{"id":22486,"date":"2022-05-21T10:40:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T14:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=22486"},"modified":"2022-05-21T10:40:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T14:40:01","slug":"star-wars-millennium-falcon-pembrokeshire-exhibition-to-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=22486","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: Millennium Falcon Pembrokeshire exhibition to open"},"content":{"rendered":"
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See the pictures and video\u00a0 here. —<\/a>cpl
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It is the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy and capable of completing the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What is less well known about the Millennium Falcon is it truly was the last ship to be built at the Royal Pembroke Dockyard.<\/p>\n

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The life-size model was built in Pembroke Dock in 1979 before being shipped to movie studios<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Now an exhibition will tell the story of how Han Solo’s beloved spaceship was built in an aircraft hangar in the Pembrokeshire town in spring 1979.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It will tell the story with photographs, film, models and costumes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The project was so secret it was codenamed The Magic Roundabout, but eventually word of the “UFO” being built in the western hangar got out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A BBC Wales crew even paid a visit to the team at Marcon Fabrications who were tasked with building the gigantic intergalactic cruiser.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The engineers normally worked for petrochemical and oil companies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It took three months to build before being transported to Elstree Studios for production of the Oscar-winning The Empire Strikes Back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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See the pictures and video\u00a0 here. —cpl It is the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy and capable of completing the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. What is less well known about the Millennium Falcon is it truly was the last ship to be built at the Royal Pembroke Dockyard. Now an … Continue reading Star Wars: Millennium Falcon Pembrokeshire exhibition to open<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[229],"tags":[1674,179],"class_list":["post-22486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-millenium-falcon","tag-star-wars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22488,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22486\/revisions\/22488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}