Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge
Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, a massive new themed area at Disneyland, is now open. Rise of the Resistance, a centerpiece attraction for the land, has launched in both the Anaheim and Florida locations, expanding the definition of immersive entertainment.
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Sit back and enjoy the ride? No more. From Disney’s new Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance to Japan’s upcoming “living video game” Super Nintendo World, theme-park audiences must participate to get the full experience.
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Disneyland: The theme park reaches capacity seven months after opening 14-acre expansion
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A 3% dip in Disney’s domestic theme park attendance followed the opening of the first phase of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland. Now a new attraction with a ride within a ride has opened at the land in Orlando, soon to come to Anaheim.
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What happens to Rey and Kylo in “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”? Who has the best cameo? What did they screw up? We have feelings!
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Disneyland has prepared for years to handle the crowds at its Star Wars expansion. Now that the land is completed, will visitors follow?
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The 14-acre lands at Disneyland and Walt Disney World are about to introduce the impressive ride Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. It may be just what Galaxy’s Edge needs.
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We arrived at Disney World at 7:45 a.m., checked in to the ride and received boarding group 89. Our estimated ride time was “evening.”
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A progress report on Disney’s largest single land expansion after a summer of sparse crowds at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.
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Disneyland announced Thursday that the second attraction at its new Star Wars land won’t open until Jan. 17 — after the peak winter holiday season.
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On a recent Friday evening there were plenty of distractions to be found in Black Spire Outpost, the fictional intergalactic city that is the heart of Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.
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Starting Monday, Disneyland visitors will no longer need a reservation to check out the park’s $1-billion Star Wars expansion.
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Now may be the perfect time to visit Disneyland — as long as you have no interest in checking out the park’s Star Wars expansion.
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Disneyland isn’t Disneyland without the music — from “When You Wish Upon a Star” wafting down Main Street, to George Bruns’ classic score haunting “Pirates of the Caribbean.”
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If you thought Walt Disney Co. would stop and catch its breath after opening its hugely popular Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge expansion last month, think again.
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Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge wrapped up the first week of its maiden voyage with Disneyland management saying the largest expansion in park history wasn’t marred by crowding problems that some visitors groused about on social media.
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Anticipating huge crowds for the opening of its newest expansion, Disneyland allowed only park visitors with reservations to enter Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge during the first three weeks after opening.
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Disneyland first wrestled with crowding on opening day in 1955 when restaurants ran out of food and drinks, lines formed at the bathrooms and visitors sneaked in with counterfeit tickets.
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Visiting a theme park makes you conscious of at least a couple of things: amazement as to how so many strollers can fit into one place, at one time, and the astronomical cost of everything, especially the food.
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As a SoCal mom, I know what it takes to do Disneyland: water, sunscreen, sturdy walking shoes, lots of cash, phone, snacks and whatever other gear the age and Disney-geek demographic of the group demands.
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When Disneyland’s “Star Wars”-inspired land, Galaxy’s Edge, opens today, it will do so with one ride, Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run.
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I have always been a Disneyland apologist.
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I really want to not care about Galaxy’s Edge. All the hype, all the lines, all the money.
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That galaxy far, far away just got much, much closer.
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Harrison Ford, Billy Dee Williams, Mark Hamill and George Lucas all turned out Wednesday night with Disney’s chief executive, Bob Iger, to open Disneyland’s newest attraction, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, in Anaheim.
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Blue milk like Luke Skywalker drank on Tatooine: $8 a glass.
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Disneyland has long had games in its parks, from a shooting range in Frontierland to what is essentially a collection of mini video games in Disney California Adventure’s Toy Story Midway Mania.
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Don’t ask about lightsabers at Savi’s Workshop: The mysterious proprietor of the Black Spire Outpost establishment is not an arms dealer; he’s in the scrap metal business.
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Visitors to Disneyland’s new Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge expansion need to know the difference between wearing a costume and something called “bounding.”
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There’s a whole new world at Disneyland.
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Here’s a familiar and effective design trick often used at theme parks: Corral guests under or through a passageway that forces the crowd to narrow before a grand reveal.
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Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, the 14-acre expansion rumored to have cost $1 billion in a theme park not far away, opens May 31 at Disneyland.
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Hoping to ease crowding, Disneyland Resort is introducing an annual pass that lets visitors in on slow days but requires reservations for weekends and other popular times.
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“Star Wars” fans have spent years waiting for Disneyland to let them enter a galaxy far, far away.
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Two hours after Disneyland began accepting online reservations Thursday from people who want to be the first to experience the newest attraction, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, the coveted slots were all filled.
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The first visitors to Disneyland’s highly anticipated new Star Wars attraction will each be given a four-hour window to take in the $1-billion expansion — but how that deadline will be enforced is still unclear.
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A few days ago in a galaxy not so far away, an estimated 65,000 “Star Wars” fans from across the globe quested their way to the biggest convention center in the United States.
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Disneyland Resort is too popular for its own good.
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Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, the ambitious 14-acre expansion coming to Disneyland this year, is opening earlier than expected — with a catch.
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When you enter Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, the 14-acre expansion coming to Disneyland early this summer, you are faced with a choice.
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With Disneyland expecting a surge in attendance when it opens its Star Wars land this summer, the Anaheim park is relying on a plan to ease congestion by improving or eliminating visitor chokepoints, rather than putting strict limits on attendance.
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Only months before the opening of its $1-billion Star Wars expansion, the Disneyland Resort announced price increases of up to 25% for daily tickets, annual passes and parking.
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The future of theme parks might just be in a Salt Lake City suburb.
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Disneyland visitors who explore the new Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge expansion that opens next year will be invited to belly up to a dimly lit Star Wars-inspired cantina where — for the first time in the park — they can order alcoholic drinks.
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One entrance is flanked by a TIE fighter representing the evil First Order.
