While I was at Galaxy's Edge the other day, I was thinking about how I get a little disoriented while going through the Falcon interior. I'm not familiar with the layout. So later on I decided to lookup some floorplans to orient myself, also wondering how close Smuggler's Run gets to canon. (I know Smuggler's Run adds a bunch of convenient closed hatches throughout so that the hallways don't have to be as long as they really are, so I'll be ignoring that little designer's conceit and just observing the overall floorplans)
Now, it's common knowledge that the interior of the Falcon has never made perfect sense (particularly regarding the turret ladders that won't fit properly on any form of floorplans). But I thought what I found was interesting.
So here are the current Falcon floorplans post-Solo:
(these floorplans are clearly based heavily on the older legends floorplans, though with Solo's new additions and some other details added and modified)
However there are two glaring differences between this and Smuggler's Run:
But suddenly...Smuggler's Run makes sense. Riders enter at the #12 left hatch with a curved wall in front of them and a convenience hatch blocking the hallway to their right. Check. Riders in the second line go through the #8 circuitry bay which curves around and exits near the cockpit. Check! Then exiting the ride, the hallway toward the rec room is blocked by another convenience hatch and they exit through the #2 right hatch. This image predates Galaxy's Edge but seems to match it fairly well. Taking a gander at The Force Awakens, that movie also seems to match these fan plans fairly well.
(the hallways from the ride's circuitry bay are shortened and streamlined compared to these plans because in reality it's going to a different cockpit altogether, but that easily falls within the realm of ride design)
So oddly enough, Smugger's Run seems to be designed around independent research on the Falcon's layout rather than using the "canon" floorplans that some have claimed are faulty. Interesting! This concludes my useless trivia for today.
Now, it's common knowledge that the interior of the Falcon has never made perfect sense (particularly regarding the turret ladders that won't fit properly on any form of floorplans). But I thought what I found was interesting.
So here are the current Falcon floorplans post-Solo:
(these floorplans are clearly based heavily on the older legends floorplans, though with Solo's new additions and some other details added and modified)
However there are two glaring differences between this and Smuggler's Run:
- First, as riders enter at the #27 left hatch, we see a curved wall in front of us and a hatch to our right. If we were following the above canon floorplan however, it should be the other way around. The hatch should be in front of us and the wall should be to our right. Swapping their placements wouldn't change the ride layout at all, so this is unlikely to be a change made for practicality. It just seems like a mistake, right?
- Our second problem is the ride's journey to the cockpit through the second route. There are two lines exiting from the main rec room. The main obvious way, and then the way through the back circuitry hallway (#30 on above canon floorplans). Except that on these floorplans, it's just a small closet, and doesn't curve back around to the cockpit at all. You'd assume this one is just done for practical convenience, right?
But suddenly...Smuggler's Run makes sense. Riders enter at the #12 left hatch with a curved wall in front of them and a convenience hatch blocking the hallway to their right. Check. Riders in the second line go through the #8 circuitry bay which curves around and exits near the cockpit. Check! Then exiting the ride, the hallway toward the rec room is blocked by another convenience hatch and they exit through the #2 right hatch. This image predates Galaxy's Edge but seems to match it fairly well. Taking a gander at The Force Awakens, that movie also seems to match these fan plans fairly well.
(the hallways from the ride's circuitry bay are shortened and streamlined compared to these plans because in reality it's going to a different cockpit altogether, but that easily falls within the realm of ride design)
So oddly enough, Smugger's Run seems to be designed around independent research on the Falcon's layout rather than using the "canon" floorplans that some have claimed are faulty. Interesting! This concludes my useless trivia for today.
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