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

[Phroobar]

So instead they purposefully designed a dirty looking place with bullet holes and peeling paint on the walls.

It saves on Disney sweepers. Besides it works for Magic Mountain.

 

[Mac Tonight]

It saves on Disney sweepers. Besides it works for Magic Mountain.

Budget cuts are no joke.

 

[Phroobar]

Budget cuts are no joke.

Except the whole land was budget cut. Where are the droids, aliens and Force powers? Where is the music?

 

[Mac Tonight]

Except the whole land was budget cut. Where are the droids, aliens and Force powers? Where is the music?

Good question. All I heard last time were some angry swamp sounds by the ROTR area.

 

[Darkbeer1]

 

[Rich T]

Unless Disney wants to build an entire land with raised platforms and bridges over mirrors and smoke machines to give the illusion of a floating city, I don't see it working. And even with such elaborate design, it would be ruined the moment people threw pennies onto the mirrors or dropped trash or random leaves blew into the land.

They should have built a gleaming (yet lived-in-looking) spaceport underneath a giant dome. Then they could have projected anything they wanted onto the skies, including arriving and departing ships.

The film world of SW exists mainly as digital animation at this point. I think one of the problems with GE is that they've built a physical set that's lacking the special effects, which a domed environment would help with. Not to mention the music everyone loves, which is an easy fix whenever someone in charge wakes up and decides to okay a trip to Best Buy for an iPod Touch and some speakers.

 

[Rich T]

Tickets are for babies.

So is Wild Gunman. (And while I'm at it, I LOVE the way that little gag in BttF2 foreshadows the events of BttF3!!!)

 

[TROR]

Y'all got some wild ideas. All Batuu needs is for Rise of the Resistance to open, some music, some foliage on the mountains, live entertainment, the dinner show restaurant, Star Tours transplant, an X-Wing coaster, and a Falcon walkthrough.

 

[DLR>WDW]

Indiana Jones 2.0 y'all!

 

[TROR]

Indiana Jones 2.0 y'all!

Can't wait to bypass all these details thanks to Fastpass!

 

[Disney Irish]

Can't wait to bypass all these details thanks to Fastpass!

What if that is the FP line and the standby line is even more detailed?

Also I have to assume FP is turned off just like at MF:SR for the foreseeable future.

 

[mickEblu]

Batuu is a good idea. One of the few things Imagineers got right.

Yeah good idea but good idea only goes so far as it’s execution.

 

[sedati]

Anyone remember way back when this project was announced how many here wanted to know that the engagement/role-play aspects could be either ignored or have an opt-out option?

 

[The Pho]

Anyone remember way back when this project was announced how many here wanted to know that the engagement/role-play aspects could be either ignored or have and opt-out option?

Lucky for them Chapek opted them out personally.

 

[MoonRakerSCM]

Consider me in a bad mood right now, but that doesn't bode well at all. A dilapidated room full of CRATES. Gee, what's all over the other heartless queue for Falcon? CRATES!

Gah!

 

[TROR]

Consider me in a bad mood right now, but that doesn't bode well at all. A dilapidated room full of CRATES. Gee, what's all over the other heartless queue for Falcon? CRATES!

Gah!

To be fair, these crates aren't behind a fence, they are the fence. I think that's better theming.

 

[Jones14]

Consider me in a bad mood right now, but that doesn't bode well at all. A dilapidated room full of CRATES. Gee, what's all over the other heartless queue for Falcon? CRATES!

Gah!

I see where you’re coming from, but the last part of the queue is the interior of a Star Destroyer, with stormtrooper animatronics and a huge screen forming the back wall. Queues are always gonna have lows and highs, even for E-tickets.

 

[Phroobar]

Consider me in a bad mood right now, but that doesn't bode well at all. A dilapidated room full of CRATES. Gee, what's all over the other heartless queue for Falcon? CRATES!

Gah!

In video games you break crates to find stuff. Maybe you can use the Force to move or open them.

 

[THE 1HAPPY HAUNT]

Tatooine is drab and boring looking. Also, you suggest an AA Sarlac Pit; just how big is this Star Wars Land? The Sarlac Pit was in the middle of nowhere, it would feel really weird to have the vast expanses of Tatooine be crammed next to one another. As for visiting the cantina from Episode IV. Go back and watch the scene, that set was pretty barren and not too exciting. It was the aliens in the cantina which gave it life and created the memory. The most interesting feature of the Mos Isley Cantina was the IG-88-style drink dispensers, which we have at the cantina in GE.

This is what we would have gotten. Yay. Look how inviting this looks. Can't wait to hang out here for 2 hours.
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This is a best case scenario. Yes, the crashed ship is cool, but look at those buildings. The same pueblo style boxes with domed roofs and support walls jutting out. Repeated over and over. And all a lovely shade of dirt. To match the dirt ground. Wow. That's photogenic. Hope they sell parasols on Tatooine.
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luke's house looks awesome. i would love to walk into it explore it. sit at the same table with blue milk. pay my respects to anakin's mom's grave. etc. tatooine would have made for much better land than batuu is or ever will be.

 

[THE 1HAPPY HAUNT]

Using the line that Adam Savage used at the end of Mythbusters: "Want to know why we did what we did, and didn't do what we didn't do?"
Obviously Imaginears thought about Tatooine - elements of which they clearly mimicked in design, and certainly thought about Coruscant and likely every other Star Wars locale.
They did what they did because of various reasons.

and all those reasons are dead wrong