Most famously, Lando Calrissian lost the ship to Han Solo in a card game. The Falcon spans much of the film saga, and if you delve into the Expanded Universe, it has quite the history of names, paint jobs, and owners.

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Now, if you don’t have the time to read through this entire list, that’s fine. Stream your Star Wars favorites on Disney+ with a FREE TRIAL, on us! That’s not to say they’re not the coolest things ever, though! One’s a space station and the other is an ice planet. That said, we’ll warn you now that you won’t see the Death Star or Starkiller Base on this list. Because continuity doesn’t really matter in this case. Oh, and we’re looking at both Legends and new canon ships. We just want to appreciate one of the best aspects of Star Wars. We love so many of these ships that we’ve decided to list our favorites in no kind of particular order.

Who can forget the first time they laid eyes on an X-wing as it prepared to attack the Death Star? Or the Millennium Falcon, as it made its escape from Tatooine? You can’t possibly forget the cry of a TIE fighter once you’ve heard it. Since the release of A New Hope in 1977, we’ve seen plenty of awesome ships on screen, on book covers, and in comic book panels. What would Star Wars be without the many cool space ships that populate its universe? From starfighters to military cruisers and worn hunks of junk that separate Star Wars from the chrome aesthetic of countless other sci-fi stories, this vast armada is a true marvel of cinema and the science fiction genre.

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