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Not long after Disneyland revealed plans to build a Star Wars-themed area, visions of large and ominous crowds hovered over fans like the Death Star.
But now that Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge has opened, those expectations have been blown to smithereens.
The new Star Wars land is drawing healthy but not overwhelming crowds (kept in check by a reservations system) and Disneyland is ...
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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.
“The crowding issues that many of our guests anticipated have not come to fruition thanks to the measures we 've put in place,” said Disneyland vice president Kris ...
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Disneyland continues to make crowd management adjustments to Galaxy 's Edge queues outside the wildly popular cantina and the lightsaber and droid building shops that have drawn hours-long lines during the opening days of the new Star Wars themed land.
Modest crowds overwhelmed the new 14-acre land on opening day as fans who waited overnight to be the first visitors faced snaking queues that ...
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Ask an aficionado of The Happiest Place on Earth to name their absolute-est, beyond-est, most-est-and-forever-est favorite thing, and you'll hear more answers than an ice cream sundae has sprinkles.
SoCal spookies do love their Haunted Mansion something wicked, and Dole Whip devotees are hot on the cold treat, and lots of people pine for the parades.
But fireworks fans?
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Black Spire Outpost, Batuu (aka Disneyland, Anaheim, California) (CNN) - Disneyland's most ambitious new land ever, Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, opened on Friday, and my 11-year-old daughter and I were there on day one.
We learned things you'll want to know, whether you visit sooner or later -- some by following in our footsteps, but largely by learning from our mistakes.
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The creative forces behind Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge promise the expansion land 's coming second attraction, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, will offer an “epic” experience filled with surprises.
“This is our other anchor attraction and we 're so excited about this one as well. This truly is epic,” said Margaret Kerrison, managing story editor for Galaxy 's Edge.
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Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge is arguably the most anticipated theme park opening since Disneyland itself in 1955. Are your kids begging to visit the galaxy far, far, away? Never fear, we 've compiled this guide to Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge with tips and tricks for managing and dealing with the crowds flocking to the hottest theme park property on the planet of Batuu.
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Chewbacca climbed into the pilot seat of the Millennium Falcon as fireworks exploded above Disneyland in Anaheim, California, Wednesday.
Chewbacca is an imaginary creature born in the first of the Star Wars series of movies. He was in Disneyland for a ceremony to open the new Star Wars area at the theme park.
“Chewie, let 's fire up the Falcon,” said Mark Hamill, the actor who ...
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I really want to not care about Galaxy 's Edge. All the hype, all the lines, all the money.
The last time I was in Disneyland I couldn 't wait to leave. It was so crowded. I felt so old. I am a baby boomer, the real kind. I quit the football team after I read the Beats, protested Vietnam, fled to San Francisco. I lived next door to the Grateful Dead in the Haight, saw Janis before she ...
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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.
Think of Disneyland 's Main Street, U.S.A., where park goers are shunted through a passage under a train tunnel that gives way to a romantic, turn-of-the-20th-century town and a fantastical castle. At the entrance to ...
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Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge, the epic new land inside Disneyland Park, opens May 31, 2019, inviting guests to live their own Star Wars adventures as they explore a remote planet full of unique sights, sounds, smells, tastes and other immersive experiences. The largest and most technologically advanced single-themed land expansion ever in a Disney park also opens at Disney 's Hollywood Studios in Florida on ...
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Sleeping Beauty Castle reawakened Friday, May 24, after a four-month beauty sleep that saw the Disneyland icon get a fresh paint job, a touch of gold leaf on the finial ornaments and a sprinkling of pixie dust on its new roof ahead of the debut of Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge.
Disneyland crews removed the construction walls overnight so that visitors could once again walk through the ...
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Disneyland 's Farley the Fiddler will be hanging up his spurs this holiday weekend after decades of entertaining generations of dedicated fans with music and laughter as the roping, joking, fiddling cowboy of Frontierland.
Gary Francisco, better known to his legions of Disneyland fans as Farley the Fiddler, will retire from his daily Disneyland gig on Memorial Day after a half century of ...
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As if the steadily rising price of Butterbeer wasn 't enough to contend with, theme park fans will have to dig even deeper into their pockets to pay for the Blue Milk every Star Wars fan has been dying to try for the past four decades.
Blue Milk will set you back a cool $7.99 for the best-known drink in the “Star Wars” universe when the highly anticipated Galaxy 's Edge themed land debuts ...
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From corn dogs to ultra-exclusive luxury dining, there's a place for everyone to eat at Disneyland. Here's a list of just some of the best in alphabetical order (it's too hard to rank them otherwise!). Hit 'em all on your next visit.
Blue Bayou
Right in the middle of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, this sit-down restaurant excels at things you might think you ...
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Disneyland 's iconic Adventureland sign returned after a month-long renovation project that saw the Anaheim theme park widen the notoriously crowded entryway to the tropical land as part of park-wide effort to improve pedestrian traffic flow.
