News Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Historical Construction/Impressions

[truecoat]

These give a better view:

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How far out from opening were these taken? Long time no see @Macro! I followed your photo reports on the reconstruction of DCA over at Miceage for what...5+ years?

 

[GiveMeTheMusic]

Speaking of avatars, did Bob like those shoes you gave him for Christmas?

Yes, but he'll only wear them at home! Coward

 

[Phroobar]

I wonder if the SWL mountain range will be as tall as Carsland's mountains.

 

[truecoat]

I wonder if the SWL mountain range will be as tall as Carsland's mountains.

My guess is that some of the peaks will be tall but the overall area will be lower than the backdrop of Carsland. In comparing recent artwork with what was originally released, you can see design changes of the land. For example, the peaks are plain as opposed to having housing or buildings attached at the top.

 

[Deleted member 107043]

I wonder if the SWL mountain range will be as tall as Carsland's mountains.

It looks a lot taller than Cars Land in the concept art.

 

[Curious Constance]

If Star Wars Land at Disneyland opens April, 2019 (with WDW's opening eight months later at Christmas '19), that's 26 months from now.

Here's what Cars Land looked like in March, 2010, which was 26 months before its grand opening.

My god, Carsland and Star Wars Land could be twins!

 

[Phroobar]

If you are going to build one Death Star, you might as well build two.

 

[Axoman]

Isn't it interesting that it took a year and a day to build Disneyland but it'll take a year and a half to reroute half of the ROA and 3 years to build Star Wars land?

It is impressive how fast they built the original park, but they didn't have OSHA and other regulations like they have today, so I'm sure that made a big difference.

 

[Ismael Flores]

My guess is that some of the peaks will be tall but the overall area will be lower than the backdrop of Carsland. In comparing recent artwork with what was originally released, you can see design changes of the land. For example, the peaks are plain as opposed to having housing or buildings attached at the top.

I have been wondering about the height of the peaks in Star Wars Land. They haven't really said much about that. When Carsland was announced they talked about the height of the mountain range and how much many acres the mountain range took.

right now it seems that the rock work they added already for the train backdrop did a good job in blocking out the overpass for Disney way but the parking structure still looms brightly over a good chunk fo critter country and new Orleans square.
It will eb interesting to see how tall they make some of those peaks to be able to block the view of the huge brightly lit parking structure.

I don't think that trees on the rock work Berm would do the job by itself, the structure is really bright at night

 

[Practical Pig]

It looks a lot taller than Cars Land in the concept art.

Our view in the concept art is from above, and I think the apparent height from the ground perspective will rely a lot on forced perspective. Still, the fact that the buildings have been removed from the tops of the spires could mean they'll be tall enough to be seen from Frontier Land.

 

[Stevek]

Our view in the concept art is from above, and I think the apparent height from the ground perspective will rely a lot on forced perspective. Still, the fact that the buildings have been removed from the tops of the spires could mean they'll be tall enough to be seen from Frontier Land.

My guess is that very few of those spires will be seen from Frontierland, possibly blocked by the new tree line being planted which will me much taller by 2019.

 

[truecoat]

My guess is that very few of those spires will be seen from Frontierland, possibly blocked by the new tree line being planted which will me much taller by 2019.

By the looks of the current artwork, it looks like the peaks would blend in with BTM anyway.

 

[Practical Pig]

My guess is that very few of those spires will be seen from Frontierland, possibly blocked by the new tree line being planted which will me much taller by 2019.

I hope you're right. I don't share some people's objection to SWL in DL, but I like the idea of it existing behind a veil. But if some of it is peeking out the design change would help it blend pretty well, as truecoat noted. There could well be other reasons for the change.

 

[SSG]

I don't know if anyone mentioned this but the Disney parks blog post referred to the new area as 'Star Wars-Themed Lands' which indicates that it won't be called Star Wars Land.

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...ed-lands-at-disney-parks-set-to-open-in-2019/

 

[Stevek]

I don't know if anyone mentioned this but the Disney parks blog post referred to the new area as 'Star Wars-Themed Lands' which indicates that it won't be called Star Wars Land.

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...ed-lands-at-disney-parks-set-to-open-in-2019/

Didn't someone "in the know" say it would be called "The Star Wars Experience."

 

[SSG]

Didn't someone "in the know" say it would be called "The Star Wars Experience."

I've heard that kicked around, but if a credible source said that I missed it.

 

[BrianLo]

I've heard that kicked around, but if a credible source said that I missed it.

Is Harrison Ford Credible?

 

[SSG]

Is Harrison Ford Credible?

Not since Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

 

[Practical Pig]

Didn't someone "in the know" say it would be called "The Star Wars Experience."

Yeah, that was Harrison Ford in the ABC special following a script, and he didn't exactly announce it as a name. Another way to interpret those words is to change the capitalization to "the Star Wars experience."

 

[Phroobar]

It is impressive how fast they built the original park, but they didn't have OSHA and other regulations like they have today, so I'm sure that made a big difference.

I think there is also Disney's corporate bureaucracy that gums up construction. There are now lots of internal project managers and middle managers slowing the process. Back when Disneyland was built, it was done mostly with in house construction. Everything now is contracted out multiple times.