The Millennium Falcon ride has a new secret: Grogu Mode. And unlike the old Chewie Mode, this one is so easy to unlock a 50-year-old baby can do it.
In Grogu Mode, Grogu takes over every screen on the Falcon, and instead of hearing Mando talking you over the mission, you just hear Grogu cooing for most of the ride. It’s honestly the most adorable version of Smugglers Run there is.
But before you go pressing in the secret code to unlock this: don’t do this on your first ride on the updated Millennium Falcon, because you’ll miss a lot of specific instructions. Verbal, he is not.
Like Chewie Mode before it, Grogu Mode is really just a silly thing to do once everyone in your vehicle has already ridden it the normal way. The difference is the barrier to entry. Chewie Mode needed the whole cockpit to cooperate. Grogu Mode doesn’t. You just need your two gunners.
Video: How to Unlock Grogu Mode on Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run
What Grogu Mode Actually Does
No matter if you activate Grogu Mode or not, Grogu plays a big part in the newly updated Millennium Falcon. The new story features you rendezvousing with Mando and Grogu on Tatooine to track down some bounties. Throughout the mission, Grogu pops up on screen from time to time, and engineers have a button to communicate with Grogu (basically, to play cute Grogu videos on demand).
There is plenty of Grogu cuteness in the standard version of the ride.
Grogu Mode is a secret, optional mode, in the same vein of Chewie mode (where Hondo’s instructions were replaced by Wookiee growls).
The biggest change is the audio during the mission. In the regular version, Mando narrates and feeds you instructions throughout. Flip on Grogu Mode and most of that narration gets replaced by Grogu’s coos. Mando doesn’t go silent entirely when you actually need direction, such as picking your destination — but the connective tissue of the mission, the stuff Mando would normally be saying to fill the space, becomes Baby Yoda noises.
This could have been my imagination, but it felt like the Grogu videos were playing at a higher frequency on all the screens inside the cabin.
Your mission plays out the same, the gameplay is the same, you go to the same planets. The only thing different is it takes the Grogu dial and cranks it up to 11.
How to Unlock Grogu Mode: The Step-by-Step
Everything rests on your two gunners, the middle row of the cockpit. Both of them have to do this, in this order, before they activate their positions the normal way. If only one gunner does it, it won’t work.
Step 1: Buckle your seatbelt first. This isn’t a Grogu Mode thing, it’s a cockpit thing. Buckling in is what activates your seat and makes your buttons pressable in the first place, so none of the rest of this works until you do it.
Step 2: Find the row of four white buttons directly under your screen, and hold down the one closest to the back of the vehicle. So that’s the leftmost button if you’re in the left gunner seat, and the rightmost button if you’re in the right gunner seat. Keep holding it.
Step 3: While you’re still holding that button, press the big orange button on the other side of your panel, the one with the blinking outline. That orange button is your normal activation button, the same one you’d press to start any ride. The whole trick is to be holding the secret white button while you activate.
This is the way.
Once both gunners have done this correctly, every button in the cockpit lights up green (especially around the Engineers). That’s your confirmation: You’ve unlocked Grogu Mode.
Do The Gunners Have To Do This Before Anyone Else Pushes Any Buttons?
I’ve seen a lot of the writeups and social media posts say the sequence only works if the gunners press their buttons before anyone else in the vehicle touches anything. The idea being that if a pilot or an engineer taps a button first, you’ve blown it.
I personally did not see that when I flew Grogu Mode. I went back and checked my own footage to be sure, and I had pressed my activation button as Engineer before the gunners did their thing. The mode still activated just fine. So the “no one else can touch anything first” rule that’s floating around? Not something I can confirm. In my experience, it didn’t matter.
I’d treat it the way I treat any secret that grows up around a ride: the part everyone agrees on, and that I watched work with my own eyes, is that the gunners have to hold the secret button while activating their own positions, and they can’t activate the normal way first. That’s the load-bearing part. The rest may just be folklore that attached itself to the trick.
Should You Even Do It?
If it’s your first time on the new Smugglers Run, no. Ride it straight. The Mandalorian update is a genuine overhaul, and the standard mission has a lot of instruction and detail you’ll want to actually hear the first time through. You can check out my full gameplay guide to Millennium Falcon here.
But if your crew has already done it, and you’ve got two gunners willing to play along, Grogu Mode is a fun little Jedi mind trick for a repeat ride. It’s the cutest version of the Millennium Falcon ride yet, and it’s easier than ever to activate.
Quick Reference: Unlocking Grogu Mode
- What it is: An Easter egg that swaps most of Mando’s narration for Grogu coos, and increases the number of visual appearances Grogu makes across the screens in the cockpit.
- Who needs to do it: Both gunners (middle row) — won’t work with just one
- Step 1: Buckle your seatbelt (activates your seat / buttons)
- Step 2: Hold the white button closest to the back of the vehicle, in the row of four under your screen
- Step 3: While still holding the first button, press the big orange activation button with the blinking outline
- Confirmation: Every button in the cockpit lights up green
- The myth to ignore: That nobody else can touch a button first. I activated my Engineer position before the gunners and it still worked
- First-timer advice: Ride it normally first; you’ll miss instructions in Grogu Mode
What other Disney secrets do you want me to dig into and confirm myself? Let me know.
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