It’s Totally Fine For Epic To Lock A Fortnite Skin Behind A Trip To Disneyland

Disney and Epic Games caused a bit of a stir recently when they unveiled their latest collaboration: a Fortnite skin that you can only get by riding the Millennium Falcon: Smuggler's Run ride at Disneyland in California or Disney World in Florida. There's been a lot of spirited discussion about this skin since then, as most of the folks who had something to say about the situation seemed pretty annoyed about it. Honestly, even though I just made my once-per-decade visit to Disneyland back in June, I think it's a pretty cool idea, because the skin they're offering is something almost nobody would have cared about were it released the way Fortnite skins usually are. The skin in question is Forsworn Trooper, a generic criminal sporting pieces of salvaged stormtrooper armor. He's got an admittedly cool design, but this guy has never appeared in any actual Star Wars media. That makes him a pretty tough sell in the item shop, which has too many Star Wars skins as it stands. We already have 26 different Star Wars characters with skins, and some of those even have more than one. We also already have 12 different generic trooper guys, nearly all of which are from Star Wars movies and TV sh…