Millennium Falcon: Smuggler's Run - Ride/Queue Details and Discussion

[The Sorcerers Aprentice]

This might be an unpopular opinion but I’d be completely fine if they removed all of the interactive parts of this ride and just made it like Star Tours. Only instead you are inside of the Millenium Falcon. Also add a walkthrough Millenium Falcon somewhere else. I want to explore around the ship and take pictures without being rushed through it every time.

 

[UNCgolf]

This might be an unpopular opinion but I’d be completely fine if they removed all of the interactive parts of this ride and just made it like Star Tours. Only instead you are inside of the Millenium Falcon. Also add a walkthrough Millenium Falcon somewhere else. I want to explore around the ship and take pictures without being rushed through it every time.

They'd have been better off just building a Millennium Falcon walkthrough. Then they could have built another actually good attraction instead as the second ride for the land.

 

[vikescaper]

We just had our best ride on Falcon this morning. Hondo said we did excellent and the cast member came in and told us to take a photo of our ranking because we were Master Pirates.

 

[rsm]

This might be an unpopular opinion but I’d be completely fine if they removed all of the interactive parts of this ride and just made it like Star Tours. Only instead you are inside of the Millenium Falcon. Also add a walkthrough Millenium Falcon somewhere else. I want to explore around the ship and take pictures without being rushed through it every time.

I think it performs that way if you just don’t push any buttons.

 

[ChrisFL]

Didn't see anything posted in this thread, but note that there will be a new mission coming...eventually as announced at D23.

Also this is a pretty good review/discussion:

 

[Professortango1]

Didn't see anything posted in this thread, but note that there will be a new mission coming...eventually as announced at D23.

Also this is a pretty good review/discussion:

Love their shows, even if I'm sometimes yelling at the screen like an old man watching the news. When they all praised the queue for this ride, I kept shaking my head and thinking of how Star Tours has a queue that is full of life and energy and this queue....has announcements in an otherwise empty building.

 

[ChrisFL]

Love their shows, even if I'm sometimes yelling at the screen like an old man watching the news. When they all praised the queue for this ride, I kept shaking my head and thinking of how Star Tours has a queue that is full of life and energy and this queue....has announcements in an otherwise empty building.

I think the Falcon itself is considered part of the queue, so in that regard, it makes sense

 

[danlb_2000]

There was something I was curious about when I road this ride last week. I got in the single rider line and as I was getting to the end of the queue the cast member started calling for "singles". I said yes and past a bunch of people in line to ride. This really didn't make sense to me because the point of single rider is that everyone is a "single".

 

[lentesta]

Falcon is testing 1- and 2-person groups in the "Single Rider" line today.

 

[Marc Davis Fan]

Falcon is testing 1- and 2-person groups in the "Single Rider" line today.

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I hope they do guest satisfaction surveys comparing those put through the single rider queue vs the full experience, as I'd suspect that first-time riders who are put through the singer rider queue have a MUCH lower satisfaction with the experience (which comports with the differences in ride reviews between people who used the single rider line vs the full queue on their first ride).

Smuggler's Run is designed to be a holistic experience - with the "Falcon's lobby" and "ride" as the last scenes - much like the Tower of Terror. Imagine if your first experience on the Tower of Terror were, say, entering the boiler room through the chicken exit instead of seeing the gardens, lobby, pre-show, etc. - that's not the Tower of Terror. And imagine if you weren't even fully aware of how much you were missing - you'd misjudge the attraction accordingly.

 

[networkpro]

Smuggler's Run is designed to be a holistic experience - imagine if you weren't even fully aware of "how much" you were missing - you'd misjudge the attraction accordingly.

The queue is only a bit interesting if you are stuck in a wait that allows all the effects to be triggered. That slow moving conga line isnt IMHO worth the button slapping (or for the two in front lever pushing) screen show that follows. At one time the credits and other experiences were to have been part of a larger reputation economy of the land, but as usual most of that was left in the dust.

 

[AndyS2992]

Just close it down and just move the superior Star Tours over there. Always a disappointment.

 

[Professortango1]

Just close it down and just move the superior Star Tours over there. Always a disappointment.

Star Tours hasn't been superior since they unveiled The Adventure Continues. It has a fantastic queue that GE should have learned from, but the ride experience has been mediocre for awhile.

 

[coffeefan]

This might be an unpopular opinion but I’d be completely fine if they removed all of the interactive parts of this ride and just made it like Star Tours. Only instead you are inside of the Millenium Falcon. Also add a walkthrough Millenium Falcon somewhere else. I want to explore around the ship and take pictures without being rushed through it every time.

They should make the engineer role just be passengers for people that prefer to lay back.

 

[mickEblu]

Star Tours hasn't been superior since they unveiled The Adventure Continues. It has a fantastic queue that GE should have learned from, but the ride experience has been mediocre for awhile.

Still better than Smugglers Run

 

[DarkMetroid567]

They should make the engineer role just be passengers for people that prefer to lay back.

This is genuinely why engineer is my favorite role, it’s a front-row seat to chaos

I don’t love gunner but tbh still easily prefer sitting gunner to riding Star Tours II. still don’t understand the love for it

 

[cjkeating]

This is genuinely why engineer is my favorite role, it’s a front-row seat to chaos

I agree. I don't mind all of the roles but I think I prefer the engineer as I get to see the entire cabin experience. It doesn't bother me in the slightest if the pilots are terrible as if anything it's more fun. In fact I've been less satisfied when I've been the pilot and done an amazing job (if I may say so myself) and the supporting gunners and engineers have been really bad at their tasks.

 

[MisterPenguin]

They should make the engineer role just be passengers for people that prefer to lay back.

If the guest doesn't touch anything, the role becomes automatic. So, laying back is an option and it doesn't harm the success of the mission.

At the end of the night one time, I had a ship all to myself. So, I was the right pilot. The rest of the roles happened automatically. Got 2 coaxiums.

Think about that. The default is the victory condition of 2 coaxiums with no human intervention. Which means every time a ship got only one coaxium, it was due to human error.

 

[Professortango1]

Still better than Smugglers Run

Is it though?

 

[mickEblu]

Is it though?

100% IMO