Solo: A Star Wars Story - 52 Easter Eggs & References Explained

44. AV-21 Landspeeder

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When Han is hanging out with a totally disinterested Beckett later on, he casually mentions to the veteran smuggler that he's been "boosting AV-21s since [he] was 10 years old".

Han's referring to a rare brand of high-performance mode landspeeder which first appeared in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, and was notorious for being quite difficult for players to obtain.

Though many aspects of Galaxies have long-since been considered not canonical, it's still cool to see the vehicle get a namedrop from the rogue himself.

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