Disney Just Connected Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run to Fortnite — And Your Ride Actually Matters

Disney and Epic Games have officially blurred the line between Galaxy’s Edge and Fortnite, letting your performance aboard the Millennium Falcon carry directly into a new Star Wars game.

Apparently flying the Millennium Falcon at Galaxy’s Edge wasn’t immersive enough.

Now your questionable piloting decisions can follow you home.

Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run | Fortnite launched Sunday, August 16, connecting the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge attraction at Disneyland and Walt Disney World to Smugglers Gambit, a new Star Wars island inside Fortnite.

And this isn’t just a Fortnite map themed after the ride.

What you do on Smugglers Run actually affects what you get inside Fortnite.

Your Smugglers Run Score Becomes Fortnite Currency

Guests can accept a special mission from Hondo Ohnaka before boarding Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run through either the Disneyland app or My Disney Experience app.

Then comes the fun part.

According to Epic Games, your score aboard the attraction becomes usable credits inside Smugglers Gambit, where those credits can be spent to unlock gear and level up.

So yes.

For perhaps the first time in Disney Parks history, you now have a legitimate reason to yell at the person who crashed the Falcon.

Disney says riders will also collect crates during their smuggling run that can unlock rewards carrying over into the Fortnite experience.

Eligible players who ride the attraction and link their MyDisney and Epic Games accounts can also receive the Forsworn Trooper Outfit in Fortnite. Guests who aren’t eligible to link the accounts can redeem a code in Fortnite instead.

What Is Smugglers Gambit?

The other half of the crossover is Smugglers Gambit, a brand-new Fortnite island developed in-house by Disney Games and Digital Entertainment with Lucasfilm.

The game takes players away from Batuu to Ord Ryla, where they’ll explore Mersa Veta Station as part of Hondo Ohnaka’s latest definitely-legal business venture.

Players can tackle co-op missions, choose classes, battle pirates and Imperial remnants, fight hostile wildlife, level up and unlock new equipment while building their reputation around the Outer Rim.

You don’t need to visit a Disney park to play, either.

Smugglers Gambit is available directly through Fortnite using island code:

7474-2686-2725

Fortnite players can also earn The Gambit Loading Screen by completing a quest within the island.

Disney Built Both Experiences to Talk to Each Other

This might actually be the most interesting part.

Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run already runs on Unreal Engine technology, while Fortnite creators build experiences using Epic’s Unreal ecosystem. That shared foundation helped Disney Imagineering and its games teams bring assets from the physical attraction into the Fortnite experience.

Disney and Epic are positioning the project as an early example of something much bigger: entertainment that doesn’t necessarily stop when you leave a theme park — or when you turn off a game.

Disney Games EVP Sean Shoptaw described Smugglers Gambit as a glimpse at the scale Disney and Epic are working toward, while Epic Games President Adam Sussman said the project demonstrated how an experience could move from the physical world into Fortnite.

Which makes this considerably more interesting than another Star Wars skin drop.

Disney has spent years making Galaxy’s Edge feel like you’re stepping into the Star Wars universe.

Now they’re experimenting with making sure you don’t entirely step back out when you leave.

Where Can You Play Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run | Fortnite?

The connected experience is live at both U.S. Galaxy’s Edge locations:

• Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California
• Disney’s Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida

The experience is included at no additional charge beyond valid theme park admission.

Smugglers Gambit itself is playable free through Fortnite.

And somewhere, Hondo Ohnaka is absolutely thrilled that Disney finally found a way to make us keep working for him after we leave the park.