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

[TROR]

Maybe it's just because it's a new land, but Galaxy's Edge doesn't feel like it's a permanent part of Disneyland. Obviously it's not cheaply made or a lazy overlay, but there's something about the land that just doesn't gel with everything else. Like it's here for a short period of time before it just ceases to exist again.

 

[THE 1HAPPY HAUNT]

True but then you miss out on the Falcon parked out front you can walk around.

No biggie since it will be in the show building. they could but a chewie meet and greet or something out there instead. maybe move one of the static x wings out frong so people know they are at a air port.

 

[THE 1HAPPY HAUNT]

Maybe it's just because it's a new land, but Galaxy's Edge doesn't feel like it's a permanent part of Disneyland. Obviously it's not cheaply made or a lazy overlay, but there's something about the land that just doesn't gel with everything else. Like it's here for a short period of time before it just ceases to exist again.

I think the reason being is because it is outside the berm and feels cut off from the rest of the park. i felt and still feel that way to some extent about Toontown. it feels like its own thing instead of feeling natural to the park. plus with Galaxy's Edge they purposely made it so you can't see the rest of Disneyland.

 

[Kram Sacul]

No biggie since it will be in the show building. they could but a chewie meet and greet or something out there instead. maybe move one of the static x wings out frong so people know they are at a air port.

If it’s in the main show building how will you able to walk around it? You would probably be quickly ushered up the ramp. You would get your ramp but won’t be able to spend much time with the exterior of the Falcon. I think they did the right thing with the space they had to work with. It’s convincing enough that we entered the Falcon through a bay door.

 

[THE 1HAPPY HAUNT]

If it’s in the main show building how will you able to walk around it? You would probably be quickly ushered up the ramp. You would get your ramp but won’t be able to spend much time with the exterior of the Falcon. I think they did the right thing with the space they had to work with. It’s convincing enough that we entered the Falcon through a bay door.

no the line wraps around the falcon leading you to the front where you board the up the ramp.

 

[solidyne]

I will be happy to respond to both your questions. They put the Falcon in the show building. You go through the queue as it is now except after Hondo you enter a "hanger bay" that contains the full falcon and you walk up the ramp and into the ride. problem solved. the falcon facade leads you into ride experience in the same show building.


To your 2nd point, Jakkuu would have been just as bad. there is nothing to do in Jakuu. In Tatooine you could go to the REAL cantina from the film, had some dewback AAs in the land, still have the flacon ride since it was parked in mos eisley to begin with when we first saw it ever. you can visist Jabba's palace and have a ride there and a sarlacc pitt AA. you could even have a rancor experience attraction in the palace. you could visit luke's home and they could sell there aunt beru's home made blue milk and visit luke's garage. so much you can do in tatooine in 14 acres of land.

Don't forget Jawas, Sand Crawlers, and Tusken Raiders.

Of course, Tatooine would work only if it were one land out of several in a Star Wars park. if all you have is one land, then this newly invented hodge podge is what you get.

You know the people who praised this brilliant new planet where you can make your own adventure, who said it was genius to use a location not in the films, and who said using the planets from the movies would never work? What will they do if Batuu appears in Episode 9?

 

[THE 1HAPPY HAUNT]

Don't forget Jawas, Sand Crawlers, and Tusken Raiders.

Of course, Tatooine would work only if it were one land out of several in a Star Wars park. if all you have is one land, then this newly invented hodge podge is what you get.

You know the people who praised this brilliant new planet where you can make your own adventure, who said it was genius to use a location not in the films, and who said using the planets from the movies would never work? What will they do if Batuu appears in Episode 9?

Their point still stands because it is due to the land that Batuu will be placed in a film not the other way around.

 

[captveg]

Ah. Okay. That would’ve been cool and very elaborate. Probably no room to put it back there though.

Plus the Falcon ride only works if you can have 30 rotating cockpits (7x2x2 +2 ADA). Cutting that in half would seriously hurt the capacity.

 

[solidyne]

Their point still stands because it is due to the land that Batuu will be placed in a film not the other way around.

But this is where I am supposed to live my own adventure!

 

[lifeisgoodboy]

I am so glad that the MF is a circle ship and not these ships below us:

I think the top ship will cover the half of the 14 acres of Batuu.
I think the should have a robot making drinks like Las Vegas in the cantina instead of Rex. Here what it looks like:

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

The early prototypes for the MF were a ripoff of Space 1999.

