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fujioko
fujioko Reader
12/23/14 7:19 p.m.

According to online documentation.... of something that doesn't really exist, the cargo bay takes up about 1/4 of the vessel. Not much of a cargo freighter, more like a pickup with a LS7.

Trans_Maro
Trans_Maro UberDork
12/23/14 7:32 p.m.

Cowboy's ship in Battle Beyond the Stars was a far more practical freighter.

mndsm
mndsm MegaDork
12/23/14 7:33 p.m.
slefain wrote:

Best Robot Chicken Segment EVER.

mad_machine
mad_machine GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
12/23/14 8:37 p.m.
Ian F wrote: It was always odd to me we never actually saw the "freight" area of the Falcon... I wonder if Josh Weldon had the same beef and that's one reason why made the cargo area of the Firefly in Serenity such a central part of the set.

you did actually. The area where Chewbacca and R2D2 are playing that chess like monster game.. that is part of the freight area.

Brett_Murphy
Brett_Murphy GRM+ Memberand UberDork
12/23/14 9:20 p.m.

I always imagined it more in line with a moonshiner car, especially considering that he was a smuggler.

A tube framed Belvedere with a really hot engine and a completely redone suspension.

Iusedtobefast
Iusedtobefast Reader
12/23/14 10:16 p.m.

I get what you guys are saying but to me GRMers are people who can take a whole pile of parts that maybe or maybe not go together and make a functional, fun vehicle that usually does things it wasn't originally intended to do. If I remember correctly, Anakin built his from parts from Watto's junkyard, that's what my meaning was.

codrus
codrus GRM+ Memberand Dork
12/24/14 3:15 a.m.
fujioko wrote: According to online documentation.... of something that doesn't really exist, the cargo bay takes up about 1/4 of the vessel. Not much of a cargo freighter, more like a pickup with a LS7.

If you're going to complain about realism in Star Wars, the cargo fraction of the Millennium Falcon is waaaaaaaaay down the list. :)

Rob_Mopar
Rob_Mopar UltraDork
12/24/14 8:18 a.m.
David S. Wallens wrote: I'm with you guys that the Falcon is more GRM-like. Plus it even had some hanging dice: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Han's_dice

I think the dice are a tip of the Stetson to American Grafitti.

Falfa had a skull hanging from his mirror. Steve's '58 Chevy had the dice.

SyntheticBlinkerFluid
SyntheticBlinkerFluid PowerDork
12/24/14 2:28 p.m.
RealMiniDriver wrote: ^ Star Trek fan.

You shut your whore mouth.

I'm both a Star Wars and Star Trek fan. I know too much about both for my own good.

novaderrik
novaderrik PowerDork
12/24/14 9:21 p.m.
PHeller wrote: That was my issue as well, it never seemed that the YT-1300 was really an ideal platform for hauling freight. Why wouldn't you just use a big floating box instead of a thin disc?

you can get more stuff in a big square box, but could you imagine trying to fly the Borg cube in an atmosphere or into the core of the second Death Star?

mad_machine
mad_machine GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
12/24/14 10:58 p.m.

it's also a "light stock freighter" or was... it also had a cargo capacity of 100 tons.. or about 2 1/2 tractor Trailers

RealMiniDriver
RealMiniDriver UltraDork
12/24/14 11:24 p.m.
SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote:
RealMiniDriver wrote: ^ Star Trek fan.
You shut your whore mouth. I'm both a Star Wars and Star Trek fan. I know too much about both for my own good.

Quot Quiet, you! I was referring to Dr. Hess.

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