Star Wars Land announced for Disney's Hollywood Studios

[THE 1HAPPY HAUNT]

you must be fun at parties

how very original of you to say. yawwn. a 2 year old flips me better insults than you. and i am fun at parties. and if there was not a problem with the food names then disney would not have changed it.

 

[Bleed0range]

Not sure exactly when this happened or if this has been reported elsewhere on the forums, but the all the food at Docking Bay 7 has been renamed and all the fun in-universe names are gone. Total bummer.View attachment 418685

If this is true it sure kills some of the immersion.

 

[G00fyDad]

Maybe they should have digital menus that only have menu items in Galactic Basic and when you touch the photo of the dish you like it "translates" the Galactic Basic to your native language, Terran.

 

[Marlins1]

Random thought about the overall lack of enthusiasm for the SW lands on both coasts. Disney is building lands copying the Uni Potter model - few new rides and lots of immersion. That worked at Uni because until Potter came along they were all ride, no significant immersion. At Disney (and especially HS) the rides are needed because Disney parks are already loaded with immersion. Seems like a land that opened with one simulator is pretty much drawing yawns.

 

[wdwmagic]

This may have already been posted, but the tables and seating have been replaced with something more on theme.

 

[Tom Morrow]

Even then in his list I only cared for Chewie and the Stormtroopers.

That's two more characters worth caring about than you can meet at WWoHP.

 

[Kram Sacul]

That's two more characters worth caring about than you can meet at WWoHP.

What do you mean? Harry Potter, Hagrid and the other kids aren’t walking around? I thought that one of the main complaints from the GE critics was their favorite dead characters weren’t in the land.

 

[Mike S]

That's two more characters worth caring about than you can meet at WWoHP.

I normally don’t care about meeting characters at all. If you want to go this way though in the main ride we see Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Even Dumbledore who was dead in the movies when the ride opened. The main heroes of the franchise people grew up with and love. Not Newt Scamander from the new movies

 

[999th Happy Haunt]

I normally don’t care about meeting characters at all. If you want to go this way though in the main ride we see Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Even Dumbledore who was dead in the movies when the ride opened. The main heroes of the franchise people grew up with and love. Not Newt Scamander from the new movies

Rise is going to feature Rey, Ren, Hux, Finn, Poe, and BB-8, the main heroes of the franchise that the current generation of kids is growing up with.

 

[The Grand Inquisitor]

Rise is going to feature Rey, Ren, Hux, Finn, Poe, and BB-8, the main heroes of the franchise that the current generation of kids is growing up with.

I want to know which kid says hux is their favorite character from the new trilogy.

 

[SpoiledBlueMilk]

One thing I will say is that if you are building a land this large, you almost have to have free roaming characters and droids - more than they already have. The land is incredibly themed, but it feels empty at times. Dok Ondar’s is great, but due to the amazing AA. When I was walking around the outside, I was like, something is missing. Not enough interactivity, and I know that they are striving for full on realistic immersion, but not having music somewhere in the background kinda stinks. Even in Pandora the one area has music playing.

Overall you have to laud the Imagineers for the theming and scale of everything. But I guess we can thank Chapek for the empty feeling you get at times walking around this expansive addition to DHS.

Yes, there have been reductions in performance characters and live entertainment thanks to Bob "our cast members are entertainment" Chapek, but let's not forget the hell the free-roaming droids went through in Tomorrowland during that brief test a year or two back. Kids were hitting, crawling and pushing the things while their parents stood around like slack jawed yokels gawking at their precious little demons destroying our chances of having free roaming droids at Galaxy's Edge.

Imagineers come up with amazing ideas, full of life and interaction and they should be lauded for it. Then the real world slaps it out of their hands because people - not all, but many - can't have nice things. For every person who would say "awesome, look at that droid just meandering down the street," there are three who would say "hey look at that droid. Bet I can push it into that wall."

If Galaxy's Edge feels empty, the blame is 70/30 - 70% Chapek and the other 30%? Look in the mirror, humanity.

 

[Mike S]

Rise is going to feature Rey, Ren, Hux, Finn, Poe, and BB-8, the main heroes of the franchise that the current generation of kids is growing up with.

Kids of this generation don’t care as the toys don’t sell. The original characters still sell though oddly enough

 

[The_Jobu]

Kids of this generation don’t care as the toys don’t sell. The original characters still sell though oddly enough

Except Rose. She's developing quite the ironic fanbase.

 

[The_Jobu]

Rise is going to feature Rey, Ren, Hux, Finn, Poe, and BB-8, the main heroes of the franchise that the current generation of kids is growing up with.

If they put Reylo together they can guarantee the crazies will come out repeatedly.

 

[Darth Snips]

Paging @marni1971 @SWGalaxysEdge
Is there any truth to this? This is the first I've heard of "cancelled gift shops".

 

[Movielover]

Paging @marni1971 @SWGalaxysEdge
Is there any truth to this? This is the first I've heard of "cancelled gift shops".

I was under the impression that it wasn't cancelled but that space was built to add a store in the future.

 

[Darth Snips]

I was under the impression that it wasn't cancelled but that space was built to add a store in the future.

I mean, that makes more sense to me. I'm aware that GE experienced budget cuts, but most of them seem to have happened in the later stages and were related to things like atmosphere, walk-around characters, and live stunt shows. It seems like an entire gift shop being removed from the project so late in construction would be rather unlikely.

 

[The_Jobu]

Paging @marni1971 @SWGalaxysEdge
Is there any truth to this? This is the first I've heard of "cancelled gift shops".

It's odd. Not that the land needs even more retail options, but I wouldn't think a store would be expensive to set up.

 

[ChrisFL]

Random thought about the overall lack of enthusiasm for the SW lands on both coasts. Disney is building lands copying the Uni Potter model - few new rides and lots of immersion. That worked at Uni because until Potter came along they were all ride, no significant immersion.

Disagree. IOA specifically had plenty of immersion before Harry Potter, and Universal Studios had arguably the same amount as DHS

 

[MisterPenguin]

but I wouldn't think a store would be expensive to set up.

With the level of detail of theming, I would think the SWL stores are a bit more to set-up. Much more so than the TSL pop-up.