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

[Mac Tonight]

If they built a highly immerse coaster, then y’all would be complaining that they only built one ride, since there would only be enough space for that in the land. I would much rather have a big, incredibly impressive and immerse dark ride along with a Falcon simulator than just one coaster. I guess that’s just me though.

Why would there only be space for a coaster?? How big are most indoor coasters?

 

[mickEblu]

Why would there only be space for a coaster?? How big are most indoor coasters?

And the land is 14 acres. I think they could pull it off

 

[Mac Tonight]

And the land is 14 acres. I think they could pull it off

I forget, does that 14 acres also include the expansion pads?

 

[mickEblu]

I forget, does that 14 acres also include the expansion pads?

Maybe just the Dinner theatre expansion pad

 

[truecoat]

You know what everyone wants to do when it comes to the Falcon? WALK UP THE RAMP.

And crack their head open.

 

[truecoat]

A heckuva' lot more believable than riding a coaster.
A coaster can't come remotely close to the goal here.

If it's like this, it would.

 

[TROR]

If they built a highly immerse coaster, then y’all would be complaining that they only built one ride, since there would only be enough space for that in the land. I would much rather have a big, incredibly impressive and immerse dark ride along with a Falcon simulator than just one coaster. I guess that’s just me though.

Have you seen how massive the space for Falcon is?

 

[darthwoody]

Have you seen how massive the space for Falcon is?

Yes... and I bet a coaster, like the Death Star one that was pitched, would be MUCH larger. Have you seen how massive and ugly the show building is for the Epcot Guardians coaster?

 

[Mac Tonight]

Why do I instantly wish we were getting that Death Star coaster instead of either GE attraction???

 

[ProfessorPepper]

You guys are way too sensational for me. The 14 acres includes every inch of usable land that isn't taken by some other infrastructure not related to Star Wars. Rock N' Roller Coaster and Return of the Mummy in Orlando (the bigger one): 1.5 acres. Guardians of the Galaxy coaster: 2.82 acres. RotR show building: 1.75 acres. Smuggler's Run: 1.76 acres.

 

[Mac Tonight]

You guys are way too sensational for me. The 14 acres includes every inch of usable land that isn't taken by some other infrastructure not related to Star Wars. Rock N' Roller Coaster and Return of the Mummy in Orlando (the bigger one): 1.5 acres. Guardians of the Galaxy coaster: 2.82 acres. RotR show building: 1.75 acres. Smuggler's Run: 1.76 acres.
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So if GE is 14 acres, and GotG (as a comparison) is only 2.82 acres, there would still be 11.18 acres left for Rise (let’s call it 2) and everything else.

 

[britain]

A Star Wars coaster is too conventional. It’s what every non-theme park fan would expect a Star Wars land to have. This land was the third attempt by Imagineering to do something ambitious, as instructed by the Board of Directors. They needed to do something that would prove that Disney still knows how to exceed expectations - Something they haven’t done since Indy in 1995, in my opinion. A coaster wouldn’t do that.

 

[Rich T]

A Star Wars coaster is too conventional. It’s what every non-theme park fan would expect a Star Wars land to have. This land was the third attempt by Imagineering to do something ambitious, as instructed by the Board of Directors. They needed to do something that would prove that Disney still knows how to exceed expectations - Something they haven’t done since Indy in 1995, in my opinion. A coaster wouldn’t do that.

If Harry Potter at Universal hadn't happened, I wonder how things would be different right now...
(EDIT)
Cars Land exceeded expectations in a lot of ways.

 

[Disney Analyst]

A Star Wars coaster is too conventional. It’s what every non-theme park fan would expect a Star Wars land to have. This land was the third attempt by Imagineering to do something ambitious, as instructed by the Board of Directors. They needed to do something that would prove that Disney still knows how to exceed expectations - Something they haven’t done since Indy in 1995, in my opinion. A coaster wouldn’t do that.

Fully agree. Piloting your own Millenium Falcon through real time rendering, and actual interactive controls is far more ambitious to me then a coaster. I love what Disney has done with Star Wars in the parks.

 

[Incomudro]

If it's like this, it would.

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That'd be really cool, but it still wouldn't achieve the realism goal.

 

[mickEblu]

So if GE is 14 acres, and GotG (as a comparison) is only 2.82 acres, there would still be 11.18 acres left for Rise (let’s call it 2) and everything else.

And let’s say they were still short I’d gladly sacrifice a popcorn stand and a shop or two.

 

[mickEblu]

A Star Wars coaster is too conventional. It’s what every non-theme park fan would expect a Star Wars land to have. This land was the third attempt by Imagineering to do something ambitious, as instructed by the Board of Directors. They needed to do something that would prove that Disney still knows how to exceed expectations - Something they haven’t done since Indy in 1995, in my opinion. A coaster wouldn’t do that.

But it would be more fun. Isn’t that why we originally started going to theme parks and why we still go?

 

[MisterPenguin]

This whole idea of people hiking around GE with interactive droids strapped to their backs in bulky backpacks...In the world's most mobbed theme park land... Oh, I'm being silly. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

They form a bluetooth neural network and become sentient.

And that's how humanity was destroyed.

 

[Incomudro]

But it would be more fun. Isn’t that why we originally started going to theme parks and why we still go?

No.

 

[mickEblu]

No.