Mando and Grogu Join Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge

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Posted: Sunday August 11, 2024 12:23am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

A brand-new story featuring Mando and his youngling is coming to Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run alongside the "The Mandalorian and Grogu" movie in 2026.

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During Horizons: Disney Experiences Showcase at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, Star Wars creative executive Dave Filoni joined Disney Experiences Chairman Josh D'Amaro onstage to discuss the upcoming addition to the attraction in Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at both Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort.

Dave explained that the Lucasfilm team uses Epic's Unreal Engine to create some of the virtual sets for "The Mandalorian." Now, with the expanded partnership between Disney and Epic Games, Epic's Unreal Engine will help bring to life the latest adventure in a galaxy far, far away.

"The intersection of storytelling and innovation has always been central to Lucasfilm and we're excited to see where this collaboration will take us next," Dave told the crowd. "Just imagine it: you'll be able to fly alongside Mando and Grogu on thrilling, and dangerous, missions."

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HMF3 days ago

Some of the early EU was quite nuts but most of the time from the late 90s on it was relatively reigned in most of the time. The biggest criticism that can be leveled at the EU during its final years is they were kind of oversaturating the market a bit prior to the acquisition by Disney.

HMF3 days ago

I will say that the story group concept on its face wasn't a bad idea hypothetically. The problem was it was no more or less effective than the old classification system as far as minimizing inconsistencies is concerned.

AidenRodriguez7313 days ago

Different strokes for different folks. I am one of the only people I’ve found who likes 4DX, I was just joking around. I enjoyed it quite a bit when i was doing it for Nighmare before Christmas

mickEblu3 days ago

Yes we wouldn’t want moving chairs and water effects to ruin high art such as Minecraft the Movie or Lilo and Stitch. And the kids hate it! Constantly reminded of how many childless adults are here.

Sirwalterraleigh3 days ago

That’s petty much me too…after shadows it became George’s repetitive money factory…which Disney didn’t learn from by reintroducing all the same people and hardware with slight variations to try and sell them again 🙄

AidenRodriguez7313 days ago

Yeah If I wanted to be thrown around, sprayed with water and air while watching a video screen I would go to universal studios and spend 6x as much!

Disgruntled Walt3 days ago

I've read the Zahn EU stuff and the Rogue Squadron books, but that's it. I enjoyed those. But some of the EU was nuts.

Sirwalterraleigh3 days ago

My problem with EU…and I think I picked up the zahn book in a Walden books like day 2…was that they often wildly pivoted between too deferential to the OT…and completely off the wall No one ever figured out how to get to 50/50

HMF3 days ago

Absolutely and even at their worst they at least were not A New Hope re-treads and again Disney certainly was not above mining arguably one of the worst ideas from the EU and using it as the selling point of a whole saga film. Admittedly their hand was kind of forced by one of Rian Johnsons more bizarre creative decisions.

HauntedPirate3 days ago

There are stories worth mining in the EU. They couldn't have been worse than what JJ and Rian made...

HMF3 days ago

I knew they would blow it the second I found out about the acquisition.

Sirwalterraleigh3 days ago

They’ll never let it go…nothing dies in Hollywood. But they’ve literally mismanaged it to the point they leave billions…a lot of them…on the table across a broad spectrum of product and licensing opportunities And that is just insane. No excuses will ever be a justification. It wasn’t this hard