Three to be exact. Three presents of one of my favorite movie spaceships of all time, the Millennium Falcon. I saw these books a while ago, the Haynes manual at a Books A Million and the 3D manual at my daughter's book fair at school. The miniature was a new arrival at the local hobby shop so I spent the $30 to get it mainly because, well, it's the Millennium Falcon and it's about the size of your palm and never before could you get a miniature this good looking and this detailed so, yeah, if I never play the game at least I have a conversation / display piece for my desk.
The Haynes manual goes into a lot of detail and includes various models the the YT-1300 freighter including my favorite (and hope to one day scratchbuild) the "Ooota Goota" from the old West End Games "Tramp Freighters" game book.
My favorite rethinking of the YT-1300 series freighter. If I had a YT-1300, this would be the one that I would have. There's a guy on the FFG forum that converts MFs to the Oota Goota variant. I may buy one from him.
If you love the Falcon you need to get this book. It's full of reference, information, pictures and history of this iconic ship all put together not so much as an owner's manual but more of a guided tour of the ship.
The second book I bought for myself was the 3D guide to the Falcon. It's done in layers so each flip of the page takes another layer of the Falcon away showing more and more detail. It was kind of marketed as a kid's book and I found this at my daughter's school book fair but it was so neat that I had to get it.
And finally here's the Fantasy Flight Games X-Wing game miniature of the Falcon itself. A little pricey at $30 it was worth every penny. The attention to detail is amazing and even the gun barrels on the upper and lower turret are individually molded (and probably fragile as hell). That's attention to detail!
So, all in all, happy birthday to me!
