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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

Welsh town to retell tale of how it built Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon

A replica of the Millennium Falcon at Disneyland, California
A replica of the Millennium Falcon at Disneyland, California. Photograph: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP

In a small Welsh town far, far away (perhaps), preparations are in hand to tell the story of how one of the most famous and beloved movie spaceships was secretly built in an old aircraft hangar.

A permanent exhibition is to open later this year explaining how the Millennium Falcon that appeared in the Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back came to be constructed from wood and steel by engineers in Pembroke Dock, in south-west Wales.

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