When installed as part of the attraction Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run, Hondo will be one of the most advanced audio-animatronics at any Disney Park.
Hondo is real to us.” Be sure to visit Popular Mechnaics for the full rundown about Hondo, as well as the history and future of Disney's animatronics.
At first you can’t tell since it’s just pieces of metal put together with nuts and bolts and wires. Imagineers overlook testing of the Hondo Ohnaka A1000 audio-animatronic. Hondo will be a bit older than his appearance on Rebels, which was before A New Hope.
Work on the next evolutionary step in audio-animatronics—the A1000—was already in motion (so to …
Enter: Hondo Ohnaka.
The result: a lifelike recreation of Hondo Ohnaka for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.
Here is a description of the some of the figures, including the Hondo Ohnaka animatronic: Hondo Ohnaka:
And if you want to learn more about Galaxy's Edge, as well as Hondo Ohnaka's place in it, be sure to check out Anthony Breznican's detailed report over at Entertainment Weekly. However Jim Cummings who did the voice is reprising the role for the attraction.