[Disneyland Park] Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge (31 mai 2019)

On est bien aux USA pour ça...
Et en même temps, Disneyland a moins d'hôtels que Paris ou Orlando, ce qui aide.

Pour le coup ,je pense que si ,ils avaient le même nombre d’hôtels que chez  nous ,ils les auraient remplis aisément.

Ces Galaxy Edge vont  être une véritable  cash machine ,les fans et ceux qui aiment la franchise  iront la bas et reviendront peut être (pas certains si le bouche a oreille est mauvais )aux Wds  avec une autre vision d'un mini  Galaxie Edge qui n'ouvrira que dans 6 ans WTF !!!!

Déjà après  Cars land ,Avatar et maintenant Galaxie Edge ,Disney avait monté le level très haut mais la ,ça va être très difficile d’égaler tout ça sur les prochains rides .

c'est clair que ça va rapporter "un pognon de dingue" comme dirait notre président

Exclu : Marty Mcfly nous reviens du futur avec un cliché de Galaxy's Edge ouvert au public.

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How to fly the Millennium Falcon aboard the new Smugglers Run ride at Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge

“Star Wars” fans who have been dreaming of flying the Millennium Falcon for four decades will get the chance to climb into the cockpit and pilot the famed starship on the new Smugglers Run attraction coming to the Galaxy’s Edge themed land at Disneyland.

But how do you actually fly the Falcon after you’ve taken your seat in one of the pilot, gunner or flight engineer positions? Which one of the 200 fully functional buttons, knobs and switches in the cockpit do you need to activate to properly operate the greatest hunk of junk in the galaxy?

We asked a couple of Walt Disney Imagineering creative team members who worked on the highly anticipated E-ticket attraction to offer some tips on how to complete your mission successfully and bring the Falcon back home safely.

Your success or failure on your mission aboard the Falcon is important because your reputation as a smuggler will follow you around Black Spire Outpost on the Star Wars planet of Batuu, the setting for the new Galaxy’s Edge themed land. Step into Oga’s Cantina after crashing the Falcon and a bounty hunter might tap you on the shoulder looking for a space pirate’s lost loot.

Riders will enter the Smugglers Run ride queue through Ohnaka Transport Solutions, a shady shipping operation run by Hondo Ohnaka, a dreadlocked space pirate with six tusk-like chin protrusions. Riders will receive their smuggling mission from an audio-animatronic Hondo before moving into the hold of the Millennium Falcon and eventually the cockpit of Han Solo’s famed YT-1300 light freighter.

The Smugglers Run ride experience begins and ends in Black Spire Outpost, with the the hangar bay of Ohnaka Transport Solutions projected on a domed screen outside the cockpit windows of the flight simulator.

Six riders will take their seats with the pilots up front, gunners in the middle and flight engineers in the rear. All of the buttons, switches and knobs in the cockpit make clicking, chirping and beeping sounds when activated and their implementation directly impacts each mission.

“This is an experience that’s all about touching buttons, playing with buttons. It is highly, highly encouraged,” said Walt Disney Imagineering executive creative director Asa Kalama. “Now, you need to be careful because the buttons already duct into the very systems of the Millennium Falcon. Depending on what you push it might have the desired effect or an unintended consequence.”

So which of the 200 buttons, knobs and switches should you be pushing, turning and toggling?

“The one that’s flashing,” said Walt Disney Imagineering producer Jacqueline King.

Each button will light up to indicate when to push it. The pilot yokes will have lights indicating which direction to fly: Up, down, left or right.

Steering the ship left and right is the responsibility of the pilot sitting in the front left seat. The pilot in the front right seat will guide the ship up and down and pull back the throttle lever to make the jump to hyperspace.

“We have our pilots up front,” Kalama said. “It is truly up to them to pilot the ship. Depending on how they do, that will determine the overall physical health of the ship.”

The gunners in the middle seats are responsible for pushing an array of buttons that fire the Millennium Falcon’s weapons systems.

“Because we are a smuggling operation, chances are we may come up against folks who are not too happy about what we are up to,” Kalama said. “It will be up to the gunners in the middle to provide defense for the Millennium Falcon. If they don’t line up the TIE fighters fast enough, the hull is going to get riddled and the ship is going to shake violently.”

The gunners have a simple yet essential job: Keep firing the blasters.

“You’re going to keep firing them and take out anything that you meet along the way,” King said.

The flight engineers in the rear seats are responsible for getting the Falcon back into working condition after an accident or attack.

“There are a lot of spires in Black Spire Outpost,” Kalama said. “If you run into one and the pilots don’t steer out of the way, the ship’s going to crash into them. Warning alarms are going to go off and it’ll be up to the flight engineers in the back to make sure that they keep the ship in working order.”

The flight engineers play a vital role: Keep the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy flying.

“The pilots are bumping into things,” King said. “The ship is coming apart because she’s always coming apart to some degree. Your job is really to help keep her running. You’ve got to keep all the systems going so that you can make it to the end.”

Smugglers Run is set up to encourage each flight crew to work together as a team throughout the mission.

“Everybody gets their own role,” King said. “You can play your own game even though you’re part of a larger team. We hope for a lot of collaboration between everybody, because that will overall make everybody more successful.”

But the video game-like attraction also keeps track of each rider’s success and failure during the mission.

“You get to compete against yourself, especially if you play multiple times,” King said. “You’ll know how well you did last time. This time if you took out more TIEs, you did better.”

Your reputation as a pilot, gunner or flight engineer will stick with you during subsequent visits to Galaxy’s Edge.

“We do want it to feel like a consequential act,” Kalama said. “Flying the ship cleanly and beautifully or smashing it to the point where it’s on fire is something that people would know about and talk about it.”

Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run debuts at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge on May 31 at Disneyland and Aug. 29 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida.

The Orange County Register - 22 mars 2019.

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Step inside Oga’s Cantina, Disneyland’s wretched hive of scum and villainy at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge  

The bar will be a place where willing visitors can have 'persistent interactions' with Star Wars characters.

