To get to the cockpit, there’s a circuitous route through the Ohnaka Transportation Solutions building, where you’ll find engines in various stages of disrepair and evidence of some stowaway porgs making a new home on Batuu. “They don’t have to fill in any of the gaps. “We really wanted to make sure that when guests stepped aboard they didn’t have to imagine that they were there they are there,” says Jacqueline King, a producer for the attraction. Concept art helped reimagine a slightly upgraded cockpit with a few extra seats and pin down the right version of the storied ship for the era of the sequel trilogy. Designers combed through reference material and traveled to sets during the filming of the sequel trilogy to perfect the effect. The team spent three years “making sure that walking into that cockpit, it didn’t feel like a toy, it felt like a real, honest spaceship,” Kalama says “We spent an incredible amount of time just playing with the feel of the buttons and the switches and the hyperspace handle to make sure it had that heft that made it all feel not like a simulation of being in a spaceship, but an authentic experience.”Ĭoncept art painting by David Hobbins, Nick Gindraux, and Ric Lim.Īlthough the Falcon has been realized on film in several incarnations, a full-scale version of the ship like the one now on display at Disneyland Resort had never before been created. The attraction, now open at Disneyland Resort and opening August 29 at Walt Disney World Resort, is a never-before-seen fusion of video game technology, cinematic special effects, interactive responses, and a completely tactile and fully operational set of levers, buttons, and other controls that provide a uniquely satisfying ride.įor an audience that had been dreaming of this moment for decades, it was important that the Falcon felt completely real.
“That’s kind of a great bit of wish fulfillment to actually sit behind those controls…to truly fly that hunk of junk through the galaxy.” “Will the Millennium Falcon be in the land? From the day we started pretty much everybody asked that question,” says Scott Trowbridge, portfolio creative executive from Walt Disney Imagineering. “As we know, canonically she’s a bucket of bolts,” Kalama says. Now the definitive Falcon has been entrenched in an immersive and exhilarating adventure that takes you from the first glimpse of the storied ship, broken down once again and in need of repairs at a docking bay on Batuu, to the legendary main hold and finally to take the controls inside the cockpit. We took all that information, all those elements and distilled it down into the one iconic Millennium Falcon both in scale and in detail." For our more recent films, they varied between 110- to 112. "For the original trilogy, we had an 88-foot version. "There were many different iterations," Chiang explains. ” Over the years, the ship has been realized on a number of different sets. To make the ship that made the Kessel Run a reality in this galaxy, Kalama and his team created what Lucasfilm VP and Executive Creative Director Doug Chiang has dubbed “the quintessential Millennium Falcon.
And that is an incredible responsibility.” “People love, love, love this ship and have spent literally decades imagining the moment when they would have the opportunity to finally step aboard. “Finding out that I was going to get the opportunity to work on bringing the Millennium Falcon to life was both the most exciting experience in the world and also the most terrifying,” says Asa Kalama, the executive creative director behind the new Millennium Falcon : Smugglers Run attraction inside Star Wars : Galaxy’s Edge. Designers behind the new Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run attraction discuss bringing the adventure from concept to creation.įast ship? We’ve all heard of the Millennium Falcon, and maybe even imagined what it would be like to climb aboard and settle in behind the controls, pushing the levers to make the jump to hyperspace and see what new adventures await in a galaxy far, far away.
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