Disney Shares Official Photo of The Millennium Falcon at STAR WARS: GALAXY'S EDGE
The Millennium Falcon has landed at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland, and Disney has shared an official photo of it!
As you can see, it looks awesome! Of course, we knew that Disney would spare no expense when building it to give fans the best real life Star Wars experience that they could possibly get.
I’ve talked to a couple people who have already been on the Millennium Falcon ride and they’ve said that it’s an amazing experience! They are hardcore Star Wars fans and were blown away by what Disney accomplished with this. I’ve included previously released details on the ride below.
I can’t wait to see all of this stuff in person! I’m so pumped up about Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge!
Grab your Co-Pilot, and prepare for landing. Behind-the-scenes look at development on Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge – coming to Disneyland summer 2019, Walt Disney World fall 2019. pic.twitter.com/FRzIU90LVf
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The ride will consist of seven pods carrying six seats each and will allow riders to interact with the environment around them. Riders will actually get to control the Falcon while in it. Asa Kalama, Executive Creative Director, Millennium Falcon Attraction, explained:
“You’re truly in control of the fastest and most iconic ship in the entire galaxy. And Hondo, he’s gone ahead and added a couple extra seats so he can get as many of those flight crews through as possible. There are 200 some odd buttons, knobs and switches on the inside of the cockpit and they all do stuff. If you’re the gunners in the center there and you don’t fire back on those TIE Fighters fast enough they’re going to riddle the hull with laser bolts, the engineers in back, it’s really up to them to keep the whole Falcon in working order so they’re back there furiously working away at their various systems.”
That sounds so freakin’ cool! Kalama also said that the ride will allow you to turn 360 degrees, and “every last detail is exactly where you remembered it and how you remembered it.”
Disney Imagineering executive Scott Trowbridge reveals that the ride will send you on a mission for Hondo Ohnaka from Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. That mission involves you bringing back a bunch of loot. Here are the details on how the experience will play out:
“If you bring back all the loot and there’s not a scratch on the ship and Hondo is really happy when you bring it back, you might find yourself with some extra Galactic Credits in your account, but do a poor job, you lose the cargo, you smash up the ship, you might come back owing more money than you started with, the bossman might not be too happy and when you roll across to the local cantina the bartender might lean over and say ‘hey, word on the street is your name’s been put on the list of a local bounty hunter, I’d watch out if I were you’ so how well you do on this mission really does have an impact on your overall, land-wide story.”
Guests will also be able to explore the main chess room on the ship and “really be immersed in that environment, you can actually push buttons and just kind of soak it all in.”
Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge opens in summer 2019 at Disneyland and fall 2019 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World.