When you step inside Oga’s Cantina in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland you’re likely to find a bartender mixing interstellar cocktails, a droid DJ spinning otherworldly tunes and a bounty hunter who wants to talk to you about the galactic credits you owe a space pirate.

“Every self-respecting spaceport has a cantina,” said Walt Disney Imagineering portfolio creative executive Scott Trowbridge. “This is the best place on the outpost to catch up on the gossip, to meet some interesting characters, maybe make a new friend, maybe make a new enemy.”

There will be no better place to find a wretched hive of scum and villainy than Oga’s Cantina at the center of Black Spire Outpost on the “Star Wars” planet of Batuu, the setting for the new 14-acre themed land coming to Disneyland.

Work crews were busy installing an animatronic droid DJ during a recent construction tour of Oga’s Cantina led by Walt Disney Imagineering.

When work is done, visitors will find a cozy cocktail lounge with massive glass canisters above the bar filled with alien creatures marinating in intergalactic potations. The alcoholic drink menu will include a Jedi Mind Trick cocktail, Bad Motivator IPA beer and Imperial Red wine. There’s even a non-alcoholic Blue Milk on the menu that’s served with a Bantha cookie chaser.

Oga’s was designed to be reminiscent of the cantina in the original 1977 “Star Wars” movie while still retaining its own unique character, said Imagineering executive creative director Chris Beatty.

“If you think about ‘Star Wars’ films, they almost always have a great cantina as part of their experience,” Beatty said. “So we’ve seen the one on Mos Eisley, which had the Modal Nodes playing over in the corner. We’ve seen the one at Maz’s Castle. We got to see one in ‘Solo’ where Han and Chewie first met Lando Calrissian. So, of course, our planet has to have a local watering hole.”

Visitors who opt in can have “persistent interaction” with characters throughout the Star Wars themed land. Your reputation as a Resistance pilot, First Order loyalist or heroic scoundrel will follow you around Black Spire Outpost and stick with you during subsequent visits to Galaxy’s Edge. A bounty hunter working for space pirate Hondo Ohnaka might be waiting for you in a shadowy corner of Oga’s when you walk in.

“You go in the cantina and you order a drink and you know what, that bartender’s going to be like, “Ooh, you might owe some credits to Hondo at this point.’” said Imagineering executive creative director Wendy Anderson.

Imagineering and Lucasfilm have been seeding Star Wars movies, novels and comic books with references to Batuu, Black Spire Outpost and Oga’s Cantina.

“We want to give the impression that this planet has always been around,” said Imagineering managing story editor Margaret Kerrison. “We’re coming into it as travelers for the first time onto Batuu. There are layers and layers of history and all these familiar and new characters who have come and gone to this planet.”

In “Thrawn: Alliances,” a new Star Wars book by Timothy Zahn, Padme Amidala walks into a Black Spire cantina and orders a drink.

“We know what Padme ordered at the cantina,” Kerrison said. “And guess what, that Andoan white wine is also served in our cantina.”

The cantina’s proprietor is Oga Garra, a local crime boss who controls the underworld in Black Spire Outpost, according to the backstory created for the cocktail bar.

“You may never see her because she likes to lurk in the shadows, but she has her hand in every single business,” said Imagineering creative producer Brian Loo. “The locals all know her. They all fear her. They have legends all about her. Some have seen her, some haven’t. But everyone knows that you don’t cross her, otherwise you may never be seen again.”

Inside the intimate cantina, a curved bar stands at the center of a domed space with alcoves around the edges. Patrons will stand up at the bar which will have no seats.

“What you’re seeing here around the outside are all these little nooks and crannies where you will be able to sit on a little bench seat,” Beatty said during a tour. “The table in front of you is up-lit to make it kind of mysterious.”

The high-energy cantina bar will be a show piece unto itself. Bartenders will make cocktails that appear to be pumped from tanks suspended above the bar that are seemingly filled with alien creatures.

“The bar, when it’s done, is filled with all kinds of containers and different apparatus that have creatures in them that have come to life that are being used as garnishes for drinks,” Beatty said during the tour. “They’ll have amazing taps and different things that will bring the bar to life for our bartenders to activate this space.”

DJ R-3X, or Rex as he is known, will man a disc jockey console in one of the cantina’s alcoves. The former droid pilot from the Star Tours attraction will spin an alien soundtrack that Beatty described as Jawa meets new age meets 1980s pop.

“The music is fantastic,” Beatty said. “It’s a weird sound, but it’s going to be so much fun.”

The Imagineering music team worked with musicians and composers from around the world to come up with an otherworldly cantina soundtrack.

“The stranger the better,” Kerrison said. “Whatever instruments that you can come up with. Any household items or whatever that can have this very eclectic type of music. We want to hear that. And of course we have to have vocals that have alien lyrics.”

The certain-to-be-popular cantina won’t take reservations, so expect a line for Oga’s bar that may only be surpassed by the queues for the E-Ticket attractions in the land.

Oga’s Cantina opens May 31 in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland. A nearly-identical themed land will open Aug. 29 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida with its own Oga’s Cantina.

The Orange County Register - 25 mars 2019.

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Animatronic shopkeepers, droids and creatures bring Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge to life at Disneyland

The new characters, powered by Disney's latest audio-animatronic technology, will have more precise and natural movements than their predecessors.

A collection of next generation audio-animatronic figures coming to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland will bring to life alien pilots, black market shopkeepers, disc jockey droids, space pirates, cuddly creatures and stormtrooper battalions.

The new Galaxy’s Edge themed land set to debut May 31 at the Anaheim theme park will be filled with animatronic droids like BB-8, R-3X, R5-P8 and 8D-J8 as well as life-like “Star Wars” creatures such as Nien Nunb, Dok-Ondar and Hondo Ohnaka.

