Get Excited! Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance Is Going to Be the Most Immersive Ride

Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is located in the Resistance base of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge. Near the entrance to the attraction you'll see X-Wing ships and a few communication towers.

If you're travelling to Galaxy's Edge at Walt Disney World, you're going to want to enter the land at the Grand Avenue entrance for quickest access. If you're visiting at Disneyland, you're enter Galaxy's Edge from the Critter Country entrance.

Families visiting Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge should be aware that children riding will need to be at least 40 inches tall to experience the attraction.

While on our exclusive tour of Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance with Scott Trowbridge, Portfolio Creative Executive for Walt Disney Imagineering, we learned more about the story line of the ride. Guests will enter an old Resistance base where they will pass by Poe Dameron's ship from Star Wars: The Force Awakens and meet up with General Organa and other beloved characters from the Star Wars films and TV shows. Seeing favourite Star Wars friends is sure to be a highlight for kids who have always dreamed of coming face-to-face with the likes of Rey or Kylo Ren.

Then riders will enter a sort of transport ship that will launch them into space, but things go awry and the transport is intercepted by the First Order and into a hangar bay of a Star Destroyer. After being caught captive by Kylo Ren and the First Order officers, you're going to need to find a way out of the Star Destroyer and back to the Resistance Base. Guests will board trackless ride vehicles and search through the destroyer to find the escape pods to crash land back on Batuu.

In all, guests will have four separate ride systems, see old and new Star Wars characters, and be fully immersed in a massive Star Wars story that will transcend beyond the typical theme park attraction. Yeah, we're geeking out.

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We're Beeping With Glee at this First Look at the Droids at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge

While on our tour of Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, we were told there was something for us just beyond the doors of our transport. After getting very close to the doors of the transport they whooshed open in typical Star Wars fashion to reveal the hangar bay in the Star Destroyer!

The back of the hangar bay is a screen that looks out into space, there's legions of Storm Troopers armed with their blasters, massive TIE Fighters up on the wall, glassy black flooring, and First Order officers telling you what to do next. This reveal is one that many Star Wars fans will remember for years to come!

This is where you'll enter your trackless ride vehicle that is operated by a droid who might not be as smart as the other droids in the Star Wars galaxy. Kids will love meeting this new R5 droid and scurrying around the First Order with them.

While inside your ride vehicle you will encounter full size AT-ATs and they might just try to blow your transport system up. We can only imagine what it's going to be like to encounter something so massive on an attraction. And there's even more thrills and reveals to come from the ride that we cannot wait for it to open to experience it in it's entirety.

While the whole ride seems to be geared towards families being able to enjoy it together, we know seeing into a full size AT-AT will be a major highlight for kids as these giant walkers tower over them.