The only full - scale model of Han ##craft 's space Falcon spaceship was built in a Welsh hangar in 1979 . The full - sized version of the spaceship was constructed for The Empire Strikes Back , the second film in the series . Workers at Pembroke Dock were sworn to take over the project and it was renamed the ' space Roundabout '
The only full-scale model of Han Solo 's Millennium Falcon spaceship was built in a Welsh hangar in 1979 . The life-size version of the spaceship was constructed for The Empire Strikes Back , the second film in the series . Workers at Pembroke Dock were sworn to secrecy over the project and it was nicknamed the 'Magic Roundabout '