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Credit: Jeremy Thompson, FlickrLast week, Walt Disney World Resort guests spent over 20 minutes stuck on Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance after the Disney’s Hollywood Studios ride abruptly closed. One Disney Park guest shared their experience evacuating the attraction in a video on social media.
Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance opened at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in December 2019, and the Disneyland Park version followed one month later. At both parks, the advanced trackless attraction debuted months after the grand opening of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, including Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run.
In just five years of operation, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance has been the source of heated controversy among Disney Parks fans. The attraction often breaks down, both because of advanced special effects and sensitive safety mechanisms that emergency-stop the ride when a guest drops an item.
One of the ride’s special effects, the moving cannons, stopped moving soon after it opened. Disneyland Park repaired the cannons on its version of Rise of the Resistance earlier this year, but the Disney’s Hollywood Studios version’s cannons remain motionless.
On Friday, Walt Disney World Resort’s version of Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance broke down again. Redditor u/Nathan4All was on board the attraction when it stopped moving and posted a video of the motionless Kylo Ren and General Hux animatronics:
full evacuation on rise of the resistance
full evacuation on rise of the resistance
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“Got stopped for 20+ minutes,” the Disney Park guest explained. “We were evacuated ‘back stage’ and told we couldn’t take additional photos. Honestly a pretty cool experience.”
Walt Disney World Resort didn’t make a public statement about this ride breakdown, which isn’t unusual. Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance eventually reopened and was operating normally at the time of this article’s publication.
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