Customer Reviews

Star Wars E3 OTC MILLENNIUM FALCON

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

For the first time since 1995, the Millenium Falcon gets re-released with a few "Special" modifications making this the best version of the Falcon released to date. The Hyperdrive now illuminates with a cool blue glow when activated by 2 of the 4 authentic sound effects buttons that simulate the "Jump into Hyperspace" and the casual "Flyby." There is also the engine "Jump-Start" sounds and the forward mounted cannons strobe red and "fire" when activated. The forward-mounted missile projectile shoots and makes the sound effect from the film to re-create the assault on the Death Star's Main Reactor. There are even working headlights on the front of the ship just like in the movie. The cockpit has been redesigned to accomodate two of the post-Power of the Force scale action figures, but don't expect to fit both of the super-sized "steroids" Chewie and Han figures from the '95 Power of the Force line. The landing gear now "snap" firmly into place and will not easily push up into the hull so the Falcon will no longer "sag" when it is in landing mode. The overall quality of the plastic is much more durable and the paint and weathering are very authentic and an improvement over the stark-white vintage and the over-done Power of the Force versions. The interior is pretty much the same. There is a hidden floor compartment to hide some action figures and there is a rotating chair for the swivel cannons. The landing ramp lowers and there is the old chess board table. Now, take my advice, if you want to use the holo-chess table that was included with Dejarik Chewbacca, DO NOT apply the decal for the chess board over the table first. The table has been fastened by a small phillips head screw. Unscrew this first before applying the decal, this way you can place Dejarik Chewbacca over the stem and easily switch between tables as you prefer. Overall, the modifications to the old mold are very impressive but there is still room for considerable improvements. The cardboard backdrop inside the playset could have been removed and an access corridor and doorway could have been implemented to connect the cockpit to the aft section like in the films. The rotating cannon could have been retooled to accomodate one of the previously released "Gunner Stations" figures and the flashing lights could have been incorporated into the cannon barrels instead of on the front of the hull. I would like to have seen an Emergency Access Hatch and elevator to recreate Luke's rescue from Cloud City. Perhaps it would have been better to just create an entirely new scale Falcon from scratch ala the FX X-Wing to accomodate all of these possible features but for what they have done to the old mold, she may not look like much, but she still has it where it counts!

A very big ship indeed!
It has cool sounds. Now you can fit two characters in the cockpit! Alot of room for figures inside, gunner seat,and
lights also. It looks small in the picture, but its huge!
Battle damage outside too. You can re-create the scene from the movie when ties come. Don't feel like fighting, Make the jump to hyperspace with lights and sounds! It also has the secret floor panel like in the movie! The landing gear is very durable.
The door works well, but the legs on the door aren't sturdy.
When I play with it,I open the flap to put the figures in because the figure will hit the legs and they will fall off.
They could have removed the cardboard wall and made more room though. Other than that, I love it!

When I first saw the new Millennium Falcon, I thought it was just a repackaged version of the one that was released in the mid to late 90's. I'm glad that I took a closer look because Hasbro has added some nice new features and made some improvements over earlier releases. As a collector (i.e. big kid ;)), I've always liked the Millennium Falcon toy. But there were a few things on the original and the 90's re-release which bothered me. First was the fact that it is rather difficult to get figures into the cockpit. There's not much space in there and the cheap plastic hinge used to open/close the cockpit cover always seemed kind of fragile. I was always afraid of bending it too far because the plastic would eventually get weak and break. And remember how if you 'fly' the ship upside down the cover over the main compartment would fall off? Well, I'm happy that the toy designers at Hasbro have fixed these problems. The new cockpit has a redesigned cover that flips up (instead of sideways) on a more standard peg hinge. The control panel sits inside the cockpit cover and no longer has a divider to separate the left and right 'seat'. This makes getting Han and Chewbacca in and out of the cockpit much easier. The new hinge should also be more durable over time, although you must be careful not to flip the cockpit cover up too far. They also added strategically placed tabs on the main compartment cover so it will stay in place even when the ship is upside down. It takes a little bit of effort to get the cover on, but it's not too bad. On my 90's re-release Falcon, I discovered a problem with the rear landing gear. I had stored the ship for a few years. I got it out recently and pulled out the landing gear. The plastic tabs used to lock the rear landing gear into place had been pushed in for so long that they no longer popped out far enough to securely hold the gear out. Hasbro must have recognized this problem because the new 2004 version uses spring loaded tabs in the landing gear which shouldn't have this issue. One of the best new features of the ship are the lighted engines. This is what caused me to buy it. They look really cool (especially at night) with the bright blue lights. The new 'fly by' sound effect enhances the visual effect of the lighted engines. The new launching missile is another nice feature. You can load the red missile into the front of the ship and press a button to fire it. Firing the missile also turns on a missile launching sound effect (nice!). The new sound effects are mostly good. Besides the 'fly by' sound, you also get 'start' (which sounds like the engines starting up and then switches to a cruise sound; the engines also light up), 'burst' (which sounds like the hyperdrive turning on, followed by cruise sound; the engines light up for this one also), and 'cannon' (which sounds like the laser cannons firing and causes the red cannons on the front of the ship to light up). I don't really like the 'cannon' sound and prefer the laser cannon sound from the 90's re-release Falcon better. But that's just my opinion. The only other thing I don't quite like about the ship are the small pegs used to secure the ramp in the closed position. They are smaller than the ones used on the 90's re-release. It looks like they might snap off if you're not careful. Only time will tell if this will be a problem. Overall, I really like this new ship. Hasbro did a good job adding new features and correcting problems the old versions had. It is a great looking ship/toy. Whether you had an earlier Millennium Falcon or not, you will enjoy this new 2004 version.

