It's long been whispered that the Milennium Falcon was inspired by a hamburger with a bite taken out of it. But did you know the asteroids seen in The Empire Strikes Back included actual potatoes? That's according to this video featuring the designers of the Falcon. Compared their asteroid design to potatoes... so, they included a few pototoes, which you can see as the distant asteroids during the Falcon's chase sequence.

The video also reveals that the Corellian runner seen transporting Princess Leia at the beginning of A New Hope was the original Falcon. However, it bore too many similarities to a ship used in Space 1999, necessitating the change for the Falcon. The model used for the first film was heavy and harder to turn, so they crafted a second, lighter model ship for Empire that was better able to navigate the potato asteroids.

Seen another way, the asteroid field scene was basically a soft-pilot for a Burger Time movie, with a hamburger space ship evading some would-be fries.

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