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

[BrianLo]

Rather, I think raising the tree line up so high will work to obscure the Millennium Falcon show building from the rest of the park.

The reverse applies too. That one specific segment is probably hiding the Wonderbra from Star Wars land more than anything else.

It practically looms over the plot as much as Big Thunder...

 

[Deleted member 107043]

That theater is such an eyesore. It just screams generic theme park circa 1987.

 

[SSG]

That theater is such an eyesore. It just screams generic theme park circa 1987.

I think you've hit on the theme for the 3rd Gate.

 

[mickEblu]

Kind of bummed that we re losing two of the last quiet areas in the park. The lower level of the Hungry Bear and Big Thunder trail. I'm hoping that the path from Critter Country to SWL will fill that void. In terms of feeling in the wilderness / back country. I'm sure the hordes of people flocking to SWL will not help with that.

 

[Phroobar]

They need to put a warning on the fantasyland side of the map saying, "Here there be krayt dragons."

 

[TP2000]

Another excellent video from ShesInLosAngeles was just posted tonight.

And right off the bat at the 0:30 mark of this video we see the first Droid in Star Wars Land!

 

[ReadySetDisney]

Did anyone else think of Natures Wonderland At 19:15? This could fit the rumored Natures Wonderland references supposedly being installed on the railroad.

Nature's Wonderland -

Big Thunder Trail - Image Found At 19:15 - -

 

[britain]

I love it!

I don't think we should expect rainbow caverns. Simply having the DLRR travel by that precarious rock is enough to claim that homage is being paid.

 

[Phroobar]

I like that you can see the train go by from the goat scene.

 

[Earl Sweatpants]

I thought it was a "floating rock" nod towards Pandora...

 

[TP2000]

Did anyone else think of Natures Wonderland At 19:15? This could fit the rumored Natures Wonderland references supposedly being installed on the railroad.

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Big Thunder Trail - Image Found At 19:15 - -

Agreed! They are obviously installing some eye candy along the new trails and tracks on the Frontierland side of this construction.

 

[BrianLo]

Did anyone else think of Natures Wonderland At 19:15? This could fit the rumored Natures Wonderland references supposedly being installed on the railroad.

Nature's Wonderland -

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Big Thunder Trail - Image Found At 19:15 - -

Welcome to the boards!

 

[Phroobar]

It's eye candy like this and the blending of environments that I think will make this version of SWL far superior to the DHS version. Their version will go from a city scape to an arch into SWL. Inside it will be the same but outside I bet they will try to make it look like a hot set with fake walls

 

[TP2000]

It's eye candy like this and the blending of environments that I think will make this version of SWL far superior to the DHS version. Their version will go from a city scape to an arch into SWL. Inside it will be the same but outside I bet they will try to make it look like a hot set with fake walls

Yeah, I've seen some of the maps of the DHS version and they don't have nearly as much space to work with there to transition Star Wars into the rest of the park. It's going to be abrupt. Which is weird and ironic; yet another WDW park that seems strapped for space and land.

At Disneyland, all this new eye candy will dramatically improve the giant walls of overgrown trees and shrubs that have defined the back half of Frontierland for decades. All the new cliffs and waterfalls along the Rivers of America, the trestles and rocky ledges along the Disneyland Railroad trackbed, the cavern entrances into Star Wars Land, etc., etc.

It will be a dramatic theme improvement over The Great Boring Wall of Green that defined this third of the park for the past 30 years (since they shut down Nature's Wonderland in '77), where a few fiberglass animals frozen in place, a peek-a-boo look at the parking structure, and that rickety Indian Chief were big highlights.

 

[Phroobar]

To quote Judge Doom: "My God! It will be beautiful!".

 

[Earl Sweatpants]

Judging by the video posted, I can tell November is going to be a good month for construction progress.

 

[ReadySetDisney]

Welcome to the boards!

Thanks! I've been watching this thread for a while, and I thought it was time to contribute!

 

[Deleted member 107043]

It will be a dramatic theme improvement over The Great Boring Wall of Green that defined this third of the park for the past 30 years (since they shut down Nature's Wonderland in '77), where a few fiberglass animals frozen in place, a peek-a-boo look at the parking structure, and that rickety Indian Chief were big highlights.

LOL.

You're right though.

 

[Phroobar]

I think we are going to get something that looks like this. See mark at 13:30

 

[BrianLo]

Yeah, I've seen some of the maps of the DHS version and they don't have nearly as much space to work with there to transition Star Wars into the rest of the park. It's going to be abrupt. Which is weird and ironic; yet another WDW park that seems strapped for space and land.

At Disneyland, all this new eye candy will dramatically improve the giant walls of overgrown trees and shrubs that have defined the back half of Frontierland for decades. All the new cliffs and waterfalls along the Rivers of America, the trestles and rocky ledges along the Disneyland Railroad trackbed, the cavern entrances into Star Wars Land, etc., etc.

It will be a dramatic theme improvement over The Great Boring Wall of Green that defined this third of the park for the past 30 years (since they shut down Nature's Wonderland in '77), where a few fiberglass animals frozen in place, a peek-a-boo look at the parking structure, and that rickety Indian Chief were big highlights.

DHS actually does have the space for the transitions, they just aren't using it. Instead of redesigning the land for their park they've 100% kept the design of Disneyland's layout in tact. In place of the train trestle/Fantasmic storage/RoA they are just going to dump a bunch of dirt and trees and call it a day. Leaving a gigantic hole in the middle of the park as an expansion pad makes no sense until you piece together it was copied and pasted into a corner where the layout could 'fit'.

The joke is a few folks were so insistent everything was being designed for WDW first and foremost.

It's funny though, the mantra that "Bob" synonymous for corporate Disney doesn't give a about Disneyland's history is getting harder to maintain when they are replacing the 80's Big Thunder Elements with throwbacks to Nature's Wonderland.