The animated characters found in the rides and throughout the land will be powered by Walt Disney Imagineering’s latest A-1000 series audio-animatronic figures. The next generation figures operate electronically rather than hydraulically like the earlier A-100 series animatronics. The more compact A-1000 figures have more precise movements, more fluid transitions and smoother facial gestures than the A-100 figures. Imagineers employed computer pre-visualization tools and motion-capture technology to program the A-1000 animatronics to mimic how humans move.

A behind-the-scenes media tour of the Imagineering animation building in Glendale showed off the Hondo Ohnaka, R-3X and Dok-Ondar animatronics bound for the Galaxy’s Edge themed land at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida. (The Disneyland figures had already been shipped to Anaheim.) Reporters saw several of the newly-installed animatronics during a construction tour of Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland.

The new animatronics will populate the attractions, shops and restaurants in Black Spire Outpost, the remote outer rim village where Galaxy’s Edge is set on the “Star Wars” planet of Batuu. Tensions will be high in Black Spire Outpost as the bad guy First Order soldiers search for the good guy Resistance rebels amid the day-to-day life of the Batuuan villagers, according to the backstory developed for the land.

Let’s take a closer look at the key audio-animatronic figures coming to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland.

Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run

The Hondo Ohnaka figure in the Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run attraction will be the most sophisticated animatronic in Galaxy’s Edge.

The dreadlocked space pirate with six tusk-like protrusions on his chin will serve as the proprietor of Ohnaka Transport Solutions and host of the Smugglers Run flight simulator. Hondo appears in the “Clone Wars” and “Star Wars Rebels” animated television series.

During the Imagineering tour, the fully-costumed Hondo audio-animatronic pivoted back and forth on feet-less legs as he repeated his pre-ride spiel that riders will hear as they wait in the attraction queue.

The Hondo figure has 50 movements, making it the second most-complicated animatronic in any Disney theme park. Only the Na’vi Shaman in Pandora: The World of Avatar at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida has more, with 40 functions in the face alone.

Next to Hondo, his trusty animatronic droid R5-P8 will keep the boss on schedule and fix failing equipment in the Command Center of Ohnaka Transport Solutions.

Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance

Visitors will encounter several animatronics in the Rise of the Resistance attraction, including ball droid BB-8, jowl-faced pilot Nien Nunb and a battalion of fierce-looking First Order stormtroopers.

Riders will meet an animatronic BB-8 in the Ready Room of a Resistance base camp as a holographic Rey from “The Force Awakens” asks us to take part in a dangerous off-planet mission against the First Order.

An animatronic Nien Nunb will bark orders at his passengers from the cockpit of a Resistance Intersystem Transport Ship at one point in the attraction. About 50 riders will board the ship and depart Batuu before being tractor beamed aboard a First Order Star Destroyer.

Fifty stormtroopers await in formation aboard the Star Destroyer as the doors to the transport ship open. A few of the animatronic stormtroopers will make slight movements as they track the progress of the riders passing through the hangar.

Oga’s Cantina

DJ R-3X, also known as Rex, will spin an alien soundtrack described as Jawa-meets-new age-meets-1980s pop in Oga’s Cantina. The former Star Tours pilot, once known as RX-24, remains as quirky and talkative as ever.

During the Imagineering tour, an animatronic R-3X played tunes behind a disc jockey console in a cavernous warehouse-like space next to a welding shop. The animatronic figure employs an original outer shell from a Star Tours Rex figure with new electronic functions on the inside.

Rex will DJ a 3-hour show at the cantina in 1-hour segments that vary slightly. “Hey everyone, who’s ready to boogie?” Rex said during a demonstration at Imagineering, voiced once again by “Pee-Wee Herman” star Paul Reubens.

During a Galaxy’s Edge construction tour, crews were installing an animatronic DJ R-3X in an alcove of the cantina at Disneyland. (The R-3X animatronic figure on display at Imagineering was destined for Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida.)

Dok-Ondar’s Den of Antiquities

The animatronic Dok-Ondar in the Den of Antiquities store will barter with customers who want to haggle over prices with the help of a shop employee.

The mysterious Ithorian collector and trader has eyes that bulge from the side of his hammerhead and a mouth in his curved neck.

During the media tour, an Imagineer peppered Dok with questions and the surly alien creature responded in an alien tongue, the lips along his two mouths moving as he spoke.

While most visitors won’t understand what Dok is saying, they will be able to discern two distinct moods: happy or frustrated. Throughout the workday, Dok may get a call from somebody trying to rip him off that makes him angry. Counting his money or looking at a bookkeeping ledger could brighten his mood.

Dok’s seemingly-randomized responses are built out of blocks of animation clips that combine into a playlist of short scenes.

During the construction tour, an animatronic Dok-Ondar remained covered in bubble wrap inside his Disneyland shop. (The Dok animatronic figure on display at Imagineering was destined for Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida.)

Droid Depot

A wide collection of animatronic droids will be found inside the Droid Depot store as well as in the front and rear of the shop.

The remote-controlled mini-droids created by visitors in the build-your-own droid workshop will be able to communicate with full-sized units found throughout Galaxy’s Edge.

Inside the workshop, droid fans will enjoy exploring the animatronic astromechs and BB units lining the walls of the shop.

In front of the shop, animatronic droids will be lined up in a scene reminiscent of the used droid sale that Luke Skywalker took part in on Tatooine in front the Jawa Sandcrawler during the original 1977 “Star Wars” movie.

Behind the shop, another animated scene will be set up in an intimate courtyard with two animatronic droids getting an oil bath amid stacks of droid pieces and parts.

Concept art of the Droid Depot shows BB-8, R2-D2 and R5-D4 near the horseshoe-shaped build station.

Creature Stall

The cramped Creature Stall marketplace space will be chock full of cages filled with cuddly and creepy animatronic beasts from the “Star Wars” universe.

A cute Loth Cat from the Disney animated series “Star Wars Rebels” will be napping on a little bed in the shop, his breathing body suggesting that the animatronic creature is alive.

A bulbous-eyed Worrt creature will flick its tongue at fireflies flying around a glass case in the marketplace stall.

