Disneyland Park

Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge

Fourteen acres of Black Spire Outpost with two headliners, the best portable food at the resort, and a land that looks far better after dark.

Opened2019
Attractions4
Places to eat4
HeadlinerStar Wars: Rise of the Resistance

Galaxy's Edge opened in May 2019 and is the largest single-land expansion Disney has built. It sits behind Frontierland and Critter Country with two entrances, and it is deliberately disorienting — no sightlines to the rest of the park, no familiar architecture, and a market street built to feel like a working outpost rather than a themed area.

Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is the technical achievement: an eighteen-minute sequence of pre-show, simulated transport flight, a Star Destroyer hangar reveal, a trackless vehicle ride, and two drops in an escape pod at the end that nobody warns you about. It requires 40 inches and it is the least mechanically reliable headliner at the resort, so do it early.

Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run is the other, and it needs a caveat: Disneyland's version requires 40 inches while the Hollywood Studios version requires 38. Families who rode in Florida get caught by this. The ride itself is five minutes in a cockpit; the queue and the full-scale Falcon parked outside are better than the ride.

The land is best at night. Lighting is where the environmental design does its real work, and the difference between Black Spire Outpost at 2 PM and at 9 PM is the difference between a themed area and somewhere that feels like a place. Eat the Ronto Wrap while you are here — it is the best portable food at Disneyland Resort.

Do not miss

Rise of the Resistance's Star Destroyer hangar reveal
The full-scale Millennium Falcon parked in the marketplace
The Ronto Wrap at Ronto Roasters, and the droid turning the spit
Oga's Cantina, if you can get a reservation
Black Spire Outpost after dark

Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge tips

Millennium Falcon requires 40 inches here, not the 38 used in Florida. Measure before you promise.
Rise of the Resistance no longer uses a virtual queue. Ride it in the first thirty minutes or buy a Lightning Lane Single Pass.
Book Oga's Cantina the moment the sixty-day window opens; check for same-day cancellations in the morning if you missed it.
Come back at night even if you did everything in the morning. The lighting is the point of the land.

Attractions in Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge

Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance

40"102cm

Dark ride · 18 min · Single Pass

An 18-minute, multi-stage ride that is the most ambitious thing Disney has ever built — and the one to get first thing in the morning.

Rise of the Resistance opened at Disneyland in January 2020 and remains the most technically complex attraction in either American Disney resort. It is not a single ride: it is a sequence of a pre-show briefing, a simulated transport flight, a walk through a Star Destroyer hangar, a capture sequence, a trackless vehicle ride through a running battle, and an escape pod finale, running roughly eighteen minutes end to end.

Tips for Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance

Do this first or buy a Lightning Lane Single Pass for it. It is the one Disneyland attraction where a mid-afternoon standby attempt regularly costs two hours.
There is no virtual queue anymore — that ended. Standby and Single Pass are your options as of July 2026.
Take the hangar scene slowly. Cast members will move you along, but the difference between hurrying and looking up is the difference between a good memory and a great one.
The two drops at the end are the part that surprises children. Warn them in the queue rather than letting it land cold.
If it breaks down while you are in the queue or mid-ride, ask a cast member about a recovery entitlement before you walk away. They are routinely issued and rarely volunteered.
The whole sequence involves substantial standing and walking between show buildings — meaningfully more than a normal queue. Factor that in for anyone with limited stamina.

Full guide to Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance →

Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run

40"102cm

Simulator · 5 min · Multi Pass

Fly the Falcon from one of six jobs — pilot, gunner, or engineer — in a five-minute simulator that is mostly about the queue.

Smugglers Run opened with Galaxy's Edge in May 2019 and gives each rider a role in a six-person crew: two pilots at the front, two gunners in the middle, two engineers in the back. What you actually do differs by seat, and your collective performance changes the ride slightly — hit enough obstacles and the ship visibly falls apart around you.

Tips for Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run

Ask a cast member at the merge point for pilot seats. They cannot always accommodate it, but they say yes more often than people expect, especially for a child.
If you get motion sick, sit in an engineer seat and look at the cockpit rather than the screen. The gunner and pilot positions face the screen directly and are far worse.
The single rider line is fast and it splits your party. It is the right call for a repeat ride and the wrong call if you wanted to fly together.
Walk out and around to the Falcon exterior even if you are not riding — it is the best photo at Disneyland Resort and there is a marked spot for it.
Disneyland's requirement is 40 inches, not the 38 used in Florida. Do not assume a child clears it based on a Hollywood Studios trip.
Ride at night. Galaxy's Edge lighting after dark is the strongest argument for the land existing, and the queue is shorter.

Full guide to Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run →

Savi's Workshop: Handbuilt Lightsabers

Any height

Interactive game · 20 min

A paid, reservation-based build-your-own-lightsaber session — expensive, genuinely well done, and not for everyone.

Savi's Workshop is a separately-priced experience in Black Spire Outpost where you assemble a custom lightsaber hilt from a themed selection of parts, guided by a costumed host in a small workshop. Sessions run about twenty minutes, one builder per reservation, with one guest permitted to accompany each builder.

