up and down at the same time like in the thumbs up scene they're behind each other facing opposite directions.
@@ll7868 Orientation still wonky they be virtually blind to anything directly in front or behind them B17 bombers had bubble turrets for a 360 degree view and fore and aft tail gunners with 180 degree view not to mention they have no harnesses to hold them in place
@@fusion451 That's why they had auto-targeting and monitor screens. They don't need to see with their eyes. The turrets on the Falcon can be manually controlled from the cockpit or the control board in the lounge area as well but an actual gunner can react faster. An R2 unit can also control them from a port next to the ladder.
I loved this video, and the only suggestion I have is a very small annoyance - when people call it the "Millennium FAAlcon."
It's the Millennium FAWLcon. Y'know? Like how it's named in the films? FAWLCON. Not FAALCON. It's a silly detail, but it bugs me to no end how even the model makers say FAALCON. The ship's referred to as the FAWLCON. And it's maybe because it's my favourite spaceship ever put on screen. But if Han Solo himself refers to it as the FAWLCON/Falcon, and George Lucas refers to it as THE "FAWLCON" then that's good enough for me. What an odd mispronunciation. I'm just glad the ship exists. Its the ship I'd adore to have whilst adventuring throughout the galaxy 😊
Hmmmm. I never thought about how the Falcon was pronounced before.
Very nice video, except for the use of footage of the mistaken Solo movie
I like the way Lando had the falcon configured. That's how I want have the players on a FFG Star Wars TRPG AoR,F&D and EOTE. But I'm working on condensing it down & organizing it. So it easier. Even listing videos on how to play via TH-cam. But, I'm wondering how to pitch the idea to my family.
Oops, forgot I like how Lando had the falcon configured. But, I would like the cockpit on my left side of the YT-1300 with the dish my right side. But keep the rest of ship the same with Landos config.
Just do it would be my advice. 😊
It kind of cool to see different variation of the Falcon.
@@mike197714 Who says Corellian Engineering Corporation didn't make a variant YT-1300 with the cockpit on the port side instead of starboard? CEC's "stock" light freighters were designed to be customized to the purchaser's specific requirements IIRC, which is why Lando and later Han were both able to modify the daylights out of her, just like real-life hot rodders do to their cars. (In fact, if I'm not mistaken, George Lucas drew inspiration from his real-life hot rodding days when he created Han Solo, a hotshot pilot who, in his spare time, tinkers and modifies the Falcon to get better speed and handling out of her every chance he gets, which is why the old girl is so unreliable sometimes.)
Should do the Ebonhawk..
The top and bottom gun turrets still confuse me
What's confusing, they're quad lasers. One turret on top, one on the bottom. They worked pretty well when the Empire let them escape.
Good arrangement for a basically flat-disk ship. Each gun can cover nearly half the sky without shooting the ship itself. Clearly a defensive setup, as an attack ship would have guns mounted to concentrate fire on a single target, probably in front, because that way it could do damage as it approached.
The design of the ships is still the best. Even all the bad movies can't break my fascination.
VCX-100 Light freighter "The Ghost"
I thought the big dish was for communication and not a radar?
It can be whatever u want it to be. I prefer to think it's for cable
Always strange to see John Fogerty commanding the _Falcon._
He was using Chewie to smuggle. New canon says Wookie's have hidden pouches for such things...
The rear area is wrong the corridor goes all the way around and the engine room is at the rear of the ship not in the middle . There are official blueprints available.
I loooooove this channel...
Its “hold” not “hull”. Cargo hold not cargo hull.