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[Thread] George Lucas, the three-second rule and the Jedi Starfighter example It's a story that Doug Chiang (responsible for some of the finest Star Wars spaceship designs of the last 25 years) often tells at his conferences. 1/25

Both the Jedi Starfighter and the N1 piss me off in one simple way: the impossibility of fitting an R2 into them. The "body deformations" the cross-section books guys came up with to justify them are genuinely hilarious. But then, look at the X-Wing landing gear too. This isn't Ron Cobb design work.

Fair! 😁

And I love these ships. But, you know. (Shrugs.) It's always puzzled me that the Space:1999 Eagle landing gear clearly can retract into its outrigger modules, but we never saw that in any episode (although it was frequently drawn that way in some of the comic books.)