Star Wars Land announced for Disney's Hollywood Studios

[Musicman20]

I have to say those AT-ATs look SUPERB in those photos. This is going to be quite the build up.

I am thinking about a winter trip in December 2019...or Feb/March 2020.

 

[marni1971]

I have to say those AT-ATs look SUPERB in those photos. This is going to be quite the build up.

I am thinking about a winter trip in December 2019...or Feb/March 2020.

I wouldn’t risk the December.

 

[Vesty]

Those new AT-AT pics show an open panel of some sort on the further walker. Could be a spot for showcasing droids, Stormtroopers to be firing at you or a weapon?

Might just be an access point for construction. You can see the underside of that walker's head isn't finished yet.

 

[SteveAZee]

I wouldn’t risk the December.

Since too many things can happen between now and then?

 

[marni1971]

Since too many things can happen between now and then?

Since it will be an absolute madhouse. I’d be very surprised if it’s not open

 

[MisterPenguin]

For the first year of SWL, if I don't have a FP (or paying extra for a reduced crowd event), I ain't stepping into it because of how crazy it will be.

Even rope drop will be crazy because everyone will be doing rope drop.

This is why DHS/WDW bit the bullet and did MMRR and TSL all at once: To absorb all the overflow of people who can't literally squeeze into SWL. Too bad it seems too late to add even more stuff before SWL opens. At the very least, I hope they get the shows updated.

 

[jaxonp]

Pandora crowds haven't subsided one bit. Most people don't give a darn about Avatar which should make us all very very concerned about the people this land will pull in. SWL is going to be a unbearable mess the likes we haven't seen at a disney park day in and day out. I will brave the mess, but I will absolutely about it and complain about Disney not making this land twice the size. If all goes well, it has to, expansions should happen sooner rather than later. Just wait for the park to have a 30% increase. Do we really think TDO is gonna sit back and not expand like Universal did for Potter? @marni1971 have you heard if there is a 5 or 10 year plan.. something like that in the works for future Star Wars projects once SWL opens?

 

[Texas84]

They are going to have to limit access. How did Uni handle Potter?

 

[po1998]

Pandora crowds haven't subsided one bit. Most people don't give a darn about Avatar which should make us all very very concerned about the people this land will pull in. SWL is going to be a unbearable mess the likes we haven't seen at a disney park day in and day out. I will brave the mess, but I will absolutely ***** about it and complain about Disney not making this land twice the size. If all goes well, it has to, expansions should happen sooner rather than later. Just wait for the park to have a 30% increase. Do we really think TDO is gonna sit back and not expand like Universal did for Potter? @marni1971 have you heard if there is a 5 or 10 year plan.. something like that in the works for future Star Wars projects once SWL opens?

5 or 10 year plan? There better be something unannounced in the works already to help with DHS capacity. If not, I would guarantee that they are going to get slammed with complaints of long lines and not enough to do if you don't want to wait in said lines. I'd be shocked if there aren't at least two more attractions(one of which is a capacity eater) opened by 2021 at DHS...of course they would have to go with a quicker than normal construction schedule by TDO standards.

 

[HauntedMansionFLA]

Pandora crowds haven't subsided one bit. Most people don't give a darn about Avatar which should make us all very very concerned about the people this land will pull in. SWL is going to be a unbearable mess the likes we haven't seen at a disney park day in and day out. I will brave the mess, but I will absolutely ***** about it and complain about Disney not making this land twice the size. If all goes well, it has to, expansions should happen sooner rather than later. Just wait for the park to have a 30% increase. Do we really think TDO is gonna sit back and not expand like Universal did for Potter? @marni1971 have you heard if there is a 5 or 10 year plan.. something like that in the works for future Star Wars projects once SWL opens?

It will interesting to see if people start to sell their fast passes for big time money. Like Willy Wonka and the Golden Ticket. Also, I wonder if Star Wars will expand into other WDW parks.

 

[MisterPenguin]

It will interesting to see if people start to sell their fast passes for big time money.

How does one sell a WDW FP?

 

[HauntedMansionFLA]

How does one sell a WDW FP?

I see people with paper fast passes still in the parks. That’s my guess. When there is a way to make big bucks, people will try it.

 

[SpoiledBlueMilk]

Pandora crowds haven't subsided one bit. Most people don't give a darn about Avatar which should make us all very very concerned about the people this land will pull in. SWL is going to be a unbearable mess the likes we haven't seen at a disney park day in and day out. I will brave the mess, but I will absolutely ***** about it and complain about Disney not making this land twice the size. If all goes well, it has to, expansions should happen sooner rather than later. Just wait for the park to have a 30% increase. Do we really think TDO is gonna sit back and not expand like Universal did for Potter? @marni1971 have you heard if there is a 5 or 10 year plan.. something like that in the works for future Star Wars projects once SWL opens?

checked the app this morning at 9 - already a 270 minute wait for FOP a year after opening. Can't wait to see the amazing lines in SWL. I am starting to agree that the land needed to be twice the size if for no other reason than to create areas to walk. Pandora is great and the theming is amazing. What takes me out of the theme and the place is having a mass crowd of obnoxious people clogging the route I need to take. I can only imagine the crush of people that will be in the land at any given point.

 

[jaxonp]

The only time I haven't seen Pandora too crowded were the two times I've run through there during half marathons. Disney has so much land. Make these places bigger!

 

[drod1985]

The crowds in this land are going to be intense. But hey, similar areas we've seen in recent Star Wars media (Jedha, Ring of Kaferne) have been super crowded and populated too.

I wonder if Star Wars will expand into other WDW parks.

I'm a Star Wars fan before I'm a Disney fan, but I hope that (for the most part) they keep Star Wars isolated to Hollywood Studios.

 

[tribbleorlfl]

They are going to have to limit access. How did Uni handle Potter?

They had both a standby wait queue as well as return time tickets to access the area.

 

[twebber55]

Pandora crowds haven't subsided one bit. Most people don't give a darn about Avatar which should make us all very very concerned about the people this land will pull in. SWL is going to be a unbearable mess the likes we haven't seen at a disney park day in and day out. I will brave the mess, but I will absolutely ***** about it and complain about Disney not making this land twice the size. If all goes well, it has to, expansions should happen sooner rather than later. Just wait for the park to have a 30% increase. Do we really think TDO is gonna sit back and not expand like Universal did for Potter? @marni1971 have you heard if there is a 5 or 10 year plan.. something like that in the works for future Star Wars projects once SWL opens?

i think the best thing going for capacity for DHS is the land in DL. This will help tremendously. im looking for a 30% jump for DHS

also Pandora has 1 E ticket must see attraction where as SWGE has 2

 

[flynnibus]

For the first year of SWL, if I don't have a FP (or paying extra for a reduced crowd event), I ain't stepping into it because of how crazy it will be.

FP?? You mean... paid ticketed experience...

 

[Princess Leia]

I can imagine Disney hyper-inflating the wait times for both rides, like they've done with Flight of Passage.

 

[Sped2424]

I can imagine Disney hyper-inflating the wait times for both rides, like they've done with Flight of Passage.

I waited 45 minutes when the line said 105. And then I've seen the line say 150 when the line of people stretched almost to africa!! I find with most popular queues ya gotta eyeball it!