Millennium Falcon Picnic Blanket May Not Look Like Much

Posted on 29/05/2018 by Conner Flynn

The sun is out and you’re hungry. It’s a great day for a picnic. But something is missing. The Millennium Falcon is what you need. Forget the Kessel Run. Head to a nearby park with this Millennium Falcon Picnic Blanket and enjoy the day.

This picnic blanket is a replica of the ship that fans know and love. This is the closest that any of us will ever get to dining on Han Solo’s famous ship. Instead of flying your ship to the park, just carry it, set it down and enjoy your meal on the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy. You don’t even need a Wookiee co-pilot since it comes with its own carry bag.

Enjoy this blanket with someone special and have a romantic meal or invite the whole family and have a fun picnic they will never forget. If you do know a wookiee, it only makes sense for the two of you to have a picnic together and talk shop. Maybe go over the ship’s next modifications, or talk about how the hyperdrive has been stalling lately. Sure, you’ll get some weird looks, but who cares? Even Wookiees and scoundrels need a picnic now and then.

Fans Build Full-Size Millennium Falcon Cockpit

Posted on 11/05/2018 by Conner Flynn

You have to be really devoted to Star Wars to do things like cosplay, or build your kid a cool Star Wars themed room. You have to be completely devoted and also obsessed to build a full-scale replica of the Millennium Falcon’s cockpit. That’s just what these fans have been doing, and it looks completely amazing.

For the past six years Greg Dietrich, Jake Polatty, and a group of other Star Wars fans have been building this insane full-size version of the Millennium Falcon’s cockpit. All of the details are spot on. And believe it or not, it was built entirely in a garage in Alabama. It’s the ultimate adult Star Wars playset.

This thing has lights and sound of course, because you have to add lights and sound if you’re building the Falcon’s cockpit. It has over 500 lights.

None of these guys admits to dressing up as Han and Chewie and sitting in the cockpit, but you know it had to have happened by now. All I know is that these guys rock. And that if they ever do decide to build the rest of the Falcon to go with this cockpit, it’s going to take a long long time. And they’re gonna need a bigger garage.

Millennium Falcon Sneakers: Walk or Run the Kessel Run

Posted on 08/05/2018 by Conner Flynn

The solo Han Solo standalone movie is arriving soon, and to celebrate, Po-Zu is releasing these cool Millennium Falcon sneakers. These low-cut lace-up sneakers look amazing and are made with organic cotton.

They have a technical drawing of the Millennium Falcon that wraps around the back. These kicks also have a removable memory-foam Foot Mattress, which will make sure that they are comfortable. Will they make you faster? Probably not. Will they help you smuggle cargo? Nope. They won’t help you hit hyperdrive speeds during a marathon either, but they will look awesome on your feet. Which reminds me, they really should have a marathon for Star Wars fans called The Kessel Run. Maybe they do. I have no idea.

You can order them here for £59/$82. They probably should have some pockets on them , since the Millennium Falcon is all about smuggling cargo. At least a pocket on each side for my Han and Chewy action figures. Someone other than me has to pilot these sneakers. My feet can’t do all of the work.

They look pretty sweet. Order yours quick, because they won’t be around forever. I really hope they make a Lando shoe with a cool cape design.

Millennium Falcon Pedicab Cruises Around NYC

Posted on 07/05/2018 by Conner Flynn

May the 4th was a hot day in New York. It felt like Tatooine. Luckily, fans who didn’t want to walk around in the heat had the option to take a leisurely ride around Bryant Park in a LEGO version the Millennium Falcon. Sadly, this version would suck at the Kessel Run, but it’s a great way to take in the sights of the city at a slow pace.

This 9-foot long, 6-foot wide ship took 20,300 bricks and 396 hours to build. That’s 16-and-a-half days. I wish I could have taken a ride in this thing. Aside from just being fun, this was also to raise awareness for a great cause. The guy pedaling this thing really should have been dressed like Han Solo though.

The LEGO Group is also helping to promote charitable campaign Roar for Change, which “supports UNICEF’s lifesaving work for children around the world.” Until May 25, Star Wars: Force for Change will donate one dollar for every public “post, like, or share on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter that includes #RoarForChange,” up to one million dollars. Pretty awesome.

Millennium Falcon Bed Touches Down in Boy’s Bedroom

Posted on 27/02/2018 by Conner Flynn

This Millennium Falcon bed may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts. This kids mom and dad made a few modifications themselves. Actually they built the whole thing. A guy going by the name Dericrw and his wife built this amazing Star Wars bedroom for their son, hoping that he would sleep in his own room for a change.

This bedroom is just awesome. The sleeping pod of the Falcon is the size of a twin bed and is bolted to the ceiling joists. So basically when you enter hyperdrive, the whole house falls down, but that’s okay because you’ll be long gone. The rest of the ship is painted on the wall behind it. The inside looks like the best kid fort ever. It even has a fan for air circulation and LED lights. There’s even a TV that the kid can see from the bed. Under the screen is a weapons cache with his NERF guns and lightsabers. And the LED lights on the side glow in different colors.

Hmmm. Maybe I should visit my mom and dad and sleep in their room until they give in and build me one of these too. It might just work. But I doubt it. Not at my age.

