Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is a favorite of many Star wars enthusiasts, but few noticed that this led to one surprising problem with the X-wings that persists to this day. 2016 Rogue One was monumental for many reasons, but the most important is that it was a triumphant return to the era of the original trilogy. Star wars in live action. It brought back so many things like the X-wing, AT-AT, Imperial stormtroopers and more, all done with modern technology.
To bring back these familiar elements, Industrial Light & Magic had to make some necessary changes. Because all these once physical models had to be translated into computer models, some things were changed in terms of scale or modeling features. However, one change to the monumentally iconic X-wing starfighter was a mistake – and it has remained since 2016..
Rogue One made one minor change to the X-Wing design
Wings no longer stick together
User message on X RgrouzA indicates that until a new X-wing model is created for Rogue Onethe fighter actually had much more asymmetrical wings. At the rear of each wing, near the engine, there are ridges on both the upper and lower wings. When the fighter’s S-shaped wings open, they immediately become visible, clenching together like two teeth as the S-shaped wings close.
Rogue One the model, however, has the same exact location of this protrusion on both the upper and lower wings, making the design physically impossible.. As RgroseA noted in the same post on X, practical props designed for Rogue One this problem was not mentioned and was most likely a modeling error. Despite this, these models continue to be used for many years, with the result that this physical problem now manifests itself in The Mandalorian and beyond.
Will Star Wars ever return to the original X-Wing?
New ship models are not created very often
It doesn’t look like this problem will be solved any time soon, as modern Star wars projects have proven it to us. Star wars: The Rise of Skywalker And Andor in particular, both show us that ILM likes to reuse their ship models – as seen with the Exegol Citizens fleet and the Ferrix junkyard. In both cases, familiar ships from around the modern world Star wars projects appear.
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In reality, however, this change is incredibly minor and will likely be noticed by few except the most hardcore players. Star wars enthusiasts. The reason for the lack of change is probably because it is much cheaper and easier to reuse these very detailed and beautiful models for future projects, especially television. This whole concept, of course, is not much different from the modern version of the classic Star wars tradition of reusing props from previous projects, Rogue One included.