New Details on Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance

[x_section style=”margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 45px 0px 45px 0px; “][x_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” bg_color=”” style=”margin: 0px auto 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_column bg_color=”” type=”1/4″ style=”padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 1px; “][x_text class=”center-text “]by Danny de la Cruz[/x_text][/x_column][x_column bg_color=”” type=”3/4″ style=”padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_text]While Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge will finally open in Orlando on August 29, 2019, we’re already looking forward to another big date. On December 5, the main ride attraction–Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance will open in Florida and then open on January 17, 2020 at Disneyland in California. We got a first glimpse into the ride with this first look provided by the folks at Disney.

Photo credit: Joshua Sudock/Disney Parks

[x_button shape=”rounded” size=”large” float=”none” href=”https://www.vraimagazine.com/explore-galaxys-edge-in-orlando-before-the-opening/” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover”]Click here to explore Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in Orlando with us, officially opening on August 29, 2019. [/x_button]

It’s described as the most ambitious, advanced and immersive experiences ever undertaken by Walt Disney Imagineering. Guests will board a full-size transport shuttle before they are captured by a Star Destroyer and wind up in the middle of a climactic battle between the First Order and the Resistance.

Here’s additional details direct from Walt Disney Imagineering and let’s just say that we can’t wait!

• Guests will join the Resistance and depart from Batuu in a transport ship to meet General Leia Organa at a secret rendezvous point. However, on their way to the hidden base, guests are intercepted and taken prisoner by the First Order as their ship is drawn into the hangar bay of a Star Destroyer. The action then ramps up as guests seek to escape the clutches of Kylo Ren and the First Order.
• Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance will bring guests face to face with some of their favorite Star Wars characters, including Resistance heroes Rey, Poe and Finn, as well as Kylo Ren and General Hux of the First Order.
• Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is one of the largest attractions Disney has ever created. Its massive show building is a world unto itself, housing two full-sized AT-AT walkers and a Star Destroyer hangar bay – complete with a TIE fighter and a garrison of Stormtroopers – plus more thrills and surprises.
• Walt Disney Imagineering will combine multiple ride systems to tell the story of Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. In one sequence, a new simulator experience will give the sensation to guests they are falling from space to crash land on Batuu.
• During a portion of the experience, guests will race through a Star Destroyer in a trackless ride vehicle featuring an onboard droid that reacts to its surroundings.

[/x_text][/x_column][/x_row][/x_section]