Disney’s Millennium Falcon Star Wars Ride Never Received Four Other Missions Due to Budget and Time

Walt Disney Imagineering has confirmed that Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run was originally designed with five different missions, but due to budget and time restraints, the attractions opened with only one at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run An article shared by the Wall Street Journal recently shed light on several past projects, difficulties, and successes within the Walt Disney Imagineering branch of The Walt Disney Company over the past few years. Imagineers take their roles seriously with immense pride in what they accomplish: Imagineers are a distinctly diverse group of craftspeople, with skills ranging from costume design to mechanical engineering to project management. They hold 831 active patents for technologies, including multidirectional moving floors and rotating roller coasters, and have wowed guests with achievements like the Enchanted Tiki Room’s singing birds in 1963 and a Spider-Man robot doing aerial acrobatics today....