(Original) Millenium Falcon Model

The original Millennium Falcon design was intended to simulate an alert lizard with its legs extended. However, while Colin was creating his design, another production company emerged with a spaceship showing a very similar lizard concept (Space 1999). Therefore, Colin's original design was re-worked by later artists. However, some of Colin's ideas, such as the WWII style cockpit with gun turrets remained in the final design.
In later Star Wars movies, a version of original Millennium Falcon emerged as a transport ship.