{"id":8273,"date":"2019-03-16T11:16:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T15:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=8273"},"modified":"2019-03-16T11:16:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T15:16:02","slug":"star-wars-at-disney-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=8273","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars at Disney Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shamelessly snitched from the Montreal Gazette– CPL
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EMBARK ON AN EPIC SPACE JOURNEY<\/h1>\n

Florida and California Disney parks to add expansive, immersive Star Wars-themed lands featuring new rides, games and more<\/h4>\n<\/hgroup>\n

Montreal Gazette\u00a0

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It won\u2019t be long before ANAHEIM, CALIF. Star Wars fans will be transported to a galaxy far, far away. At theme parks in California and Florida, Disney is putting the finishing touches on two expansive and immersive lands dedicated to the popular sci-fi franchise.<\/p>\n

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PHOTOS: DISNEY PARKS\/LUCASFILMThe Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run attraction is part of the Star Wars: Galaxy\u2019s Edge land set to open this year at Disney\u2019s California and Florida parks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For adults who grew up with George Lucas\u2019s original trilogy and his prequel series, it\u2019s an opportunity to recapture the imaginary world of space heroes and villains. For kids coming of age alongside a new slate of films that began in 2015 with Star Wars: Episode VII \u2014 The Force Awakens, they\u2019ll get a chance to step inside a universe that\u2019s been wholly re-imagined since Disney acquired the franchise in 2012 from Lucasfilm. \u201cWe\u2019re being really ambitious with what we do with Star Wars,\u201d said Scott Trowbridge, creative executive of Disney Imagineering, speaking recently at a media preview for Galaxy\u2019s Edge at Disneyland in California.<\/p>\n

A new 5.7-hectare (14-acre) land is set to open May 31 in California, followed by an exact replica Aug. 29 at Disney\u2019s Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Fla. Both attractions will feature two new rides \u2014 the jaw-dropping Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run and the epically long Rise of the Resistance.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s an amazing stepping off point for new Star Wars stories,\u201d Trowbridge said. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of like a remote frontier planet, somewhere on the edge of wild space.\u201d Galaxy\u2019s Edge will introduce visitors to a new planet, Batuu, and the village of Black Spire Outpost. There, they\u2019ll be able to interact with its inhabitants, eat unique foods, try blue milk (first seen in Episode IV \u2014 A New Hope), shop for one-of-a-kind items and craft their very own lightsabers and droids. Nothing that\u2019s for sale will be found anywhere else.<\/p>\n

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The opening of Galaxy\u2019s Edge is one of the most anticipated events for Star Wars fans this year. It also continues a recent Disney tradition, which has seen recent popular movies brought to life. In 2017, a land set inside the world of James Cameron\u2019s Avatar opened at Animal Kingdom in Orlando. Last year, an expansion themed on Toy Story debuted at Hollywood Studios. \u201cFor me, it\u2019s come full circle,\u201d said Doug Chiang, who has worked at Lucasfilm for more than 20 years. \u201cWe\u2019re translating the world of cinema into a real location.\u201d<\/p>\n

The park features full-sized versions of TIE Fighters, Landspeeders, gigantic AT-AT (All Terrain Armored Transport) walkers, Poe Dameron\u2019s X-Wing Fighter, taxidermy Wampas, animatronics, a Star Destroyer hangar and an intricately detailed Millennium Falcon (look closely and you\u2019ll see blast marks from its previous battles), which reveals itself in grand fashion as you make your way into the land.<\/p>\n

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According to the park\u2019s logline, which is a collaboration between Disney Imagineers and storytelling visionaries at Lucasfilm, visitors are arriving on the alien planet alongside the nefarious First Order and noble Resistance. Set during the current film trilogy, explorers will interact with Black Spire Outpost\u2019s inhabitants and become fully immersed in a 360-degree experience that honours all levels of fandom. Star Wars is rooted in a sense of history and Galaxy\u2019s Edge will be no different, said Pablo Hidalgo, a creative exec with Lucasfilm\u2019s story and content division. \u201cYou may not know how Naboo (in Force Awakens) came to be, but you got a sense that the palace has a sense of history to it. The filigree on the walls has a story to it.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m envious of people who are going to be stepping into this land for the first time knowing nothing, because they\u2019re going to be amazed,\u201d story editor Margaret Kerrison added.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an amazing stepping off point for new Star Wars stories. It\u2019s kind of like a remote frontier planet, somewhere on the edge of wild space.<\/p>\n

It sounds like hyperbole, but Kerrison is right. An early look at Galaxy\u2019s Edge reveals that it is still a construction zone. During a three-day tour that included a look at a full-sized Millennium Falcon, we uncovered some of the secrets that await Star Wars fans when the new lands open later this year.<\/p>\n

FAMILIAR FACES<\/p>\n

Galaxy\u2019s Edge isn\u2019t just going to seed elements for what\u2019s to come in the Star Universe \u2014 it will be paying tribute to the past. Key characters from the films and animated series make appearances throughout the land and as part of the attractions. On Rise of the Resistance, for example, visitors will interact with new trilogy stars Rey (Daisy Ridley), Poe (Oscar Isaac), Finn (John Boyega), Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and beloved droid BB-8. Nien Nunb, who was seen in Return of the Jedi, Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, also makes an appearance. On Smuggler\u2019s Run, guests will encounter an animatronic Hondo Ohnaka. Of course, everyone\u2019s favourite ball of fur shows up as well. Elsewhere in the land, Dok-Ondar, first mentioned in Solo: A Star Wars Story, will operate an antiquities shop (where fans can purchase Star Wars items from different eras of the franchise). And RX-24 (a.k.a. Captain Rex) from Star Tours, a Star Wars simulator ride that operated at Disney parks worldwide, is now a DJ spinning space tunes at Oga\u2019s Cantina (where you can try alcohol-infused Jedi juice).<\/p>\n

