Though Star Wars: Skeleton Crew stays considerably faraway from Star Wars’ regular narrative, the collection has many references to the franchise’s wider content material, from Jod’s (Jude Legislation) alias of Crimson Jack that comes from Legends to the point out of Atollon, which performs a job within the animated collection Star Wars: Rebels. The collection even references extra area of interest content material by together with the ship seen within the Disney Parks attraction Star Excursions. Although these small moments do not change the story drastically, they tie the world collectively and provide one other stage of enjoyable for the followers to find. However Episode 6, “Zero Pals Once more,” provides one other delicate Easter egg to the combination, highlighting a much less acquainted a part of the world because it parallels the Star Wars: Millennium Falcon – Smugglers Run attraction from Disney Park’s Galaxy’s Edge.

This Easter egg is much less of a selected aspect than a basic scenario, however it’s an fascinating connection, particularly because it enhances Skeleton Crew‘s story. The 2 tales share one similarity already: each deal with the galaxy’s pirates. Whereas Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), KB (Kyriana Kratter), Whim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), and Neel (Robert Timothy Smith) by chance encounter the pirates once they get misplaced, Smugglers Run depicts a mission led by none aside from the Star Wars franchise’s most beloved pirate Hondo Ohnaka (Jim Cummings), who was launched in Star Wars: Clone Wars. But Episode 6 makes a extra particular parallel between the 2 tales.

What Is Smugglers Run?

So as to add Star Wars to the parks, Disney created an immersive world known as Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland and Disney World’s Hollywood Studios. Depicting the planet Batuu within the time of the sequel trilogy, Galaxy’s Edge has a transparent focus, however Smugglers Run takes it a step additional. Hondo is just not featured in any Star Wars movies, making his look an extra little bit of lore for the attraction. The story has Hondo enlisting the visitors to a mission for his firm, Ohnaka Transport Options. Nevertheless, like with most of Hondo’s schemes, this mission is lower than authorized and really harmful. Borrowing the Millennium Falcon, Hondo has his new flight crew steal coaxium from the First Order and smuggle it again to him.

The journey permits followers into the Millennium Falcon in an interactive expertise, with completely different outcomes relying on the participant’s talent. Smugglers Run offers completely different jobs for the riders, with every assigned a place as a pilot, gunner, or engineer as they undertake the mission. The story of Smugglers Run is just not referenced in Skeleton Crew (partially as a result of it hasn’t occurred through the Disney+ present’s time-frame). Reasonably than displaying any particular element from the journey, Skeleton Crew borrows the setup as, just like the riders, the children desperately work to flee.

‘Skeleton Crew’ Parallels Smugglers Run

The episode takes the central youngsters on separate journeys as they argue about what to do with out Jod or SM-33 (Nick Frost) and their ship, the Onyx Cinder, out of attain. Whereas Whim and KB bond by means of their try to discover a secure method again to the Onyx Cinder, Fern and Neel undertake a harmful climb. Nevertheless, the Smugglers Run reference solely happens when all 4 are again collectively, now with a greater understanding of their particular person skills. After the Onyx Cinder is dumped right into a junk pile, it’s almost inside their attain, however with a trash compactor threatening to crush the ship and the youngsters inside, the 4 youngsters hurry to take off.

Neel, Fern, KB, and Whim divide their duties equally to Smugglers Run, with Neel and Fern sharing piloting duties, KB manually provides the ship a lift of energy, and Whim tries to shoot off the machine attacking them, every fulfilling one of many assigned roles within the attraction. Fortunately, they narrowly escape after Fern presses the Emergency Hull Demolition button, inflicting the Onyx Cinder to shed its outer layer and releasing the remainder of the ship from the compactor’s grasp. The youngsters divide their duties in the identical method as Smugglers Run is such a basic Easter egg that it’s straightforward to overlook, however it offers yet one more connection to the theme parks for these trying.

New episodes of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew premiere each Tuesday on Disney+.

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