This Is the Way: Mando and Grogu Take Over the Millennium Falcon in Massive Smugglers Run Update

Passholder Reservations Sold Out Ahead of Mandalorian Smugglers Run Opening Day at Disney’s Hollywood Studios

Annual Passholder reservations for Disney’s Hollywood Studios on May 22, 2026, are no longer available through the Walt Disney World reservation system. The date marks the opening day of the new The Mandalorian mission on Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. Disney announced earlier this year that the updated Smugglers Run experience would debut at both Walt Disney World and Disneyland on the same day that The Mandaloria…

This is the Way: Mando and Grogu Take Over the Millennium Falcon in Massive Smugglers Run Update

For years, the “Fastest Hunk of Junk in the Galaxy” has been locked in a specific corner of the Star Wars timeline. Since Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run first opened at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in 2019, guests have been recruited by the legendary pirate Hondo Ohnaka to steal Coaxium from the First Order. But as of May 2026, the Force has shifted. Credit: rickpilot_2000, Flickr In what is being hailed as the most significant update to Star Wa…

Hondo’s New Script: Why Disney Just Quietly Scrubbed the Resistance from Smugglers Run

If you’ve spent any time in the “Chess Room” of the Millennium Falcon recently, you know the drill: Hondo Ohnaka needs your help to steal Coaxium for the Resistance. It’s been the mission briefing since the land opened in 2019. But if you visited Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge this morning, May 11, 2026, you likely noticed that Hondo’s business model just got a lot more… vague. Credit: Disney In a move that caught many “Batuu-vilians” by surprise, Dis…

Batuu’s Great Erasure: The Secret Behind Hondo’s New "Era-Neutral" Briefing at Smugglers Run

For nearly seven years, the story of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge has been written in stone—or at least in the high-fidelity programming of its animatronics. Since the land opened in 2019, every guest stepping into the briefing room of Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run was a “Resistance recruit.” You were there to help Chewbacca and Hondo Ohnaka steal coaxium to fuel the fight against the First Order. It was a fixed point in time, wedged firmly betwe…

New 'Timeless' Hondo Ohnaka Preshow for Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run in Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at Walt Disney World

A fortnight shy of the upcoming The Mandalorian & Grogu mission, Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run has received an update to its preshow dialogue that makes the attraction timeless, hinting at future updates. Updated ‘Timeless’ Preshow Dialogue for Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run We reported on the updated preshow last weekend, but went to Disney’s Hollywood Studios to capture it for ourselves. In the original Smugglers Run preshow, Hondo Ohnak…

New Pre-Show Debuts at Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run For Mandalorian & Grogu Update

Good afternoon from Disney’s Hollywood Studios, where a new pre-show has debuted for the Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run attraction in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. The new pre-show now playing at Disney’s Hollywood Studios is the pre-show for the Mandalorian and Grogu update coming soon. The new pre-show still features Hondo Ohnaka, as expected, but there is some updated dialogue now that removes references to the First Order and the Resistance. H…