The renovated Adventureland sign that returned Wednesday reuses portions of the entry marquee, Disneyland officials said.
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Your cadaverous pallor betrays an aura of, what's the word we're searching for...
Foreboding.
Of course, those aren't just words heard over and over again inside a beyond-iconic attraction in Anaheim; they're currently true, for many Disney devotees.
For perhaps you have a profound sense that something is on the wind, a big event is on approach, a splendid ...
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In just a few days, Disneyland will open its new portal to a galaxy far, far away. Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge opens to advance reservation holders and resort hotel guests on May 31, with a second opening for all Disneyland ticket holders on June 24.
Disneyland invited me to walk through the land a couple of weeks ago, just after Disney 's Imagineers turned the land over to the park 's ...
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The Savi 's Workshop page on the official Disneyland Resort website has been updated providing more about the handbuilt lightsaber experience that will be available inside Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge, including the $199.99 price tag.
We already knew that there were four hilt themes available:
Peach and Justice - Salvaged scraps from fallen Jedi temples and crashed starships in ...
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Sleeping Beauty Castle, the centerpiece of the Disneyland park in Anaheim, has been undergoing a makeover for the past four months, a job that blocked off the building from parkgoers.
But to avoid dashing fans ' expectations, painting crews enveloped the 77-foot-tall castle with a huge painting of the original structure, emblazoned on heavy fabric attached to scaffolding.
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Should guests exceed their four-hour reserved time slot when visiting Disneyland 's Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge expansion in its first weeks, patrolling Stormtroopers may ask stragglers to “move along.”
The land, which will be reservation only until June 24, will restrict guests to a four-hour time limit enforced by colored wristbands, the OC Register reports.
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Doug Ridley remembers seeing the first “Star Wars” film when it came out in 1977 and snapping up all the toys he could persuade his parents to purchase.
Now 47, the criminal-defense attorney often dons a stormtrooper uniform with his fan club and plans to be one of the first guests at Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge when the attraction opens at Disneyland on May 31. It won 't be cheap. Besides ...
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“Star Wars” fans have spent years waiting for Disneyland to let them enter a galaxy far, far away.
How then does the Magic Kingdom get them to leave?
Disneyland 's May 31 launch of Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge will test the park 's efforts to open a highly anticipated expansion without the crushing crowds, frustration and chaos that can accompany a new attraction.
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Here 's how deep Kim Irvine 's connections are to Disneyland: About three years before she started working for Walt Disney Imagineering, the creative arm of the company responsible for theme park experiences, the then-15-year-old simply wanted her mother to stop embarrassing her.
“Goblins and ghoulies from last Halloween,” Irvine says today, mimicking her mother and raising her voice as she ...
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"Star Wars" fan or not, chances are you've heard a thing or two about the most anticipated debut within a theme park this summer - if not the past 10 years. "Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge" will welcome visitors at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., beginning May 31 - while ticket reservations were extremely quick to sell out, they won't be needed after June 23 - with another outpost set to open on August ...
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Reservations for the grand opening of Disneyland 's new Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge land in Anaheim went fast - like, Yoda battling Count Dooku in “Star Wars: Attack of the Clones” fast.
Disney hasn 't released numbers on how many reservations it issued for the land 's first month, but it 's safe to say that thousands will be packing the brand-new, 14-acre land between opening day, May 31, and ...
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The imminent arrival of Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge at Disneyland has left many longtime fans of the Star Tours attraction worried that the venerable 1987 flight simulator might soon be departing for Yesterland.
But have no fear. Star Tours is not going anywhere in the immediate future. Except on an intergalactic journey to Hoth, Tatooine or Naboo.
Disneyland plans to continue ...
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Disneyland's introducing a new annual pass, which promises the chance to visit the parks with Mickey, Darth Vader, and friends on way more days than many other passes. The pass goes on sale shortly before the new Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge land opens.
Crowds have always been a problem at the Disney parks, and that's expected to be a bigger issue than ever before with the Galaxy's ...
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When noted voice actress Kat Cressida was a little girl, her father did radio and television promotions for Disneyland.
While he was taking business meetings in the park, sometimes she 'd amuse herself by tape-recording the many sounds heard from hidden speakers throughout the Anaheim attraction.
“My first introduction to voice-over was hearing these iconic, amazing voices in ...
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Disneyland is introducing a new annual passport option for guests, aimed at giving visitors more flexibility in scheduling their visits.
Beginning May 21, the park's Disney Flex Passport will let passholders select between visiting Disneyland, California Adventure, or both parks on select "good-to-go" days.
The pass includes limited blackout days and allows holders to book ...
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A new Disneyland annual pass will require visitors to make advance reservations on busy days as the Anaheim theme park continues to tweak admissions policies ahead of the crowds expected to descend on the highly anticipated Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge.
The $599 Disney Flex annual pass goes on sale May 21 and can be used starting the same day, Disneyland officials announced.
The new ...
