UPDATE! Even More Photos With the Millennium Falcon from the UK!
Yesterday we posted photos of some kids trespassing on the Star Wars: Episode VIII set in Surrey, UK. We took the photos down since it was obvious that the boys have committed a crime and we didn’t want to give an example with what they did. Today Peter Mayhew shared even more photos with the Falcon from the set. Since Chewbacca didn’t have a problem with it, we thought it might be okay to share them as well…
Some great behind the scenes pictures of my favorite ship from Episode VIII (?possible spoiler alert?)https://t.co/vF8t2G9EVZ
— Peter Mayhew (@TheWookieeRoars) May 22, 2016
They are indeed great:
And here are the photos from yesterday (via Insane212 from reddit)
It’s very surprising that the set could be accessed so easily.
It’s beautiful….
That’s insane!
I would have hoped for them to go beyond the “force tree” and look at the seemingly Jedi Temple entrance.
Drones are one thing. Breaking onto a set and climbing all over the Falcon, potentially damaging it, is quite another. Not cool.
Set security team really doing a great job.
hope you fuckers get thrown in disney mickey jail for this lol also why the fuck isn’t there any security there 24/7? they really seem to not give a shit this time around.
They were in the drone and landed and got out and climbed on the Falcon lol
Wow – if its that easy to get on the set I’m heading down to Surrey!
I love these photos. I’m less interested in it’s in England though still impressive, I love the Falcon’s details from several angles.
The Falcon is the greatest spaceship design ever. However, they really need to tighten up the security… How could this even happen?
Its so beautiful………
I can’t wait to cry like a newborn baby at Star Wars land.
I am liking that Jedi Temple like structure behind the Ahch-To set!
Must be using stormtroopers as security at this site.
is it me or is that the KOTOR dantooine temple in a way?
Exactly! Reminded me instantly!
This white entrance structure is definitely from some other place. It doesn’t fit Ahch-To’s architecture at all.
Yeaaaaaaaaaaah, I thought the same
While I’m amazed at the detail. I don’t support the actions of these hooligans. Security needs to step up, God forbid something more tragic happens. We do sadly live in time where terrorism is real world concern. This might be all some goat humper needs to start planning something.
I wouldn’t call them hooligans unless they damaged something.
I’m just glad that the Falcon is made from metal instead of paper mache or something like that. It might not have supported their weight otherwise.
Gotta love the practicality of it!
They seemed pretty respectful until they walked on the falcon… You don’t know what will support your weight. Your shoes are scuffing the ship. Just… no. Leave it alone at the point. Observe but don’t damage.
To be fair, the thing is left sitting out in the elements – it can’t be that fragile.
I feel like they have poor security on their more impressive sets so “leaked photos” can build hype. They wouldn’t want people to leak pictures of a green screen room but a practical Falcon and tree? Those are set pieces they want to reveal.
The first full scale complete Falcon.
Which still couldn’t fit any of the interior sets. A fine SW tradition 🙂
World-class Security, people.
That’s AT LEAST three incursions with photographic proof since April. Amazing.
looks awesome! I wonder if they fixed the guns on the falcon since they got stuck in the jakku chase
I assumed the people at the Resistance Base worked on them in TFA. Looks like they would have been taken out by the crash in the snow but they were intact.
Crash her on a glacier, bounce her around off the desert hardpan – TFA says the Falcon is now just completely indestructible.
Shields.
Thank you.
Even if they’d been up when Rey was bashing the ship around off the ground (they even made a point of saying they weren’t, remember?), what happened to “one more direct hit on the back quarter and we’re done for!”, or “Hear me baby, hold together”, or “this bucket of bolts is never going to get us past that blockade!”? Come on, as much as you like the film, admit it – they wrote some stupid shit involving the Falcon.
It was sturdier than it should have been, but it never went beyond my suspension of disbelief.
Well, bully for you I suppose, and I’ll take that as your concession on the “shields” claim. Smashing the cockpit off the ground a few times then skipping her like a freaking rock across a glacier just made me go ‘nope’.
Had not been turned on yet. Remember? “Not so easy without a copilot”?
Can now fly through planetary shields too without a scratch.
Refractional refreshrate
“Fractional”, not “refractional. Which still doesn’t mean anything, and still doesn’t make Han dropping out of lightspeed several hundred meters above the planet MANUALLY any less stupid.
