It still does not make sense we board it that way when no one, in any of the films in the HISTORY OF STAR WARS has ever boarded the falon through a jetway style connection. it has always been the ramp, and Luke through the top hatch in Empire. Never has it even been hinted that the falon has a side area you could "attach" that opens up because that does not make sense. the falcon is a small ship meant to be entered from the ramp or the top hatch if it was docked to a larger ship, never the side. Call me a nitpicker you all want but that is a major detail that has canoical relevance that disney ignored for the purpose of their ride that ruins the immersion of actually stepping on the falcon for me and selling me the experience that i just boarded the real millenium falcon which was their goal.
you could have chewie talk to the crowd while the droid in the same room translates what he is saying on the screen and maybe have a siri like voice translate it after he is done speaking.
I mean, this is totally true, but I can't think of any way they could move mass quantities of people into a full size Falcon and also have that Falcon be where people board the ride vehicles in a convincing way that allows for multiple cockpits. This is something I have no doubt that they thought about but had to compromise some continuity to make it work.
If hondo can magically add extra seats to the falcon without having to dismantle and rebuild the tiny cockpitt and be able to divert the controls for the main falcon guns to the cockpitt since in every movie the main guns are in their own gunner rooms with chairs(except for small short range guns Han used in Empire that were controled from his cockpitt console not the side, but the ones on the ride are meant to be the main falcon guns) then they could have had it where he put in a bigger temp ramp for easier mass entrance to the falcon. it could have been done. easily.
But how could you step into a full-size Falcon that has the cockpit carousel attached to it but also hidden so you don't see it when you board? You would have to step into a mock up of the back of the Falcon and a ramp, with most of the ship covered or hidden from view.
you move the falcon inside the building and put a diff ship out front
I'm not sure if you're aware of how the ride works. There are four different rotating carousels holding multiple cockpits. After you see Hondo, you are sent to one of two Falcon "chess table" rooms. Each of these rooms has two of the four cockpit carousels attached to it via a hallway. After you are buckled into your cockpit, the doors close and your cockpit rotates to the next position, allowing for the next cockpit on the carousel to move from the unload spot to the load spot.
