Does Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures have what it takes to score a victory on you table top or should it be encased in carbonite? Read on to find out! With the introduction of Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures game from Fantasy Flight Games, players can now have their own space battles with these memorable ships. For its time, the X-Wing was a truly iconic piece of special effects. The original Star Wars trilogy had some of the most unique and beautifully designed space ships in all of science fiction. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., where it will be visible to the public before it goes on display at the museum next year.Next to the iconic light saber battles, nothing excites a Star Wars fan more than the epic space battles.
This particular X-wing will undergo “conservation” - also known as cleanup and prep work - in the Restoration Hangar at the museum’s Steven F. “All air and space milestones begin with inspiration, and science fiction so often provides that spark.” She added that “the X-wing displayed amid our other spacecraft celebrates the journey from imagination to achievement.”ĭesigned as the nimble fighter that Luke Skywalker used to destroy the Death Star in the original 1977 “Star Wars” movie, the X-wing was named for the distinctive shape of its “strike foils when in attack position,” the museum said.Īrtists at Industrial Light & Magic, the special-effects studio founded by George Lucas, the movies’ creator, depicted X-wings and other “Star Wars” spacecraft with miniatures as well as full-size models and cockpits, enhanced with visual effects, the museum said.
“Despite taking place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, ‘Star Wars’ introduced generations of fans here on Earth to outer space as a setting for adventure and exploration,” Margaret Weitekamp, the museum’s space history chairwoman, said in a statement.
In the late 1990s, it presented “ Star Wars: The Magic of Myth,” a show based on the original “Star Wars” trilogy that show went on tour across the country. While air and space purists may grumble about precious exhibition space being turned over to a pretend craft that played no role in advancing actual space travel, the exhibition is not the first time the museum has allied itself with the franchise’s crowd-pleasing power.
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