Some of the hanging cages in the shop will have creatures that appear to come to life with the help of special effects like moving leaves and glaring eyes.

Ronto Roasters

The Ronto Roasters quick-serve restaurant will offer barbecue meats from a grill fired by a repurposed podracer engine.

An audio-animatronic droid standing on a plinth will endlessly turn a spit of meat over the flame while constantly complaining about his thankless job.

Smelter droids like the 8D-J8 unit that will be employed at Ronto Roasters typically work in the harsh environments of ore-extraction facilities. Smelter droids show up in “The Return of the Jedi” and “The Phantom Menace.”

The Orange County Register - 27 mars 2019.

Hâte de voir tout ça !

Vivement septembre que je decouvre tout ca

Wahooo il y aura pleins de AA ,des scènes de ouf et mise en scènedans les shops . Interaction avec des objets achetés par les clients like Diagon Alley. Ça va être énorme,je rage qu’on ai qu’une petite moitié de ce Land .

zelko a écrit:

je rage qu’on ai qu’une petite moitié de ce Land .

Il y de grande chance pour qu'on en ait le coeur net (très) prochainement.

Sans doute le 12 avril donc... Malheureusement nous savons déjà que nous aurons une version très réduite du Land.
Reste juste à savoir ce qui accompagnera Rise of the Resistance en termes de boutiques et de restos.
Oga’s Cantina me semble un minimum.

De nouvelles infos concernant l'accès au land: http://blogmickey.com/2019/03/disneyland-will-limit-your-time-in-galaxys-edge-bathroom-pass-to-be-offered-no-standby-allowed-to-enter-the-land/

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Disneyland will limit Galaxy’s Edge access to hotel guests and theme park visitors with reservations during soft opening (may 31 - june 23).

Each registered guest at the three Disneyland hotels will receive one reservation for the new land.

Disneyland will restrict access to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge during an initial “soft opening” period to guests staying at the three Disneyland hotels and a limited number of theme park visitors with reservations to the highly anticipated new themed land.

No stand-by visitors will be permitted to enter Galaxy’s Edge between May 31 and June 23, according to Disneyland officials.

“Star Wars” fans hoping to explore Galaxy’s Edge during the 24-day soft opening will need a Disneyland ticket and a free advance reservation providing access to the themed land.

“There will be no standby access to the land and we want to make sure that that’s clear for guests,” said Disneyland Vice President Kris Theiler. “We don’t want guests coming to the park thinking, ‘I don’t have a reservation. Maybe I’ll just get in the queue and I’ll be able to get in.’ We’re not going to have a standby line. So it will be limited solely to those guests that have reservations.”

The reservation will provide access to Galaxy’s Edge and the Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run attraction. The new land’s Rise of the Resistance trackless dark ride won’t open until later in 2019.

Disneyland will restrict the amount of time visitors can spend in the new 14-acre themed land during the soft opening period.

“We will be giving guests a window of time, but we’re still working through what that looks like and the duration for that,” Theiler said. “We’ll be working hard to ensure that guests have enough time in the land to see all the great things and experience the attraction. We know guests might want to stay in there all day, but we’ve got a whole big group that wants to get in there. We’re just trying to balance all those things and really deliver the right solution for our guests.”

The digital system will issue a “boarding pass” that will provide visitors access to Galaxy’s Edge. Boarding pass groups will be permitted to enter Galaxy’s Edge as the land empties rather than at specified times.

Beginning June 24, there will no longer be any restrictions on how long visitors can stay in Galaxy’s Edge. While entry to Galaxy’s Edge will be controlled, visitors will be able to leave through any of the land’s three entry points.

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Disneyland won’t loosen costume policy for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge

Visitors will be able to buy authentic-looking Star Wars clothing but won't be allowed to wear some items in the park.

Visitors to Disneyland’s new Galaxy’s Edge themed land will be able to browse through clothing inspired by movie wardrobe pieces, but Disneyland’s strict costume policy means they won’t be able to wear some of the clothing they buy within the Anaheim theme park.

The new 14-acre land opening May 31 at Disneyland will be set in the on the Star Wars planet of Batuu in the remote outer rim village of Black Spire Outpost.

An apparel shop in the Black Spire marketplace will sell a line of handmade robes, tunics, hooded scarves and belts based on wardrobe pieces from the “Star Wars” cinematic universe. Disney’s merchandise team worked closely with Lucasfilm’s archives division to turn movie wardrobe pieces into authentic-looking clothing.

Visitors over the age of 13 will not be able to wear the Star Wars robes and some other Galaxy’s Edge merchandise in the theme park, Disneyland officials said. Disneyland currently sells stormtrooper helmets and other items that violate the costume policy and can’t be worn in the park.

Disneyland visitors 14 and over are not permitted to wear costumes into the parks although “Disney bounding” is permitted. Disney bounders dress in color schemes and design patterns that mimic the look and style of their favorite characters. Visitors of all ages can wear costumes during some separate-admission after-hours events at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure.

“We believe that our current costume policy allows a lot of Disney bounding and opportunity to come and live your story,” Disneyland Vice President Kris Theiler said.

Disneyland employees will wear costumes that place them into three distinct camps in Galaxy’s Edge: First Order soldiers, Resistance rebels or Black Spire Outpost villagers.

Employees dressed as villagers will get to choose from a mix-and-match collection of costumes that can be assembled into 80 combinations. Cast members will get to pick their own pieces from a selection of tunics, wraps and vests as well as accessories like necklaces, scarves, hats and belts.

The First Order and Resistance looks will be more pre-determined for employees. The bad guy First Order soldiers will wear sleek military-style uniforms. The good guy Resistance rebels will wear flight crew gear with a jacket, vest and goggles on their hat.

Walt Disney Imagineering, the creative arm of the company, has created an immersive and interactive environment in Galaxy’s Edge designed to let every visitor live their own Star Wars hero story.

