Which happened far too often on my three journeys. The flight engineers in the back seats are charged with repairing the ship when the pilot runs into spires, fails to navigate narrow openings or crash lands. Gunners are tasked with plowing the road for the Falcon of whatever is in our path - from TIE fighters to asteroids. On the flip side, your crew can be incredibly supportive if you fly line an ace.įilling the gunner role can leave you with a little repetitive stress syndrome if you take the job too seriously - as I did. And flight crews can be brutal if you don’t know what you’re doing. You get an immediate indication if you’re flying with capable pilots or not. Our first job as a flight crew was to avoid the 135-foot-tall spires surrounding the village - which is no easy task. But for now, Millennium Falcon: Smugglers sets the new bar for excellence in a Disney attraction.ĭuring the ride, the Falcon departs from the Black Spire Outpost village on the Star Wars planet of Batuu, the setting for the new 14-acre land at Disneyland. That dark ride is expected to feature four attractions in one and has been described as the most ambitious ride ever built by Disney. That is until Rise of the Resistance comes online later this year. Riders receive their smuggling mission from an audio-animatronic Hondo before moving into the hold of the Millennium Falcon and eventually the cockpit of Han Solo’s famed YT-1300 light freighter. Riders enter the Smugglers Run ride queue through Ohnaka Transport Solutions, a shady shipping operation run by Hondo Ohnaka, a dreadlocked space pirate with six tusk-like chin protrusions. I found myself ducking under tunnel entrances, leaning in my seat to dodge upcoming rock spires and shaking in disbelief when we ran into asteroids as my fellow flight crew members navigated through an interstellar minefield of obstacles, barriers and hurdles on our smuggling mission. I flew aboard the Millennium Falcon flight simulator three times on Wednesday during a media event in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at the Anaheim theme park and was blown away by the experience. Sign up for our Park Life newsletter and find out what’s new and interesting every week at Southern California’s theme parks.
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