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

BrianLo

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TP2000 said:
For example, in that photo of DHS, the Alcatraz Battle Escape ride looks smooshed up right next to MuppetVision with very little room for trees or rocks or buffer area.
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That seemingly is the biggest difference, DHS will make the extended queue sections fan inwards towards the entry portal versus disneyland that has a bit more length to deal with to wrap all the way around the river.

I don't think that's a bad thing in DHS' favour, Disneyland will have a very big stretch of solitude before you really hit the attraction. Some people like that... others may liken it to SDL, which is somewhat the antithesis of small and charming.
 
TROR

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Derrit said:
Hey! at least we have our Tower!
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Little Green Men

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TP2000 said:
Okay, good. Because the way it looks in that latest pic of DHS, the Star Wars Land in WDW seems squished and condensed compared to Disneyland's larger and more spread out version. And Disneyland seems to have a bigger berm with longer walkways leading to the entry portals.

For example, in that photo of DHS, the Alcatraz Battle Escape ride looks smooshed up right next to MuppetVision with very little room for trees or rocks or buffer area.

Someone needs to do a duplicate Google Earth image of each Star Wars Land to see the differences. Disneyland has three entry portals, versus two entry portals for DHS. But that angled photo makes the DHS version seem squished and gasping for space.
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Here's another image https://twitter.com/bioreconstruct/status/893869618594492416
 
No Name

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TP2000 said:
Okay, good. Because the way it looks in that latest pic of DHS, the Star Wars Land in WDW seems squished and condensed compared to Disneyland's larger and more spread out version. And Disneyland seems to have a bigger berm with longer walkways leading to the entry portals.

For example, in that photo of DHS, the Alcatraz Battle Escape ride looks smooshed up right next to MuppetVision with very little room for trees or rocks or buffer area.

Someone needs to do a duplicate Google Earth image of each Star Wars Land to see the differences. Disneyland has three entry portals, versus two entry portals for DHS. But that angled photo makes the DHS version seem squished and gasping for space.
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You'll have to take my word for it until we can see the final product, but they're actually almost the exact same shape and size, and Florida's has extra room in front and to one side. I'd say that's the problem.

The land was designed to fit the tighter space in DL, and then almost copied and pasted into DHS. So Florida's version curves around a river that doesn't exist and therefore has nothingness on one side of the walkway, the Falcon showbuilding doesn't border the road, etc. And I don't know what's up with the difference by Alcatraz. But overall, I think DHS's should've been designed differently.

The concept art for the two versions (DL's is daytime, DHS's is nighttime) is literally copied and pasted, then edited.
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Ismael Flores

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phruby said:
It seems like such a waste to dedicate that much space to SW:GE at DHS. They could have split it in two for more rides. Of course, they still have room outside their berm for more stuff. I wonder how much bigger DHS is to USH or USO?
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Is there anymore soundstages that can be removed?
I would think that they have some of the soundstage that were built when the park was designed to be a real studio.
 
Ismael Flores

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troy. said:
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I also noticed the Berm, almost seems also like that building is built against it. Could it mean the possibility of that building eventually being removed and a large show building added. The Berm would allow for more landscape and facade theming to hide it from fantasyland.
Also in that picture it is easy to see how close the fantasyland Star Wars cup d sac entrance is to the back of the fantasyland theater.
The removal of the theater could eventually allow them to cut thru a piece of that small dirt Berm next t the stage coach and finally add a path that would connect northern frontierland to northern fantasyland.
No need to remove the backstage road, just add gates like the ones on frontierland trail and fantasyland.
This new open area could in theory be turned into the rumored Frozen area of arrendarle.
Attraction entrance would be under the new train tunnel past the service road Into large showroom be the expanded Berm you pointed out.
The queue and backstage road would be designed like they did Indy. Large themed gates that swing open after hours to allow service passage right thru the queue
 
TP2000

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egg said:
You'll have to take my word for it until we can see the final product, but they're actually almost the exact same shape and size, and Florida's has extra room in front and to one side. I'd say that's the problem.

The land was designed to fit the tighter space in DL, and then almost copied and pasted into DHS. So Florida's version curves around a river that doesn't exist and therefore has nothingness on one side of the walkway, the Falcon showbuilding doesn't border the road, etc. And I don't know what's up with the difference by Alcatraz. But overall, I think DHS's should've been designed differently.

The concept art for the two versions (DL's is daytime, DHS's is nighttime) is literally copied and pasted, then edited.
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I would love to see a Google Earth comparison from above. It just looks so much more squished at DHS. But maybe it's just the angle?
 
Old Mouseketeer

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Ismael Flores said:
I also noticed the Berm, almost seems also like that building is built against it. Could it mean the possibility of that building eventually being removed and a large show building added. The Berm would allow for more landscape and facade theming to hide it from fantasyland.
Also in that picture it is easy to see how close the fantasyland Star Wars cup d sac entrance is to the back of the fantasyland theater.
The removal of the theater could eventually allow them to cut thru a piece of that small dirt Berm next t the stage coach and finally add a path that would connect northern frontierland to northern fantasyland.
No need to remove the backstage road, just add gates like the ones on frontierland trail and fantasyland.
This new open area could in theory be turned into the rumored Frozen area of arrendarle.
Attraction entrance would be under the new train tunnel past the service road Into large showroom be the expanded Berm you pointed out.
The queue and backstage road would be designed like they did Indy. Large themed gates that swing open after hours to allow service passage right thru the queue
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If they were going to do that they wouldn't have destroyed the East/West tunnel that was actually an old DLRR tunnel prior to rerouting the trains for iasw in 1966. What you propose would cut off a significant amount of backstage traffic--even more than the BT trail.
 
BrianLo

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