Post #6 My top 5 Star Wars vehicles

Welcome back to Elliott's Quarantine Quintet! There is no shortage of really cool vehicles (loosely construed) throughout the Star Wars movies. This list is another one that could go on quite a bit longer. I went back and forth a couple times on this one, but here are my top 5. 

 
    1. Millennium Falcon

One of the most, if not the most, iconic vehicles in pop culture history, the Millennium Falcon not only looks cool but performs well also. That performance was best exhibited upon both entering and exiting the Death Star on the mission to destroy it in Episode IV: A New Hope.     2. Pod racer


I know that a lot of people like to pretend that Episode I: The Phantom Menace never existed, but, to me, the pod racers were one of the coolest parts of the movie. They look like a lot of fun to race (providing you don’t kill yourself during the race). And it was pretty impressive that the slave boy Anakin Skywalker built his champion pod racer by himself.     3. AT-AT


Short for All Terrain Armored Transport, the images of these behemoths walking across the ice planet Hoth in Episode V: The Empire Strikes back are pretty epic. It’s too bad nobody from the Empire thought about the weakness of the AT-AT’s having their legs tied together and tripping over themselves.     4. Jabba the Hutt’s barge


It’s a cross between a pirate ship and a hovercraft, two of the coolest vehicles ever. Also, the flip that Luke does off of the edge of the barge’s plank in Episode VI: Return of the Jedi is a badass move.     5. X-wing fighter


The titular pattern of this go-to fighter spaceship of the Rebellion’s wings gives it a really cool look. The X-wings played a key part in many battles throughout the movies.


“The Force will be with you. Always.”


What are your favorite Star Wars vehicles?


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