Visitors will play a role in a continually developing storyline that evolves and progresses throughout the day. Fail in your mission aboard the Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run attraction and a bounty hunter might tap you on the shoulder looking for a vengeful space pirate’s lost loot.

Les couvertures des comics Star Wars : Galaxy's Edge # 3 et 4 avec en toile de fond l'avant-poste Black Spire Outpost :





https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/secrets-of-star-wars-galaxy-s-edge

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Dok-Ondar’s Den of Antiquities: Step inside a black market emporium at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland

The shop run by a hammerheaded alien will carry lightsabers and various Jedi Sith artifacts.

Step inside Dok-Ondar’s Den of Antiquities at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland and you’ll find legacy lightsabers inside glass cases, a wooly Wampa lurking in the rafters and a hammerhead alien shopkeeper counting his galactic credits from his lofty perch.

But watch your step. You don’t want to mess with Dok. Or get on his bad side. Assuming he has a good side.

“Dok-Ondar is a force to be reckoned with,” said Walt Disney Imagineering managing story editor Margaret Kerrison. “He may be 245 years old, but he’s not feeble. He’s been around and he’s very well connected. He’s a very dangerous guy.”

Dok’s Den will be the best place to find intergalactic black market goods in the Black Spire Outpost village on the “Star Wars” planet of Batuu, the setting for the new 14-acre themed land coming to Disneyland.

The antiquities shop will sell Jedi and Sith artifacts along with one-of-a-kind treasures from different eras of the Star Wars galaxy. The shop will carry pre-built legacy lightsabers associated with “Star Wars” characters such as Shaak Ti and Ahsoka Tano.

Concept art of the Den of Antiquities shows a shadowy shop filled with taxidermied extraterrestrials, skeletal remains of winged space creatures hanging from the domed ceiling and tentacled sea aliens floating in glowing glass cylinders. An upper balcony will be stuffed with souvenir spoils collected from throughout the Star Wars galaxy.

“He has such a large collection that everyone actually knows him,” said Imagineering creative producer Brian Loo. “He no longer has to travel because all his clients come to him instead.”

The play on words between “den of antiquities” and “den of iniquities” is no casual oversight. The mysterious Ithorian collector and trader with eyes bulging from the side of his hammerhead and two mouths in his curved neck traffics in illegal interstellar goods.

“We knew that we wanted to meet an Ithorian in our land,” Kerrison said. “We just fell in love with him from the beginning because his story is that he is the gatekeeper of the black market.”

During a recent construction tour, plastic sheeting covered props arrayed on the upper level of Dok’s shop.

“When this is done, it just gets completely filled out on the upper level,” said Imagineering executive creative director Chris Beatty. “This is all props on the upper level. You can’t even shop the upper level. There’s even a 12-foot taxidermied Wampa that’s in here.”

Shoppers will be able to peruse merchandise on the lower level under the watchful eye of Dok. Every item in the shop has a story, with some stories more dangerous than others, according to StarWars.com.

An audio-animatronic Dok will tend to his financial ledgers, answer calls and survey his inventory while sitting at an elevated perch in his shop. Throughout the workday, Dok may grow angry when he gets a call from somebody trying to rip him off. Counting his galactic credits or looking over a bookkeeping ledger could brighten his mood.

Customers can barter with Dok over the price of merchandise with the help of a Disney employee.

“He’s always diligent as to what’s going on within the shop, counting his money, making sure that nothing has been taken or missing in his collection,” Beatty says. “When you go to buy something, you can interact with him from time to time.”

But don’t expect a discount from Dok. You may end up walking away paying more rather than less after haggling with the tough businessman.

“I’ve never known him to give a deal,” Beatty said.

But if the price is right, Dok will be willing to trade anything from his collection, according to Imagineers.

A recent tour of the Walt Disney Imagineering animation building in Glendale showed off a Dok-Ondar animatronic figure in action.

Imagineering show programmer Amy Goodwin peppered Dok with questions.

“Hey Dok, he thinks you’re overcharging,” Goodwin told the animatronic shopkeeper. “Can you give him a discount?”

The surly creature responded in an alien tongue, the lips along his two mouths moving as he spoke.

“OK, I’ll tell him to go away,” Goodwin said.

While most visitors won’t understand what Dok is saying, they will be able to discern two distinct moods: happy or frustrated.

“Storywise he always has a reason to switch between them,” Goodwin said. “He never randomly goes from happy to frustrated. There’s always a reason for it.”

Dok’s seemingly-randomized responses are built out of blocks of animation clips that combine into a playlist of short scenes.

“It’s not pulling at random, but it still gives that feeling of randomness,” Goodwin said. “If you sit there and watch, there’s never going to be an hour that’s exactly the same as any other hour that he runs because of how he transfers between these little scenes that he has.”

Dok-Ondar’s Den of Antiquities opens in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge on May 31 at Disneyland and Aug. 29 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida.

The Orange County Register - 29 mars 2019.

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‘Is this real?’: Disneyland employees react in disbelief as they find out they will be working in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge  

The company has informed 1,400 cast members that they will be assigned to highly sought roles in the new themed land.

Disneyland employee Teddi Moreau broke down in tears when she found out she would be on the team opening the highly anticipated Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge themed land coming to the Anaheim theme park

“Oh my gosh, this is a dream come true,” said Moreau, of Long Beach, in a statement provided by Disneyland. “I can’t think of a more exciting thing to happen to me — opening a new land and it’s Star Wars. To me this is a bucket list item.”

The new themed land opening May 31 will be set in the Black Spire Outpost on the remote planet of Batuu, located on the outer rim of the Star Wars galaxy.

A speechless Michael Han held his hands to his mouth in disbelief when he found was going to Batuu.

“I never thought in a million eons or in any galaxy that I would get to be a part of this prestigious opening team,” said Han, 33, of Garden Grove, who works in attractions. “When I was told I was joining the opening team, I didn’t know how to react. I just thought, ‘Is this real?’”

Disneyland has hired 1,400 cast members, Disney parlance for employees, to help open the 14-acre themed land.

