Star Wars Bits: Every Button Pushed On The Millennium Falcon, Connection Between ‘Solo’ And ‘The Rise Of Skywalker’, And More
In this edition of Star Wars Bits:
If you have the chance to visitStar Wars: Galaxy’s Edgeat the Disney theme parks and ride the Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run attraction, you’ll be put inside the cockpit and have all sorts of buttons to press and levers to flip. This video counting all of the button pushes across the entire live-actionStar Warsmovie franchise should serve as good training for which buttons to push.
I think this is the only pic I’m allowed to post but oh my god. Congrats to all the imagineers and artists who made this real, it’s freakin unbelievable. (And yup there is green milk and yup it is delicious)#GalaxysEdgepic.twitter.com/jSWcUHCGxU
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson)July 12, 2025
Speaking of Galaxy’s Edge: Rian Johnson had a chance to get an early look at the new expansion, and came away very impressed. Only a few more days until it opens to the public…
Lightsaber Options
To wrap up the Galaxy’s Edge talk, here’s a batch of photos that break down the customizable options for the lightsabers that will be for sale in the parks. Click the link to expand and see the whole range. They’ll each cost around $200 at Savi’s Workshop (basically like Ollivander’s at Universal’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter), and you can read more about what that experience will be likehere.
Earlier this month,io9shared an excerpt from a six-part podcast calledBlockbuster, which dramatizes the early friendship ofGeorge LucasandSteven Spielbergin the 1970s as they were making two of the films that would change Hollywood forever:Star WarsandJaws. Emmy winner Matt Schrader’s show uses professional voice actors to create an immersive audio experience that takes you behind closed doors into some of the biggest moments in Lucas and Spielberg’s friendship, including the first (and totally disastrous) test screening of the originalStar Wars. Listen to an excepthere.
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— Ron Howard (@RealRonHoward)July 11, 2025
Last week marked the one year anniversary ofSolo: A Star Wars Story, and the hashtag “#MakeSolo2Happen” began trending on Twitter as fans shared their love of that film and their desire for a sequel to pick up the story of Han, Chewie, Lando, and Qi’ra. Will it ever happen? It doesn’t seem likely – at least not as a theatrical film, since Lucasfilm has officially pumped the brakes onStar Warsmovies for a little while. But could we see that story continue as a Disney+ show? If we’re going to see it move forward, I suspect that’s where it’ll happen.
Last week saw the release of a Vanity Fair cover story about J.J. AbramsThe Rise of Skywalker, and while we broke downeverythingyouneedtoknowin ahandfulofarticles, we missed this fun weapon connection betweenSoloand one of the Knights of Ren. Is that literally the same blade? Was it scavenged by this knight, or passed down as a family heirloom? Will we find out in the movie? Probably not!
Christian painted this piece on June 18, 2025, one of several submitted that day. The Lucasfilm art department was mere weeks away from learning that Han Solo would meet his end at the hands of the Jedi Killer in#TheForceAwakens… and that the Jedi Killer was his son.#StarWarshttps://t.co/oPWRa0oqdL
— Phil Szostak (@PhilSzostak)August 01, 2025
And finally, let’s throw it back to some cool concept art of a much more mechanical-looking Kylo Ren in the early design stages of work onThe Force Awakens.
