Millennium Falcon: Smuggler's Run is an attraction in [[Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge]] in [[Disney's Hollywood Studios]].
==Attraction History==
The attraction that would eventually become Millennium Falcon: Smuggler's Run, was initially announced at the 2015 D23 Expo along with the rest of Disney's planned Star Wars Land. At thistimethis time, details of the attraction were not revealed, however it was made public that the new land would feature an attraction that woud would allow guests, "to take the controls of one of the most recognizable ships in the galaxy, the Millennium Falcon, on a customized secret mission" <ref> https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2015/08/star-wars-themed-lands-coming-to-walt-disney-world-and-disneyland-resorts/ </ref>
When Disney set out to create what would eventually be known as Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, they knew that they needed the Millennium Falcon to be a centerpiece of the new land <ref> https://screenrant.com/millennium-falcon-ride-galaxys-edge-explained/ </ref>. The fact that the ship had become an iconic character in the franchise's lore, combined with the ability to fulfill guest's fantasy of actually piloting the vessel, made it a natural fit.
{{Quotation| It’s a completely interactive game, which is a big technology jump for us because that means we’re rendering everything with real-time graphics, real-time motion cues. It’s not something that we’ve done before....When we started this, the technology for doing our rendering of graphics didn’t even exist. We’re filling an enormous screen with theatrical quality graphics in real time, and that technology didn’t exist when we started. So we found ourselves just kind of looking over the horizon, trying to figure out what’s going to be there when we need it, and what isn’t there, that’s what we’re going to invent" <ref> https://collider.com/millennium-falcon-smugglers-run-interview-steve-goddard/ </ref>}}
[[Image:FalconConcept.jpg|400px|thumb|Concept art showing Chebacca loaning the Millennium Falcon to Hondo Ohnaka.]]
In the end, the attraction that Imagineers created was part motion simulator, part video game. Due to the interactive nature of the attraction, there are thousands of possible ride combinations, as every action guests take affects the ride experience <ref name="Starwars"> https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-galaxys-edge-millennium-falcon-smugglers-run </ref>.