Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run just got a digital sequel. Disney announced today at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event that the attraction at Disneyland and Walt Disney World now links directly to a new Fortnite island called Smugglers Gambit.
The idea: your smuggling run doesn’t have to end when you step off the ride.
Set on the planet Ord Ryla around Mersa Veta Station, Smugglers Gambit is a Fortnite island built in-house by Disney Games and Digital Entertainment. It drops you into the same kind of high-risk cargo work Hondo runs on Batuu, just in a new corner of the Star Wars galaxy.
You can start the story in either place:
Ride Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run and carry your mission into Fortnite
Start in Smugglers Gambit on Fortnite and pick up the story on your next ride
During the ride, you help Hondo collect crates. Those crates unlock rewards that carry over into Fortnite, so your progress doesn’t reset when you leave the queue.
In Fortnite, you team up with friends for co-op missions, fight off pirates and Imperial remnants, deal with dangerous wildlife, pick up new gear, and build a reputation across the Outer Rim.
Ray Gresko, SVP and Head of Product & Development for Disney Games and Digital Entertainment, and Asa Kalama, Executive of Creative & Interactive Experiences at Walt Disney Imagineering, discussed the project on the Walt Disney Imagineering Center Stage, hosted by Ashley Eckstein. They talked through how Unreal Engine 5 supports ride customization and how Disney Games worked with Lucasfilm on the new characters, locations, and storylines for Smugglers Gambit.
When It Launches
Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run | Fortnite launches Sunday, August 16, 2026, at park opening at Disneyland Park in Anaheim and Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World. Smugglers Gambit goes live in Fortnite the same day. There’s no added cost with valid theme park admission.
How to Take Part
To join the mission, use the Disneyland app or My Disney Experience app while you’re in the ride queue, or accept it directly on the Smugglers Gambit island in Fortnite. Any guest logged into either app can accept the mission.
To claim your post-ride reward in Fortnite, including a Forsworn Trooper Outfit, you’ll need to link your MyDisney account with an Epic Games account (or have already linked them). If you ride but can’t link accounts, you’ll get a code in Fortnite to redeem your reward instead.
Fortnite is free on PC, console, and mobile. More details are available at Disneydigital.com/fortnite.
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