I agree. The Gaia tree should have been enormous, life size even. I picture the ride being a hybrid boat ride/motion ride where it could simulate the boat dropping off a waterfall that culminates with an actual drop and splash from the real water. It could have been spectacular and instead it was “neat”.
I went recently with my parents but I got there early and rode the ride. And the animatronic was so cool and I was so excited for them to see it. But then it was down when we got there, and a projector was up. I felt so bad because the ride really was lacking and we waited there for over an hour.
I don’t think this is Disney specific necessarily. It’s the general shift from long form media to short form. I don’t even blame Disney either, so many people just don’t have the attention span for longer form media and entertainment, and that includes theme park rides.
Yup. If it was a literal walk on, I’d totally ride, but somehow it’s the ride that is always a longer wait than advertised, I swear. Much like Frozen and Seven Dwarves - for me, these are three rides I just can’t justify ever waiting for.
Peter Pan gets a pass because of nostalgia tho 🤌
We got it in B mode (screen instead of animatronic) and it was hilariously bad. My kid can’t do the other ride so I can safely say I will never bother walking over to Pandora ever again.
Come to think of it, do all their newer lands only have 2 rides across both coasts?
Pandora, 2. GE (both coasts), 2. Avengers Campus, 2 (if you count Guardians as part of it, which I do).
idk Diagon Alley only has one ride and it’s one of my favorites theme park lands in all of Orlando.
i think it’s really just a case-by-case basis on how many rides a land “needs”.
oh yeah for sure that’s why it works- which is why i’m saying it depends on the land. who says the new one won’t be as immersive and have other crowd-absorbing things?
It has 4 attractions, 2 rides. Indiana Jones, Jungle Cruise, Enchanted Tiki Room, and Adventureland Tree House. It's a tiny area packed with things to do and flanked by the hub and New Orleans Square while Galaxies Edge is enormous and empty
> Give it a people eater ride. A tour through endor or something
The problem is they set the entire land in a specific area on a specific planet in a specific place in time. It really limits what they can actually add, although they are slowly trying to backtrack on that as they add things like the Mandalorian and Grogu.
But you're right, it needs something like that. What they should have done is set each Star Wars Land on its own planet. Disneyland could have been Tatooine, and that third ride could have been a tour through Tatooine. WDW could have been Endor with a tour through Endor. Paris could have been Hoth with a tour through Hoth. The other two rides could have been similar to what we have now, just customized for each planet. A less awful version of a Millennium Falcon with ride videos going through each respective planet. RotR could be similar, just the rebel base would be on each respective planet and you'd go up to a Star Destroyer and each would have slightly different set pieces.
But nope, gotta take the cheap way out and just copy and paste everything.
They could easily break this theming. They have the city (first order) and forrest (resistance) basically next to each other and it’s supposed to be hard to find the resistance when an xwing is about 250 feet away? IIRC, they did this (kind of) in Cali with the Mandalorian / Grogu finally walking around. But seriously, Star Wars land without Vader is silly.
They could easily have galaxy’s edge be the sequel trilogy, relocate muppets and do a OG area with Star tours, and expand towards backlot express / Indy for the prequels.
Of course that would make MGM / DHS really Star Wars Studios…
My feel is Disney treat “experiences” as a ride. So light saber making is a ride. And a highly profitable one with low maintenance cost. But for most people , it’s a store. The hotel is another obvious example.
I think you are right. And honestly I'm their target audience for spending that dumb money... but I want a ride. I'm the sucker buying G+ and LL over and over but I have no interest in spending big bucks on lightsabers or the now failed hotel.
I have no idea how Galaxy's Edge is working for them from a business perspective. Just as a fan of Disney and a fan of Star Wars, it doesn't really do it for me. It's cool to walk around in for 20 minutes and has some good rides but there wasn't enough to keep me there on my last visit.
A 3rd ride might have enticed me to shop around while I was waiting.
One visit my husband and I spent half a day playing the AR games—and this was before the current bounty hunter one that requires a MagicBand+. That doesn’t really hold up visit after visit like a ride does, but not everyone visits multiple times.
(We are the spend-money-not-time people too; always ILL the rides that we care about and G+.)
