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Star Wars Celebration Chicago just hosted theBringing Star Wars : Galaxy ’s border to Life at Disney Parkspanel where more detail and reveals were shared about the upcoming challenging parks ahead of their opening .
Galaxy ’s Edge first open at Disneyland in late May , before first step in Florida at Walt Disney World in late August , and this was the last major promo and presentation fromDisney Parksbefore the first of the two premieres . Josh Gad hosted the panel which saw Chris Beatty , Doug Chiang , Asa Kalama , Margaret Kerrison , Matt Martin , and Scott Townsbridge discuss authenticity of the Black Spire outstation , the devotee - fave reelect characters ( and who are vocalize them ! ) , and what baseless and ambitious new attraction guests will experience .
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Galaxy ’s Edge is the name of the park curtain raising at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World , adjust on the in - canyon Star Wars Universe planet sleep with as Batuu , where Black Spire Outpost resides . The planet is located at the edge of the Outer Rim Territories , just near " Wild Space " and is where you may line up the masses that more often than not do n’t require to be found . While a fresh add-on to Star Wars canon , the planet and its inhabitants are full of familiar lore and it ’s being written into the timeline via various novels and comics , including one where Han Solo and Chewbacca visited the location in the original trilogy era .
The key focus for Disney Parks and the Imagineering teams working on Galaxy ’s Edge was to deliver an experience that can exceed the highest arithmetic mean of fans and themselves , with a focus on genuineness and immersiveness . There ’s never been an attractive force quite like this before , and the attraction client will see hope to be the most challenging ever for Disney Parks .
What Guests Will Find at Galaxy’s Edge
The older market invention and lived - in feel of Black Spire is inspired from real - earth locations full of ancient account and multiple culture , and the teams bring down Istanbul , Morocco , and Jerusalem for ideas . In the parks , guests will find Oga ’s Cantina ( where Disneyland guests can actually buy alcohol-dependent drinks ) and where DJ R3X can be found - the same R3X droid longtime Disney Parks guests will call up from the onetime school Star Tours ( and yes , Paul Reubens return to voice him again ) .
Lucasfilm Story Group ’s Matt Martin wrote 17 pages for the droid to explain how he got to Batuu . It involve a state of war , an escape from TIE Fighters , and crashlanding on the planet . Two samples of R3X ’s music were played at the panel , one that sounded very similar in topic to what you ’d find out at Mos Eisley on Tatooine . The other , is more electronic from an all - droid banding where – like R3X- “ they do n’t always get it right . ”
As antecedently revealed , the merchant and their offer are project to sense from this existent position ( not your typical Disney Store stuff ) , and that means goods exclusive to this car park . give away at the panel was Coca - Cola ’s offerings , which are products designed to attend like Thermal Detonators and feature the logotype translated in aurebesh ( Star Wars ' Galactic Basic language ) . Coca - Cola has been translated in over 100 language , but this is the first sentence it ’s been understand into a Star Wars spoken communication .
Guests will also see a solid food area where an old podracing locomotive engine is hoisted up on its side , used to ptyalise roast space core . Yes , you may exhaust space meat . And yes , there ’s the iconic grim ( and green ) Milk River .
A complete list of Galaxy ’s Edge food and swallow can be seen here atstarwars.com .
The Two Big Attractions at Galaxy’s Edge
In Galaxy ’s Edge there will be two " big mainstay " attractions , withMillennium Falcon : Smugglers Runopening when the parks do , and later on in the year , the lengthy and ambitiousStar war : Rise of the Resistance .
The former lets buff experience out the phantasy of commanding the Falcon with their own trajectory crew take different positions in this amply interactive experience . The pilot will really fly the ship , the artilleryman will seek to stave off enemy TIE Fighters , and there are additional place like the Engineer .
The goal will be to keep the Falcon in one opus but if you take a lot of blaster fighter or wreck into spires , that equipment casualty will be reflected in the iconic corridors of the one-time hunk of dust on the path out . Lights will be broken , comms will be mess up , etc . “It ’s important to do what you may to work back to the Falcon in work out order,”otherwise Hondo Ohnaka ( Hondo Ohnaka ’s Transport Solutions ) will be displeased . rooter of Dave Filoni ’s wonder animated seriesStar Wars : Clone WarsandStar Wars Rebelswill get a flush out of seeing the older , live - activity Ohnaka who is sound by the legendary Jim Cummings .
Star Wars : wage hike of the Resistance does n’t have a loss date yet and is seemingly delayed due to the complexness of the ambitious , and protracted drawing card . But it call to be a one - of - a - kind experience like no other . Outside of Black Spire , there ’s a Resistance campsite in the ancient ruins , and they ’re look for recruits . But not everything conk according to plan and The First Order comes and captures you , placing you on a Star Destroyer .
This experience is biggest and most complex attraction Disney Parks has made , and you ’ll see key characters from the franchise including Kylo Ren , Poe Dameron , Rey , and Finn , played by Adam Driver , Oscar Isaac , Daisy Ridley , and John Boyega , severally . BB-8 is there too .
Elsewhere in the Mungo Park guests will encounter at least the voice of Yoda where Frank Oz return to bring the character to life , and this parks will be further bolster by new music score by John Williams himself .
Build A One-of-A-Kind Lightsaber at Savi’s Workshop
Galaxy ’s boundary feature plenty to see and do , and many vendors admit the Creature Stall , Black Spire Outfitters , Toydarian Toymaker , Dok - Ondar ’s Den of Antiquities , the Milk Stand , Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo , Oga ’s Cantina , the Droid Depot , and of path , Savi ’s Workshop .
If you find Savi at Black Spire Outpost you may make and customise a one of a sort lightsaber .
All of the vendors here sell token that are set in - canon , in - world and are only available at Galaxy ’s Edge . Even Hasbro is deal toys that are exclusively available at the park , and skip the unconstipated packaging you ’d see in normal stores . If you could n’t tell from the toys , character , and Hasbro and Coca - Cola intersection , they ’re really tanking the idea of " genuineness " badly . The best example of this may be the Disney Parks squad dog down original Nien Nunb voice worker Bill Kipsang Rotich in Kenya to have him vocalise the fictional character again for the parks,“because that ’s what the fan would have wanted . "
Oga’s Cantina
The panel end with the message that " this is just the beginning , " and that there are unlimited number of places to go , things to do , and adventures to be a part of . The Skywalker saga may end withStar war : The Rise of Skywalkerthis December , but this park and the succeeding ofStar Warsstorytelling and experiences is just beginning .
The Star Wars App Interactive Experience in Galaxy’s Edge
Available for download now , the Play Disney Parks app becomes a Galactic Datapad when in Galaxy ’s Edge and it lease you act games and interact with the environment with four key features .
Bonus : If you ’re at Star Wars Celebration Chicago , attendant can head to the Galaxy ’s Edge booth display and record a Star Wars confessional . All of these will be store on a elephantine Holocron which will be keep at the park .
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