My understanding is there are two very different designs depending on where you're going. The pods:
They could fake it.
Exactly. We don't want that ramp idea to leek out.Uh oh.
Please, for the love of Disney, no one start that up again, I’m begging you!
Fixed it.Uh oh.
Please, for the love of Disney, no one start that up again, I’m begging you!
This is what I described pages back- having the bus align with a facade that looks like the shuttle. The very same thing that is done on Rise.They could fake it.
It's like a movie or a theme park where what you see and what it really is aren't the same thing.
Clearly, in reality, we're going to have an enclosed boarding tunnel type thing. But, that reality and what we see don't have to agree.
They could have a ship exterior that we see, through a window from the Star Cruiser, enter using a boarding tunnel, move towards the interior of the ship, and a door closes between the interior compartment and the boarding tunnel. The "ship" we're boarding could look much larger than a bus.
Then, when landed on the ground, you exit the interior of the ship through the same boarding tunnel and come out the side into open air. Turn around and you see the ship.
In reality, the boarding tunnel and everything outside of the door to the interior compartment isn't really part of the transport. One at each side that look the same. Exterior of the ship at each side that look the same. False fronts, just like all the other buildings. So, if you chalk a mark in the loading tunnel outside the interior door, it's not going to still be there when you land and exit through the "same" tunnel. Breaking the illusion for everyone.
Or, they could do a boarding tunnel that's like an airport jetway, never outside.
Eh, whichever they do, I'm sure you'll never see the outside of the bus.
That first image also appears in the book exactly as pictured shown docking to the Halcyon. Right below it in the book is the another view of that same shuttle with the thrust fins in the landing position. The thrust fins are also visible in the docking concept, but they are in the horizontal flight position.
Just put Kuka bots on a wire track. They could make you feel lots of things and if you had screens inside it would be an attraction to it's own.I haven't read every post in this thread, so I apologize if this was already discussed, but instead of using buses for transport, why couldn't they have constructed something similar to the Skyliner with larger pods to fit more people, like a tram system? It wouldn't have to be as high as the Skyliner, but would still give that feeling of flying vs being driven in a vehicle.
Also, a skyliner is best suited to a constant flow of traffic of decent volume. Given the size of the hotel (excuse me, the starcruiser) there's not going to be a whole lot of traffic, or they scale a skyliner down so much that the wait time would be pretty long. A themed shell of a 'craft' inside a bus/RV/whatever makes the most sense.
But what if, and I'm not making any promises, but let's just say hypothetically...there's a wookie driver?
I would have preferred if the experience didn't include Galaxy's Edge at all, to be honest. It's going to break the immersion pretty quick when you can walk 50 feet North and run into Slinky Dog Dash.
