Resistance base, Batuu, Outer Rim (aka Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, Hollywood Studios, Orlando, Florida) (CNN) — No matter what your sympathies to the rise up or your level of Star Wars acumen, you might be rebel scum now.

For Star Wars fans these times, as Yoda could possibly say, runneth over our cup does.

And this week, a new ride at Galaxy’s Edge takes you so deep into the Star Wars universe that you are in the plot.

But also know that the attraction’s thrills cannot be spoiled by looking through a assessment of it. Even a seriously fantastic roller coaster with a plot is nonetheless a excellent roller coaster.

This trip, if you can simply call it that, is so immersive and extensive — roughly 18 minutes — it has a few distinctive acts to the drama unfolding all about you. Cue the new music and roll the opening scroll…

Act 1: ‘Transport is absent in 30 seconds’

A Rey hologram greets new recruits (ie park friends) inside of a makeshift briefing space.

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Maintain it on the down reduced, the regional Batuu inhabitants will whisper to you, but the Resistance is hiding right here in the buying and selling port town of Black Spire Outpost.

The Resistance is the scrappy, hope-fueled band of rebels preventing on the aspect of great versus the new aspiring evil empire, The Initial Get. (Each factions are acknowledged to any person who has witnessed the final two Star Wars films.) Stormtroopers patrolling Black Spire have built the First Order’s existence in Batuu acknowledged to locals and people.

To enter Rise of the Resistance, you sneak powering a waterfall and as a result of the extended tunnels of a Resistance encampment. If the line runs slowly but surely, admirers will have time to savor close up views of rebel flight suits, helmets, macrobinoculars and the breath masks located on the Millennium Falcon.

Once you enter the camp, you are now a recruit. Any trepidation you experienced about that will be triumph over by a individual charm from two Resistance heroes: a charming Rey hologram and a additional corporeal, burbling, film-accurate BB-8. Rey describes we are evacuating Batuu to fulfill at a secret Resistance base in a different system.

The doors open, and you happen to be back again exterior. There is BB-8 all over again, in placement in Poe Dameron’s signature black X-Wing. You scurry on to a transportation ship flown by the multi-jowled Nien Nunb of “Return of the Jedi” fame. As you can see out of the home windows, and experience beneath your ft, we are having off with Poe and a couple of other pilots in the Resistance fleet.

No faster have we still left the Batuu environment and we’re attacked by Very first Order TIE fighters. A shorter struggle ensues, and our little ship is captured, swallowed up by a significantly larger Star Destroyer.

Act 2: ‘I have a terrible feeling about this’

When the identical doors of your transport reopen — how’d they do that? — you are not in Batuu anymore, Toto.

A see considerably extra breathtaking is revealed as you phase ahead at the stern request of Initial Purchase officers who label you “spies.”

You are now standing inside of a enormous hanger of a Star Destroyer. The complete-scale bay doorway appears out into area exactly where 1st Purchase ships fly by like a jumbotron screensaver. You could be unnerved by 50 Stormtroopers staring at you. Ahead of you are purchased toward your keeping cell, you will see a nearby parked TIE fighter and might notice the random slight movements between the legion to mimic humans inside the satisfies.

The haranguing continues in your cell block. Basic Hux will almost spit when he calls you “Resistance scum,” and then Kylo Ren comes to use the Force to excavate the spot of the rebel base from your mind. Blessed for you, he is distracted by an impending struggle and operates off.

Act. 3: ‘This is a rescue!’

An R5-J2 Imperial astromech droid-driven transportation is your escape vehicle off a Star Destroyer.

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Stand distinct, an individual is lasering by way of the aspect of your cell block. When the wall cuts cost-free, you see a pleasant Resistance encounter telling you to hurry. They are listed here to rescue you.

Strap into an R5-J2 Imperial astromech droid-driven transport (essentially an impressively elaborate computer programmed trackless motor vehicle) as former Stormtrooper-turned-Resistance hero Finn describes on a screen that the droid will get you to an escape pod.

And off you go — the previous 5 minutes of the attraction are a whirring thrill ride featuring shut calls with blaster fireplace (how did they make these smoldering divots in the wall?), the underbelly of an AT-AT, a abdomen plummeting freefall, and multiple shut phone calls with Kylo Ren — such as his lightsaber cutting by means of the ceiling higher than you. All the whilst, you can see a substantial area fight outdoors the destroyer’s windows.

You will get off just in time, making a crash landing on Batuu. As you emerge into the daylight you see authentic Spanish moss hanging from the outdated rusted hangar you crashed into.

Mission completed?

If the mission was to have wonderful enjoyable, then indeed.

Epilogue: Desire appear accurate

Supporters will appreciate near up views of rebel flight satisfies, helmets and macrobinoculars.

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The technological know-how is so ambitious — 4 different journey styles that all need to have to seamlessly synch alongside one another, together with live cast customers and many animatronics — that Rise of the Resistance is now opening months guiding the relaxation of Galaxy’s Edge.

Even two times in advance of the grand opening to the general public there were continue to specialized glitches that delayed Tuesday’s press sneak previews and at times prompted uncomfortable delays in the attraction’s narrative.

But could the ambition be any fewer?

Disney is recreating a galaxy, a new earth, and new narrative arcs within just a 40-moreover yr aged cinematic, tv, recreation and e-book franchise. This is all about achieving into that cannon in a further way that fans and non-followers can adore.

As I rode the attraction forward of its formal opening, I imagined of one more film, Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” — that desire-within just-a-aspiration-inside of-a-aspiration action film starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

For Star Wars fans of a specified age, our appreciate of a beloved considerably away galaxy started off with the to start with movie far more than 40 several years ago and was kept alight about subsequent sequels and prequels.

Then, with Disney’s Galaxy’s Edge you can come to feel, flavor and otherwise interact with a movie-accurate world — and trip the Millennium Falcon, also (that is the journey that opened earlier this yr).

And now, with the Increase attraction, we are 3 dream levels deep — obtaining an experiential Star Wars journey and the thrill that dream guarantees.