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

[tielo]

I don't know much about Star Wars lore, but an Imperial hangar seems to be quite large... so I can imagine much of the action taking place there.

Actual ride concept art:
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Unrelated awesome art I found online that looks like something we may also see on the ride:
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Yep, I'm almost kind of sure these are all practical sets. To be honest, like Universal, this ip screams screens. You can't capture the size with real sets, you need screens, but I'm sure there will be some hallways with AA's.

 

[belloq87]

To be honest, like Universal, this ip screams screens.

It's all about what you want to achieve with the attraction. Space battle or space flight? Yeah, that's pretty much got to be a simulator. But there can be more done with STAR WARS rides than that. I've always wanted to see a semi-scary Jabba's Palace (or something stylistically similar) dark ride that would be a modern version of the classic funhouse ride: a briskly paced romp through dark and dank dungeons housing monstrous and scary aliens that might swipe at you like the Yeti once did, or get right in your face like the Dementors on Forbidden Journey.

 

[AlexanderMBush]

I have to assume Battle Escape will be the Forbidden Journey of Disney, using a heavy mix of practical sets with the screens as transitions or scenes to allow actors of the films to be in the ride.

 

[captainmoch]

Almost everything I've heard about Battle Escape suggests it's going to be a western version of Tokyo's Pirates, a Disney version of Forbidden Journey, and one of the greatest attractions in a while. I have no reason to suspect it's going to be lame or boring.

 

[epcyclopedia]

I still vote sort of like Indy with your little transport vehicle zipping between areas in the big room and over a little gantry bridge. Not the exact Indy rie system, but the criss-crossing multipaths and action all around style.

 

[Mike S]

Almost everything I've heard about Battle Escape suggests it's going to be a western version of Shanghai's Pirates, a Disney version of Forbidden Journey, and one of the greatest attractions in a while. I have no reason to suspect it's going to be lame or boring.

FTFY

 

[captainmoch]

FTFY

Oops, brain fart. I got my "resorts that I would love to go to but never will be able to go to" mixed up. :bonk:

 

[Blaw923]

Almost everything I've heard about Battle Escape suggests it's going to be a western version of Tokyo's Pirates, a Disney version of Forbidden Journey, and one of the greatest attractions in a while. I have no reason to suspect it's going to be lame or boring.

Give the people what they want! This is what we want!

I wouldn't mind the hanger scene with the open space port being a screen, potential for great blend and depth like the battling ships in Tokyo Pirates.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

Heard some good rumors about the battl attraction. It’s going to be very unique and probably an operations nightmare.

 

[Alicia]

Heard some good rumors about the battl attraction. It’s going to be very unique and probably an operations nightmare.

Oh no. Don't tell me the getting off the ride in the middle and then back on rumors are true?

 

[JunoSynth]

Heard some good rumors about the battl attraction. It’s going to be very unique and probably an operations nightmare.

I better go right when it opens then. It could wind up like Disco Yeti where have something really cool but due to unforeseen circumstance they had to change it up.

 

[Yabbadabba Doh]

Oh no. Don't tell me the getting off the ride in the middle and then back on rumors are true?

Exactly what I was thinking. While it would definitely make the ride longer, load and unload multiple times would be a train wreck IMHO.

 

[Nick]

Oh no. Don't tell me the getting off the ride in the middle and then back on rumors are true?

I'm pretty sure it's not. The ride has been talked about extensively on Magic and this rumor has been debunked time and time again.

 

[Alicia]

I'm pretty sure it's not. The ride has been talked about extensively on Magic and this rumor has been debunked time and time again.

Just checking.

 

[Teebin]

I find it interesting that people thought this website had little interest in Disney. As we can see, this is not true at all these days. We only hoped that Disney would do something worthy and now they are.

 

[Nick]

Just checking.

I think capacity is going to be lower than one would desire. It's also going to have an indoor queue larger than Flight of Passage. For reference, the FoP show-building takes up 1 acre. The Battle Escape show-building will take up just about 2 acres.

 

[captainmoch]

Disney does have a bad habit of making huge-demand attractions with low capacity... let's just hope Millennium Falcon can pull that weight.

 

[belloq87]

Every new E-ticket ride that Disney (or anyone else, for that matter) designs should begin with the mandate of an hourly capacity of at least 2,000. Why (modern era) Disney doesn't care much about this is absolutely baffling to me; just from the cold-blooded financial aspect, people stuck in an attraction line for multiple hours are, therefore, not elsewhere in the park where they could be buying merchandise or food.

 

[Mad Dog]

Disney does have a bad habit of making huge-demand attractions with low capacity... let's just hope Millennium Falcon can pull that weight.

and...Universal keeps going in the other direction, high capacity attractions....FJ, Gringotts, Transformers, HE, Fallon, Fast & Furious, and probably both new Potter land attractions , SLOP, Nintendo.

 

[Nick]