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Disney finally admits defeat: Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Timeline Soon Expands at Disneyland
Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Han, Leia, John Williams' classic score, and the iconic Cantina Band tune are all coming to Galaxy's Edge as they walk back one of the most baffling decisions in recent theme park history: building an immersive Star Wars area and setting it very specifically during the timeline of the mostly terrible sequel trilogy. From the article it seems like the only character from the new movies who will remain out and about is Rey.
With the upcoming Mandalorian retheme of the Millenium Falcon ride the last part of the land that will really reflect the new trilogy will be Rise of the Resistance. Unfortunately that ride is still so popular that I doubt they'll touch it but the good thing is that the new movies are such an obvious and shameless copy of the original trilogy that a retheme would barely cost anything and could be done in a matter of weeks. Replace the Rey hologram with a Leia one, the little sphere robot becomes R2-D2, and swap Kylo Ren's helmet out for Darth Vader's and you've basically reverted everything that ties it to the new movies instead of the old ones. Thank you, Mr. Abrams.
Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Han, Leia, John Williams' classic score, and the iconic Cantina Band tune are all coming to Galaxy's Edge as they walk back one of the most baffling decisions in recent theme park history: building an immersive Star Wars area and setting it very specifically during the timeline of the mostly terrible sequel trilogy. From the article it seems like the only character from the new movies who will remain out and about is Rey.
With the upcoming Mandalorian retheme of the Millenium Falcon ride the last part of the land that will really reflect the new trilogy will be Rise of the Resistance. Unfortunately that ride is still so popular that I doubt they'll touch it but the good thing is that the new movies are such an obvious and shameless copy of the original trilogy that a retheme would barely cost anything and could be done in a matter of weeks. Replace the Rey hologram with a Leia one, the little sphere robot becomes R2-D2, and swap Kylo Ren's helmet out for Darth Vader's and you've basically reverted everything that ties it to the new movies instead of the old ones. Thank you, Mr. Abrams.
In a resort update this week Disneyland has had a renewed focus on improving guest satisfaction through improved ride availability. The California Disney parks have some of the longest opening hours in the world, as the main Disneyland park is regularly open 8am to midnight every day, making maintenance even harder. The improved focus resulted in 1.5m extra riders in their 2025 fiscal year and will continue to build on this. Their director of engineering services said they are doing this in a number of ways- first through improvements to maintenance in 3 areas-
1-increased overnight safety an reliability
2-better scheduled maintenance
3- improved response management during opening hours.
This is resulting in less downtime and also allowing more rides to operate with max cars for more time. So far it meant radiator spring racers ran with max number of cars for most of dec. they made improvements to space mountain and now working on improving throughputs at Indiana jones.
They are also improving operations and looking how to improve loading and unloading and make as efficient as possible. One example is stopping phones being used on mickey and Minnie’s runaway railway were guest behaviour counts for 13% of downtime.
They also will now actively ensure rides run at max capacity most of the time if ride able to- ie the policy for the railroad is now it always runs on the max number of 4 trains rather than previously where would often run on.
On a separate note they also scrapping their no park hoping rule until after 11am soon. Unlike WDW you still have to reserve your first park for the day, but once scanned in at that park you can hop over to the other at anytime.
Also they delayed closing the Monsters Ink land to 2027 as said they are focusing on driving younger families to the resort this year and need that attaction to help with this in 2026. They said won’t delay the avatarland- much of which will be built on the current bus loop outside the current park boundary anyway. But with no date ever announced who knows if it actually delayed. They need to build the new parking and bus’s drop off point first which starts construction soon.
The avengers rides are well into construction now- so a possible later 2027 opening is possible. Work on coco is also starting with work on removing a perimeter road and new boundary fence being built which will allow the space for the ride (and future space for the in park bridge to cross the road and park expand on the existing parking lot as part of the Disneyland forward project.
Looking forward to returning to the resort this August. Although I love Orlando and a WDW holiday as an overall package in terms of individual parks both California parks are two of my favourite theme parks.
1-increased overnight safety an reliability
2-better scheduled maintenance
3- improved response management during opening hours.
This is resulting in less downtime and also allowing more rides to operate with max cars for more time. So far it meant radiator spring racers ran with max number of cars for most of dec. they made improvements to space mountain and now working on improving throughputs at Indiana jones.
They are also improving operations and looking how to improve loading and unloading and make as efficient as possible. One example is stopping phones being used on mickey and Minnie’s runaway railway were guest behaviour counts for 13% of downtime.
They also will now actively ensure rides run at max capacity most of the time if ride able to- ie the policy for the railroad is now it always runs on the max number of 4 trains rather than previously where would often run on.
On a separate note they also scrapping their no park hoping rule until after 11am soon. Unlike WDW you still have to reserve your first park for the day, but once scanned in at that park you can hop over to the other at anytime.
Also they delayed closing the Monsters Ink land to 2027 as said they are focusing on driving younger families to the resort this year and need that attaction to help with this in 2026. They said won’t delay the avatarland- much of which will be built on the current bus loop outside the current park boundary anyway. But with no date ever announced who knows if it actually delayed. They need to build the new parking and bus’s drop off point first which starts construction soon.
The avengers rides are well into construction now- so a possible later 2027 opening is possible. Work on coco is also starting with work on removing a perimeter road and new boundary fence being built which will allow the space for the ride (and future space for the in park bridge to cross the road and park expand on the existing parking lot as part of the Disneyland forward project.
Looking forward to returning to the resort this August. Although I love Orlando and a WDW holiday as an overall package in terms of individual parks both California parks are two of my favourite theme parks.