05/29/2026
The first time I walked into Galaxy’s Edge and saw the Millennium Falcon sitting there in front of me… I honestly wasn’t prepared for the reaction I had.
I was nine years old when the original Star Wars movie came out in 1977. My parents took my younger brothers and I to see it in the theater seven times. Seven. They never did even a 2nd time with any other movie.
We had the toys.
We argued over who got to be Han Solo.
We wore out our imaginations recreating scenes from the movies.
Like a lot of kids from that era, Star Wars wasn’t just a movie. It became part of childhood itself.
So standing there in my 50s, staring up at a full-sized Millennium Falcon in Batuu, something weird happened for a second…
Every adult thought disappeared.
I wasn’t thinking about work. Bills. Stress. Photography settings. Anything.
I was nine years old again.
And honestly? That may be one of the most powerful things Disney does so well. It gives people moments where time folds in on itself. Where the adult version of you suddenly reconnects with the kid you used to be.
And seeing the Falcon at night somehow made it even more emotional. Quiet. Massive. Real.
The “fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy” was actually sitting right there in front of me.
What Disney, Star Wars, or movie moment instantly turned you back into a kid again?
