Star Wars Land announced for Disney's Hollywood Studios

[mikejs78]

I'm sure that's why Disney is looking at the numbers and what they are dealing with so they know how to tweak any system for DHS version before they even announce HOW they will handle DHS SWGE. Maybe they will simply have checkpoints going into the land and your are active int he land for 4 hours, then after that you won't be able to buy or ride anything so your reduced to sightseeing before you decide to leave the land.

Or they have Stormtroopers escort you out.

 

[WDWtraveler]

Photo update as of Friday, May 31, 2019. The scaffolding at the back of the Muppet Vision theatre probably means re-painting or theming to conform with Star Wars Land, as this part of the building faces Star Wars Land.

 

[Rteetz]

 

[JohnD]

Or they have Stormtroopers escort you out.

Which means everyone will overstay their welcome for this plussed experience.

 

[Rteetz]

 

[TJJohn12]

Resort TV 1 is now live as well, just entering the land (5:09 Eastern):

 

[Rteetz]

 

[Andrew C]

Resort TV 1 is now live as well, just entering the land (5:09 Eastern):

Trying not to watch much. Don't want to spoil it. But it is hard not to!

 

[danlb_2000]

Looked so much more complete on the live streams today.

 

[TP2000]

I really hope DHS learns from Disneyland and follows in their example.

After seeing how well the reservation system worked for Disneyland, I really wish we would get the same for Hollywood Studios...

Here's the official video of this morning's "rope drop" and the first reservation group allowed in to Star Wars Land. That's Disneyland President Josh Damaro at the very head of the line, waving folks in and leading the charge. That's very impressive that he'd want to be that involved and up close with all those paying customers!


Disneyland seems to have gotten this reservation concept right and hit it out of the park when it comes to manageable park experiences.

I really hope so too. My only fear is that they may not be able to give WDW hotel guests a guaranteed spot considering how many more hotels WDW has compared to DL. I've got my opening day hotel reservations and a ticket bought, I hope that pays off.

There are only 2,400 Disney owned hotel rooms at the Disneyland Resort, with just over 30,000 non-Disney hotel rooms in the Anaheim Resort District that get no access to Star Wars Land. There are over 30,000 Disney owned hotel rooms at Walt Disney World, that would theoretically get access to Star Wars Land if WDW uses the same type of reservation system. But maybe WDW restricts the reservations only to Deluxe, or Deluxe and Moderate?

There will obviously need to be differences, if WDW management chooses to borrow the Disneyland reservation system.

 

[Rteetz]

 

[MisterPenguin]

There are over 30,000 Disney owned hotel rooms at Walt Disney World, that would theoretically get access to Star Wars Land if WDW uses the same type of reservation system. But maybe WDW restricts the reservations only to Deluxe, or Deluxe and Moderate?

Don't forget there's only one reservation in the land for each resort reservation, and in WDW, there are a lot of week long resort reservations.

So, one edge case is that for the 30k rooms at WDW, everyone of those rooms has 4 occupants and is staying only one day. So, that would be for SWL, 120k people a day with SWL reservations.

The other edge case is that everyone going to WDW is going for a full week and there is just an average of two per room. That means 8.5k reservations for the land per day since the people occupying a room for seven days only gets one reservation for the land.

An average of 4-day-stays with 3 people in the room is 22.k reservations for the land per day.

 

[wdwmagic]

That's Disneyland President Josh Damaro at the very head of the line, waving folks in and leading the charge. That's very impressive that he'd want to be that involved and up close with all those paying customers!

If the top guy at DL wasn’t in the thick of such a huge opening I’d be questioning his suitability for the job. It doesn’t get much bigger than SWGE opening. From his days at DAK though, he was always very hands on. Good to see he’s still the same,

 

[Stripes]

I can't wait for the documentary-series!

 

[jrhwdw]

Here's the official video of this morning's "rope drop" and the first reservation group allowed in to Star Wars Land. That's Disneyland President Josh Damaro at the very head of the line, waving folks in and leading the charge. That's very impressive that he'd want to be that involved and up close with all those paying customers!


Disneyland seems to have gotten this reservation concept right and hit it out of the park when it comes to manageable park experiences.



There are only 2,400 Disney owned hotel rooms at the Disneyland Resort, with just over 30,000 non-Disney hotel rooms in the Anaheim Resort District that get no access to Star Wars Land. There are over 30,000 Disney owned hotel rooms at Walt Disney World, that would theoretically get access to Star Wars Land if WDW uses the same type of reservation system. But maybe WDW restricts the reservations only to Deluxe, or Deluxe and Moderate?

There will obviously need to be differences, if WDW management chooses to borrow the Disneyland reservation system.

Which is why I'm glad these 4 hour windows end June 23rd, then people can come and go from SWGE whenever they want.

I feel bad for the offsite people! I wonder if the offsite hotel are empty now?

Wonder if we'll see Potter/Pandora opening crowds on June 24th?

IDK how Reservations for DHS would work. Would they limit it to Epcot /Skyliner resorts??? That doesn't seem fair to MK, AK and DS Resorts. Plus, Reservations can't go on for long since Orlando has way more offsite hotels than Anaheim I would think

As far has SWGE: IT LOOKS FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!! I was shocked at the signal quality this morning streams!!!!!! Even in the heart of Falcon! Did they put signal towers in SWGE? Maybe the low 8AM crowds?


I can't believe this is coming to DHS in Aug!!!!!! Hopefully the size won't be that big of a difference! Plus we get Skyliner!!!!!(Not SWGE I know, but it'll prop open close to SWGE.)

This is coming from someone who's not a big researcher into SWGE: Is R2D2 and C3PO supposed to be in SWGE somewhere?

 

[Rteetz]

If the top guy at DL wasn’t in the thick of such a huge opening I’d be questioning his suitability for the job. It doesn’t get much bigger than SWGE opening. From his days at DAK though, he was always very hands on. Good to see he’s still the same,

For sure. Trowbridge was right in the thick of it today too. Meet and greeting with guests telling them he “lives” there now.

 

[jrhwdw]

If the top guy at DL wasn’t in the thick of such a huge opening I’d be questioning his suitability for the job. It doesn’t get much bigger than SWGE opening. From his days at DAK though, he was always very hands on. Good to see he’s still the same,

For sure. Trowbridge was right in the thick of it today too. Meet and greeting with guests telling them he “lives” there now.

Should we expect DHS Suits on Aug 29th? Maybe Mark Daniel will be walking us in??? Doesn't he work at DHS when he's not on DPB?

 

[Rteetz]

Should we expect DHS Suits on Aug 29th? Maybe Mark Daniel will be walking us in??? Doesn't he work at DHS when he's not on DPB?

Definitely expect at least Phil Holmes. George Kalogridis was at the Disneyland media event. Mark Daniel isn’t a day to day DHS CM. He does a variety of things.

 

[mikejs78]

Hopefully the size won't be that big of a difference!

They are practically equal in size.

 

[durangojim]

For those of us thinking that it stayed pretty slow during the entire day, this article says otherwise.

Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge lines grow long on opening day at Disneyland

Wait times for Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run varied from more than 2 hours to virtual walk-on status.

www.ocregister.com

I really really hope DHS has some kind of reservation system or at least virtual queue when it opens!
Also I think things look fantastic!