From the Disney Parks Blog:
Disney Floral & Gifts, in partnership with Lucasfilm, is happy to announce the launch of the newStar Wars Rebels Interactive Adventure. For those brave enough to answer the call for this mission, an adventure awaits. To help you get started, below are 4 mission details you’ll need to know to thwart the Empire!
Top Secret Mission Detail #1: The Mission
The Star Wars Rebels Interactive Adventure takes you from your resort room “barracks” on an interactive role-playing mission to the Star Tours Attraction. You’ll go “under cover” as an Imperial Security Officer, complete with rank bar, cap, satchel, and diversion tattoos. The Empire is always watching, so make sure they don’t identify you as the Rebel Spy!
Top Secret Mission Detail #2: The Tech
The adventure features unique technology exclusive to this experience. Through an augmented reality app on your smartphone, Ezra Bridger leads you on a mission to thwart the Empire. By scanning targets or “wayfinders” featured around your resort room and Star Tours, Ezra leads you to hidden information and gear needed to complete your mission.
The rebel tech on your phone allows you to experience the adventure again and again, even after returning home from the Disney Parks!
Top Secret Mission Detail #3: The Gear
With equipment to help on your adventure, the mission includes a disguise and your data card to transmit information to the rebels at Star Tours. Other collectibles include a Jedi holocron, lightsaber, Rebel journal, 4 Empire recruitment posters, and an Empire door banner.
Have multiple rebels in your party? You can add-on elements of this adventure for everyone to experience!
Top Secret Mission Detail #4: The Reward
Once you’ve completed your mission, you’ll be rewarded like any true hero with a Medal of Bravery. Presented in a rebel lock box wrapped with a Phoenix symbol, this medal can only be recovered upon completion of your mission. Like the one seen in the film Star Wars: A New Hope, the medal’s design features a lanyard, which can be personalized, to identify your victory.
Are you brave enough to answer the call and thwart the Empire’s efforts? Then enlist today by visiting the Disney Floral and Gifts at Walt Disney World, (407-WDW-GIFT) or Disney Floral and Gifts at Disneyland (714-781-GIFT). Delivery to Disney resorts begins August 15th.
The package is a bit pricey at $499.99, but includes the following:
- (1) Empire Door Banner
- (4) Empire Recruitment Posters
- (1) Imperial Security Satchel
- (1) Imperial Rank Bar
- (1) Rebel Utility Blanket
- (1) Medal of Bravery with box and fabric wrap
- (1) Set of Rebel of Diversion Tattoos
- (1) Rebel Data Card Lanyard
- (1) Holocron
- (1) Wayfinder set and Mission Briefing
- (1) Imperial Security Cap
- (1) Kanan’s Lightsaber
- (1) Star Wars Rebel Journal
Great! $499.00 for thirty dollars worth of crap, and whole other wave of cell-phone zombies stumbling through the parks. Yay!
At $500 (“Republic credits WILL be fine …”) I don’t think this will be responsible for making a big impact on cell-phone obliviosity, to coin a Sherman Brothers-esque word. Some of the included gadgets and gizmos sound nice, but so does a Ferrari, and both are too rich for my blood.