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Future Lego idea: The original Millennium Falcon.
In 1975, the TV series Space: 1999 came out. In it, the series featured a spaceship called the Eagle. This was a year ahead of A New Hope, and it caused panic at LucasArt, because the design of the Eagle was too close to the original design of the ship originally intended for Han Solo. It was just called the Pirate Ship then, by the way. We know it as the Blockade Runner, however. So this $100.000 (1975 dollars) model was scraped, and the design for a new model was started, which ended with the Millennium Falcon, a direct response to the Eagle from 1999. Hence the name too: 1999 = Millennium, Eagle = Falcon. They kept the cockpit, by cutting it off the Blockade Runner, and transferring it to the new ship for Han Solo. The replacement hammerhead cockpit design in the Blockade Runner is actually two paint buckets glued together. And it was scaled up as an capital ship.
Future Lego idea: The original Millennium Falcon.
In 1975, the TV series Space: 1999 came out. In it, the series featured a spaceship called the Eagle. This was a year ahead of A New Hope, and it caused panic at LucasArt, because the design of the Eagle was too close to the original design of the ship originally intended for Han Solo. It was just called the Pirate Ship then, by the way. We know it as the Blockade Runner, however. So this $100.000 (1975 dollars) model was scraped, and the design for a new model was started, which ended with the Millennium Falcon, a direct response to the Eagle from 1999. Hence the name too: 1999 = Millennium, Eagle = Falcon. They kept the cockpit, by cutting it off the Blockade Runner, and transferring it to the new ship for Han Solo. The replacement hammerhead cockpit design in the Blockade Runner is actually two paint buckets glued together. And it was scaled up as an capital ship.