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The heavy hasn't flown yet, thats why we can only watch simulations. The youtube description is more correct:

"When Falcon Heavy lifts off later this year, it will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two."

The rocket stages won't return on any heavy missions until the process can be ironed out, vetted and accepted by the regulatory bodies. Considering how close Elon got on the first barge shot I have a feeling it will be sooner rather than later.

The briefest explanation, seeing stormtroopers doesn't mean they're clones. They're still the foremost troops for the empire. The lore is a lot differnet now since disney took the rights, all post ROTJ canon has changed now, or basically not canon anymore.

And for the Falcon, freighters have atmospheric maneuverability, though the Falcon is highly modified anyway.

Wait, storm/clone troopers? Those are still in use? Ah fudge it. Don't bother explaining it to me. I'm not overly attached to the whole lore of the SW universe.

Looks cool. Not impressed that the Falcon would fly so low to the surface. X-Wing fighters, tho... that's another story.

The shape of the Batmobile from the newer Batman movies was "hidden" on the Millennium Falcon there.

The Millennium Falcon is a perfect cross between a kid's dream fort, and a 70's teen's dream van. It's freedom, it's got cool hiding places, it has a Habitrail leading to the feaking GUNS--what more could a young man want in a vehicle?

I know I've wanted one since the first time I saw Star Wars.

I think the Millennium Falcon's design was more about aesthetics than practicality, it was designed as the ship that didn't look like much but had it where it counts. IIRC, when they were designing the Star Wars universe they wanted to have a very dirty and used feel to it, so we get lots of open panels and exposed systems everywhere, the future is Bauhaus then I guess.

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I agree, but to play devil's advocate here are two counterpoints:

1) The YT-1300 was designed as a freighter, and the Millennium Falcon only became a capable warship after pretty extensive modification by Lando and Han Solo. So, perhaps some of those flaws can be justified with "not really intended to be a combat vessel" rationale.

2) Or even ignoring that, shielding seems to be established as being much more important than armor plating around wires and pipes in the Star Wars universe. TIEs (at least the lower models) have no shielding whatsoever, and the only thing that separates them from just being pure cannon fodder is size, agility, and numbers.

But even in medium fighters that DO have shields, it seems like they at best protect against a very low number of glancing hits -- we see X and Y wings with shields go down after 1-2 hits a LOT in the movies. In that scenario, I guess there isn't a whole lot of need to slow yourself down with heavy armor plating that might let you survive another hit if you are lucky. Kinda like how modern police officers and soldiers don't wear heavy steel plate armor; they either wear kevlar (think "shields") or nothing but clothing/uniform.

So, maybe the larger ships in Star Wars stock up on shields and aren't too fussed about physically covering up systems -- once the shields are down you're pretty much toast anyway.

I love the Millennium Falcon... one of the greatest spaceships in sci-fi. But watching it closely, it has some stupid design flaws... all that wiring and pipes and whatnot totally exposed.

Haha, I did see this today.., Pretty funny.
If you didn't already know, here's the explanation for the cross-over.
http://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/scifi/star-wars-shows-millennium-falcon-vid-special-easter-egg.html

Thought you would like a glimpse of the JJ Abrams millennium falcon http://youtu.be/3C7lUfVIOa4

On the subject of the Pursuit Special, it's a modified Ford Falcon XB GT.

Looks good, goes fast, suspension from the stone age, can't corner worth a damn.

Eric Bana had one and drove it into a tree in Tasmania.
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