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This is THE Millennium Falcon toy that never arrived when every 9-yo kid wanted it in 1977: the 2.5-foot Hasbro's Star Wars Legacy Collection Millennium Falcon, worthy of the most mind-blowing SW collections. It's probably the most realistic Falcon toy you can buy this side of an actual prop, with LEDs everywhere, sound, movable parts, and absolutely every detail imaginable except real engines. And when I say every detail, I mean every single detail, as you will see in the full hi-res gallery after the jump.
The model includes these chambers:
• Light-up cockpit with room for four figures.
• Medical bay.
• Secret smuggling compartments to hide from pesky Death Star crews.
• Auto-opening boarding ramp.
• Pivoting gunner station.
• Crew quarters with light-up dejarik table.
Weapons:
• Rotating laser turret fires two missiles and makes weapons sounds.
• 3-missile launcher with blasting sounds.
• Cannon that launches a "laser" missile (whatever that is.)
• Missile-firing mini-fighter inside an opening docking bay that makes electronic boarding and flight sounds (oooook, this is not in the movies unless I missed a secret chapter.)
• Pivoting training probe with lightsaber sounds.
Here are all its features:
• Light-up headlights and loads of electronic vehicle and weapon sounds—engine boost, cruise mode, fly-by, firing cannons, and much more.
• Opening, light-up cockpit can fit up to four figures.
• Remove outer panels to access the ship's interior.
• Authentic movie phrases from Han, Luke, Obi-Wan, C-3PO, Chewbacca, and R2-D2.
• Movie sound effects everywhere.
• Light-up engines.
• Includes Han Solo and Chewbacca and can hold up to 18 figures.
In other words: a whole bunch of pointless, completely unnecessary, and totally amazing plastic junk that arrives 30 years too late, and is a complete must for every 39-yo fanboy—who is going to secretly play with it in the closet, going "pew pew pew" with their voice (screw the built-in sounds).
And yes, perhaps it's not as fun as building your own LEGO version, but it's the closest thing to the movie available. [Galactic Hunter —Thanks Eddie]
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just so you got that question answered, in WW2 Star Wars the Millennium Falcon would have been a Northrop P61 Black Widow.
yea i want..
im watching star wars on tv now :)
Next it will be steampunk-ed, (Sigh) So much for my education.......
The WWII Star Wars Millennium Falcon could not be a P-61, that is too small to have been able to carry cargo, as well as the people the ship could hold.
If anything, because it had to carry cargo, it would have been at least been a bomber class with a tail gun. B-24, B-32... if WWII Star Wars is supposed to fit some way with regular Star Wars, that is.
So a whole new launch of ultra-detailed star wars products eh?
I think I'll wait for the ultra-detailed, 4 ft tall Jar Jar binks life model doll. It will be complete with
1) working patois
2) a grayscale visual scanner to judge which people to be submissive to
3) eight different adjustable ways to wear his ears that all still look like dreadlocks
My brothers used to have that one... as a result, it was passed down to me.
I also had the Hoth playset, and we had an AT-AT walker (which barely stood on it's own.)
@chiablo: No, your brothers didn't have this wonder. The previous Millennium Falcons are all crap compared to this scale model.
To think i destroyed one of those as a kid in the 90's.
Jesus, did you ever finish building that Lego Falcon? I remember you starting and sorting out the pieces, but I never remember seeing anything else on it?
Does this cost some multiple of American dollars? Or just my adult dignity?
Either way, how much?
Close. I'm actually 37 years old.
I will forgive them for being 30 years late if they will send me one immediately.
Now I can be a scruffy looking nurf herder! We're all clear kid!
I remember the old Micro Machines version...this is very cool, sucks I'm not a kid anymore as I would own this.
Is it wrong if this made me wet a little?
I think I might just lift my Galactic Gasbag embargo to get this. Girlie puts up with a lot of my crap (like me buying a 2nd guitar) and I know she'll put up with this. She's teh awesomes. Girlie > SWOOT
I got an erection at the thought of actually owning one of these. Is that normal?
@Spaceboy: I was thinking a de Havilland Mosquito myself....
As for the people "remebering" this from the past....A previous 2 foot wide toy from Kenner had a removable rear of the top, smuggling hold, retractable ramp and sadly, no channel from the body to the cockpit. This toy looks much better.
@Lizard_King: UHHHG..."REMEMBERING"
I had the O.G. Millennium Falcon. This one is much better. 30 years late, but better.
This is definitely not a scale model... it's "unassembled" but it's a toy vehicle for the action figures, so more "some assembly required" than "get out your jumbo sized tube of testor's." Absolutely the best toy version of the falcon ever, but it's meant to be played with, and you can see that the cockpit is way bigger proportionally than the rest of the ship, to fit the action figures.
NERD ALERT:
According to google, the falcon's 26.7 meters long, which is about 16 human lengths. If the action figures are 3.75 inches scale, then the toy falcon would have to be about 4 and a half feet long. Now THAT would be awesome!
