I wonder if that was one of the original props used in the OT?
Did anyone else notice Finn finding and tossing a training remote, (probably the same one Luke trained with) when he was rummaging through stuff aboard the Falcon?
I did, and I also thought it looked kind of weird, like toy or something.
It’s very Abramsy thing to do, kind of like the Tribble in the background of Star Trek 2009. Had the film been worse than it was then that moment would have really bugged me. It’s the kind of pointless nerdy reference that adds nothing to the plot other than nostalgia. Luckily those moments were acceptable in TFA (in my opinion) because there was also a proper SW story. In ST they just felt like an excuse for the fact that they had no idea how to make a proper ST story, it felt like a distraction, in TFA it felt like an Easter-egg.
I also seem to recall an interview some time back where Adam Savage claimed that the holochess (or whatever it’s actually called) that Finn activated by accident was actual stop-motion done by Phil Tippet.
EDIT: Here’s the interview; https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLCRHG7EIFlDqNKhYbtg5Pwt3E0G_kOpf4&v=tDSwqVZyNsc