Overview
- Disney will debut the new Mandalorian-and-Grogu mission for Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World on Friday, May 22, increasing park tie‑ins with the film release.
- The update replaces the single linear mission with a bounty‑hunt story framed by Hondo Ohnaka that sends crews from Tatooine to one of three destinations—Bespin, Coruscant, or the wreckage of the second Death Star—based on engineer choices.
- Walt Disney Imagineering upgraded the attraction’s rendering pipeline to Unreal Engine 5 and installed new compute hardware and Nvidia cards so the system can stream and preload distinct, high‑fidelity worlds in real time.
- Gameplay changes keep pilot and gunner controls familiar but add an expanded engineer role that selects destinations, fires tractor beams to collect cargo for Hondo, and directly interacts with Grogu through an onboard feed.
- The change aims to fix longtime fan complaints about replayability by making missions branch and randomize rewards, which should boost repeat rides and let the parks extend the film’s audience engagement through coordinated promotion and previews.