timdiggerm said:

Frankly, I don't think there's any problem with having Luke & his dad pilot different things

There isn't a problem at all. It's simply the fact I don't see a Podracer as something you pilot' so it doesn't fit. Also I've always absolutely hated them anyway. They just look stupid IMO.

When it comes to the fact that what he's flying might be the same as what Luke mentions owning, I think that's a really good non-hamfisted way of unifying the two trilogies - exactly because of what you said - we never actually see Luke flying it, just see him playing with the model, almost like he could be reenacting a race we've seen before. I think it could be a nice moment and a nice nod.

Forget about it being a T-16, as we on this forum are the minority in knowing what a T-16 looks like. A T-16 is never explicitly stated as being the Toy in Luke's hand, so the average audience member not reading Wookiepedia would just see he's got a model of a ship that looks like the one his father Piloted. Perhaps he realises it was his father's and he treasures it, perhaps he's oblivious. Who knows.

My point is, we know Luke Piloted a T-16 but we don't know, based solely on the information the movies themselves give, that they look like that, therefore it does not create a problem of them both piloting the same ship as we never SEE Luke's ship.