The reallocation of hundreds of cast members means the Disneyland Resort will be looking to hire 1,400 new workers in attractions, food and beverage, retail, entertainment and custodial at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure this summer.

Disneyland guest relations host Maria Zamora found out she will be working on the Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run attraction team.

“I’m beyond excited,” Zamora said. “I’m so stoked. I can’t wait.”

Disneyland senior production manager Garett Heffner broke the news to many of the overjoyed cast member in the video. Taking part in the “You’re going to Batuu” ceremony brought back memories from his childhood of acting out “Star Wars” scenes in his backyard.

“The excitement to be a part of this moment is almost overwhelming,” said Heffner, 49, of Placentia. “It was really special to see that from our cast.”

30 mars 2019.

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Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo: Step inside an intergalactic food hall at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland

Inspired by a Tokyo fish market, the eatery will serve items from a galaxy far, far away that actually have terrestrial origins.

Step into the Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo restaurant in Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland and you’ll find hungry Star Wars fans dining inside special effects-laden shipping containers beneath a food freighter spaceship operated by a surly alien cook.

Docking Bay 7 will offer an intergalactic twist on the latest food hall and food truck trends in the Black Spire Outpost village on the Star Wars planet of Batuu, the setting for the new 14-acre themed lands coming to the Anaheim theme park and Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida.

The quick-service restaurant takes its inspiration from a lively Japanese food marketplace, said Walt Disney Imagineering executive creative director Chris Beatty.

“Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo was really inspired by the Tsukiji fish market,” Beatty said. “It’s incredible. Tsukiji fish market is the world’s largest fish market in Tokyo, Japan. It’s just crazy.”

Docking Bay 7 will be run by chef Strono “Cookie” Tuggs, who makes regular intergalactic stops at the Galaxy’s Edge eatery with his food truck-like Tuggs Grub spaceship, according to the restaurant’s backstory.

The surly, disfigured cook formerly worked at the castle of pirate Maz Kanata before it was destroyed by the First Order in “The Force Awakens.” Now Cookie travels the Star Wars galaxy in his mobile kitchen starship and fills his pantry with exotic interstellar ingredients that he uses to create otherworldly dishes. Cookie’s Tuggs Grub traveling food shuttle bills itself a “traveling diner for diners traveling.”

Docking Bay 7 will be easy to find in Black Spire Outpost, located directly across from the docked Millennium Falcon. Cookie’s modified Sienar-Chall Utilipede-Transport ship will sit atop the cylindrical-shaped restaurant. The cargo doors will be flung open on the weathered and battled-damaged food freighter as its cargo is lowered into the hangar-like dining room below.

Inside Docking Bay 7, visitors will enter under a cargo pod being lowered from Cookie’s ship docked on the restaurant’s roof. Customers will order at a cashier station and pick up their food in the back of the restaurant, which sells food truck-style dishes in a food hall setting.

“The flavors in Galaxy’s Edge and Docking Bay 7 are going to be very bold, a lot of spice forward,” said Brian Piasecki, Disney World culinary director for concept development.

Diners can eat inside cargo containers that double as seating areas and sit on barrels and crates that serve as chairs. Each heavily-propped cargo container will have a different theme and be run by a Black Spire vendor.

One of the cargo containers inside Docking Bay 7 belongs to a fishmonger.

“This vendor here has got a miniature carbonite freezing machine,” Beatty said during a tour of the restaurant. “It has special effects and steam coming out of it. It’s just stacks and stacks of weird fish and creatures that have been frozen in carbonite.”

Another vendor has set up an alien distillery.

“They’re packaging things to drink,” Beatty said.

A fruit vendor has taken over another shipping pod, which will be filled with produce procured from planets around the Star Wars galaxy.

“You can dine in any of these pods or you can walk over and dine in a little storage room,” Beatty said.

Docking Bay 7 diners can choose between dishes like smokey barbecue ribs from a Kaadu beast found on Naboo, an oven-roasted Burra Fish native to the planet of Dathomir or a deep fried Tip-Yip bird from Endor.

Each Docking Bay 7 entree will have a Star Wars name and a description of its Earth-bound ingredients.

Members of Disney’s culinary team took inspiration from the creatures and plants found in the Star Wars universe as they prepared a menu of familiar Earth-based foods like sweet and spicy pork ribs, dijon-crusted mahi-mahi and fried chicken with potatoes.

“We know that we are stuck with serving food within our planet, but we had to think about it differently,” Piasecki said. “We had to think about some of those flavors of Morocco and those flavors of Asia because of that yin and yang, that sweet and that spicy. It all became very important in the development of the story.”

The Docking Bay 7 menu will also include kids meals, desserts and signature drinks like the Moof Juice fruit punch and a Phattro iced tea and lemonade blend.

Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo opens in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge on May 31 at Disneyland and Aug. 29 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

The Orange County Register - 31 mars 2019.

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Creature Stall: Step inside an alien pet store at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland

The shop will offer both cuddly and creepy interactive beasts from around the galaxy.

Step inside the cozy Creature Stall at Disneyland’s new Galaxy’s Edge and you’ll find an alien pet store stuffed with oinking Puffer Pigs, tongue-flicking Worrts and vibrating Rathtars collected from across the Star Wars galaxy.

The Creature Stall will be the place to find cuddly and creepy interactive intergalactic beasts in the Black Spire Outpost village on the Star Wars planet of Batuu, the setting for the new 14-acre themed land coming to Disneyland.

Each of the shops in Galaxy’s Edge will have an extensive backstory created by Walt Disney Imagineering and a proprietor from the Star Wars galaxy. The Black Spire architecture will be inspired by the bustling marketplaces of Istanbul, Turkey and Marrakesh, Morocco.

In the Creature Stall, customers won’t just be buying a wailing Wampa or squawking Tauntaun toy but rather an alien pet that will become part of their family, according to the shop’s backstory.

The cramped marketplace stall will be run by an Amani proprietor named Bina who finds and gathers space critters from across the Star Wars universe. The tall, thin and slimy Amani aliens have short legs and gangly arms.

