cardboard falcon
My childhood friend, Mark Bradley could make almost anything out of cardboard and glue. Back in the 70s, before there was a Millenium Falcon for sale in the toy store, Mark Bradley built his own Millenium Falcon out of cardboard and glue. He made his cardboard Falcon look just like the real one in the movie, with a little radar dish on one side, a pod shaped cockpit on the other side, and five, circle-shaped things on the back. He even made it so you could take the roof off his Millenium Falcon and see all the neat things inside the space ship. He built computer banks and the 3-d chess table and everything down to the last detail.
Then Mark Bradley was kind of enough to help me build my own Millenium Falcon out of cardboard and glue. Actually, he didn't really help me build my own Falcon, he kind of just built it himself while I watched.
Before he was done, my mom called and it was time for me to go home. But Mark let me take my half-built, cardboard Falcon home with me so I could look at it and play with it until he could finish it the next day.
When I got home I realized that all that remained to be done on my Falcon was the interior. So I got some cardboard and scissors and scotch tape and decided to finish the job myself. I remember I made a chair for Chewbacca , and a bench for the Han Solo and the robots. Then I did my best to make some computer and machine looking things. They were kind of clumsy and crooked but it gave my Star Wars figures something to sit on and do while they were in my Falcon.
The next day I went back to Mark Bradley's house to play Star Wars like always. When Mark Bradley looked inside my Millenium Falcon he furrowed up his eyebrows and said,
"What's this?"
Then he pulled out my crooked, scotch taped chairs and computers and finished my Millenium Falcon the right way.
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