When Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge officially opens to guests Friday, it will launch an entirely new theme park experience for fans of Disneyland.
Disneyland’s biggest-ever land expansion was built with the intention of feeling inherently Star Wars despite being completely new — which was readily accomplished. Though you’ve never seen these weathered stone buildings or repurposed metal fixtures on-screen before, the overall design and clashing materials feel familiar. Details, like blaster marks in the stone walls, a smelter droid roasting meat on a spit, or drink coasters which, when translated from Aurebesh, denoteOga’s Cantina as a place for “food, drink, and music”, emphasize it as well.
Longtime Star Wars composer John Williams returned to compose the mainmusical themefor Galaxy's Edge.
From an authenticStar Warscantina on the Outer Rim of the galaxy to exotic creatures, military encampments and daring missions aboard theMillennium Falcon, guests will find plenty of stories to explore as they live their own adventures insideStar Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. The epic new lands open at Disneyland Park in California on May 31, 2019, and at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida on Aug. 29, 2019.*
By the Numbers
- Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge spans more than 14 acres, making these the largest single-themed lands in Disney Parks history.
- More than a dozen venues fill the lands, including Resistance and First Order encampments, a spaceport and a bustling market.
- Two attractions will entice guests to live their ownStar Warsadventures –Millennium Falcon:Smugglers Run and(opening later in 2019) Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance.
- There are three entrances into the new land at Disneyland Park, and two at Disney’s Hollywood Studios (otherwise, the lands are nearly identical).
- TheMillennium Falcondocked in the Black Spire Outpost Spaceport measures more than 100 feet long.
- Among the ancient-looking spires across the lands, the tallest is more than 130 feet high.
- The lands were created with more than 200,000 square feet of rockwork and approximately 260,000 square feet of themed plaster in each location.
- More than 7,000 props were created for each land.
- Nine different retail locations in the lands offer nearly 700 unique items, ideal for those looking to take a memory ofStar Wars: Galaxy’s Edge home with them.
- There are more than 120,000 possible combinations for constructing a lightsaber using all the available pieces in Savi’s Workshop – Handbuilt Lightsabers.
- There are nearly 280,000 possible combinations for constructing an R-series or BB-series astromech droid using all the available pieces in the Droid Depot.
- Five locations withinStar Wars: Galaxy’s Edge offer guests a chance to purchase food and beverages. The lands’ menus feature more than 50 distinct, out-of-this-world items.
Did You Know?
- Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge marks the first time a full-size, 100% completeMillennium Falconhas ever been built.
- Guests enter theMillennium Falconthrough the same starboard airlock used by Han Solo and Chewbacca in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”
- The chess-type game played on the table in theMillennium Falconmain hold and lounge is called Dejarik; guests can sit at the table insideMillennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, and the game is available for purchase in the Toydarian Toymaker marketplace stall.
- At Black Spire Outpost, the droid in charge of music at the local watering hole, Oga’s Cantina, is DJ R-3X, the former Starspeeder 3000 pilot fromStar Tours.
- For the soundtrack inside Oga’s Cantina, Walt Disney Imagineering commissioned musicians and composers from around the world to craft original music for a galactic playlist.
- Kowakian Monkey-Lizards and Porgs are among the “critters” guests will find at the Creature Stall. These are just a few of the many items guests may purchase during their visit.
- Academy Award-winning® composer John Williams created an all-new suite of themes written especially for the lands and their attractions.
Development Timeline
- The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm Ltd. In 2012.
- Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge has been in development since 2014.
- Walt Disney Company Chairman and CEO Bob Iger announcedStar Wars-themed lands would open at Disneyland and Disney’s Hollywood Studios while at the D23 Expo on Aug. 15, 2015.
- Construction in both Disneyland and Disney’s Hollywood Studios began in April 2016.
- Approximately 6,700 construction workers and artisans were employed during the development ofStar Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.
- To operate the land, 1,600 new jobs were created for Disneyland Resort.
- Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, one of two attractions in the lands, will open on both coasts by the end of 2019.