A lengthy and interesting article, lots of discussion points. Make sure and read it at a Southern California News Group website,
>>Rise of the Resistance, the land’s other attraction, has been billed as four rides in one. Walt Disney Imagineering calls it the most complex attraction it has ever built. So complex, in fact, that Disney postponed the opening of Rise of the Resistance until Imagineering can dial in all of the interconnected systems.<<
>>Smugglers Run and Rise of the Resistance also mark the first major original attractions to be added to Disneyland in nearly a quarter century, since the 1995 addition of Indiana Jones Adventure. That’s if you don’t count Rocket Rods, a short-lived ride that Disney would like to forget.<<
>>A spat with the city of Anaheim caused Disney to cancel a planned 700-room luxury hotel that was intended to absorb a big chunk of the influx expected to descend on the Disneyland Resort for the Star Wars and Marvel land openings. The abrupt cancellation allows Imagineering to go back to the drawing board and come up with something more inspired than the rushed generic design put forth for the hotel proposed for the west end of the Downtown Disney shopping district. The Disneyland Resort doesn’t have any themed hotels like its younger but much bigger sibling in Florida. A Star Wars-themed hotel would seem like a perfect fit.
The new 6,500-space Pixar Pals parking structure flew through the city planning process and could open ahead of schedule in late June or July. The new garage should help with the deluge of Galaxy’s Edge-bound vehicles which are expected to flood city streets and local freeways. Plans for a third garage on the east side of the resort remain on the books. The new Pixar Pals garage still may not be enough though. Disney has carved another 2,000-plus visitor parking spaces from the Toy Story surface lot that were formerly set aside for cast members.
Longer-range plans for a third theme park gate on the Toy Story parking lot won’t happen until Disney finishes fixing California Adventure. That still has a ways to go, particularly in Hollywood Land.<<
>>Wizarding World’s wild success has powered continued growth at Universal Studios Hollywood — with new Secret Life of Pets and Nintendo attractions on the way — as well as at Universal theme parks around the globe.<<
>>Disney already has plans for Marvel lands in California, Paris and Hong Kong. A “Frozen” themed land is under construction in Tokyo with rides planned for other parts of Mickey’s kingdom. The Pirates of the Caribbean land in Shanghai would translate to any other Disney park in the world. And Imagineering is already working on ways to introduce Fox properties into Disney parks.<<
Analysis: What the new Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge means for Disneyland, Anaheim and the greater Disney universe
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>>Rise of the Resistance, the land’s other attraction, has been billed as four rides in one. Walt Disney Imagineering calls it the most complex attraction it has ever built. So complex, in fact, that Disney postponed the opening of Rise of the Resistance until Imagineering can dial in all of the interconnected systems.<<
>>Smugglers Run and Rise of the Resistance also mark the first major original attractions to be added to Disneyland in nearly a quarter century, since the 1995 addition of Indiana Jones Adventure. That’s if you don’t count Rocket Rods, a short-lived ride that Disney would like to forget.<<
>>A spat with the city of Anaheim caused Disney to cancel a planned 700-room luxury hotel that was intended to absorb a big chunk of the influx expected to descend on the Disneyland Resort for the Star Wars and Marvel land openings. The abrupt cancellation allows Imagineering to go back to the drawing board and come up with something more inspired than the rushed generic design put forth for the hotel proposed for the west end of the Downtown Disney shopping district. The Disneyland Resort doesn’t have any themed hotels like its younger but much bigger sibling in Florida. A Star Wars-themed hotel would seem like a perfect fit.
The new 6,500-space Pixar Pals parking structure flew through the city planning process and could open ahead of schedule in late June or July. The new garage should help with the deluge of Galaxy’s Edge-bound vehicles which are expected to flood city streets and local freeways. Plans for a third garage on the east side of the resort remain on the books. The new Pixar Pals garage still may not be enough though. Disney has carved another 2,000-plus visitor parking spaces from the Toy Story surface lot that were formerly set aside for cast members.
Longer-range plans for a third theme park gate on the Toy Story parking lot won’t happen until Disney finishes fixing California Adventure. That still has a ways to go, particularly in Hollywood Land.<<
>>Wizarding World’s wild success has powered continued growth at Universal Studios Hollywood — with new Secret Life of Pets and Nintendo attractions on the way — as well as at Universal theme parks around the globe.<<
>>Disney already has plans for Marvel lands in California, Paris and Hong Kong. A “Frozen” themed land is under construction in Tokyo with rides planned for other parts of Mickey’s kingdom. The Pirates of the Caribbean land in Shanghai would translate to any other Disney park in the world. And Imagineering is already working on ways to introduce Fox properties into Disney parks.<<