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Cpt. Kyle Amasov
Member # 742
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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...
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MinutiaeMan
Member # 444
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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?
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359mph
Member # 37
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FAKE!
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The Red Admiral
Member # 602
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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...
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MinutiaeMan
Member # 444
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Oh wait... I forgot what today is! Dangit.
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The Red Admiral
Member # 602
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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...
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EdipisReks
Member # 510
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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
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359mph
Member # 37
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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.
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Sol System
Member # 30
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That's a really nice capture from FC, though. Did you make it?
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Cpt. Kyle Amasov
Member # 742
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^^^^
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.
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TSN
Member # 31
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Look, it's an Ambassador!
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Vogon Poet
Member # 393
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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. . .
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Balaam Xumucane
Member # 419
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Got me. Curse, you...
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Bernd
Member # 6
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*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.
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Proteus
Member # 212
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sure, those captures are okay
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NightWing
Member # 4
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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').
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The Mighty Monkey of Mim
Member # 646
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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').
You're kidding! Screencap?
-MMoM
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The_Tom
Member # 38
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MMoM, that's a fairly well-known piece of trivia. [ April 06, 2002, 15:42: Message edited by: The_Tom ]
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TSN
Member # 31
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That doesn't even look like any of the E's. Why do people keep saying that it is?
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CaptainMike
Member # 709
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They're just sad they have nothing else to do on Saturday nights.. theyre starting to hallucinate from lack of real life..
Me, I just spent about 10 hours updating the Galactopedia, now im setting this up to upload and now im going out to show some nice girls a good time.
peace.
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