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What's your favorite spaceship? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by starman@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's how I think of it too, but apparently it's a CR-90 Corellian Corvette. I imagine that info was created later and didn't exist for the first movie.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantive_IV

[–] Backsideslappy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh there you go. It was definitely called a Blockade Runner in the micro-machines set from the 90s!

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup! Here it is:

https://figurerealm.com/actionfigure?action=actionfigure&id=88023&figure=anewhope

I had a lot of these sets, and I think this one in particular.

[–] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Makes most sense that blockade runner is a description of the role it's being used for, same way you can describe any car as a taxi if that's how you're using it.