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The story I heard about it (forgot where. here?) is that they planned 5 missions, then cut that down to 3, then used up their entire budget on one. So presumably they at least have the ability to add new missions. But it might be a while. Though if RotR doesn't sufficiently bolster Galaxy's...

Please tell me this is just based on public knowledge and does not mean that the animatronic storm troopers in the hangar bay are the only ones in the entire ride...

Not trying to say anything about what they specifically have to axe to make room. Just that Disney parks have to seriously economize their space, especially Disneyland which is surrounded on all sides. Much easier to do shorter rides than longer ones.

I'm pretty sure the reason Disneyland has shorter rides is lack of space. They had to take a huge chunk out of their backstage operations just to fit Galaxy's Edge in.

There's no way it could be. Everything I've heard about it suggests there's so many moving parts that it'll be a miracle if they can keep it running for a whole day without hours of downtime. We'll definitely just be loaded into a vehicle and whisked helplessly around a Star Destroyer. At most...

I'm fairly certain he's talking about Disneyland.

They've confirmed at least one animatronic Kylo Ren, and we know from leaks that there will be a Mon Calimari too. Other than that we know from trailers, leaks, and simple deduction that a large portion of the ride will be animatronic storm troopers and screens. We may be going a bit overboard...

Why do you find it so unlikely that the heads will actually move for real? All it would take is a motor to move them left and right. Sounds like the easiest thing in the world.

I kind of doubt that. Considering that the AT-AT heads are huge, weirdly shaped objects, I don't think trying to make them move around with projections would look good at all. I cannot imagine it's that hard to simply make the heads move back and forth the old fashioned way. My guess is that...

Yes, those photos were posted here.

Here is the blaster bolt patent. A light source shines a focused red light down the path of the bolt. Along the path, a number of arms swing transparent tubes through the light's path in rapid succession, illuminating the tubes one by one as they catch the light, and creating the appearance...

Yes, I agree. If they put the money and effort in, they can pull off something good.

Yeah that might help. That's not how the blaster bolt patent works though. That's something completely different.

How would rapid motion add anything to a lightsaber effect? The point of a lightsaber is that the light just stays where it is. What would help sell Kylo's lightsaber is if it had a bunch of flames and sparks coming off of it, but that is not what the blaster bolt patent describes.

The patent for the mid-air blaster bolts doesn't really suggest any improvements over the Savi's saber effect. That patent just describes a method of making illuminated transparent tubes appear to fly through the air. Without that rapid motion, all you're really left with is a Savi's saber.