The thing with these kits is the MPC kit you are showing is old, back then in the late 70's when produced it was state of the art. Now days with 3D modeling, scanning etc the kits are so much nicer. What I like about even the older kits is the history of them. Build them, display them and you can have on your shelf a wonderful showing of what is arguably the most famous and coveted ship in Science Fiction. Great video also....

Happy to see that im not the only one collecting various kind of millennium falcons

Speaking as an old mean, it was ice to see the original red on silver Jedi packaging.

I bought an original 1982 Return of the Jedi X Wing fighter model. Still in the box and still in the plastic wrap. Payed 100 bucks and noway am I going to open it. Love the video

Great job on these comparisons!

you need to add a summary at the end of your video with the price, quality of parts/level of detail etc

Thank you for the detailed comparison.

When hobby lobby has their occasional model kit sale 40% is a good time to get the bandai.

The fine molds one is amazing I got mine a couple of years ago and he is right the details are breathtaking

I had I believe an MPC kit that had a light up feature back in the 80's. I built and and loved it until a friend stepped on it. :-( Then there was a kit that had a opening for the main cargo area from the 90's that I almost bought until I realized it was incorrect as the "inside area" crowded into the gun turret area and just looked bad.

Bandai 1:144 kit. 3 versions, 1 for each of the sequel releases. No “original trilogy version”, but each version comes with all the parts that came with the previous version(s), so the Rise of Skywalker version has the round AND rectangular dish, plus figures from all 3 versions and corrected mandible sidewall parts that the Last Jedi version first included.

Nice. I am in Japan so have easy access to the Bandai stuff. I just did the 1/144 after the 1/350 for practice and it was great fun. I can't quite justify the 1/72 yet, so I am probably going to get an AMC one to do a dry-run and get my paint technique down.

This is a very nice comparison vid. I am working on the paint job for the Bandai perfect grade kit now. Soooo many greeblies

Thank you for doing this

Wow✨ Great job👍

Great vid nice to see the comparisons. You mention that the Bandai decal sheet looked a bit thick. That's because you have the standard version, that comes with stickers not decals. The lighting kit version comes with the decals 👍

I have the perfect grade kit hopefully I can get it built this year.

There was a Master Replicas Falcon, it wasn't a kit but a very fine repro of the studio model

Great video! There's a background hum though that's pretty annoying. 😊

You forgot the AMT ERTL Cutaway model. I would send you pics but i can't here. Great video!

Very cool video! I just came across the Rise of Skywalker version at the store and almost got it on sale. It looks like a remake of the smaller Bandai kit here from Force Awakens. I didn't get it because I just can't give a dollar to that franchise after what they did. Maybe an older kit on Ebay down the road, but I have other projects going.

What is that low frequency hum in the background?? Vader? VADER!!!!!

Beautiful job comparing the Falcons. Urgent question: I recently purchased the FineMolds 1/72 Falcon online- but the scammers who sold it did not include a the bottom half of the Falcon! ( They gave me duplicate top halves instead.) Niw I know why it was so cheap ($125) Wondering (hoping) I can do some surgery and use the MPC bottom half and graft / sculpt/ merge it onto the FineMolds top half. Possible?!

7:25 The kit you are holding is from A New Hope. ESB has 5 landing gear, same as Jedi. (Watched the next 60 seconds....1000 apologies lol)

Yes the Fine Molds has some amazing detail but I can’t overlook the glaring jaw box and mandible inaccuracies. It just looks wrong!

What is that annoying hum?

The sequel trilogy falcon has 5 landing gears instead of 3, and has a square radar dish instead of a round one. As for the Bandai 1/72 scale PG Falcon, the notable differences between the standard and the LED version is that the standard uses a blue thruster beam but no LED unit. The LED version on the other hand, uses a white beam to accurately replicate how the falcon appeared in 1977. Little know trivia about the making of the millennium falcon is that the prop model used in film was made up of a bunch of random spare model kit parts. When Bandai wanted to study the actual 3ft prop to make their 1/72 scale Perfect Grade model, they had the prop scanned. Upon scanning the prop Bandai discover pieces of the falcon used model kit pieces from other bandai kits from the 70s. Certain pieces matching with their library of model kits allowed to to manufacture their 1/72 PG kit as the most screen accurate model kit up to date.

I will always prefer the Fine Molds Falcon over the Bandai PG one. First, it's important to note (and I don't think you did) is that the two kits are based off of two different filming models. The Fine Molds is based off the 32" filming model, the Bandai is based off the larger 64" filming model. But the thing that irks me most about the Bandia kit is that most of the details are molded into the hull for you already. A kit based off the 64" filming model should have 1200 parts, but it has far fewer than the Fine Molds one. Given how everything is pretty much done for you out of the box, the Bandai kit just doesn't justify the cost.

Bandi is great but they try to justify the price by having sp many parts ..

You forgot the DeAgostini Falcon, which is a way better model than the Bandai kit. Plus with all the genius people creating upgrades for it, you’ll never find a model closer to the actual studio scale prop.

Can barely hear ya

0:01 What a *pile* of junk!

Couldn't listen because your voice was drowned out by the loud feedback humming. Re-do your audio.

Ment is spelled with an A in it as in MEANT.