[via Neatorama]

We Bet this Color LEGO Millennium Falcon Can Do the Kessel Run in 11 Parsecs

Posted on 26/01/2018 by Paul Strauss

Why is it that spaceships in science fiction have a tendency to be grey or other blah colors? It makes little sense to me, given the fact that we love colorful cars. Heck, I drive an orange car myself. That said, it would have been nice if some of the ships in Star Wars were more vibrant. Take, for example, this brightly colored Millennium Falcon, built from LEGO bricks.

Artist and LEGO fanatic Mike Marrocco of Funk Blast Art created this amazing model, which does away with the drab shades of grey and replaces them with oranges, blues, yellows, greens, purples, and more. He says the build took about 25 hours, and cost him about $500 using parts he bought over on bricklink. I’m thinking if I tried, it would take me at least 100 hours and $1000.

Frankly, it seems much more likely that the Falcon would have looked like this, being cobbled together from bits and pieces of other ships, and other salvaged bits and bobs.

I’d love to see an entire Star Wars film populated with brightly colored ships like this. Can you imagine a full-color Death Star? That would be sweet – especially when it blows up. Amazing build, Mike!

You can check out a few more of Marrocco’s cool and colorful builds in the Instagram gallery below:

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Since the Millennium Fabulous has been getting lots of attention on Reddit and Imgur over the last few days, here's an album of some of my other multicolored #lego builds. Feel free to suggest my next one.

A post shared by Funkblast (@funkblast) on Jan 18, 2018 at 10:09am PST

[via io9]

That’s No Moon: Disney’s Attempt To Hide The Millennium Falcon Fails

Posted on 13/11/2017 by Randy Donack

If you were driving down the M3 outside of London, you may have seen an array of shipping containers. Now, to most people that’s where the story would end as it’d be nearly impossible to get a look inside the array from the ground, but some geniuses decided to use Google Maps and discovered a poor attempt at trying to hide a Millennium Falcon.

It was first spotted in June, and while parts of Star Wars: The Last Jedi were filmed in London, there’s no clear reason why Disney was trying to hide the spaceship. Nonetheless, they completely failed. I mean how hard is it to get a tarp, or two?

The Last Jedi releases on December 15^th, but you probably already knew that.

[ Mashable ]

Laser-cut Star Wars Spaceship Models

Posted on 24/07/2017 by Paul Strauss

Toys are cool to display on your shelf, but they’re even more special when you’ve assembled them yourself. These kits from LazerModels give you the opportunity to put together your own works of geek art using flat-packed, laser-cut wood.

They come in a variety of neat designs, with my favorites being the Star Wars-inspired models. While they’re not exactly screen accurate, they capture the spirit of the original spaceships quite well. Right now, they’ve got TIE Advanced fighters and Millennium Falcon models available.

Each model is made from baltic birch ply, and is designed to be assembled using plain white craft glue. Hot glue and other adhesives might ruin them, so stick with the good old Elmer’s. They can be painted, but I dig the look of the exposed wood.

The X-Wing measures 6″w x 6″h x 8″ d, the TIE fighter measures 5″w x 6.5″h x 4″d, the TIE Advanced is 6″w x 6″h x 6″d, and the Falcon measures in at 7″w x 6″h x 8″d. Those height dimensions all include the stand.

While it’s not Star Wars related, I also love the wooden TARDIS model they have. I might need one of those for my desk.

This Millennium Falcon Violin Does the William Tell Overture in 12 Parsecs

Posted on 14/06/2017 by Conner Flynn

You gave a concert in that? You’re braver than I thought. This Millennium Falcon Violin sadly, has no strings, so you can’t play it, but you can hang it on your wall and admire it.

Artist Richard Symons created this cool sculpture around a real violin. The engines light up with blue LEDs, which makes up for it’s lack of strings. So this is basically what the Falcon would look like if something went horribly wrong and it got all stretched out in hyperspace.

If it did work, you would still need a Wookiee co-pilot holding down the strings to help you play it. It will cost you $700 to hang this on your wall.

[via Scifidesign]

Bandai Millennium Falcon Model Is Nearly Screen Accurate

Posted on 05/06/2017 by Shane McGlaun

I’ve always wondered what it took to build the actual models used in the original Star Wars franchise. Those original movies looked great and had no computer animation in them. Bandai Hobby is getting ready to release a model kit that is a 1/72-scale Millennium Falcon model that is billed as almost as accurate and precise as those used in the filming.

The model kit is expected to sell for around $400. The rub is that most model kits come unpainted. At the money the kit will sell for, it sure would be nice if it came painted.

The model lights up, and comes with several character figures locked into the seated position. It looks way cooler than that Kenner Falcon I had in the ’80s.

[via Kotaku]

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Millennium Falcon Picnic Blanket May Not Look Like Much

Fans Build Full-Size Millennium Falcon Cockpit

Millennium Falcon Sneakers: Walk or Run the Kessel Run

Millennium Falcon Pedicab Cruises Around NYC

Millennium Falcon Bed Touches Down in Boy’s Bedroom

We Bet this Color LEGO Millennium Falcon Can Do the Kessel Run in 11 Parsecs

That’s No Moon: Disney’s Attempt To Hide The Millennium Falcon Fails

Laser-cut Star Wars Spaceship Models

This Millennium Falcon Violin Does the William Tell Overture in 12 Parsecs

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