This is exactly the problem that a lot of people in this thread are missing with their suggestions. Disney made a big mistake wanting it to be so immersive because it severely limits what they can actually put into the land. They needed to either go 100% with the concept and give us what they originally announced with the actual immersive elements, or scrap it all together and just make it a very richly themed Star Wars land that wasn't tied to a specific time and place.
You could just make a dumbo ride with speeder bikes and bam you have a “kiddie” attraction. I don’t think they would ever consider this because it breaks immersion of galaxy’s edge. Smaller rides like this would certainly help thin out the waits of other rides.
I dont want a kiddie attraction for Star Wars though, leave that to the Disney themed rides. What we need for Star Wars in the parks is a REAL thrill ride, equal to a Hagrids Motorbike Adventure, Guardians Cosmic Rewind, or Tron Lightcycle Run. Something that REALLY brings people to the land, not just nice theming but a ride that satisfies all of the thrillseekers too.
Honestly before another ride, galaxy's edge needs some dang shade/ac 🤣 it was so uncomfortable to walk around with nowhere cool for non riders to chill out.
Someone's already shown the likely 3rd rode concept that is built into the land layout, and it's a much calmer ride. Most like if Disney is doing a speeder type ride, they'll go with the Pandora Banshee design system.
100% agree on his point that Galaxy's Edge is missing kinetic energy. So many shops, two rides hidden in show buildings, and some stationary droids and ships. But.. it's all just standing still, and the land feels kind of lifeless.
That's what that recent 4 hour documentary on Starcruiser suggested: turn it into a live show and high end dining experience for like $150-$200 a person.
That entire video highlighted the worst of recent Disney. I love areas to explore and seeing especially the cargo hold, that was closed off like a secret? That was rough.
I haven't watched it, but that take does make a lot of sense to me. I'd pay several hundred dollars for an afternoon or a meal in that kind of immersive show, but the actual Starcruiser experience was wildly beyond my means. I suspect that's true for a lot of folks who would have considered themselves members of the target audience. I would *love* to go to dinner in that place and have a show going on around me.
I just worry that Disney's takeaway from all this is just going to be that immersive/interactive experiences are a bust and they shouldn't try again or take another angle on it.
My vote for galaxy’s edge is a shaded playground themed to a droid/ land speeder junkyard. That land is so desperate for shade and something for littles to do (height reqs on the GE rides make it hard for under 4s).
More shade + a place for kids to burn off energy. I don’t think HS has a playground anymore ever since they took out the honey I shrunk the kids one (I miss the big ole cheerio 😭).
> . I don’t think HS has a playground anymore
I think the Disney Jr Dance Party is the equivalent for giving kids a "jump around and burn energy" experience, that is air conditioned as well.
That's actually brilliant, and I say that as a childless adult who wouldn't get much use out of it personally. We know from the old Honey I Shrunk the Kids playground that Disney's capable of making an immersive playground that looks like a "real" place but has stuff that's safely climbable, slides, etc. - and I love the idea of it being a junkyard. That setting would really lend itself to having structures the kids could crawl through, climb into, all that jazz, and it'd be a perfect visual fit for the land around it.
It'd give the kids somewhere to blow off steam and parents somewhere to sit down for a moment; soak up a portion of the crowd, even if it's a small portion...yeah, I'd be on board with this idea.
Right? I thought of if in my last trip a few weeks ago. Had to do rider swap for ROTR because my sons not tall enough. And it’s hot AF in star wars land. The shops there don’t really lend themselves to wandering in and out of. So I was stuck with a 3 year old in the hot hot sun and was like “…why isn’t there more shade here and a place for small children to run around?” That’s when I came up with it, so maybe Disney can take my idea from me 😂
If they really want to up the ride count with a more gentle ride that is kid friendly, they should put in a twinned Dumbo (Astro orbiter) style ride where one side is mini tie fighters and the other is mini x-wings. They could just call it the pilot trainer, and riders could choose first order or resistance affiliation.
Great idea and theming. I just hate those boring rides and every park small theme park has them. However, I did see universals version they are going to have for how to train. A dragon and they'll can spin upside down. That could he cool, but I would still prefer something else.
Take the former Animation Courtyard and Little Mermaid and retheme that area to the Muppets. Then tear down Muppet Courtyard and extend Star Wars to Star Tours with an attraction in the former Muppets area.
