A First Look Inside Disney’s Star Wars Hotel and Its Many Jedi Mind Tricks

From the Halcyon starship—the imagineered setting for Disney’s new Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser hotel—I watched in awe as TIE fighters started whizzing by an enormous “window” looking out onto space. Suddenly the skills I’d just learned in my hour-long Bridge Training made sense. In a process reminiscent of vintage arcade game play, I joined my fellow passengers in using joysticks, knobs, and dials to fend off threats and protect the ship I was momentarily living on from an impending catastrophe.

Would the Resistance return to save us? Or would our luxury liner perish in the battle? An imposing First Order officer flanked by Stormtroopers only added to the suspense.