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Disney Offers First Look Into Disney Parks' Upcoming Star Wars Land - and We're Feeling It!

If you're a happy Star Wars fan and you know it, clap your hands...*attempts to clap hands but it's actually really awkward as I'm typing this*

Disney has proven once again that all the hype surrounding all of its productions - from movie productions to new park lands and attractions - is totally for a reason, as it recently unveiled a first glimpse at the much anticipated and fangirled about (at least by me) Star Wars Land at Disney Parks!

The Star Wars Land, which already started construction on April 14, 2016 at both Disneyland in California and Disney World's Hollywood Studios in Orlando, is expected to be opened in 2019 at both locations, so until the due time Disney let us have a first look at how the near 14-acres land is going to develop visually.




Disney unveiled the visual look of the upcoming Star Wars Land during its annual D23 expo in Anaheim, California, where a 3D model (as seen in the video above) showed just how exactly Disney intended to develop its look, with the chairman of Disney's parks division calling it "the most ambitious land we've built to date."

According to the official Disney Parks Blog, the setting for the much-anticipated Star Wars Land is a "never-before-seen planet", a trading port and "one of the last stops before Wild Space", in which park-goers will be able to immerse themselves into the world of Star Wars. Disney's decision to develop a new Star Wars planet as part of the Star Wars Land was explained by Imagineer Scott Trowbridge as wanting to "build new Star Wars stories, new Star Wars destination" in a completely new place. Disney's strategy worked well, because I am extremely curious to know more about this world and will I find Kylo Ren there?!

This expensive expansion (which according to Bloomberg is estimated to cost around $1 billion for each park), will feature two attractions: one letting park-goers be caught in the middle of a battle between the First Order and the Resistance while the other will let park-goers ride on the iconic Millennium Falcon and be part of a secret mission.

But that's not all that awaits park-goers, as live Star Wars characters, entertainment, and an in-park resort are expected to be incorporated into the Star Wars Land in the parks.

So this is the part where I try to wait patiently until 2019 so I can submerge myself into this new awesome Star Wars world...what about you? Are you also looking forward to the upcoming Star Wars Land and any more news about this galactic world? Or are you a Trekkie? Or both? (It's possible.)

Let me know what you think, because I'd love to know!


Happy FriYAY indeed thanks to Disney...

Sincerely, Dora Goto

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