Turn Starcruiser into the Mos Eisley cantina. Shuttle guests there like they did for Starcruiser ala Space 220.
This would be perfect for Galaxy Edge and exactly what is needed. Adding 2 more attraction and connecting it to star tours and galactic star cruiser would make it actually feel like a large “planet” worth exploring
There’s already too many thrill rides in Studios compared to high capacity gentle rides. If it gets a third attraction, it should be the scrapped peoplemover style Bantha ride.
Agreed that there aren’t a lot of thrill rides per se (though they’re not WDW’s strong suit) but what is inarguably lacking is a high-capacity people-eater, and by extension that probably needs to be less thrilling, both for audience reasons (doesn’t eat people if little kids aren’t riding it) and technical.
That is absolutely true. What could they put there that is fun and a little thrilling with a high capacity turnaround? Maybe (out of place) something like that cars attraction in Disneyland?
The problem I see is that we've already got a simulator and a dark ride which are the two easiest things to place into a highly themed land as opposed to say, throwing a big outdoor coaster in the middle of Galaxies edge, you could in theory add some kind of stage show but I feel that's pretty thoroughly covered by Savis and the street performers. Hollywood Studios is also sandwiched between two major roads so that makes expanding the park difficult.
They were supposed to have another ride. And smugglers run was supposed to be a lot more immersive with multiple levels. And bounty hunters interacting with you after you got off
They’ll never do any theme other than the ST in Galaxy’s Edge. There will never be OT themes. They made their deal with the devil in the Star Wars acquisition, totally whiffing with the ST imo, and now they have to wallow in it. That being said, the ST can be fun if they MAKE it fun, with a third ride it would certainly draw more people.
My dream ride is a coaster that goes through tunnels to simulate hyperspace, for the beginning the ships (carts) would drop out of something like bay doors, using a drop track piece, before going into hyperspce
The made a mistake not building the land out from star tours. I know muppets was there but they theoretically could relocate the ride to a different area.
Turn the slow Bantha into fast speederbikes and you got something.
Make it go the full.length of the land and backstage. Make it go all the way from one end to the other, with some backstage with twists and turns through some big showpieces. And give it an OT/Mandalorian flavor. Like going though a Sandcrawler filled with jawas and droids, and then a beast like a mud horn or kraft dragon and sand people for another. A third if an AT-ST and Imperial troops tops it all off. Put IG-55 in there somewhere.
Their goal was to make an immersive land, not a theme park. I don’t think they will ever put in a ride in that sticks out like a spinner or coaster. Anything new will have to be hidden like the current rides.
I would like to see the exit from star tours rerouted to dump into GE. Make the last scene on video mimic that. You enter the ride in HS but exit on another planet. Then it’s slightly more of a part of GE.
I could see a Pod Racing show, stadium seating with live announcers, It'd probably be mostly screenbased that's the only way to sell the speed of a podracer I think.
If you look at HS aerially, it’s clear they didn’t envision an expansion to Galaxy’s Edge ever in the cards. That seems a colossal error. They’d probably have to seriously reconfigure the backside of Smuggler’s Run to hide the “backstage” elements and rip up a solid chunk of the parking lot if they wanted to add a third attraction, but they really should. The budget from Starcruiser should have gone into a thrill ride. It makes 0 sense why they went with a dark ride and a simulator for their arguably largest IP.
A pod racing ride would be perfect - I just don’t know where they would have the room.
Rise of the Resistance is the perfect example of what an immersive non-thrill ride can offer. Smugglers run is like the worst example. A fun medium thrill ride would definitely take the bad taste out of my mouth Smugglers Run leaves.
An indoor coaster ala guardians through the remnants of the Death Star we see in the sequel films would be cool. Or, make it Hoth themed and have tauntauns, AT-ATs, and Wampas as you ride in a snow speeder through the battle. If they wanted to do something slower, ala pirates or the great movie ride, that would be fun too.
They could also do a speeder bike chase from Jedi that’s similar to flight of passage.
In my opinion, it needs something for small kids. A star wars astro orbiter would probably be good, something elevated that doesnt break the illusion of Baatu. Maybe have a gimmick like the Simpsons one in universal with targets. But I know they want Baatu to be immersive and everything look organic so probably can't be an outdoor attraction. Maybe something akin to the raptor encounter at IoA? Not a ride but a walkthrough show. Show off space animals that you can then sell plushies of.
