We had a discussion about the Millenium Falcon in First Contact a while ago at the TrekBBS, and after seeing the other thread, I thought that i may be worth checking it out. I looked at the official Star Trek page and at the ILM-page until I found the e-mail of someone who might know, a guy named Doug Smith (he was Assistant Effect Supervisor, as far as I know). He worked on FC and was partly responsible for the borg battle. Here's his response:
--- Hi Alex;
glad someone remembered that funny scene. It was ment to be an internal thing but someone leaked it and it became public. This is the image of the Falcon in First Contact, only visible for a short moment until we cut to another view. [...] ---
And here's the image:
I increased the size of the important part:
So it was there all the time. Just wanted to let you know...
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Oh my. I never really believed that they'd actually do something like that...
Well, I gotta smile at that joke. I guess the artists have to get their kicks somehow, right?
Posted by 359mph (Member # 37) on :
FAKE! Posted by The Red Admiral (Member # 602) on :
God, I'd always looked for it in that scene but never spotted it. Cheers!
In a similar vain, can anyone confirm that 'Indiana Jones' (or a similar figure) does indeed appear in the crowd watching the pod race in 'The Phantom Menace'? I never could identify him, but I did spot the E.Ts in the committee meeting of the Republic...
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Oh wait... I forgot what today is! Dangit.
Posted by The Red Admiral (Member # 602) on :
No way, I haven't fallen for it have I??!!!
But I'm sure I heard rumours about the Falcon appearing somewhere in FC from quite a while ago...
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
look how obvious it is! if the falcon was truly in the scene and was in an obvious place like that, all of you bozos would have found it years ago . great april fools!
--jacob
Posted by 359mph (Member # 37) on :
Geez, I can't believe you guys fell for it. Its so obviously pasted onto that screenshot. The grain of the Falcon is shitty compared to the rest of the picture.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
That's a really nice capture from FC, though. Did you make it?
Posted by Cpt. Kyle Amasov (Member # 742) on :
^^^^
Nope, I think it is from stinsv, but I'm not sure. I was looking for the best picture to hide the Falcon and found it on my HD. Besides, the Falcon is from starwars.com. And thanks to Doug Smith, for lending me his name. Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Look, it's an Ambassador!
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Very good, almost as good as the time Bernd (I think) replaced a Galaxy in a fleet shot in "A Time to Stand" with an Ambassador. . . 8)
*checks* Nope, thought I had that saved somewhere, obviously not. . .
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Got me. Curse, you...
Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :
*lol* That's great. With the "serious" behind-the-scenes info it was almost credible.
I was thinking of some April's fool fake for this year. Bad luck that I had a terrible backache on that day.
Posted by Proteus (Member # 212) on :
sure, those captures are okay Posted by NightWing (Member # 4) on :
I still beleive the Millenium Falcon is indeed flying around in First Contact, I spotted it once, but it's not in the above pictured location (I thought it was somewhere further in the melee). They do all kinds of 'cameos' like that, like R2D2 and C3PO in the class of the church in one of the Indiana Jones movies.
And I actually spotted the Constitution class Enterprise flying around in the Coruscant trafic in the back (in the scene where Amidala says she need to go back to her 'battleground').
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
quote:Originally posted by NightWing: And I actually spotted the Constitution class Enterprise flying around in the Coruscant trafic in the back (in the scene where Amidala says she need to go back to her 'battleground').
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. great april fools!![[Smile]](smile.gif)