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

[TP2000]

My God the old Star Tours at MGM is so charming with the Ewok Village and matte painting of the forest on the side of the building.

Is it possible they'll just get rid of the Muppet show altogether within a couple years and absorb the space? That show will be going on 30 years old.

Isn't it great?!? And that's the entrance area that most folks are assuming DHS management will set up as the designated entry path to Star Wars Land.

So at DHS you will walk past circa 1990 Star Tours and fake Ewok village, then immediately enter "present-day downtown Los Angeles" Grand Avenue featuring a hipster brewpub and the 1990 MuppetVision 3D show with a statue of Miss Piggy in a Los Angeles public park, and then you walk through a tunnel and you are in Star Wars Land! Try to keep up kids!

Again, so many folks felt the transitions to the ultra-themed Star Wars Land would be the most problematic at Disneyland and DHS would be the most natural feeling. That appears to not be the case. And honestly, in 2019 Star Tours just needs to go away for both parks.

 

[Phroobar]

Isn't it great?!? And that's the entrance area that most folks are assuming DHS management will set up as the designated entry path to Star Wars Land.

So at DHS you will walk past circa 1990 Star Tours and fake Ewok village, then immediately enter "present-day downtown Los Angeles" Grand Avenue featuring a hipster brewpub and the 1990 MuppetVision 3D show with a statue of Miss Piggy in a Los Angeles public park, and then you walk through a tunnel and you are in Star Wars Land! Try to keep up kids!

Again, so many folks felt the transitions to the ultra-themed Star Wars Land would be the most problematic at Disneyland and DHS would be the most natural feeling. That appears to not be the case. And honestly, in 2019 Star Tours just needs to go away for both parks.

That is why I have always said that the DHS version of Star Wars Land will be lacking. The transition from fake Los Angeles hipster brewery threw a LA tunnel and into Star Wars land will feel like this:

 

[mickEblu]

That is why I have always said that the DHS version of Star Wars Land will be lacking. The transition from fake Los Angeles hipster brewery threw a LA tunnel and into Star Wars land will feel like this:

Hey but that's pretty awesome.

 

[dweezil78]

Hey but that's pretty awesome.

Expectation vs. Reality

 

[mickEblu]

Expectation vs. Reality

Lol.

I would love to see a 2019 take on Toontown with a nice budget.

 

[dweezil78]

Lol.

I would love to see a 2019 take on Toontown with nice budget.

I know, right? Could you imagine if they really made it like a full-on Roger Rabbit/Acme Toontown and not just a plussed up plastic-y version of Mickey's Birthdayland? Could have been really amazing with the right vision.

 

[mickEblu]

I know, right? Could you imagine if they really made it like a full-on Roger Rabbit/Acme Toontown and not just a plussed up plastic-y version of Mickey's Birthdayland? Could have been really amazing with the right vision.

Awwwww man! Is it too late to re route the trolley at DCA and create a Roger Rabbits toontown in the Hollywood backlot, including RRCTS And the Ink n Paint Club?

 

[dweezil78]

Awwwww man! Is it too late to re route the trolley at DCA and create a Roger Rabbits toontown in the Hollywood backlot, including RRCTS And the Ink n Paint Club?

Dude... that would be amazing. And will ever only exist in our heads.

 

[Phroobar]

Dude... that would be amazing. And will ever only exist in our heads.

It would only happen if Pixar made a Roger Rabbit movie.

 

[mickEblu]

It would only happen if Pixar made a Roger Rabbit movie.

or Marvel.

 

[TROR]

And honestly, in 2019 Star Tours just needs to go away for both parks.

Agreed, and not even because there'd be so much Star Wars, but, even with the ride being upgraded just six years ago, it already feels so dated. The CGI is bad and the references don't hold now with an entire new trilogy of films. Not to mention how it lacks an actual story. While I understand the original may have been outdated in its own way as well, it held up for at least twenty years.

 

[Hatbox Ghostbuster]

Agreed, and not even because there'd be so much Star Wars, but, even with the ride being upgraded just six years ago, it already feels so dated. The CGI is bad and the references don't hold now with an entire new trilogy of films. Not to mention how it lacks an actual story. While I understand the original may have been outdated in its own way as well, it held up for at least twenty years.

And there lies the problem of trying to keep IP relevance in attractions. Star Tours existed just fine for 20 years, but now they have to play catch up to the new films. Marvel stuff will have to stay relevant with whatever iteration their characters take.

These attractions carry their own expiration dates from the beginning.

