Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge (Disney's Hollywood Studios)

[Disneyhead]

The Millennium Falcon ride will not be a centrifuge. As far as I've heard it will be kuka arms on a track like Harry Potter with an enclosed capsule with a screen like Sum of All Thrills. Except you get to control it as you're riding it.

I think we're doing it a disservice when we compare it to Mission Space. And there's a small bit of hysteria on Twitter right now because the circle footprint shape of the ride is making people think it will spin like MS. It's a lot more interesting than that, plus more family friendly.

The track is round so the ride vehicles can move forward through it endlessly. But they will move more like Forbidden Journey than Mission Space... Right? That is what it'll be right?

I don't think there are Kuka arms involved. I believe that the only similarity with FJ is the carousel concept.

 

[Wesker69]

I feel like they honestly just want to demolish DHS entirely and rebuild it from the ground up... Hence all the "MUST. CLOSE. EVERY. RIDE" trend...

Star Tours to me will always be the better simulator ride, not matter what new Star Wars simulator screen-based ride/attraction they come up with. Sure it doesn't service Disney's new "concept" for Star Wars Land, but does it really have to fit into the canon directly? I mean really?.. its a theme park. I can only think of TWO attractions off the top of my head that actually tied directly into their franchises & both are found at Universal (T2:3D & Shrek 4D... 3 if you count Transformers).

Millennium Falcon being more "family friendly"... yay? So its an enclosed vehicle, it still goes in a circle, & you pilot it while looking at a screen? Nope, not a disservice at all comparing it to Mission Space. :tongue:

I love Star Wars, but I'm NOT excited about this land at all. Nothing announced has made me nerdgasm with excitement. Its kinda like how I've felt towards the new movies (& the fact that a new one comes out every year). I have to wonder what ride/attraction concepts Disney has sitting on the shelves. I remember the rumor of the indoor x-wing/tie-fighter coaster.

 

[SpyderDan]

I feel like they honestly just want to demolish DHS entirely and rebuild it from the ground up... Hence all the "MUST. CLOSE. EVERY. RIDE" trend...

Star Tours to me will always be the better simulator ride, not matter what new Star Wars simulator screen-based ride/attraction they come up with. Sure it doesn't service Disney's new "concept" for Star Wars Land, but does it really have to fit into the canon directly? I mean really?.. its a theme park. I can only think of TWO attractions off the top of my head that actually tied directly into their franchises & both are found at Universal (T2:3D & Shrek 4D... 3 if you count Transformers).

Millennium Falcon being more "family friendly"... yay? So its an enclosed vehicle, it still goes in a circle, & you pilot it while looking at a screen? Nope, not a disservice at all comparing it to Mission Space. :tongue:

I love Star Wars, but I'm NOT excited about this land at all. Nothing announced has made me nerdgasm with excitement. Its kinda like how I've felt towards the new movies (& the fact that a new one comes out every year). I have to wonder what ride/attraction concepts Disney has sitting on the shelves. I remember the rumor of the indoor x-wing/tie-fighter coaster.

They ruined Star Tours anyway when they upgraded it. The story, much like Star Wars itself, became pandering and catered to the obvious, like making a recognizable character the pilot instead of an original character. The current version makes absolutely no sense since you can seemingly travel to any era in the Star Wars film at the same time. Maybe I'm being too nitpicky. But it also breaks the cardinal rule of a simulator. You don't get off at the same place you got on. So, I'm okay with them getting rid of it since they just devoted a huge section of the park to Star Wars. I was surprised when I first heard it but now I'm okay with it. Now if they could just grant my wish and replace it with more Indiana Jones...

 

[shiekra38]

I don't think there are Kuka arms involved. I believe that the only similarity with FJ is the carousel concept.

I imagine it is what they wanted Mission Space to be, just couldn't...They joysticks on the ride lead me to believe they wanted some form of piloting segment

 

[Eckert]

But it also breaks the cardinal rule of a simulator. You don't get off at the same place you got on.

I've never heard of this before...

 

[SpyderDan]

I've never heard of this before...

Think about it! Back to the Future returned you to the present, Spidey brings you back to the Daily Bugle, the original Star Tours ended at the terminal you left from. Most rides deposit you where you started from in order to keep up the illusion. Star Tours 2.0 doesn't do this.

 

[rhino4evr]

I feel like they honestly just want to demolish DHS entirely and rebuild it from the ground up... Hence all the "MUST. CLOSE. EVERY. RIDE" trend...

Star Tours to me will always be the better simulator ride, not matter what new Star Wars simulator screen-based ride/attraction they come up with. Sure it doesn't service Disney's new "concept" for Star Wars Land, but does it really have to fit into the canon directly? I mean really?.. its a theme park. I can only think of TWO attractions off the top of my head that actually tied directly into their franchises & both are found at Universal (T2:3D & Shrek 4D... 3 if you count Transformers).

