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Post #1394512

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SilverWook
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Empire Strikes Back - 'Behind The Scenes / Making Of' images thread
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Date created
18-Dec-2020, 5:13 PM

ZkinandBonez said:

screams in the void said:

did anyone catch what looks like an Echo base interior wall behind the Falcon when they show footage of the arrival at cloud city in the previous video around 4:22 ? …https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yix_9g_Ob74

The full size Falcon was built into the Echo Base set and it was probably difficult and costly to move so it probably made sense to re-use it for this shot. So I suppose the Cloud City landing platform and Echo Base hangar were built on the same sound stage?

IIRC, the Falcon was easily moved on hydraulic(?) pads under the landing gear. A couple stagehands could push it around. And at some point in production the hangar set had to come down and Dagobah had to be built.

They would have had to move the Falcon around a bit to create the Cloud City landing pad aet.