When the Millennium Falcon was introduced in A New Hope, it only had three landing gears, but three years later in The Empire Strikes Back, it had five landing gears. Here’s how Solo: A Star Wars Story made sure everything fit….
Solo‘s visual effects supervisor, Rob Bedrow, explained: “So if you watch really carefully in the middle of the Kessel Run when we’re coming up to that ice, that giant carbon berg Han does the slide on, we actually rip off the front two landing gears.”
James Clyne, Lucasfilm Design Supervisor, noted to ABC News that Han and Chewbacca made some adjustments to the ship during their time with the Rebellion. In Clyne’s words: “Great, we’ll break off two of the landing gears. We’ll be down to three of the landing gears, back to our New Hope version. And we’ll say well, in-between A New Hope and Empire, they had to add those two landing gears that Han busted off at some point between the two movies.”
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