- Disney has created a enjoyable, free, interactive sport inside Galaxy’s Edge.
- With a MagicBand+ and smartphone, you possibly can be a part of the Bounty Hunters’ Guild.
- Thanks to know-how within the band and across the land, you possibly can discover and discover bounty.
One of the most effective issues a couple of Disney Parks go to is that you just get immersed into the storyline of whichever park you’re in, and the corporate is understood for going the additional mile. One of the most effective examples is Galaxy’s Edge, discovered at Disneyland in California and Disney World in Florida.
The Imagineering arm spared no element; I imply, you possibly can stroll proper as much as the Millennium Falcon – and pilot it or a part of it with Smuggler’s Run – go on a mission in Rise of the Resistance, or just stroll round Batuu spending credit and consuming blue or inexperienced milk. You might even spot a Wookie, a resistance hero, or a Stormtrooper.
However, one of many extra hidden-in-plain-sight, immersive facets is the flexibility to change into a bounty hunter, very similar to Mando in The Mandalorian. You can use your MagicBand+ with an iPhone or Android app (or simply the latter) to affix Bounty Hunters’ Guild and scour round Batuu looking for bounty.
It’s one of many many perks of a MagicBand+, which there’s a great probability you have already got to achieve entry within the park and might use to work together with different facets round parks, together with different points of interest and even performing a mini mild present throughout fireworks and parades.
How does this work in Batuu, although? Well, once you enter Batuu at both Disney World or Disneyland, your MagicBand+ will glow, and also you’ll must discover a terminal to enroll within the Bounty Hunters’ Guild. You’ll faucet your band to the terminal and get a Bounty assigned. From there it’s kind of a treasure hunt – reasonably, bounty hunt – across the Black Spire Outpost space of Galaxy’s Edge at both park. As you get close to the place a bounty might be hiding, your MagicBand+ will mild up and vibrate – both sooner or slower – to principally let you know if you happen to’re scorching or chilly.
Once you determine an space, you’ll take out your iPhone or Android telephone and open up the ‘Play Disney’ app, which in flip transforms your telephone right into a Data Pad Scanner that the epic tech helps you to scan and see behind doorways or partitions. You may simply encounter the bounty you are after and might seize it. This is all doable due to AR (augmented actuality) overlaying in your telephone’s digital camera, however once you’re within the park, it pulls you additional into your individual Star Wars story.
It’s additionally an instance of when know-how isn’t entrance and middle however creating some sense of surprise or magic behind the scenes, like Disney Imagineer’s beautiful highway to success. Through the ability of the tech in wearable sensors that may work together with sensors all through the land – whereas additionally concurrently being your ticket into the park, cost, reservation unlocker, and extra – it can be used to ship an interactive sport.
If you’re at Galaxy’s Edge with a MagicBand+, I’d encourage you to present the Bounty Hunters’ Guild a go, and whereas it may not be as thrilling as a real experience, of which there are two to go on, it’s a bit extra adventurous in that you just by no means know what you may encounter.
After you’ve caught some bounty, you possibly can return to the terminal and see what number of credit you may rating. And the most effective factor? You can get one other bounty and discover extra of Batuu, and it’s very repeatable, with many alternative bounties to doubtlessly rating. And contemplating Star Wars: Batuu Bounty Hunters first hit the scene in 2022, it’s kind of a sleeper hit and leads me to surprise what expertise is likely to be cooked up subsequent.
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♬ Duel of the Fates (From “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace”) – Robert Ziegler