 

[THE 1HAPPY HAUNT]

But this is where I am supposed to live my own adventure!

Nope

 

[THE 1HAPPY HAUNT]

Plus the Falcon ride only works if you can have 30 rotating cockpits (7x2x2 +2 ADA). Cutting that in half would seriously hurt the capacity.

We ate not cutting anything in half. Same number of pods and capacity. That is the beauty. You enter in one falcon only then once inside you lead them left or right to the duplicate chess rooms and pods but the illusion of boarding the falcon is complete

 

[Figments Friend]

Maybe it's just because it's a new land, but Galaxy's Edge doesn't feel like it's a permanent part of Disneyland. Obviously it's not cheaply made or a lazy overlay, but there's something about the land that just doesn't gel with everything else. Like it's here for a short period of time before it just ceases to exist again.

And I would be perfectly fine with that.

Bring on 'Discovery Bay'.



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[tirian]

Exactly! I hated that scene in Endgame where it was all women fighting together. Such pandering! The franchise was strong male characters but let’s take a moment to show women fighting together! Valkyrie was a great character but now they are talking about making a movie with her finding love? They dropped that pretty early in the franchise because it wasn’t what it was about. They even seemed to have forgotten Black Widow’s thing for Banner by the end. Natalie Portman brought nothing interesting to the previous movies she was in so why would I want to see her as Thor? Robot girl was more interesting than she was. I wish they would just write good stories with interesting characters. Period.



It doesn’t look like they will. I’d rather have seen actors I knew nothing about than the new and exciting Natalie Portman’s Thor! In the beginning, aside from Jr., they cast relative nobody’s because they thought they were right. Now they are too busy trying to change things up to focus on telling good stories with good actors.

The virtue signaling social justice warriors broke their arms patting themselves on the back for that moment. And in Hollywood it's not called pandering, it's called being "woke".

Funny thing is, that moment didn’t bother me. I rolled my eyes and thought it was too on-the-nose, but I chalked it up to an awkward attempt at “Girl Power.”

On the other hand, my sister—who is very strong-willed and “girl power” and all that—hated that scene and called it “pandering.” I guess this is where Marvel and Star Wars scripts are going now.

I want my nieces to have strong role models, but the clunky Hollywood virtue signals seem to say, “Look! You can be just like the guys!” instead of saying, “Look! Girls can do powerful things too!” And the solution comes down to true storytelling instead of shoving in a few faces at the last minute.

 

[tirian]

So...back on topic:

The WDW version of SWGE has a slightly different mountain range shape with much more colorful paint and many more trees than DL’s version. WDI seems to be correcting some atmospheric missteps from Version #1. Let’s hope they’ve figured out the BGM and Cantina issues.

Of course, in a park with few existing rides anyway, SWGE will look much more successful in the Studios than it does in Disneyland. It’ll also benefit from not being in a castle park in general, because the rough aesthetic doesn’t work in the quaint Americana vibe that permeates all of the Magic Kingdom (even Fantasyland). My favorite example is if Disney replaced Adventureland with DAK’s version of Africa; it’s too large and too grungy to work in the MK, but it’s perfect at DAK.

SWGE will simply look better in Florida, and once-in-a-lifetime tourists won’t care anyway.

But that won’t fix weak rides.

 

[captveg]

We ate not cutting anything in half. Same number of pods and capacity. That is the beauty. You enter in one falcon only then once inside you lead them left or right to the duplicate chess rooms and pods but the illusion of boarding the falcon is complete

That spacing simply doesn't work.

 

[mickEblu]

We ate not cutting anything in half. Same number of pods and capacity. That is the beauty. You enter in one falcon only then once inside you lead them left or right to the duplicate chess rooms and pods but the illusion of boarding the falcon is complete

I never feel like I’m boarding the Falcon. It just kind of feels like I magically ended up in the chess room somehow. I also don’t pay attention during the preshow but I think they may have relied too heavily on that clip of the Falcon parking to pull off this “illusion.” However, you kind of forget about this fact from the chess room to the cockpit. Hondos room to the chess room is the weak link in the chain.

 

[TROR]

Will the Falcon in The Rise of Skywalker have six seats?

 

[mickEblu]

Will the Falcon in The Rise of Skywalker have six seats?

Only if the Cantina has more than 6 booths. Man, what a fail... from an operations standpoint.

I’ll write my mini cantina review in the reviews thread.