 

[mickEblu]

Agreed, and not even because there'd be so much Star Wars, but, even with the ride being upgraded just six years ago, it already feels so dated. The CGI is bad and the references don't hold now with an entire new trilogy of films. Not to mention how it lacks an actual story. While I understand the original may have been outdated in its own way as well, it held up for at least twenty years.

I wouldn't miss the ride experience very much. It's the intangibles that you lose. The sounds in the queue. The Johnny 5 looking robot. Stuff like that.

 

[TROR]

I wouldn't miss the ride experience very much. It's the intangibles that you lose. The sounds in the queue. The Johnny 5 looking robot. Stuff like that.

Much like Rex, I imagine anything and everything that can be recycled from Star Tours would be for Galaxy's Edge.

 

[Hatbox Ghostbuster]

My thinking is that once SWL is up and running, they'll get around the finally fixing Tomorrowland. If Star Tours makes the cut of the new pavilion, I'd be very surprised.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

Isn't it great?!? And that's the entrance area that most folks are assuming DHS management will set up as the designated entry path to Star Wars Land.

So at DHS you will walk past circa 1990 Star Tours and fake Ewok village, then immediately enter "present-day downtown Los Angeles" Grand Avenue featuring a hipster brewpub and the 1990 MuppetVision 3D show with a statue of Miss Piggy in a Los Angeles public park, and then you walk through a tunnel and you are in Star Wars Land! Try to keep up kids!

Again, so many folks felt the transitions to the ultra-themed Star Wars Land would be the most problematic at Disneyland and DHS would be the most natural feeling. That appears to not be the case. And honestly, in 2019 Star Tours just needs to go away for both parks.

It doesn't make any sense in current MGM. It's like Cars Land in DCA. Actually, no. It's a lot worse. They need to raze significant portions of the park and completely evict the Hollywood theme, except maybe Sunset Blvd., which could use a massive overhaul anyway. It was pretty charming in its original form. I love old Star Tours and how it was designed like a movie set. Now there's a perfect transition. Anyone who has only seen photos of the outside might be unaware that when you entered the line for Star Tours, you would see that the Ewok Village and Imperial Walker were just props and there was only infrastructure on the other side. As you entered the door, you were still on a movie set, but very rapidly transitioned into the movie itself. Albeit, Star Tours (1986) as designed for Disneyland.

 

[mickEblu]

Much like Rex, I imagine anything and everything that can be recycled from Star Tours would be for Galaxy's Edge.

For sure.

 

[Curious Constance]

I wouldn't miss the ride experience very much. It's the intangibles that you lose. The sounds in the queue. The Johnny 5 looking robot. Stuff like that.

That robot isn't nearly as handsome as Johnny 5

 

[GiveMeTheMusic]

Isn't it great?!? And that's the entrance area that most folks are assuming DHS management will set up as the designated entry path to Star Wars Land.

So at DHS you will walk past circa 1990 Star Tours and fake Ewok village, then immediately enter "present-day downtown Los Angeles" Grand Avenue featuring a hipster brewpub and the 1990 MuppetVision 3D show with a statue of Miss Piggy in a Los Angeles public park, and then you walk through a tunnel and you are in Star Wars Land! Try to keep up kids!

Again, so many folks felt the transitions to the ultra-themed Star Wars Land would be the most problematic at Disneyland and DHS would be the most natural feeling. That appears to not be the case. And honestly, in 2019 Star Tours just needs to go away for both parks.

Welcome to Disney XL Park!

 

[BD-Anaheim]

Isn't it great?!? And that's the entrance area that most folks are assuming DHS management will set up as the designated entry path to Star Wars Land.

So at DHS you will walk past circa 1990 Star Tours and fake Ewok village, then immediately enter "present-day downtown Los Angeles" Grand Avenue featuring a hipster brewpub and the 1990 MuppetVision 3D show with a statue of Miss Piggy in a Los Angeles public park, and then you walk through a tunnel and you are in Star Wars Land! Try to keep up kids!

Again, so many folks felt the transitions to the ultra-themed Star Wars Land would be the most problematic at Disneyland and DHS would be the most natural feeling. That appears to not be the case. And honestly, in 2019 Star Tours just needs to go away for both parks.

Star Tours isn't rumored to be in it for the long term so that problem will resolve itself eventually. With regard to the transition from Grand Ave into SWL, the Art Deco style tunnel will offer as a pretty nice buffer while also adding a nice aesthetic touch to the Grand Ave mini land.