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[โ€“] Backsideslappy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rebel Blockade Runner, mostly because it's the first ship you really see in A New Hope and my first interaction with the Star Wars franchise as a kid in the early 90s.

[โ€“] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's how I think of it too, but apparently it's a CR-90 Corellian Corvette. I imagine that info was created later and didn't exist for the first movie.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantive_IV

[โ€“] Backsideslappy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh there you go. It was definitely called a Blockade Runner in the micro-machines set from the 90s!

[โ€“] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes most sense that blockade runner is a description of the role it's being used for, same way you can describe any car as a taxi if that's how you're using it.