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Millennium Falcon: Smuggler's Run - Ride/Queue Details and Discussion
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SWGalaxys_Edge
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Look, its your cockpit in flight on Smugglers Run.
SWGalaxys_Edge
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SWGalaxys_Edge
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Smugglers Run - Line drawing of how the pods (cockpits) are positioned on the turntable. There are 4 of these turntables.
SplashJacket
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I will always enjoy the fact they basically made Mission Space Green 2.0
tomast
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is like M.S. had a kid with Star Tours
SplashJacket
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It's fascinating because it solves my biggest gripe with simulators: long waits between cycles.
For instance, if Soarin' was walk-on (in my dreams), you'd still have to wait 10-20ish minutes for the theaters to cycle, but since a new pod shows up promptly for Falcon, it doesn't have this issue.
Which brings me to another interesting point, Falcon doesn't really take advantage of this feature. We're meant to lollygag in the Falcon for a few minutes, so they could have used the lollygagging to disguise the wait of a traditional simulator setup.
It also intrigues me that M.S. has interactivity that is meant to draw the audience to what is going on in order to prevent us from vomiting, but MFSR has interactivity that essentially distracts us from what's actually going on, at least for gunners and engineers.
SWGalaxys_Edge
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Flashback 12/3/2018 - Great shot of construction of the Smugglers Run building, around where the Falcon will be.
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SWGalaxys_Edge
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Have you ever wondered what's at the top of the Falcon ramp at Galaxy's Edge?
1HAPPYGHOSTHOST
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oh boy have I!!!!!
SWGalaxys_Edge
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Floor plan showing one exit path and other rooms.
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Disney Maddux
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Oh how much I wish for them to have two of the turntables be their own "orange" mode. Imagine feeling the intensity and G's from when you go into lightspeed or hit the boosters.
SplashJacket
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As cool as that would be, I don't think it would be compatible with MFSR. In MS it encourages you to interact with features that are in front of the rider, whereas in MFSR 2/3rds of the riders are actively encouraged to look to the side. The whole ride would have to be massively different.
SWGalaxys_Edge
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Here's the access ramp on the other side of the Falcon so Chewbacca can get to the cockpit.
credit: Jeffrey Lynn Konyu
credit: Jeffrey Lynn Konyu
yensidtlaw1969
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See, I would have figured that he'd just use . . . the actual ramp.
Does the visible ramp not actually connect to the inside of the display Falcon? I guess it could make sense - if a guest got over the wall you wouldn't want them so easily making their way into its visible Cockpit.
1HAPPYGHOSTHOST
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There are 2 ramps?!!!!!! Oh....my.......GOD!!!!!
1HAPPYGHOSTHOST
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This confuses me though on a serious note because when FRESHBAKED was at the media even for galaxy's edge debut, during the opening ceremony with IGER, HAMILL, AND FORD they had a guy in a chewbacca outfit go through the normal ramp and into the cockpitt. so do both lead to the pitt or did they use 2 chewbaccas that day in Disneyland???