Millennium Falcon being more "family friendly"... yay? So its an enclosed vehicle, it still goes in a circle, & you pilot it while looking at a screen? Nope, not a disservice at all comparing it to Mission Space. :tongue:

I love Star Wars, but I'm NOT excited about this land at all. Nothing announced has made me nerdgasm with excitement. Its kinda like how I've felt towards the new movies (& the fact that a new one comes out every year). I have to wonder what ride/attraction concepts Disney has sitting on the shelves. I remember the rumor of the indoor x-wing/tie-fighter coaster.

It sounds to me you USED to love Star Wars. Anyone that actually STILL loves Star Wars is not only excited for this land, but also every new movie they announce. The First Order ride sounds amazing, so not sure what else you were expecting. Walking into and piloting a full size Millennium Falcon cockpit is like something out of a fever dream.
I just don't see how anyone that LOVES Star Wars could be indifferent.

 

[Jones14]

I wonder how the Fastpass tiering will look when this opens.

I'm thinking Mania, Falcon, Battle, Mickey, and Rockin' Rollercoaster take tier 1, with everything else in 2. Hopefully having new three headliners open at the same time will allow for most guests to get a fastpass for one of them.

 

[Mad Dog]

I wonder how the Fastpass tiering will look when this opens.

I'm thinking Mania, Falcon, Battle, Mickey, and Rockin' Rollercoaster take tier 1, with everything else in 2. Hopefully having new three headliners open at the same time will allow for most guests to get a fastpass for one of them.

I'm thinking demand for the two Star Wars attractions will be too heavy for the present FP+ system. The FP system may need to be tweaked to accommodate the demand.

 

[Jones14]

I'm thinking demand for the two Star Wars attractions will be too heavy for the present FP+ system. The FP system may need to be tweaked to accommodate the demand.

How do you think they'd tweak it?

 

[Mad Dog]

How do you think they'd tweak it?

That's going to require an Einstein level think tank, or a cost upcharge to soften the demand.

 

[Bulldog45]

That's going to require an Einstein level think tank, or a cost upcharge to soften the demand.

What if they just didn't offer FP+ when the new attractions open up? That would somewhat level the playing field and keep the line moving at all times. I mean they just started offering Express for the Harry Potter rides at Universal and Islands of Adventure.

 

[Mad Dog]

What if they just didn't offer FP+ when the new attractions open up? That would somewhat level the playing field and keep the line moving at all times. I mean they just started offering Express for the Harry Potter rides at Universal and Islands of Adventure.

My guess, and it's only a guess, is that they will do some sort of upcharge to reserve what would normally be a fastpass line. Along with the SW Hotel, the Disney I know will not pass up an opportunity to make a fast buck, at least for the first year or two of operation.

 

[Skubersky]

Think about it! Back to the Future returned you to the present, Spidey brings you back to the Daily Bugle, the original Star Tours ended at the terminal you left from. Most rides deposit you where you started from in order to keep up the illusion. Star Tours 2.0 doesn't do this.

The original Star Tours took you from a galactic terminal to Endor. Star Trek Vegas started out in a museum, and dumped you in a maintenance bay.

 

[ChristopherSE]

The original Star Tours took you from a galactic terminal to Endor. Star Trek Vegas started out in a museum, and dumped you in a maintenance bay.

FWIW, Star Tours never made it to Endor. Rex wasn't that good at his job, bless his heart. You did, indeed, end up right back where you started.

As far as the discussion goes, I definitely do feel that there's a sort of closure that comes with ending where you started, but theres some interesting potential for ending up somewhere else. You just have to suspend your disbelief when you exit out of the same building lol.

 

[Alicia]

Wild Arctic!

That one is the only one you actually feel like you landed somewhere completely different.

 

[Disneyhead]

Umm,













Hogwarts Express.

 

[Skubersky]

FWIW, Star Tours never made it to Endor. Rex wasn't that good at his job, bless his heart. You did, indeed, end up right back where you started.

I always thought you did make it to Endor, that's why (back when Tatooine Traders was Endor Vendor) you originally exited through the generator bunker from ROTJ.

 

[Mr. EPCOT]

I always thought you did make it to Endor, that's why (back when Tatooine Traders was Endor Vendor) you originally exited through the generator bunker from ROTJ.

By that logic, you were also departing from the Endor moon having walked through the forest in the queue. Remember, too, that while the WDW exterior and gift shop were themed to the Endor moon, none of the other three Star Tours in the other parks were. Plus I think it's pretty clear you weren't arriving at Endor in the ridefilm. Where you left from and arrived at were seemingly left very ambiguous, just seemingly from some kind of space station or something. It's entirely likely that it was beyond their special effects capabilities at that time to convincingly depict the first person point of view of leaving a planet surface up into space, and vice versa.

 

[Ultranel]

Are they going to get rid of ST when SWGE opens?