Tips for Savi's Workshop: Handbuilt Lightsabers

Book the moment reservations open for your dates. Same-day availability exists but is a coin flip on a busy week.
Only the builder participates; one companion may accompany. A family of four cannot all crowd in on one reservation, so budget accordingly if two kids both want to build.
The hilt does not include a blade by default — check what your reservation covers, because a blade is an additional purchase and most people assume it is included.
The carry case is bulky. Either plan a locker run or a trip back to your hotel rather than carrying it through Indiana Jones.
If your child mainly wants a lightsaber rather than the ceremony, the ready-made hilts in the land cost a fraction of this and look nearly identical in a photo.

Droid Depot

Any height

Interactive game · 20 min

Build a working remote-controlled astromech droid from a parts conveyor — cheaper and better value than the lightsaber next door.

Droid Depot lets you assemble a small remote-controlled droid, choosing either the rolling astromech style or the bipedal style, from parts pulled off a conveyor belt in the shop. It takes about twenty minutes, costs meaningfully less than the lightsaber experience — roughly $130 or so before tax and accessories as of July 2026 — and produces a toy that actually works.

Tips for Droid Depot

This is the better value of the two build experiences in Galaxy's Edge, and the droid does more afterward than a lightsaber hilt does.
Carry the finished droid around the land before you leave. It reacts to specific spots, and finding them is more fun than the build.
The box is large and awkward. Use lockers or an in-park package pickup rather than hauling it onto rides.
Extra parts and personality chips are sold separately and add up quickly — decide your budget before your child sees the accessory wall.
Reservations are easier to get here than at Savi's Workshop, and same-day walk-up slots do open, especially in the first hour of the day.

Eating in Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge

Quick service · Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge

Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo

The main sit-down-with-a-tray option in Galaxy's Edge, inside a cargo hangar with air conditioning and enough tables.

$$Mobile order

CuisineGlobally-inspired plates
ReservationsNo reservations

Quick service · Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge

Ronto Roasters

An open-air grill stand where a repurposed podracing engine roasts the meat, serving the best wrap at Disneyland Resort.

$Mobile order

CuisineWraps and grilled meats
ReservationsNo reservations

Snack cart · Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge

Milk Stand

The blue and green milk stand in Black Spire Outpost — a plant-based frozen drink that is more divisive than any other item in the park.

$Mobile order

CuisinePlant-based frozen drinks
ReservationsNo reservations

Lounge · Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge

Oga's Cantina

The only bar in Disneyland Park open to the public, with a droid DJ, a 45-minute time limit, and reservations that vanish instantly.

$$Book ahead

CuisineCocktails and bar snacks
ReservationsReservations essential

Snacks worth stopping for

Ronto Wrap

Ronto Roasters

$14.49

Grilled sausage and roasted pork wrapped in pita with a tangy slaw and a peppery sauce, assembled to order at an open-air grill turned by a repurposed droid.

Our take: The best portable food at Disneyland Resort and one of very few theme-park items that would hold up at a decent street-food stall. The plant-based version is close enough that nobody at your table should feel short-changed.

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Blue Milk

Milk Stand

$8.99

A frozen plant-based blend built on coconut and rice milk, sweet and tropical, served in a bright blue cup with a texture closer to a slushy smoothie than a drink.

Our take: Overrated as a beverage and correctly rated as a photograph. It is pleasant and very sweet, and the reason it costs nine dollars is the color. Share one before buying two.

Drink VeganGluten-friendlyDairy-free Walkable

Green Milk

Milk Stand

$8.99

The sharper of the two plant-based frozen milks, leaning citrus and slightly herbal, in the same coconut and rice base as the blue version.

Our take: Genuinely divisive — some people prefer it to the blue and plenty of others take one sip and bin it. Try a taste of someone else's before buying your own, because the abandonment rate on this one is real.

Drink VeganGluten-friendlyDairy-free Walkable

Fuzzy Tauntaun

Oga's Cantina

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A peach and rum cocktail topped with a foam that produces a brief tingling sensation on the lips, which is the entire reason anyone orders it.

Our take: The gimmick works and lasts about ten seconds, after which you have an expensive, sweet peach drink. Order it once for the novelty and make your second of the two-drink limit something you actually want to finish.

Drink

Batuu Bits

Oga's Cantina

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A shareable bowl of fried, seasoned snack pieces served as the cantina's bar food, designed to be picked at over a drink.

Our take: Fine bar snacks at bar prices. They exist so the table has something to do with its hands during a forty-five-minute limit, and they succeed at exactly that and nothing more.

Snack Vegetarian

Fried Endorian Tip-Yip

Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo

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Crisp fried chicken served over a herbed grain salad and roasted vegetables, plated properly rather than dropped in a basket.

Our take: The safest and the best order at Docking Bay 7, and the one to give a picky eater who is unnerved by the invented menu names. The more adventurous plates on the same menu are inconsistent for the same money.

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