The Millenium Falcon's introduction to the plot is HORRENDOUS

The Millenium Falcon is a Corellian YT-1300 light freighter and it's not the only one in a galaxy far far away. (I suppose they all look the same)
Why should they recognize and identify it as the famous Millenium Falcon?
It's just YT-1300 freighter like all the others at the first look.

I guess Kylo Ren did know that Han Solo was no longer the owner of the Millenium Falcon, why search for it then?

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I agree, the ship was portrayed too tough in TFA, in the OT it's more vulnerable.

 

That's like saying that Luke's specific X-wing should be iconic. It's one ship out of a group of many mass-produced ships that all more or less look the same. So unless you know going in who used to pilot it, it's going to loo like any other X-wing.

The MF operates under the same principal.

 

It wasn't horrendous - it was thrilling and exciting.

WTF is wrong with you OP?

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You make some very valid points in your post my friend so why did you decide to change your way of thinking?

 

Many people here are saying that the Millennium Falcon wouldn't be recognized in the galaxy as a whole because it was just a regular Corellian YT-1300 light freighter and nothing more but I have to say that you are all wrong. The Falcon was not just a regular ship but a HIGHLY MODIFIED version. The ship would indeed be recognized by many around the galaxy and it would have indeed grown famous as the OP said. Apart from this, the fame of the ship having made the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs would be enough to make the ship very famous.

Did any of you guys that said that the Falcon wouldn't be recognized grow up with shows like Knight Rider, Miami Vice, The Dukes of Hazzard or Starsky and Hutch? These series were super famous back in the 70s and 80s and those cars became so iconic that you would instantly recognize them anywhere and people would go out of their way to buy these type of cars and make them look exactly like the ones on the TV show.








Kids everywhere would go crazy when they saw these cars and they would instantly be saying things like ''Oh look there's Kitt from Knight Rider'' or ''Awesome it's the General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard'' and everyone drooled when these cars were seen. The Falcon would have been the same and many beings would want a ship like that and this is just at the start of it's fame for it's speed and some of the things it had done under the ownership of Lando and then Han. After the Falcon's key performance at the two Death Star battles, the ship would have gotten even more famous to the point that many races in the galaxy would recognize the ship and know of it's exploits. The scum and villainy alone who ever had dealings with Han or Lando would instantly recognize the modified ship anywhere they saw it so the OP was correct in his line of thinking.


Beings like Sarco Plank would immediately recognize the Falcon for it's worth or it'd fame and they would have done anything to get their hand on it and not just let it rust in that dust ball of a planet. Just knowing how much the Falcon was worth to Han was enough to make Plank or others like him try to make some mean credits as they knew perfectly well that the info alone of where the Falcon was would be extremely valuable as Han would gladly pay whatever it was he had to in order to get his ship back.

Edited for typo error.

 

But it had an infallible tarp disguise, lol.

 

Mi con labeled when Rey and Finn steal it in novel.

 

I didn't say Sarco Plank would want to steal it for himself but that he could make alot of credits by contacting Han and selling him the info about the ships location. Look at all the money that Han swindled from Kanji Club and the Gwavian Death Gang, do you even doubt that he would have paid said money to Sarco instead of doing all the Rathar business if he knew that he could get the Falcon back?

And reguarding how popular ships can get in the SW universe, look no further than ANH.

If a simple Skyhopper could become popular enough that they would make toys out of it and said toys would even reach a harsh and arid world such as Tatooine, imagine how much more famous would the Falcon be and how it's popularity would spread across the galaxy once it's exploits were known.

 

Maz Von Sydow...MAX Kanata Yeah I thought it was really ranom
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But you have to remember that the greatest fame that the ship had was not by it's criminal dealings (which only lowlifes would know) but by it's heroic participation in both Death Star battles which was known throught the galaxy. Unless you were a criminal, you wouldn't even know about Han Solo but TFA proved that Han and his ship became legends in a heroic manner.

 

But then how would you know about the kessel run ?

 

this.

even if i saw the General Lee or Kitt driving down the street, my first thought would be: there's a car that looks like those iconic rides but could be knock-offs, lookalikes, hobby cars. i wouldn't automatically assume they were the actual real deal.

Mitaka comes and tells Kylo Ren the exact make of the freighter and Ren doesn't even flinch. because it's pretty much as if Han Solo drove a Suburu and Mitaka came in and said the droid escaped in a Suburu. big deal; the world is full of Suburus.

Rey has obviously seen the Falcon, maybe even been on it, but unless Han carved his name on the dash there's no reason she would assume it's the same freighter.

 

Remember that the Kessel Run was a route used by smugglers to get their cargo from one place to the other without getting noticed by the Empire. Here we have to quote old Ben by saying that it all depends on our point of view. For the Empire, this action would be illegal but to all of those against the Empire they wouldn't see this as an illegal action. Apart from this, the thing that made the Kessel Run real famous was the amount of time it took people to get from one place to the other. BoShek did the run without any cargo in order to beat Solo's record but Han did the same and beat BoShek's record after a few months. Though many indeed used the Kessel Run to smuggle spice, what made it really famous was the amount of time that it took a pilot to cross it.