‘The Millennium Falcon – The Last Ship Built in the Royal Pembroke Dockyard‘ is almost at the East Platform, opening to the public on Monday 23rd May 2022 and bringing the story of the construction of the Falcon seen in The Empire Strikes Back to the Welsh coast.
The permanent installation will include a walk-through display with photographs, film, props and costumes It has been built thanks to £8,000 of National Lottery Heritage Fund cash and will tell how a life-sized wooden model of the iconic Star Wars starship was built in the town in 1979 for the Oscar-winning film The Empire Strikes Back.
The Falcon became a thing of film legend and most of us will have childhood memories of Han Solo and Chewbacca in the iconic starship, as alongside Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker they battled the evil Darth Vader in a galaxy far, far away.
Not many of us knew at the time that the life-sized Millennium Falcon had been built in Pembroke Dock.
We’ll be heading to the Outer Rim of the Welsh coast soon to visit, so stay tuned for our report.