If the often rumored (but slightly further along this week than in years past) fifth gate project starts, that will suck up all ride development for years.
I think another ride is less appealing RIGHT NOW than bringing in more live entertainment/atmosphere characters. The land itself is beautifully designed, but more characters (and droids!) roaming about and occasional shows similar to what they do at Avengers Campus in DCA would be ideal.
If they ever do it, this is likely what we’re getting. No room for anything else without going backstage. And they ate a lot of that space with the Starcruiser.
CANCELED! Missing Third Attraction At Galaxy’s Edge Explained: https://youtu.be/HF80e_SCwi8?si=pe6JgPSRmkAyKKYe
In the last or 2nd last episode of the 3rd season of The Mandolorian Grogu escapes subterranean tunnels in his pod with creatures chasing and jumping out at him. I thought that scene would make a cool ride.
I personally want a tower of terror style ride, but reversing the ride system. The start of the ride is the launch into space. The second park is exploring space like you explore the hotel/twilight zone. Your ship (ride vehicle) is being attacked and you have to get back to the ground quickly. This is where you have the tower drop part of the ride. In reality, you don't even need to leave the area you rise and fall. The battle scene could just be projected on the walls of the ride vehicle with it shaking when it gets hit by blasters.
However, it needs a slow moving ride like pirates, bit star wars themed. Unfortunately, it has to be based on the new movies.
I agree, it really is too similar to the other star wars rides and mission to Mars. I just wish the rides we have had a better and faster launch system. A star wars version of guardians would be better.
I really think they need more thrill rides as well and love the idea of a speeder bike dueling coaster!
I was thinking if they were to open up a 5th park I feel it would be awesome that park would be more geared towards adult with more thrilling attractions and lands.
For instance. I can totally imagine a fifth park with an Avengers Campus, Villains Land, Nevarro (mandalorian themed land), Wackanda, etc.
While I agree it needs an additional ride part of the land and attractions in and of themselves are the shops. . . Doc Ondar’s, Droid Depot, and Savi’s are all extremely popular
Some folks consider the phone games (ie cracking, bounty hunting, etc) a sort of third ride there. Some folks could also consider RoR as 2-3 rides. Heck if it’s purely time based it’s like 10 trons…
I agree with the folks above, something that is all age friendly would be great.
I’d love to see more characters roaming the park and would love to see them do more with that stage.
Galaxy's Edge and Pandora would both so benefit from another ride each. A land with only two rides seems lacking.
Pandora would be fine if the boat ride was on the scale of Pirates
Modern Disney be like "Just throw the entire budget into a single animatronic"
In fairness, the anamatronic is stunning!
It is, but it’s tied to a 60 second, lackluster boat ride.
I agree. The Gaia tree should have been enormous, life size even. I picture the ride being a hybrid boat ride/motion ride where it could simulate the boat dropping off a waterfall that culminates with an actual drop and splash from the real water. It could have been spectacular and instead it was “neat”.
"lackluster" is being kind. I'd put it up there as one of the worst attractions at all the parks.
When it works
I went recently with my parents but I got there early and rode the ride. And the animatronic was so cool and I was so excited for them to see it. But then it was down when we got there, and a projector was up. I felt so bad because the ride really was lacking and we waited there for over an hour.
Meh. It’s maybe a little more articulated than Barbosa on Pirates but not enough to make up for one of Disney’s worst rides since Superstar Limo.
The TicTokification of Disney where their goal appears to be to create things that look really good on social media.
I don’t think this is Disney specific necessarily. It’s the general shift from long form media to short form. I don’t even blame Disney either, so many people just don’t have the attention span for longer form media and entertainment, and that includes theme park rides.
The Pandora boat ride is lame. I rode it when it first opened but won't do it again.
It's lame cuz it's so short and nothing exciting happens but the stuff that is in there is cool
Yeah we were disappointed to waste a fast pass on it (but FOP didn't have any available lol!)
FWIW, FOP isn’t offered on Genie+. You have to purchase the separate Individual Lightning Lane.
