CT The SHOE Ship in Jedi

I have heard for years about a shoe in Jedi during the battle of the Death Star. Below is the 80s style tennis shoe. Just wondering what others thought. It is a shoe? It is upside down and she lights and other things added to it.


here is a 80s style shoe to compare


thoughts?

 

It's not that one. That's one of the hot-dog-looking ones seen in ESB and ROTJ. (Gallofree transport?)

I think there's a picture of the shoe in The Making of Return of the Jedi.

 

I'm really curious to learn more about this, but yeah, that's one of those Rebel Transports.

 

Just going by a old Starlog from like 84, some model guy that talk to said that was a shoe with lights and other things added

 

Check out the new Making of Return of the Jedi, I seem to remember seeing a picture of said Shoe Ship in it.

 

is that making of jedi thats no the blu-ray? the one from like 83?

 

The book. The new book, by JW Rinzler.

 

I know some of the asteroids in TESB were actually potatoes, but I'd never heard of a shoe ship in ROTJ. I hope it's true so I can start using shoe puns while watching the final battle. "The Rebels are a shoe in." "A surprise attack? Those Rebels are such sneakers."

 

I don't know about a shoe ship but I know they made one out of a submarine

 

Those wacky model makers, in the directors commentary for, I believe AotC, there is a kitchen sink that slams into a ship. And of course, potatoes are used from time to time as asteroids.

 

Shoe Ship? Not a lot of "Sole."

 

I always thought it looked like a big pickle.

 

From SW Insider 2003:

To the untrained eye, one on-screen ship from RETURN OF THE JEDI might look less like the Millennium Falcon that something far more ordinary – a tennis shoe – but it played its part in arguably the greatest space battle ever filmed. The pitched warfare over Endor was the most demanding assignment George Lucas had presented to the artist at Industrial Light & Magic up to that time, and it remains the standard by which all others must be measured. That a flying tennis shoe could remain unseen amid the tumult and chaos of some 50 ships careening into combat is a testament to the acheivement of former ILM effects virtuoso Ken Ralston, who supervised the sequence…..​

…..Which brings us back to Ralston’s tennis shoe – among other things – and the fact that it’s an amazing accomplishment just to see how many ships there are buzzing around the moon of Endor, or how many ships there seems to be. “I was always trying to stick stuff into shots,” Ralston laughs. “JEDI has my tennis shoes and also a yogurt container as part of the ships in the background! Who would know? It’s like there’s all this stuff going on – and I thought, ‘Hey, it’d be fun.’ It was my way of just saying, ‘See what you can get away with?’ Some people noodle this stuff so much, fretting about it, but it’s like, you know, you can’t tell what this stuff is – just stick it out there!”​

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It's also being suggested that the 'shoe ship' was "fixed" for the 1997 SE, so unless you have an OV of ROTJ, you might be hard-pressed to find it.

 

I think it looks more like the transport ship from esb.

 

Found by ECHenry?



Seems legit?

 

Very interesting. Never noticed this before.

 

I'm kind of wanting to know where the yogurt container is now.