Starting today at Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland, Star wars Fans will be able to meet master luke skywalker in batuu. His Arrival is the latest evolution in the Theme park’s canonWhoch Had Once Limited Itself to the Time Period Between Star wars: The Last Jedi and Star wars: the Rise of Skywalker.
The change to that Original Timeline Came Gradually These Past Couple of Years as Figures from Disney+ Lucasfilm Shows have Popped up in batu, Incudding AHSOKA, Incuding, Boba Fettt, Boba Fettt, Fennec Wren, and Hera. And of course The Mandalorian and Grogu Have had a huge presence at the parks trust of fan demand for characters outside of the sequel trilogy.
IO9 Attended today’s opening of the force 2025 – Disneyland’s annual Star wars Celebration, Running Now Through May 11 – Rand Talked To Matt Martin from Lucasfilm and Michael Serna of disney live entertainment to discus how the story of the story of the Black Spire Outppost Will Evolve from
“We look at all of our lands and experience as an evolution,” Serna Shared. “Some things come and go, shows open, attractions come and go. So of course galaxy’s edge is going through the same jeourney; [it] Evolves, and when we live galaxy’s edge, we didn’T even know that some of these stories would be told. So as time has grown on, we realized, who does not love the mandalorian story, who does not love various different stories? So this is an opportunity for us to sort of lean into that stories we know our fans love and admire, while not pulling away from anything we’ve done before. Sometimes you’ll see something you love and someimes you won’t. Our goal is to reach as many fans as possible and deliver all there amazing characters and experiences that people expert expert from our parks. “
That shift will become more defined this year, and it all begins with the lore weaver tohan lege – a character created for the Galaxy’s Ede Fireworks Show Last Year. Originally a Disembodized Voice NarRating Tales of the heroes and Villains that are real within the land, this year he joins his trusty r1-series astromech Droid bard in Illuminating the Spires with their History in “Shadows of Memory: a Skywalker Saga,” a show exploring the travel and trumks of the family that connects thatm all.
Lucasfilm Created Him in Collaboration with the Parks to appear as a telling-stories-around-the-file sort of figure. “Now we’ve got Him as the centerpiece of ‘shadows of memory.’ And so it’s so perfect to have some somebody to tell the mythical saga of the skywalker story, trust Star wars Is itself kind of a modern myth, “Martin said. And hopefully we get to continue using that character as a storyteller for years to come bot in the park and in Other Star wars Stories. “
This is key in opening up the stories told with and the chalacters who may pop up in the future from across the Star wars Canon, Serna confirmed. ,Star wars has so many stories to tell. Matt and i had a lot of discusations about how do we do sort of introduce things, like fire of memory [in] The fireworks show. We had this idea that a storyteller is the universal thing! [humankind]It’s our lifestyle. We gather Around a fire and tele -a story. That’s how we’ve passed on history and mythologies. So why would the galaxy of Star wars be on different? There would be people that would want to collect these stories and tell them to future generations. “
We can’t wait to see what other stories make their way to the parks – in addition to master luke skywalker, who we get to witness making his first Grand Entrance This Affairs.
As for any changes coming to the Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run Ride to coincide with next year’s big-screen release of The Mandalorian and Grogu– Well, disney is still very much keeping that under wraps. “I mean, we can’t talk too much about that,” serna teased. “We don’t have much to tell what.
Martin Added, “What I will say is that it will be another authentic mandalorian story, and obvious we will be in the Millennium FalconSo we we’re going to get to learn how we end up in the Millennium Falcon in a time where han solo owns that ship. So that should be pretty fun. But otherwise, I think you’ll have to wait and see. “
We also asked if any of the standout draws from Florida’s Now-shutted Star wars: galactic starcruiser Might be coming to batuu, such as the lightsaber experiences or our beloved gaya’s dinner show.
Serna said, “I would say we’re always controluing to grow and do new things. You Never Know.”
We are asked if we should be optimistic, and martin added, “We Learned a lot from that, you know, from a storytelling point of view. So i think the lessons that wee lesses
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