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See If You Can Figure Out What This Engine Block At A Disneyland Star Wars Ride Was From

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I know we haven’t posted a full wrap-up just yet, but I can tell you that yes, David and Otto and I made it safe enough to Los Angeles. Sure, David’s Mustang chewed up a whole set of tires and lost a headlight, somehow, but it made it and so did we, and I’m sure the required future therapy for Otto won’t be too bad. In LA, I met up with my wife, Sally, who flew out, and we took Otto to Disneyland for a little start-the-new-year fun. While there, we went to the new Star Wars-themed section of the park, which does feel like being dropped into one of those rugged Outer Rim planets with a peculiar mix of crude architecture with wildly advanced tech in beat-up, paint-chipped casings built into the walls.

One of the rides we went on was this Millenium Falcon ride that made you feel like you were really piloting the ship; it was pretty incredible. Also incredible was the length of the line to enter, but Disney’s experience designers made sure the whole labyrinthine length of the line was full of evocative props and details, some of which you can see in the pic up top. Because that’s a modified engine block and some piston rods, and I’m wondering if anyone here can possibly ID it.

This is tricky, because it’s clearly been modified to look like some kind of unknown space hardware from a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. But it’s definitely the top half of some smallish inline-four engine, and those piston rods, connected end to end, are definitely from something, too. Is that oblong port in the side original? Are those vertical fins in there stock, or added? Can this be identified? The piston rods are re-worked to look like some kind of wrench thing, but is there enough distinctiveness on them to be recognized?

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This is a tough one! I’m very curious to see if anyone is able to pull this off.

Oh, also, Otto and I got to play a game of Dejarik:

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Holochess

I swear that kid cheated. How could he use his worm dude to snap my lobster guy in half so fast?

Anyway, please guess away in the comments! I want to know what that engine block half is from!

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Bryan Moody
Bryan Moody
1 year ago

Connecting rod, not piston rod.

Piston rods *do* exist (steam engines mostly) , but those in the photo are not piston rods.

Have you been using AI to generate content?

sentinelT
sentinelT
1 year ago

One word: Thundercougarfalconbird

Iain Delaney
Iain Delaney
1 year ago
Reply to  sentinelT

You mean like ‘Superthunderstingcar’?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riMHp28_cqw

TravisIsMarkoff8585
TravisIsMarkoff8585
1 year ago

I’m very happy you rewarded your son with some proper R&R after subjecting him to the move from hell.
You’re a good Dad, he is gonna have some fun stories going upward.

Saltspray
Saltspray
1 year ago

Looks like cylinder block from a 2nd gen Hayabusa engine.

Hayabusa = Falcon. Well done Disney.

GLL
GLL
1 year ago

The con rod looks out of this world…

Lokki
Lokki
1 year ago

So let me get this straight: Ford, eventually went into hyperspace vehicles after electric cars, but they were using engines from Suzuki? Well, the Taurus SHO did use a Yamaha engine, so there is precedent, I guess. Still, the Han’s Millennium Falcon definitely has that budget- car interior look to it. I wonder what engine you’d get in a Galaxie?

Al D
Al D
1 year ago

Seeing the hex bolts on the block has me thinking – Is that the style of fastener they would be using in the Star Wars universe or would a different style be the popular choice? What would they come up with to hold the parts together?

A. Barth
A. Barth
1 year ago
Reply to  Al D

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… they invented JB Weld.

BrakShowStarringBrak
BrakShowStarringBrak
1 year ago
Reply to  Al D

At one point Han and Chewie are fixing the Millenium Falcon using a “hydrospanner,” and Wookieepedia says that a hydrospanner is basically an adjustable-size socket wrench, so hex is certainly possible.

JDE
JDE
1 year ago
Reply to  Al D

I distinctly recall seeing Phillips head screws on Light sabers. SO?

CSRoad
CSRoad
1 year ago

I’m thinking Suzuki Hayabusa cylinder block with the head face downwards.
It has that feel to it despite the makeup job.

Drew
Drew
1 year ago

Yeah, those images and the Disney one pretty solidly line up. Good job finding the listing. And good eye, CSRoad!

CSRoad
CSRoad
1 year ago

Thanks for doing the leg work!

basspaul
basspaul
1 year ago

Nope.

I entered “Correllian Light Freighter” into the does it fit tool on eBay.

No dice.

RadBarchetta
RadBarchetta
1 year ago
Reply to  CSRoad

If anything can make a Corellian Light Freighter hit point-5 past light speed, it’s a ‘Busa swap.

CSRoad
CSRoad
1 year ago
Reply to  RadBarchetta

Especially with the horizontally opposed eight cylinders.
Obviously those connecting rods are not a “wrench thing”.

A. Barth
A. Barth
1 year ago
Reply to  CSRoad

To be fair, he did say “to look like some kind of wrench thing”, which it does.

I’m guessing you’ve never used a die to cut threads, or you would have recognized something like this:comment image

CSRoad
CSRoad
1 year ago
Reply to  A. Barth

OK it was a feeble attempt at humor (humour).
Thanks, I finally found out what that stuff in the tool box is for. (-;

A. Barth
A. Barth
1 year ago
Reply to  CSRoad

I do apologize – my humor circuits must have malfunctioned. 🙂

responsible alcoholic
responsible alcoholic
1 year ago
Reply to  CSRoad

And what does Hayabusa translate to?

Falcon.

This is the kind of SW Easter egg I love.

nemebean
nemebean
1 year ago

Somewhere an Imagineer felt a disturbance in the Force, as if thousands of voices cried out in unison, “I get it!”

archimus
archimus
1 year ago
Reply to  CSRoad

“This is a tough one! I’m very curious to see if anyone is able to pull this off.”

Always with you, it cannot be done…hear you nothing that I say?

Ranwhenparked
Ranwhenparked
1 year ago
Reply to  CSRoad

That would make sense, since Suzuki and Corellian Engineering had that 50-50 joint venture on Coruscant for years to build pumps, compressors, and small motors.

A. Barth
A. Barth
1 year ago

“I swear that kid cheated.”

Let the Otto win.

Dads don’t pull peoples’ arms off when they lose.

Lew Schiller
Lew Schiller
1 year ago
Reply to  A. Barth

That must have been some kind of charmed childhood you had then.

Yes I Drive A 240.... Sort Of... too lazy for new username
Yes I Drive A 240.... Sort Of... too lazy for new username
1 year ago
Reply to  Lew Schiller

It’s a Star Wars reference…

1800ESnop
1800ESnop
1 year ago

Crosley? My mom actually drove one.

CarrLukeLuke8512
CarrLukeLuke8512
1 year ago

Millennium Ford Falcon perhaps? Extra fins to aid in cooling when jumping to hyperspace.

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