The Mouse Minute (Formerly Brad's Everything Disney Blog): Star Wars in Disneyland

Sunday, November 15, 2015

Seasons of the Force Signs that Star Wars is coming to Disneyland in full force tomorrow.

Media day for Seasons of the Force was on Thursday this week. The Seasons of the Force kicks off on Monday November 16th --but some features had been having soft opening all weekend.

I couldn't wait for the official opening so we headed out to the park to see if we could check out some of the stuff.

Hyperspace Mountain was our first stop and it was open. (I'll save that for it's own blog tomorrow).

The Launching Bay wasn't open yet and neither was the Path to the Jedi film clips (which was open the day before).

We also hit Star Tours --but did not get to see the new segment.

The signage for Seasons of the Force was all over the place and the old Star Trader was literally all Star Wars now. (I'll blog about that this week as well)

For today I'll just give you a sneak peek at the Signage that shows Tomorrowland has turned into Star Wars already.

Right at the entrance of Tomorrowland it is clear that Star Wars has arrived.

Lightside and Darkside Banners line the Peoplemover tracks.

Here is Rey

Poe Dameron and BB-8

Luke Skywalker

Yoda

Ashoka

Han and Chewie

Leia

Ezra

Darth Maul

Assajj Ventress

The Darkside

Tomorrow I'll get into my review of Hyperspace Mountain and then later in the week I'll have a lot more to post once I get a chance to see all the rest of Seasons of the Force.

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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Disneyland Pictures of the Week: Star Wars is coming

I was just recently at the big Star Wars celebration in Anaheim –literally right across the street from Disneyland.

I found the lack of a big announcement regarding anything new coming to the theme parks disturbing.

When you go to a big convention like Star Wars Celebration excitement is in the air. I joked and said "How do you make 40,000 nerds cry.....show them a Star Wars trailer in an arena" With at least 6 new films on the way you could feel the joy for Star Wars at the convention. After the convention a natural depression sets in. Kind of a post convention dulldroms. All the anticipation for the convention is over and the wait begins for the next big thing.

Then the jealously sets in….. You see Disney’s Hollywood Studios gets 4 weeks of Star Wars every year already.

It is sort of like a 4 week convention with panels and celebrities and cool things like a make shift Star Wars lounge and the Sci-Fi Dine in getting a Star Wars themed breakfast –with the trailer and clips from the films in the background. (I’m not sure why they don’t just have this there all the time). Being on the West Coast I sat here wishing we had a Sci Fi dine in…..Wishing we got a Star Wars weekend with special Star Wars themed drinks and light up Millennium Falcon ice cubes.

Well when we went out to the parks this weekend to check out some of the new 60^th Anniversary stuff. We first saw this.

A Lemonade stand with a Boba Fett cup?

A Han Solo in Carbonite Popcorn –bucket….I thought these were only in Orlando.

And the light up ice cubes. (The glass is from Target)

Star Wars is coming……The news that Indy is getting a bar in Disney Springs only makes me more confident that something big for Star Wars is coming soon. Star Wars is Disney's Harry Potterso it is just a matter of time before the big plans they are working one come to light. If you follow Disney as closely as I do you will remember those crates at the last D23 teasing that they were Blue Skying something Star Wars related. Well the movie is now around 200 days away so I bet something big is coming soon.

I'm shocked that they didn't move the Force Awakens Props exhibit across the street once the Convention was over. I could see that exhibit that had 2 plus hour lines at the convention where the Tomorrowland props are now---or in Innoventions.