We made a spur of the moment trip to Hollywood Studios on Saturday to check out Galaxy's Edge.
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Smuggler's Run was a disappointment, at least the ride itself. The experience of walking through the Millennium Falcon was very cool. The whole mission set up with Hondo (a Star Wars Rebels character) and Chewy was cool. You're given boarding passes and 2 people each are assigned pilot, gunner, and engineer. This is basically the whole thing. If you're pilot, apparently it's an amazing ride. One pilot controls left and right. The other controls up and down and hyperspace. In our experience, a little girl and her dad were the pilots. We crashed a lot. If you're a gunner or engineer, it's basically Star Tours with button pushing. The gunner can't aim, just fire. The engineer just pushes whatever buttons light up. You do get a score at the end but everyone gets the same score. If your pilot is a 4 year old, you're just not going to get a good score.
I got the impression they had high aspirations for the ride but just couldn't do everything they wanted to do and still be a high capacity ride. The general impression I get from friends who rode it and the Disney Facebook group I'm in are basically the same. If you can be the pilot, be the pilot. Otherwise, it's not worth the wait. FOP is a far superior experience. SR is the #2 ride, equivalent to Na'vi River Journey or Alien Swirling Sauces and Rise of the Resistance is the top tier attraction.