“Bina loves to travel around the galaxy and collect different creatures that she brings back here to Batuu,” said Imagineering creative producer Brian Loo.

Concept art of the Creature Stall shows a tattered red awning with holes and tears over the entry, Porgs atop stacked cages outside the shop and hanging lamps with geometrically-shaped shades lighting the interior.

Inside the shop, a spider-like Krykna creature with six spindly legs, a beaked mouth and fangs sits inside a glass case. In front of the shop, a smiling girl carries a bulbous-nosed Puffer Pig with pointy horns and a razorback spine in her arms.

During a recent tour of Galaxy’s Edge, work crews were busy hanging cages and installing props in the Creature Stall, which will be barely large enough for a dozen customers to fit inside.

“When we’re done, just like those stalls that you see in Istanbul and Morocco, you won’t be able to see the ceiling in this space,” said Imagineering executive creative director Chris Beatty.

The shelves, nooks and cages in the Creature Stall will be filled to the rafters with animatronic aliens and animated scenes.

“Some of them have little special effects that have leaves that move and eyes that look down upon you,” Beatty said. “If you look up, you see creatures in the cages.”

A Loth Cat from the Disney animated series “Star Wars Rebels” will be napping on a little bed in the shop, his breathing body suggesting that the animatronic creature is alive.

“They’re super, super cute,” Beatty said.

During the tour, Beatty lifted a protective plastic sheet to reveal a bulbous-eyed Worrt with green eyes, a spiny back and flicking tongue in a glass case.

“He sits in here and he’s eating fireflies that are flying around his cage,” Beatty said. “His stomach is breathing, so he’s alive.”

The Creature Stall’s lineup of interactive toys will move and make noise when you pet or play with them.

The softball-sized Rathtar with octopus-like tentacles and razor teeth shudders when you press one of his golden warts.

A Kowakian monkey-lizard, the rambunctious court jester pet of Jabba the Hutt, cackles when you hold him.

The frowning, doe-eyed Porg puppet coos when you flap its furry brown wings. Concept art shows a customer carrying a Porg home in a hand-held cage.

The Orange County Register - 1 avril 2019.

Deux des quatre couvertures du comic Star Wars : Galaxy’s Edge # 1 où l'on aperçoit l'avant-poste Black Spire Outpost :

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Where to shop in Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge? Depends on whether you’re a loyalist, sympathizer or scoundrel  

The new themed land will have three distinct clothing stores for the First Order, the Resistance and Black Spire Outpost villagers.

Where you shop in the new Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge coming to Disneyland will depend on whether you favor the light side of the Force, lean to the dark side or prefer to keep you options open.

Theme park visitors will be able to pick their team and dress the part. Are you a First Order sympathizer? A Resistance loyalist? Or a rogue scoundrel hoping to mix in with the villagers?

Your allegiance will determine where you shop for clothing, accessories and supplies in the Black Spire Outpost village on the Star Wars planet of Batuu, the setting for the new 14-acre themed lands coming to the Anaheim theme park and Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida.

Those loyal to the good guys will find everything they need at Resistance Supply. Bad guy sympathizers will gravitate to First Order Cargo. Scoundrels and villagers will head to Black Spire Outfitters.

Because of Disneyland’s costume policy, guests over the age of 13 will not be able to wear some items of Star Wars clothing while in the park.

Galaxy’s Edge apparel shops will sell clothing inspired by movie wardrobe pieces to help visitors live their own immersive Star Wars story. Disney’s merchandise team worked closely with Lucasfilm’s archives division to turn costumes from the “Star Wars” cinematic universe into authentic-looking clothing. If they opt to participate, visitors to the new land will play a role in a continually developing story line that evolves and progresses throughout the day.

First Order troops arrived in Black Spire Outpost a few weeks ago in search of Resistance soldiers rumored to be hiding in the forest next to the village, according to the backstory created for the land. Villagers have been gossiping about the shifting alliances of their neighbors and whispering about the loyalties of outsiders dropping in from Fantasyland and Frontierland.

How you dress says a lot about which side of the conflict you’re on. Let’s take a closer look at the three clothiers in Black Spire Outpost.



First Order Cargo

A menacing gunmetal grey First Order TIE fighter, never before seen in any “Star Wars” movie, will serve as the entry marque for First Order Cargo. Stormtroopers have set up the temporary shop in Docking Bay 9 of the Black Spire village.

Concept art shows a gray interior cast in an eerie blue glow from stark overhead lighting. Red flags bearing the First Order insignia hang from the ceiling. Stormtrooper helmets, Kylo Ren masks and First Order blasters fill the store’s shelves and displays. An intimidating stormtrooper with his rifle at the ready stands guard near the front of the store. Shiny black R2-unit droids with silver trim wait nearby.

The store will be run by First Order troops from the 709 Legion, also known as the Red Fury. The shop doubles as a propaganda outpost where the First Order will try to win the hearts and minds of locals in Black Spire Outpost.

Shoppers can purchase First Order recruitment gear and supplies such as helmets, armor, pins, patches, caps, model ships and memorabilia.

Merchandise is expected to include TIE fighter and AT-ST walker toys, stormtrooper action figures and First Order logo clothing.



Resistance Supply

The Resistance has set up a military outpost in the nearby forest to avoid detection by stormtroopers stationed at the First Order base in the village. X-wing and A-wing fighters sit partially hidden in the woods near the rebel camp. High-tech military gear is scattered amid the trees and a warren of cavernous tunnels carved by an ancient civilization.

The Resistance has been hiding in the woods for a few weeks. Everything has a temporary nature to it, ready to be swept up by the rebels as soon as they receive the signal for the next mission.

Resistance Supply serves as a makeshift depot at the hidden command post as well as a gift shop for rebel gear and supplies in Galaxy’s Edge. The secret Resistance post also doubles as recruiting station for those who want to join the cause and help defeat the First Order.