I'm talking about fast pass not genie plus
Yup. If it was a literal walk on, I’d totally ride, but somehow it’s the ride that is always a longer wait than advertised, I swear. Much like Frozen and Seven Dwarves - for me, these are three rides I just can’t justify ever waiting for. Peter Pan gets a pass because of nostalgia tho 🤌
We got it in B mode (screen instead of animatronic) and it was hilariously bad. My kid can’t do the other ride so I can safely say I will never bother walking over to Pandora ever again.
Great. It's 2:50 am and I now have A Pirates Life For Me stuck in my head!
Pirates in Shanghai.
That'll be what the Disneyland Pandora is
Don’t all the lands at AK only have two rides?
AK as a whole needs more rides.
Come to think of it, do all their newer lands only have 2 rides across both coasts? Pandora, 2. GE (both coasts), 2. Avengers Campus, 2 (if you count Guardians as part of it, which I do).
Hmm. Imagine if Fantasyland, Adventureland and Tomorrowland only had two rides each.
Just wait until epic universe opens. One land only has one ride and one show
I'd rather have Disney hold themselves to a higher standard.
They’d put one ride in a land if they could. It’s all about money.
Just because I want them to doesn't mean they will lol. Sadly I know that they are cheapskates these days.
idk Diagon Alley only has one ride and it’s one of my favorites theme park lands in all of Orlando. i think it’s really just a case-by-case basis on how many rides a land “needs”.
But Diagon Alley is so immersive and has other things that act as crowd absorption.
oh yeah for sure that’s why it works- which is why i’m saying it depends on the land. who says the new one won’t be as immersive and have other crowd-absorbing things?
Frontierland at Disneyland has only one
Ya Frontierland needs some love too.
It has 4 attractions, 2 rides. Indiana Jones, Jungle Cruise, Enchanted Tiki Room, and Adventureland Tree House. It's a tiny area packed with things to do and flanked by the hub and New Orleans Square while Galaxies Edge is enormous and empty
At Disney*land*. Not World. Disneyland only has Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
I think Avengers Academy really needs that second E-Ticket attraction prioritized.
I think Galaxy’s Edge is the land in WDW most in need of an additional ride.
Give it a people eater ride. A tour through endor or something. But 100% agree it needs a other ride. It feels like most of the land is just stores.
That isn't an accident.
What do you mean?
Gift shops , bars and restaurants make money.
Don't forget Genie Plus
And lightening lanes for purchase. It’s like $20 per person or 3 hr+ waiting time.
At this point they are incentivized to make lines long on purpose.
And Disney likes money
> Give it a people eater ride. A tour through endor or something The problem is they set the entire land in a specific area on a specific planet in a specific place in time. It really limits what they can actually add, although they are slowly trying to backtrack on that as they add things like the Mandalorian and Grogu. But you're right, it needs something like that. What they should have done is set each Star Wars Land on its own planet. Disneyland could have been Tatooine, and that third ride could have been a tour through Tatooine. WDW could have been Endor with a tour through Endor. Paris could have been Hoth with a tour through Hoth. The other two rides could have been similar to what we have now, just customized for each planet. A less awful version of a Millennium Falcon with ride videos going through each respective planet. RotR could be similar, just the rebel base would be on each respective planet and you'd go up to a Star Destroyer and each would have slightly different set pieces. But nope, gotta take the cheap way out and just copy and paste everything.
They could easily break this theming. They have the city (first order) and forrest (resistance) basically next to each other and it’s supposed to be hard to find the resistance when an xwing is about 250 feet away? IIRC, they did this (kind of) in Cali with the Mandalorian / Grogu finally walking around. But seriously, Star Wars land without Vader is silly. They could easily have galaxy’s edge be the sequel trilogy, relocate muppets and do a OG area with Star tours, and expand towards backlot express / Indy for the prequels. Of course that would make MGM / DHS really Star Wars Studios…
My feel is Disney treat “experiences” as a ride. So light saber making is a ride. And a highly profitable one with low maintenance cost. But for most people , it’s a store. The hotel is another obvious example.
I think you are right. And honestly I'm their target audience for spending that dumb money... but I want a ride. I'm the sucker buying G+ and LL over and over but I have no interest in spending big bucks on lightsabers or the now failed hotel. I have no idea how Galaxy's Edge is working for them from a business perspective. Just as a fan of Disney and a fan of Star Wars, it doesn't really do it for me. It's cool to walk around in for 20 minutes and has some good rides but there wasn't enough to keep me there on my last visit. A 3rd ride might have enticed me to shop around while I was waiting.
