Article 5VJ2F Welsh town to retell tale of how it built Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon

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

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Steven Morris
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Ship was referred to as Magic Roundabout' during secret project at an old hangar in Pembroke Dock

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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