As we await the opening of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in both Disneyland and Walt Disney World, fans can only think about…piloting the Millennium Falcon. Now, we have some new details about the attraction and it is all on the Target-exclusive version of Solo: A Star Wars Story on Blu-ray.
There is a 13-minute bonus feature on this home release which has released new details on the Millennium Falcon attraction coming to Disneyland Park and Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
It has now been confirmed that guests will be able to interact with the environment around them as if they are truly piloting the ship. On top of that, the pods in which they are seated will be able to rotate a full 360 degrees to get a full feel and view of everything.
At any single time, the Millennium Falcon attraction will be able to hold as many as 42 guests with six guests each in one of seven pods.
Asa Kalama is the Executive Creative Director for the Millennium Falcon attraction and detailed a bit of what guests will be doing.
“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.”
Scott Trowbridge, a Walt Disney Imagineering Creative Executive, gave some new details on the story and plot of the ride.
“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.”
We do not have exact dates for the opening of the new lands, but we do have the seasons. The version of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland will open in “summer 2019” while the version at Disney’s Hollywood Studios is set to open in “late fall 2019.”
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