Concept art shows an impromptu market that looks like a cross between a swap meet and a garage sale. Camouflaged kiosks with fold-up sides and patchwork tents serve as improvised storefronts in the shadow of a towering rock outcropping. Pilots, soldiers and droids mill about the slap-dash retail shop. Battle helmets sit atop cargo crates scattered throughout the camp.

The merchandise stall will sell Resistance hats, pins, badges and accessories.

Black Spire Outfitters

Want to blend in with the locals? Getting ready to head out from Batuu on a smuggling run aboard the Millennium Falcon? Hoping to avoid the notice of that bounty hunter looking to collect a few galactic credits from you in Oga’s Cantina?

Black Spire Outfitters will offer a wide selection of clothing to help you look like a Batuuan.

The apparel shop in the outdoor marketplace will sell a line of handmade robes, tunics, hooded scarves and belts based on wardrobe pieces from “Star Wars” films.

Employee costumes

Disneyland workers will build their own personas, backstories and wardrobes to help them become inhabitants of Black Spire Outpost.

Cast members, Disney parlance for employees, will wear costumes that place them into three distinct camps in Galaxy’s Edge: First Order soldiers, Resistance rebels or Black Spire Outpost villagers.

Employees dressed as villagers will get to choose from a mix-and-match collection of costumes that can be assembled into 80 combinations. Cast members will get to pick their own pieces from a selection of tunics, wraps and vests as well as accessories like necklaces, scarves, hats and belts.

The First Order and Resistance looks will be more pre-determined for employees. The bad guy First Order soldiers will wear sleek military-style uniforms. The good guy Resistance rebels will wear flight crew gear with a jacket, vest and goggles on their hat.

Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge opens on May 31 at Disneyland and Aug. 29 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

The Orange County Register - 6 avril 2019.

Aux dernières rumeurs sur les forums américains, Rise of the Resistance aurait des problèmes, etc. ce qui retarderait sérieusement l'ouverture de l'attraction, d'où l'ouverture des lands plus tôt que prévu. Bon, moi j'en pense rien, à chaque fois les gens font beaucoup de dramas style "ohlala c'est une attraction tellement ambitieuse, ils ont eu les yeux plus gros que le ventre" comme si Disney n'avait pas fait des tests avant. Ils se racontaient les mêmes histoires pour Flight of Passage. Enfin bon, je dis ça, mais ils sont pas encore capables d'automatiser leurs monorails malgré les nombreux essais, donc ça se peut très bien qu'ils aient rencontré des imprévus de dernière minute finalement.

Donc pour résumer, certains pensent que RotR ouvrirait fin août, pour la basse saison de septembre, et d'autre pensent que ce serait octobre/novembre, alors que c'est en pleine période d'Halloween/Noël et que tout sera déjà complet. D'autres encore pensent que finalement ça irait pour janvier/février 2020.

On espère avoir des nouvelles d'ici cet été quand même.

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Ronto Roasters: Step inside a ‘space meat’ restaurant in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland  

The restaurant in the new 14-acre land will sell barbecue and cold drinks in the Black Spire Outpost village.

Step inside the Ronto Roasters restaurant in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland and you’ll find an animatronic droid complaining about his never-ending job turning a spit of “space meat” over a fire stoked by a repurposed podracing engine.

Ronto Roasters will offer spit-roasted barbecue meats and cold drinks in the Black Spire Outpost village on the Star Wars planet of Batuu, the setting for the new 14-acre themed lands coming to the Anaheim theme park and Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida.

“This location is super fun because it’s all about meat and it’s all about heat,” said Brian Piasecki, Disney World culinary director for concept development.

The quick-service food stand takes its name from the strong yet skittish Rontos ridden by Jawas on Tatooine in the Star Wars universe.

Ronto Roasters will be run by a podracing fan named Bakkar who pays tribute to the sport throughout his Black Spire eatery, according to the restaurant’s backstory.

“He loves podracing,” said Walt Disney Imagineering creative producer Brian Loo. “You’ll see a lot of the podracing flags around his area.”

The dangerous and deadly racing sport popular on the Star Wars planets of Tatooine and Malastare features single-racer pods propelled by large engines.

An audio-animatronic smelter droid named 8D-J8 will endlessly turn a rotisserie spit at Ronto Roasters while constantly complaining about his thankless job.

Smelter droids, which show up in “The Return of the Jedi” and “The Phantom Menace,” typically work in the harsh environments of ore-extraction facilities.

Ronto Roasters will serve barbecue sausage sandwiches and hand-torn turkey jerky that appear to be cooked by a repurposed podracing engine.

“It’s shaking and rattling,” said Imagineering executive creative director Chris Beatty. “It’s heating this giant foil that sits at the bottom. There’s space meat that’s on a rotisserie spinning around. Our droid is standing over here on this plinth and he’s turning the spit, complaining about his job.”

The Ronto Roasters menu will play off a mix of sweet and spicy flavors in a culinary nod to the eternal battle between the light and dark sides of the Force.

“We know that we are stuck with serving food within our planet, but we had to think about it differently,” Piasecki said. “We had to think about some of those flavors of Morocco and those flavors of Asia because of that yin and yang, that sweet and that spicy. It all became very important in the development of the story.”

Several of the food and beverage items at Ronto Roasters will have a spicy kick that you might not expect from a theme park restaurant.

The Ronto Wrap handheld sandwich will come with a spicy Portuguese-style sausage and sliced roast pork on a pita with a Szechuan peppercorn “clutch sauce.”

The house-made turkey jerky will be offered in two flavors: Spicy herb or sweet teriyaki.

“You’ll see these hanging strips of leather that’s actually house-made turkey jerky,” Piasecki said.

Even the Sour Sarlacc raspberry lemonade will have a spicy mango kick to it.

“That drink is a little bit sour, a little bit sweet, a little bit spicy,” said Disneyland food and beverage director Michele Gendreau.

Ronto Roasters opens in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge on May 31 at Disneyland and Aug. 29 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

The Orange County Register - 5 avril 2019.