Old Mouseketeer
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WOW!!! Really great catch. I bet this gets you your Geek First Class medal!
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News Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Historical Construction/Impressions
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WOW!!! Really great catch. I bet this gets you your Geek First Class medal!
JoFu
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On ride photo pass... when you ride a ride with photos and you have a magic band the photos are linked to your account without your doing anything additional. For IASW, I haven't been there in a while, but it looks like they turned it off last fall. It would show your name at the end with a farewell message. I think they did it on HM too.
RMichael21
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Most times, you scan your Magic Band after exiting the attraction and it links it to your MDE. However, there are a few exceptions. Frozen, for example, links it automatically to your MDE (without tapping any touchpoint after the attraction). The photo just appears.
flynnibus
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Disney hasn't disclosed. Remember, not all 'features' will be consumable by the customer. Features like crowd monitoring, movement, etc are all features that would never be directly seen/consumed by the customer. Same with the longer range RFID tag.
One of the important details from this concept art is that we are on a First order star destroyer... in space.
That provide a lot of clarity to the details that @marni1971 and @JediMasterMatt etc have dropped. First Marni has outline where the actual ride mechanism takes place leading to the presumption that this huge bay is actually a queue room.
We have a large crashed engine cylinder that we believe the resistance has set up in, sitting outside.
Based on all that I figure queue progression goes as such - covered open air extended queue - resistance pre show with mission briefing - queue through cave filled with resistance fighters - queue leads into first order stolen transport ship - pre-show (and probably one of the real kickers of a pre-show where we are transported into space) - large docking bay queue space as seen in concept art above - ?third pre-show with instructions from First Order (have we offloaded as potential civilian recruits?) - board the resistance transport vehicles.
Now some kitchen sink thoughts I have:
-The force field into space will obviously be a giant screen. Will they use some parallex effects/musion? Will we even see an effect where a tie fighter takes off and leaves through a brief opening in the screen to space?
-How involved will our transport into space be? Perhaps that's where MiceAge got a bit of mixed signals with getting on and off the 'ride'? It could be as simple as Toyko's Centre of the Earth elevators, or will we get a bit more of a seated preshow with some actual simulation?
Purely based on how everything is laid out though I think what is particularly novel about the potential layout is that the pre-shows could be a bit more evenly distributed amongst the queue. Instead of a clustered pre-show at the end of the wait we could see a wait - preshow - 20-30 wait - pre-show -20-30 wait - preshow - wait to board.
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Curious Constance
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I think this picture does a good job of showing just how massive this building has become.
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britain
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I was going to write the same thing. I am guessing that guests will get onto that blue and white ship in the cave next to Poe's black x-wing (the one that kind of looks like a mini Corellean Corvette). Through some simulated means involving that circular room (the one the fresh baked guys have dubbed the supercollider) we take off, fly through space, and then get trapped by a star destroyer, essentially reliving the very first scenes of A New Hope. When we get off that ship, we will be on the star destroyer, and we will be as bug eyed as Poe was in Force Awakens.
Hmm.... it's quite possible that this preshow flight simulator will be VERY similar to Star Tours, hence the lack of need to incorporate Star Tours into the land.
alias8703
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There is a ride vehicle in the concept art making this clearly not part of the queue.
True, albeit with no one visible in the vehicle, so perhaps ride load at the extreme end? Only basing this on what @marni1971 said was the actual ride housing of the structure.
Star Tours has a ride vehicle in the queue.
sedati
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On twitter, there's a photo of castmembers being allowed to sign the beam that will lay within the tallest of the petrified forms.
https://twitter.com/DLthings/status/888861304986886148
https://twitter.com/DLthings/status/888861304986886148
Phroobar
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Cast member graffiti already!
If this were Magic Mountain, they would be putting gum on it too.
TP2000
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Good point. And it was put there on purpose to establish for the Star Tours audience what they would be traveling in and why.
I imagine these "fleet transports" vehicles may show up in the queue or pre-show so that the audience has a point of reference before they jump in one themselves later on in the show. It would be neat to see one in use full of Stormtroopers in the pre-show or queue, before we get in one ourselves later on.
sedati
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Nice find, but they seem way to close to those right at the Hungry Bear. I think the ride entrance is at the nearby turret, and those caves may be where the line goes indoors. Just speculating, we won't know for a while.I found some washrooms! (breaking news, not really)
See the two cave-like openings in the very Western edge of the rock work?
George Lucas on a Bench
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Well, it looks to me like there's a clear separation between the winding path to the left and the wider main path in the center. I can't tell if the wider path meets up with the cave, but the winding path must. It's very weird. Since there's nothing around the winding path, it leads me to believe it's either an extended queue, an exit path or a winding path to a bathroom.
Ah, good call on Hungry Bear!
Actually, since it seems like a separate path that deviates from part of the turret I'll redact that guess and propose another one. It's possible that the left side of the turret under the tarp is the standby (therefore using that extended, extended, extended queue section) OR based on where it sits it could actually be used to corral guests into a backstage area to enter the land in the initial days/weeks when it runs capacity.
I'll draw partially out where I can see some ride entrances and exits in a moment...
