X-wing
Wednesday, 5th September 2007 by Alex Turnbull
12.5 metres (41 feet) in length, hyperspace capable, and with a top speed of 5,025 mph in atmosphere, the X-wing is of course the iconic starfighter first seen in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, all the way back in '77.
Although why the Rebel Alliance have left this one smack bang in the middle of Disneyland Paris is a complete mystery...
More on the X-wing at Wikipedia. Thanks to virtualglobetrotting.
About the author
Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
On the other side of the globe, the Empire has obviously taken over Disney’s MGM Studios Theme Park in Orlando, as this Imperial Walker proves:
View Placemark
😀
It sits just outside of the Star Tours ride there. The entire outside area is made up like an Ewok Village: http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2342755680053803550kHTdIv
That wiki entry on the x-wing is worringly (but not surprisingly) geeky.
The last three Star Wars films were bobbins but youve got to admit the production design in the original concept was genius. The x-wing actually looks like it could actually do what it is meant to do (if Star Wars was real of course!)
wait… star wars wasn’t real??
Another smaller X-wing: View Placemark
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/sights/sightstory.php?tip_AttrId==11888
Maybe Luke had one of his notorious water landings in the Seine and that was the only place he could have Yoda force-tow it to.
This X-wing, of course, sits outside the DLP version of Star Tours, as the AT-AT does at the Disney’s Hollywood Studios (formerly Disney/MGM Studios) in Florida, as noted above.
SW5 came out during my final year at Loughborough Uni, we had one of these in Nick Phillips’ holography studio trying to do a 3-d laser hologram of it. The idea was to wait for Her Majesty to step out of her car on the first night at the Dominion, Tottenham Court Road, London: then we’d resolve some subsonics with a thundercrack while the hologram panned off down TCR at speed. The trouble was it was too big, we couldn’t get a stable scan, either Heisenberg was at work or the speed-of-light delay to the far end of the beast met earth vibrations, so it never happened.
Its an arcade machine, we have one in León (Spain) near 12 years ago
http://www.twitchguru.com/picturegalleries/20070521/xwing1.jpg
Star Wars isn’t real? Are you crazy? 🙂 I wonder what else Luke has hidden throughout the planet, waiting to be discovered by Google Earth fanatics….
I’ve been there ! It’s a very nice model.