News Report: Former Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser to Become Walt Disney Imagineering Offices

[Glasgow]

Maybe this is the beginning of the conversion back to MGM and making it into a "working" studio ..

 

[Tha Realest]

Maybe this is the beginning of the conversion back to MGM and making it into a "working" studio ..

Backstage Studio Tour - we can wander around and look over the shoulders of working Imagineers and see what’s in store

 

[Bocabear]

I don't believe the Star Cruiser was even impressive enough for an immersive dinner theater experience...The dining room was bland and boring as were most of the spaces I saw... Yeah, windows into space...the rest was rather utilitarian looking and not a fantastic luxury ship that it was supposed to be. It will make great offices for WDI and the amount of rooms conversion to private offices will give them soe space to grow into...and best of all it is not in the way of any expansion like the Animation Courtyard and all of the production and offices in that section of the park... Maybe it would be a good time to build more office space surrounding the Galactic Star Cruiser and move all of those offices to the new location allowing easier expansion of the park...they could "Turbo-Charge" the new office complex....

 

[S.I.R. the Robot]

Iger-era Disney should be a sitcom

 

[danlb_2000]

The main offices are at Epcot behind Mission: SPACE and Wonders of Life. It’s the complex of building across the street. Along with the already mentioned complexes, there was also one set up at Disney Springs next to Cirque du Soleil.


This isn’t really something you can just do without some effort. It’s a change in occupancy which means the building will have to be modified to meet the code requirements for a business use. Changing it to something guest facing again will require another change. Residential (what hotels fall under) to Business isn’t generally going to be an issue, but they’re going to want things like conference rooms that will end up reconfiguring spaces. People joke about private bathrooms but it’s hard to envision them actually having so many private offices.

I can't imagine them wanting to maintain individual bathrooms. I assume there are restrooms in the common areas but are they big enough?

 

[S.I.R. the Robot]

I can't imagine them wanting to maintain individual bathrooms. I assume there are restrooms in the common areas but are they big enough?

Careful, lest this turns into that one thread about glittery p**p again....

 

[lazyboy97o]

I can't imagine them wanting to maintain individual bathrooms. I assume there are restrooms in the common areas but are they big enough?

It is possible they’re big enough just because you typically have fewer people in an office versus the assembly spaces that were up front (15 SF/person vs 150 SF/person). The other issue is that a restroom has to be within a certain travel distance (this is why there are restrooms plopped in front of TRON). One of the requirements is that there only be a one story difference, so a restroom on the third floor is automatically too far away from restrooms on the first floor.

 

[Agent H]

Backstage Studio Tour - we can wander around and look over the shoulders of working Imagineers and see what’s in store

That sounds pretty cool

 

[FettFan]

“Hmm. Lost a hotel, Master Iger has. How embarrassing!”

 

[FettFan]

Backstage Studio Tour - we can wander around and look over the shoulders of working Imagineers and see what’s in store

lol. You know they would never intentionally expose themselves to such customer scrutiny!

“Are you seriously adding another *spinner* in that concept art?!”