PHOTOGRAPHS BY
Amy Lombard
IN STAR WARS MOVIES, people flying the Millennium Falcon pull a very
specific lever to jump the ship into hyperspace, which is technobabble for
“Go very fast!” People do the same thing at Disneyland, on a ride called Mil-
lennium Falcon: Smugglers Run. It’s part of Galaxy’s Edge, a new billion-
dollar, 14-acre expansion, and to get to that lever, visitors first navigate a
queue that twists through a meticulous re-creation of a spaceport and the
inside of the Falcon. Then six at a time are ushered into the ship’s cockpit (the
ride actually has several) to get rumbled and wobbled while a screen outside
the window shows a first-person POV movie of a swooping, dogfighting
HOW
DISNEY'S
IMAGINEERS
CREATED
A
WHOLE
NEW
PART
OF THE
STAR
WARS
UNIVERSE. ➔
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