Forum:KB: Space Craft aboard the Millenium Falcon

Well most of you guys would have seen, or maybe even own the 08 Legacy release Millenium Falcon by Hasbro. You probably noticed the toy comes with a Mini-Fighter. Although seemingly non-canonical, it does tie in with the concept that some kind of small space craft was indeed carried on board the Falcon. If we take the Explorer Craft from the The Wookie Storybook, we see that Chewie flew a small two seater, rocket powered jet fighter styled "modified" craft down into the depths of Kashyyk's forest floor, to rescue his son Lumpy. Yet even more interesting, we also have a two seater Life Pod from the Millenium Falcon, flown by Luke and Liea over the planet of Skye. Han and Chewbacca were being held captive there, by it's dictator and Imperial puppet government and manage to escape execution and eventually the planet, with Luke and Leia's help. This is from Star Wars Annual 1: The Long Hunt. But this Life Boat/Pod thing looks like an oversized portable crt tv set with a big fin on top! lol It was apparently accompanied on board the Falcon (somewhere, somehow) by several smaller single person escape pods.

Admitedly the Hasbro toy vehicle looks much more the business than either of the other craft mentioned, though it is only a single seater vehicle. The ambiguous design of the Falcon itself, has lent to some creative licence being taken on behalf of the toy maker anyway, so this is kind of understandable and they have done an outstanding job overall, but with a slightly different internal design, I could see room for two inside the little craft. I do recall recentley seeing a prototype Kenner toy, circa ESB or there abouts, that never made it to sale. It was a kind of loading craft that would fit between the Falcon's mandibles. A kind of "astro-forklift" if you will.

So I was wondering if anyone else had more info on a small space vehicle kept inside the Falcon as I found this to be an interesting, though mysterious, addition to the most famous spaceship in the galaxy. Thanks Ghost Maker 12:33, 12 December 2008 (UTC)