Epic Games wants you to physically board the Millennium Falcon before it’ll hand over its newest Star Wars skin. Not a battle pass tier. Not a shop purchase. An actual theme park ride.
The Forsworn Trooper skin, revealed this weekend, is locked behind Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, the attraction currently running at two Disney parks. That’s it. That’s the entry fee.
What you have to do at the park
Smugglers Run lives inside Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, and Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. Before you climb aboard, open the Disneyland or MyDisney app and accept a mission from Hondo Ohnaka.
The app detects that you’re on the ride and flags your account as eligible.
Link your MyDisney and Epic Games accounts, and the Forsworn Trooper shows up the next time you log into Fortnite. If in-game rewards don’t work for you for whatever reason, you get an email with a code instead.
The catch nobody mentions on the ride
The skin is region-locked. According to TVS_Yarin on X, it can only be claimed by accounts from Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Accounts from anywhere else are out. Doesn’t matter if you link the accounts. Doesn’t matter if you redeem the code. You can fly to Anaheim, ride the Falcon, do everything correctly and still walk away with nothing.
That stings for a reward built around showing up in person.
The part you can do from your couch
There’s a free franchise loading screen available to anyone, no plane ticket required. Jump into the Smugglers Gambit creative island in Fortnite and help Ohnaka out.
To find it, punch the island code 7474-2686-2725 into the Discover tab.
If you have visited the park, head to Hondo’s docking bay and talk to him to start his quest.
Twitch drops, and a clock nobody’s showing you
From Aug. 16 until Aug. 21, anyone can pull Smugglers Gambit rewards off a Fortnite livestream on Twitch. Watch a Fortnite content creator in the Drops Enabled category. Fifteen minutes gets you the At Your Service! spray. Thirty minutes gets you the Hunk of Junk emoticon.
It is unknown when any of these offers will expire. So if you’re eligible, claim now rather than later.
Why Disney keeps showing up in your battle royale
This is one of many collaborations between Fortnite and Disney, and the pipeline is only going to get busier thanks to Disney’s $1.5 billion investment in Epic Games.
A recent leak suggests a highly requested franchise could finally be making its way to Fortnite.
What’s genuinely new here isn’t the skin. It’s the structure. Epic and Disney have built a cosmetic that requires a wristband, a park queue and a phone with the right app open at the right moment.
Hondo Ohnaka has been running scams on people since The Clone Wars. Charging admission to a video game outfit is right on brand.