My husband bought this for me as a gift to replace the Falcon I had as a child that was lost during a move. I was so excited!! However, when it came time to put the toy together my joy turned to total frustration. The first problem I encounter was trying to get the boarding ramp to attach. It is supposed to open and close once put together, but it wouldn't. It was either shut or off the vehicle entirely. The boarding struts that attach to the ramp fall off with the slightest touch. If your not very careful, the rear landing gear come out completely when you pull them out. And it just kept getting worse. The seat and seat support for the cannon go together poorly and the cannon that attaches to it from outside the ship comes in two halves that snap together, but fall apart if you try to move it.

I finally had it all put together and tried to put the stickers on at this point. Well, as I moved it around to place stickers (not very well done stickers), the faulty pieces started to fall off. I was done at this point. But my 8 yr old really wanted to play with it and I thought maybe we would get something out of it. Within 5 minutes he was done. It was just no fun with everything falling apart and the action figures don't fit well in the cannon chair or the cockpit.

The sound effects are cool and the outside scorch marks are a nice touch. But for this much money, it should be well made too.

I would not recommend this to a collector and definitely not to a parent thinking of buying for a child. Total JUNK!!!

i got this toy for christmas and its really fun. i really like the sound effects and the light on the back. i also like the fact that you can open the top. the toy is HUGE. the only flaw is the escape ramp it falls apart too easily overall its a must have for all star wars fans.

As other reviewers have stated, the "Original Trilogy Collection" (OTC) Millennium Falcon has several improvements over the old "Power of the Force" (POTF) version of 1995.

Some of the improvements that I think have not been addressed on past reviews:

MOLD: This toy is BASED on the old mold of the POTF line. Thus, so it still is out of scale and disproportionately "fat". I have come to accept this, because if it were to scale, it would measure easily 1.5 meters in lenght!
Although based on the old mold, this toy has a couple of improvements, including the use of better plastic.
For example, the ramp and the top fuselage section (which detaches) fit much better and have additional tabs to lock them in place. These don't fall, and provide a much "rigid" feel to the toy when handling it.

On a negative note, the mold has been modified to accomodate the missile firing mechanism, which makes the Falcon's front look less realistic (and if I remember correctly, the Falcon had torpedoes instead of missiles). A positive note is that the firing button of the missile is cleverly concealed using a piece that was already there in the old POTF mold.

LANDING GEAR: The OTC Falcon DOES NOT "SAG". The landing gear has a new spring loaded mechanism that makes two tabs pop into place when each the aft landing gears are lowered. You have to push these tabs in order to raise the landing gear back into the ship. This is a real improvement over the old POTF Falcon.

STICKERS: The OTC Falcon does not have all the stickers that the POTF had. This is compensated, however, by a somewhat better paint application on the OTC.
If you want to have a "dirtier" Falcon, then you could either try buying the POTF Falcon sticker sheet on an auction site, or painting it yourself.

PAINT: DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE PICTURES ON THE BOX! These are from a prototype (actually, the photo is of an old POTF Falcon painted nicely). What you get is a toy that is mostly grey plastic with some painted details. This is NOT a dirty looking Falcon; it is a Falcon that looks to have just a couple of years on the road (maybe it looked like this by Episode III, but not in episode IV). Having a toy like the one pictured may require some painting or customizing.

ELECTRONICS: Herein lie the best improvements of the OTC Falcon. First, we get much better sounds than the old one. These ones would seem to be recorded from Lucasfilms archives directly. They are also longer and are more enjoyable.
Then, there is the rear engine "thruster" light. I expected this to be either an array of LEDs, or an electroluminiscent sheet, but it really is just two blue LEDs and a light diffusor. Pretty clever, and uses less battery than the LED array.
Speaking of batteries, this toy uses three "AA" (small) batteries, whereas the POTF used two "A" (medium) batteries. This makes the toy lighter and easier for children to manipulate.


I believe this sums all the differences with the old POTF Falcon, and that this will be an enjoyable toy for children, since it effectively combines both a ship and a playset that are easy to handle (Queen Amidala's starship was also a ship and playset, but it was quite big for children to handle).

This is a great ship. The inside is okay, and could be bigger and truer to the movies, but still is fun, but the outside is amazing. The level of detail after adding stickers is great, and looks almost exactly like the real ship. My only complaint about the detailing is that it could have been grey, not white. All in all, this is fabulous.

I felt uneasy about buying this toy when you could not see the actual toy inside the box, just the picture on the outside. But I bought it anyway, ignoring my better judgment.

On Christmas morning we got this thing out of the box and started putting it together. Instantly, I could see it was a piece of junk. We put the doors, guns, satellite dish on etc. and they went on ... but as soon as we moved something everything would fall off and we would have to start over again.

I was just glad we had other toys that we could fall back on and play with as this particular toy was worthless. I was surprised that the "Star Wars" franchise let their name be put on something this bad.

I am definitely going to return it and encourage everyone who bought it to do the same. Make Hasbo pay for producing something this bad.

this is a very cool toy, it has a opening cockpit and back. plus a secret floor board for them to hide in! overall it has lights and sounds!

After reading many mixed reviews for the new Millennium Falcon ship-i decided to go ahead and buy it. I found some of the parts to be a little flimsy but overall an excellent piece. the decals are good-keep in mind-no toy is designed to be an exact replica so if you are one of those people who demands perfection this is not for you. the electronics are awesome-it really is not meant to be played with as some pieces do tend to fall off-but for 39.99 you won't find a better value for this ship-buy it!!!