And let’s explore that a bit too, shall we? In the Jakku escape,the quads are hit by glancing TIE laser fire, and crippled. Leaving aside for the moment that with the quads stuck facing down you can’t land the Falcon without crushing them, how then did slamming off a glacier at near lightspeed, then sliding for a half kilometer along her belly did nothing?
Maybe they unstuck the guns off-screen?
Then Kicker2 is wrong. And I’m not sure when they would have had time to do that – they leave the planet, have a self-congratulatory moment, then something starts leaking in the maintenance pit, followed immediately by them being swallowed by Han’s freighter. See? THIS is what I mean when I say it’s best just not to think about anything in TFA too closely – it’s entertaining, but very little of it hangs together past the initial rush onscreen.
Great… I wonder if they etched their names into the Falcon too? “Nob was here trampling the set May 2016”..
I can’t believe these guys are walking and standing all over a lot of peoples’ hard work. So disrespectful. These photos should not be shown in here. Take them down.
Peter Mayhew even tweeted them as u see.
Perhaps this is some kind of diversion lol
A ruse!
Wonder if they will preserve the set and sell it to a rich superman for hundreds if not millions of dollars.
The Falcon seriously needs a wash. Anyone have quarters?
Is…Disney really serious about their claims of security?
you could shoot some awesome fan films there with no guards.
The big question that’s been bothering me all day is what do they call X-XII if they get made?
The modern trilogy?
To be more serious, it could the be the Old Republic trilogy.
That’s my dream too but I doubt it wil come true considering how dark those stories got, it would be a PT to the PT, and Disney is too scared to even go into that era in the EU material.
Well there is…No, do or do not, there is no try. Disney will have to pick carefully their next moves for Star Wars.
If they are going to copy Marvel then they need to take big chances like they did with Antman and GOTG which KOTOR would do rather than gives us another 10 OT prequels’
The SST. The Sequel Sequel Trilogy.
This is why they need to make another Spaceballs.
IMO LFL leaked this (I thought the same with the photos in TMZ from TFA).
Nope. First appeared posted in a UK urban exploration forum by a long time known member. More recent set of pics from yet another member shows a useless security guard befuddled and looking the wrong way. Security is just that bad.
OR ARE THEY?!
It’s a conspiracy. To show off something people already know, in order to get them excited about something they’re already pumped for. Makes perfect sense.
Or does it?
Alright, that’ll do pig, that’ll do.
I feel like that’s a reference to something….
Your insight serves you well. But apparently not quite well enough.
I´m a huge fanboy, I´d die for any news, but I have nothing but contempt to this garbage and the fuckers who did it.
Come on people, maybe this is purposely by disney, they trust episode 8 will be too good that this “leaks” will not matter
They want us to see and know they are really using practical effects, and the quality of production is high. and they wont fail again in the CGI of the past
They already pimped the practical effects, real sets nonsense last film – there’s little point in it I think for this one.
That tree looks like the Jedi Symbol… or an X-Wing.
Considering the fact that security was absent and Peter Mayhew was the one who tweeted these pictures, I can’t help but have a sneaking suspicion that Disney may have wanted these pictures to leak. It drums up hype and shows off all the real sets, practical effects.
Wait, what? They’re using practical effects and real sets? Why wasn’t I notified of this before?!!!
Lucasfilm controls more than Disney, Disney may own the company but they let Lucasfilm run the Star Wars part. If you don’t agree with that, argue with Lucasfilm’s Pablo Hidalgo on twitter. Because that’s basically what he told me.
Um….okay.
Or is it?
Yes.
Oh, alright then I suppose. Thanks for clearing that up.
Kicker and Pablo are tight, yo.
is this the first FULL Falcon ?
Depends on how you define it I suppose. ANH of course had the half-Falcon, ESB had the full ship, but roughly 2/3 scale, RotJ had half of that set reassembled. Problem is this “full-scale” Falcon still isn’t big enough to accommodate the main hold set, nor properly accommodate the cockpit and cockpit hallway or the boarding ramp area.
…not to be “that guy” but didn’t they get the front of the mandibles slightly wrong? and the docking rings on the sides don’t have the slight tapering or the right detailing … probably a lot more… just first observations
The canon explanation will just be that Han just continued retrofitting the Falcon.
But according to people here anyways, just never removed the tracking device. Facepalm.
Mandibles are indeed wrong – should toe-in slightly. The jawbox is also wrong. No worries, based on what little BTS stuff they showed off for TFA, it looks like ILM just ends up replacing the thing with the digital asset anyways.
…still crazy awesome…even with the “mistakes”