@Jesus Diaz:
Well...except for the LEGO UCS Millennium Falcon. Speaking of which, Hasbro is painfully late with this, as it really should have come out last year. You know, with the whole 30th Anniversary angle that LEGO used with their supersized set.
Anwyays, I'm guessing they went with as authentic of interior styling as they could come up with, and just fudged the interior layout to accomodate the still-undersized scale of this thing. After all, it's already been determined that the various movie sets can't be incorporated in any logical manner within the exterior hull as seen in the movies (the first person to try his hand at what's now known as a UCS-scale Falcon MOC tried in vain to recreate the full known interior layout, and ended up having to devise his own mega-hybrid version based on any source material he was able to lay hands on at the time).
WTF? OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG!
Must buy! When does it come out?
Looks like I am going to have to build smuggling compartments into the floor of my house before I have kids. I wouldn't want them to find the good toys.
@greasypigstudios: I KNEW it seemed out of proportion to me for some reason, this seemed soo small compared to the Millenium falcon I remember in the original trilogy.
But does it have a training remote on a string?
I had one very much like this when I was little, and it's guns fired. This doesn't look that shocking to me...
@dimo414: That's because you were little and you can't remember well. That Falcon you remember was actually crap. Hasbro has never manufactured anything like this.
piece of junk? this piece of junk made the Toys 'R Us in less than 12 parsecs when I went to pick up my Millennium Falcon.
@Jesus Diaz: You are right and wrong on corrections. This model is a fantastic toy, unlike what has preceded it. Memory may be at issue, but I bet the two people you have commented on remember pretty well. The imagination of our childhood made even the worst toys much more enjoyable.
@Jesus Diaz:
There was nothing previously this detailed released, but there WERE large MF toys like this in the early 80's.
I know. I smashed them. ( I'm 38 btw ).
There is a great picture of the early Hasbro toy on this site [www.geocities.com]
Where's the chess table?
@Pope John Peeps II : You completely forgot the added functionability (fake word that Shakespeare should have made up when he had the chance, now he is dead... too bad.) of ripping out his tonsils which never did or will have the chance to see whatever form of puberty the Gungans would go through and a large amount of C4 within his abdomen to destroy him with when you remember to ask yourself why Lucas bothered with such a useless character to put in any of his films, and I mean useless.
In my dreams I owned the real thing, and that was pretty much better than any scaled model.
I do still keep some action figures and sometimes play with my son... so wonderful.
Sweet. Bonus points if this inspires someone to procure unopened stock and document the unboxing.
@Jesus Diaz: As we're discussing Millennium Falcons: did you ever complete your LEGO model, or did Addy thwart you attempts and make you clean up the room cause her mom came to visit?
Screw the falcon, when is the Y-Wing coming out?
They forgot the lateral controls, but don't worry, she'll hold together.
(Ya hear me baby...)
This is ultra-killer IF you have the space for it. (pardon the pun)
My ultra-detailed dream model from star wars would have to be an X-Wing.
It's always always been my favorite.
My wife is a Boba Fett fan, so she might side with Slave 1, if not with the 'Falcon.
I'm sure this one will rock!
Hey, look!
It has a little area where you can add some modifications of your own!
-she'll get you there.
@smcallah:
A modified B-17 would be interesting. :)
I want to see video of Jesus licking the plastic during unboxing.....
Good timing on this too, there was a Star Wars marathon yesterday on TV that I actually got to watch due to being sidelined with the tummy flu. Who says nausea is a bad thing. I got to fall in love with Hans Solo all over again.
The P-61 (there's one at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio, along with a tribute to the piece of the Wright's plane left on the Moon) had the first automated turret and it was reported in 1976, smuggled strategic ball bearings out of neutral Sweden from England (Scotland) flying night missions. Good thing the Swedish fleet was in sea tunnels!
I hate to fall on the "nostalgia" side of things, but the plastic on this looks a lot flimsier. The old one was pretty sturdy. I'll take thick plastic and less detail over thin, cheaper plastic and more detail any day. Toy > Model. (Because although I don't use them that way anymore, I still believe that Star Wars toys are best "displayed" battling it out in the creek behind the house.)
@Curves: I might agree, but I hate the "updated" versions, especially since Greedo shoots.
/Grumpy man hat on/
People say kids today are lucky because all their toys have lights and sounds and real voices. I say it's just the opposite actually.
I had the original millenium falcon toy as a kid. It might have had a button that made "laser sounds," but that was it. No voices, no lights, no automatic doors and ramps. Just plastic and stickers. Oh, and our immaginations.
Han Solo wasn't limited to 5 phrases. I could make him say whatever I wanted him to. Same with all the other characters.
And never once did I ever wish to recreate luke training against the drone with his lightsaber or Chewwie losing at the game. I was too damn busy blasting tie fighters out of the sky, and saving Luke's ass from Vader.
If they are marketing this to adults, I guess it's ok. But if this is for kids, I'm not jealous at all. I guarantee my Falcon was better.
/grumpy man hat off/
Man...I wanted this and the GI Joe air craft carrier SOOOO bad when I was a kid.