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

TROR

TROR

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Phrubruh said:
Closest we got was this

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This was the best Star Wars toy box art

Also this action figure is 10x better than any of the junk that's being put out now
 
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PB Watermelon

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Rich T said:
No. No, that would NOT count, seeing as D. Jettster was the most interesting and genuinely fun character in the entire prequel trilogy!!! :D If "Solo" had been "Dex", we'd have had a true blockbuster on our hands! And where's the TV series???? The plush??? The official line of kitchen appliances and grilling utensils???
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WATTO: A STAR WARS STORY METHINKS UH....
 
nevol

nevol

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SuddenStorm said:
It's also worth noting- in the book Thrawn Alliances, Zahn depicts a Batuu that's run down in poverty- with smugglers, gang violence, etc.

Disneyland is supposed to feel safe, clean, and charming- so I'm curious to see how a land filled with bounty hunters and scoundrels will maintain this.
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The same way indiana jones adventure, pirates of the caribbean, haunted mansion does. Do you know how many thousands of skulls/skeletons there are at disneyland?
 
SuddenStorm

SuddenStorm

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nevol said:
The same way indiana jones adventure, pirates of the caribbean, haunted mansion does. Do you know how many thousands of skulls/skeletons there are at disneyland?
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It's the classic Walt quote "We'll take care of the outside, and let the ghosts take care of the inside"

The lands have always operated under a different rule set then the attractions. New Orleans Square is a quaint, charming depiction of a land that in the real world is quite different.

Star Wars land is allowing the conflict found within the attraction to spill into the outside land (no matter how small or trivial, this is a major shift to how it's been done in the past).
 
SuddenStorm

SuddenStorm

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TROR said:
Frontierland used to have shoot outs with bandits. What's the problem?
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Frontierland isn't depicted as run down and "lived in". It's a heavily romanticized depiction of the American Frontier. The Golden Horseshoe isn't a saloon that's supposed to be reminiscent of a "villainous hive of scum and villainy".

A comedic act between a bandit and sheriff helps authenticate the land. Galaxy's Edge was designed to be home to smugglers, bounty hunters, etc. While these are important parts of the Star Wars universe- designing a land to look worn down, old, and the hub of local crime doesn't seem fitting for Disneyland Park.

Galaxy's Edge was designed to look and feel authentically Star Wars, but it wasn't designed to look and feel like a Disneyland depiction of Star Wars.
 
nevol

nevol

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Yawn. There are examples of themed aging all over disneyland and disney parks now. The cleanliness of walts disneyland has been abandoned since the days of 1971 with magoc kingdom’s haunted mansion. Your examples are 50 years old. I’m sorry that the attractions and experiences will now begin and be alluded to before you enter an interior queue. That clever foreshadowing and historicity will be buried in buildings and ancient ruins all over the land. That the very location of space ships will tell an overall land story that none of us have been lucky enough to experience yet in our lives. Even this isnt entirely new; there are plugged up garden-level tunnels in new orleans square, for example. The evil queen perched in the window above snow white’s scary adventures. This is just on steroids, purpose built, big budget in a way disneyland hasnt been in decades.
 
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Professortango1

Professortango1

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SuddenStorm said:
It's the classic Walt quote "We'll take care of the outside, and let the ghosts take care of the inside"

The lands have always operated under a different rule set then the attractions. New Orleans Square is a quaint, charming depiction of a land that in the real world is quite different.

Star Wars land is allowing the conflict found within the attraction to spill into the outside land (no matter how small or trivial, this is a major shift to how it's been done in the past).
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That's a quote regarding one attraction and from 50+ years ago. The industry has changed quite a bit as have what people enjoy. I would personally love a creepier Mansion exterior with themed queue. Something that matches the concept art with skeletal trees and an air of foreboding. Walt designed Disneyland like a World's Fair. Theme parks are quite different now. Rather than visit pavilions, people like stepping into the fantasy world itself and feeling like its as real as comfortably possible.
 

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