Sparking discussion again are more rumors about Disney’s plans to incorporate Star Wars into their parks and with the D23 Expo kicking off this weekend in Anaheim everyone is waiting, with about as much patience as Anakin Skywalker, to find out what Disney has in store for us.
It looks like Disneyland maybe the first park to get some Star Wars additions according to a report from MiceChat and they had quite few details on how Disneyland might be able to expand their park and what some of the attractions might be. The Expo will undoubtedly have some exciting news about upcoming films and video games including Battlefront and Disney Infinity 3.0, but the focus for fans will surely be on park expansion.
The new Star Wars Land, according to the claims, will include multiple attractions, with a mega E Ticket ride which will use “a trackless vehicle that will break the mold when it comes to how theme park visitors interact with a ride environment.”
According to the site, Disneyland is planning a “Star Wars Land” section for the northern area of the park, taking up the area now occupied by the Festival Arena, the Circle D Ranch, Mickey’s Toontown and several rehearsal halls and office buildings. All of these structures will be moved to other places in the park and off site.
This seems to fit with what we reported last week with Disney’s purchase of two large pieces of land across the street from Disneyland, which is expected to house some backstage buildings that could make way for more land in the current backstage space at the top of the park near Toon Town.
The new Star Wars land rides and attractions are being developed in “a top secret Imagineering lab in Glendale with Imagineers signing extra confidentiality agreements because the plotlines and characters are pulled from the next three episodes in the Star Wars saga and the Lucasfilm folks understandably guard that information with their lives”, according to the report.
Exactly how accurate the rumors are will hopefully be answered this weekend at the D23 Expo, but after an agreement with Anaheim that ensures the city will not impose an entertainment tax on theme park tickets for the next 30 years was struck as long as Disney officials committed to invest at least $1 billion in the park by 2024, one thing is for sure… Change is coming and so is Star Wars.
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