It’s exclusive to the Target version of the Solo: A Star Wars Story Blu-ray and is set to be one of, if not the most anticipated element of Galaxy’s Edge, which of course arrives in our galaxy next year. The Target Blu-ray gives us the 13 minute bonus content The Millennium Falcon: From Page to Park which takes a look at the ride which is set to blow people’s minds next year.
Ride executive creative director Asa Kalama elaborates on what we can expect from the ride. By the sound of it, interactivity is at the very centre of the experience.
“You’re truly in control of the fastest and most iconic ship in the entire galaxy. And Hondo, he’s gone ahead and added a couple extra seats so he can get as many of those flight crews through as possible. There are 200 some odd buttons, knobs and switches on the inside of the cockpit and they all do stuff. If you’re the gunners in the center there and you don’t fire back on those TIE Fighters fast enough they’re going to riddle the hull with laser bolts, the engineers in back, it’s really up to them to keep the whole Falcon in working order so they’re back there furiously working away at their various systems.”
Yeah, you read that right, Hondo Ohnaka is a part of the story and Disney Imagineering executive Scott Trowbridge reveals even more.
“If you bring back all the loot and there’s not a scratch on the ship and Hondo is really happy when you bring it back, you might find yourself with some extra Galactic Credits in your account, but do a poor job, you lose the cargo, you smash up the ship, you might come back owing more money than you started with, the bossman might not be too happy and when you roll across to the local cantina the bartender might lean over and say ‘hey, word on the street is your name’s been put on the list of a local bounty hunter, I’d watch out if I were you’ so how well you do on this mission really does have an impact on your overall, land-wide story.”
Colour me excited. It sounds like this adventure at the Black Spire Outpost could be every bit as immersive as Secret Cinema, which saw visitors talking face-to-face with ‘real’ aliens and working their way through challenges from one end of the hall to the other.