EASTER EGGS<\/p>\n

Galaxy\u2019s Edge isn\u2019t just a park for Star Wars fans of today. It\u2019s meant to continue on and grow into the future. When asked if there are hidden elements that point to what might come next, Trowbridge replied, \u201cUnquestionably, yes.\u201d \u201cWe knew that we needed a jumping-off point,\u201d Lucasfilm Story Group vice-president Carrie Beck added separately. To that end, the land is riddled with clues big and small. During our walkabout, Walt Disney Imagineer Chris Beatty points out a never-before-seen TIE fighter. \u201cEvery little thing has a backstory here,\u201d Lucasfilm Story Group executive Matt Martin echoed. \u201cThe place and the attractions have been built, but everything that you populate it with can be refreshed and updated,\u201d Beck said. \u201cThere are things that exist within the land that suggest there are stories waiting to be told.\u201d<\/p>\n

THE RIDES<\/p>\n

For theme park enthusiasts, Smuggler\u2019s Run and Rise of the Resistance promise epic experiences. For fans of Star Wars, both attractions will immerse riders in worlds that, until now, they\u2019ve only dreamed about visiting. Backed by new music from Oscar-winning composer John Williams, the queue for Smuggler\u2019s Run winds its way up a ramp that provides stunning views of the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy (tip-totip, the Millennium Falcon you\u2019ll find inside Galaxy\u2019s Edge is 33.5 metres, long). As you snake your way through dimly lit corridors into the inside of the ship, you\u2019ll be able to slide up for a game of holochess. Eventually, you make it inside the cockpit where you\u2019ll get to pilot the Millennium Falcon on a top secret mission for pirate Hondo Ohnaka along with five teammates.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew that we couldn\u2019t build a Star Wars-themed land without the Millennium Falcon,\u201d Imagineering executive creative director Asa Kalama said. \u201cBut when we talked about fantasy fulfilment, getting to go into the cockpit to control it was something everyone has been waiting for.\u201d Each press of a button yields familiar squeaks and beeps. Developers are promising a unique journey each time you go through Smuggler\u2019s Run since the five other riders will control other aspects of the ship. Similarly, Rise of the Resistance is also an immersive experience that is one of the longest rides in Disney\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of that cinematic experience is having the time to go through various emotions,\u201d Imagineering executive creative director John Larena said. As you zigzag through a line that features actual track prints from R2-D2 and costumes from wellknown names in the Star Wars canon, guests board a Resistance ship before getting sucked into a Star Destroyer. When you exit, you\u2019re inside a full-sized hangar bay, gazing out into space, surrounded by First Order guards and stationary TIE Fighters. Eventually, you face down Kylo Ren and … spoiler alert: you live to fight another day.<\/p>\n

THE LOOK<\/p>\n

What makes Star Wars, well, Star Wars? It\u2019s a question designers asked themselves repeatedly. But above all, they wanted to replicate the cinematic experience people have had watching these worlds come to life. \u201cWe were keen on creating a design that would anchor everything \u2014 all the films, all the stories in the video games, all the stories in the novels \u2014 but anchored in a way that feels very fresh,\u201d Chiang said. \u201cThere are some new vehicles and new things that are being seeded into the other films that you\u2019ll be seeing for the first time, and yet they all feel very connected.\u201d There are domed buildings, canopies blowing in the wind and ships in the foreground that are easily identifiable as Star Wars. But large spires jutting out from rock formations give the land a unique look. \u201cIt\u2019s one heroic shot after another. Just when you think we\u2019ve shown it all to you, you\u2019ll see something that makes you say, \u2018Oh my God, that\u2019s incredible,\u2019\u201d Beatty said.<\/p>\n

FUN WHILE YOU WAIT<\/p>\n

When you come to Star Wars: Galaxy\u2019s Edge, the Play Disney Parks app will switch to Star Wars mode where it will unlock a series of missions and ways to interact with the land and its droids. It\u2019s an invitation to go as deep as you want. Using your smartphone, you can take on casual tasks or a longer-form mission, where you can role-play as a smuggler or bounty hunter. It offers an added story element for people of all ages, said Kalama. \u201cWe want to create a place where guests truly feel they have a place where they can live out their own Star Wars adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n

A WORLD BEYOND THE PARK<\/p>\n

To prepare fans for what awaits on Black Spire Outpost, a galaxy\u2019s worth of books and comics with direct links to the planet Batuu are in various stages of development. A new YA novel \u2014 Pirate\u2019s Price \u2014 features Han Solo, Chewbacca and Hondo Ohnaka (from the animated series) and directly ties into the attraction (\u201cThe very last thing in the book is something you can see in the land,\u201d Kerrison teased). Marvel Comics will kick off a sixpart series set inside Black Spire Outpost in April. And in September, a prequel novel will be released recounting a tale in which General Leia Organa dispatches her top spy to Batuu in a search for Resistance allies. These entrances will give guests a taste of the world before they get there. Batuu also appears in Thrawn: Alliances, which features such iconic characters as Darth Vader and Padme Amidala.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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