Disney is inventing a way for you to fight laser-shooting drones with a real-life lightsaber
But it's possible the "Star Wars" park will give you something else you didn't expect: the ability to truly act like a Jedi Knight.
io9 got a tip from the site PatentYogi that Disney has filed a patent for an "Audience Interaction Projection System." Basically, if it were to be installed in the park, it would enable guests to deflect laser beams in real time as they walk around.
Kind of like how Luke Skywalker trained on the Millennium Falcon in "A New Hope."
The patent explains that it would be possible for guests to do what Luke did in "A New Hope" through a combination of LEDs and flying drones:
So it sounds like guests at the "Star Wars" park will be running around with LED lightsabers deflecting "laser beam"-shooting drones, if all this comes through. Excited yet?
Well, at the moment there's no word if this is really a feature for the park, which is currently under construction.
"We continuously innovate and file hundreds of patents that may or may not have any business unit application," a Disney Parks representative told io9. "We have nothing to announce about this at this time."
But if this is the kind of thing Disney is thinking about for the "Star Wars" park, the company is going in the right direction.