Before Disney bought Lucasfilm, before the company launched the Star Wars franchise in a new movie series, and before it built Galaxy & # 39; s Edge, every part of Disney parks was launched on IP, with Star Tours. The ride to the house was the first collaboration between George Lucas and Disneyland, and emerged as part of a plan by then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner to make parks more enjoyable for teens and young adults. Using an airplane engine designed to train pilots, Star Tours puts riders on a race with the first Star Wars trilogy, led by a Paul Reubens-voiced droid pilot.
Star tours, Millenium Falcon: Traffickers Run, the attractiveness of the Galaxy & # 39; s Edge included cockpit park-goers for Star Wars & # 39; the most famous arcade game ship, and Rise of Resistance, a new black ride containing content from where passengers become restless and shivering as the First Order airplanes fly, all bringing Star Wars battles to Disney travelers. But for anyone who can't make it to Disneyland or Disney World in the near future, there is another option for the Star Wars "IRL" experience: Star Wars: The Awakening of Skywalker. At least if viewers see it in the right format.
In March 2014 a company called CJ 4DPlex entered into an agreement with the Regal Entertainment theater chain to build "4DXs" for selected theaters. The 4DX experience gets each protector sitting in a chair that is part of a four-seat, electrically controlled (such as a Star Tours travel plane) to accompany pumps, skiing, and 3D motion picture symbols. The "X" part of the 4DX is about environmental effects: the fog sinks the hall, many fans around the room to create air and air, whose mothers pour water into the audience if so, they say. place on the wreckage of a Death Star.
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While there are notable problems in the story and in the process The wake of the Skywalker, the best way to see a 4DX sequel-trilogy-capper, if you have a theater near you to offer. What is J.J. Abrams and company are building a series of unstoppable claims involving space wars, Lightning Powers, surface waves, and Star Destroyer Earthquakes. It's like every movie is designed to be an amusement park, and your local multiplex might have the equipment to play it as one.
(Vol. Note: the following contains spoilers for the first third of The wake of the Skywalker)
Here's how to taste my experience: In the first 10 minutes of the movie, the 4DX movie theater seats were closed and filled with torch by lighting up Kylo Ren's lamp as the new Leader passed through the Mustafarian valley. Every time he stabs a poor citizen with his speed, the 4DX chair turns me back to feel the full impact. Later, my four-seat crew scrubbed and weighed in on his TIE Fighter as he wandered through the unknown Exegol areas, and the theater was filled with mystery as both Kylo and the audience got their first look at The Emperor. Palpatine's introduction, shot as a horror film, set a synchronized light throughout the theater. The action quickly determined the Millenium Falcon chase sequence. When each TIE fighter laser missed the ship, I could hear the blast of wind miss its head, as if I were a Falcon firing.
The 4DX Theater has one opt-in / out option: you can turn off "Waterfall" using the button in your seat. There's no way around the fact that the "Power of Effect" is just a rifle / knife attached to the seat in front of you, pointing to your face. That being said, where Rey is trying to recover from the damage of Star Wars II The rise of the Skywalker, fog from the moon of Endor has landed on my 3D glasses. The drops had to be wiped off immediately, but whoever organized the theater at that moment succeeded in getting that terrible sea out of the screen (or at least behind the seat in front of me).
In this setting, The rise of the Skywalker feel like you can board Star Tours and stay on the go for two and a half hours. When the final battle begins to unite between space thinkers and mysterious places to navigate brush and scary battles, there is a sense of total drowning. My whole body is committed to the Resistance Fight. The final third of the movie opens in a neat way, with some amazing 3D work throwing you onto the screen as you cling to your chair with lively life.
I may not have liked the movie as much as other Star Wars films, but the 4DX experience feels like part of its DNA. Looking for something similar John Wick 3 and getting caught behind each gun sounds terrifying. Being able to experience Star War for the first time outside of a Disney theme park was actually magical.
