Disney Star Wars Land? The Force Is Strong With This Plan
2 views - published on March 21st, 2013 in Disney News tagged Disney, disney news, disneyland, walt disney, walt disney worldIn a annals of no-brainers, a judgment of an whole Disney thesis park clinging to Star Wars ranks flattering highly. So most so that skeleton were underway even before a Mouse House pounced on Lucasfilm in Oct 2012.
Now it seems those skeleton are accelerating — and multiplying.
We already knew Disneyland Paris was set to get a Star Wars Land by 2015; a company’s Imagineers let that one trip behind in Apr 2012. Star Tours in Orlando’s Disney World reopened that same month; bigger, better, not so most about Endor, and with a vast adequate selling debate that we could mistake it for a apart thesis park.
Star Tours in Disneyland Tokyo (the usually park not underneath Disney’s approach control) is removing a possess retrofit right now, and reopening to a Star Wars-mad Japanese open in May 2013. Right around that time — a thirty-sixth anniversary of a strange film nearing in theaters — Disney World itself will be remade by a array of costume-filled “Star Wars Weekends,” a tradition that is now in a tenth uninterrupted year (and was hold irregularly over 6 years before that.)
Now word comes from a forum of Disneyland fans that visitors are removing strike with a multi-question online consult that asks some divulgence questions. Such as: “How meddlesome [on a scale of one to 10] would we be in visiting a Star Wars-themed Land during a Disneyland Resort?”
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Disneyland, in Anaheim, Calif., competence be a strange Disney park, though it non-stop in 1955 (with a 10-year aged George Lucas being among a initial visitors; check out this footage from one year later). These days, it looks a small prolonged in a tooth compared to a glossy Orlando cousin. If Imagineers are looking to debonair it adult and boost a series of rides in one fell swoop, Star Wars Land competence be usually a E-ticket.
California-based author for The Awl Ken Layne tweeted screengrabs of a survey, so we know that one of a subsequent questions is, “how informed are we with a Star Wars universe?” Lest visitors fear they’re about to be quizzed on a names of planets and Star Destroyers, a doubt clarifies that it’s articulate about “the people, places and stories in a Star Wars movies, books and games.”
It takes years for Imagineers and construction crews to shake out a new thesis park, even when we have all of Disney’s resources. But we wouldn’t be astounded to see belligerent damaged on Star Wars Land somewhere in Anaheim soon, in time to open it by 2015. Not usually would that compare a Disneyland Paris development, it would also money in on Disney’s approaching recover of a still-untitled Star Wars Episode VII, destined by J.J. Abrams.
On a scale of one to 10, how would we answer a questions acted in a Disneyland survey? Should a Star Wars Land reinstate Tomorrowland, or is there room for both? Let us (and Disney executives) know in a comments.
And to give we a ambience of what we can design during Star Wars Land, here’s an appetite-whetting video of Star Wars Weekends:
George Lucas and Jedi Mickey Mouse duel in 2010: Image around Todd Anderson/Disney around Getty Images