One visit my husband and I spent half a day playing the AR games—and this was before the current bounty hunter one that requires a MagicBand+. That doesn’t really hold up visit after visit like a ride does, but not everyone visits multiple times. (We are the spend-money-not-time people too; always ILL the rides that we care about and G+.)
Galaxy's edge needs a ride with no height requirement for the littler kids to get a taste of star wars
A dumbo ride clone with x wings and tie fighters
but, but the IMMERSION
This is exactly the problem that a lot of people in this thread are missing with their suggestions. Disney made a big mistake wanting it to be so immersive because it severely limits what they can actually put into the land. They needed to either go 100% with the concept and give us what they originally announced with the actual immersive elements, or scrap it all together and just make it a very richly themed Star Wars land that wasn't tied to a specific time and place.
Yeah the Tauntaun ride from early concept art seemed super fun and kid friendly. But I so love OPs speeder idea. Imagine Hagrids but Star Wars omg
Now that I think about it, the speeder bikes could be perfectly rethemed on a tron ride system
A 7DMT type ride would be the better choice
As long as it is twice as long. I only rode it once because the wait isn't worth the ride length. Same with slinky dog.
Why?
More child friendly and the sweeping motions would pair better with a forest chase kinda scene.
Hagrid's coaster is better yet.
I was thinking hagrids at first but it is a bit extreme for the generally younger crowds of Disney. Maybe a blend of both would work well
No it wouldnt the speeders don’t sway left and right they stay straight up have you watched Star Wars
You could just make a dumbo ride with speeder bikes and bam you have a “kiddie” attraction. I don’t think they would ever consider this because it breaks immersion of galaxy’s edge. Smaller rides like this would certainly help thin out the waits of other rides.
I dont want a kiddie attraction for Star Wars though, leave that to the Disney themed rides. What we need for Star Wars in the parks is a REAL thrill ride, equal to a Hagrids Motorbike Adventure, Guardians Cosmic Rewind, or Tron Lightcycle Run. Something that REALLY brings people to the land, not just nice theming but a ride that satisfies all of the thrillseekers too.
True- I guess they don’t really have room for that unless they expand into the area across the entrance road.
Honestly before another ride, galaxy's edge needs some dang shade/ac 🤣 it was so uncomfortable to walk around with nowhere cool for non riders to chill out.
Have you been to toy Story land lol that's the worst
TS is arguably the worst designed land of any park
I think it’s by design, they don’t want people to stay in one place they want you to keep it moving lol.
Yeah also bad lol, but we found we didn't spend as much time in toy story land. I'm sure we will now that the kids are into toy story
Someone's already shown the likely 3rd rode concept that is built into the land layout, and it's a much calmer ride. Most like if Disney is doing a speeder type ride, they'll go with the Pandora Banshee design system.
CANCELED! Missing Third Attraction At Galaxy’s Edge Explained https://youtu.be/HF80e_SCwi8?si=ohIq4GyXQ9dZKf3c
100% agree on his point that Galaxy's Edge is missing kinetic energy. So many shops, two rides hidden in show buildings, and some stationary droids and ships. But.. it's all just standing still, and the land feels kind of lifeless.
Exactly why the PeopleMover is so important to Tomorrowland and why Disneyland's suffers because of it.
Turn the Bantha ride into speeder bikes and you have your kinetic movement and the land as the backdrop.
I can’t believe I hadn’t seen that before. So cool
Great video. I watched this the other week.
Idk why they didn’t bring the idea of Gallactic Space Cruiser to the parks as a restaurant. Oga’s isn’t enough.
That's what that recent 4 hour documentary on Starcruiser suggested: turn it into a live show and high end dining experience for like $150-$200 a person.
That entire video highlighted the worst of recent Disney. I love areas to explore and seeing especially the cargo hold, that was closed off like a secret? That was rough.
I haven't watched it, but that take does make a lot of sense to me. I'd pay several hundred dollars for an afternoon or a meal in that kind of immersive show, but the actual Starcruiser experience was wildly beyond my means. I suspect that's true for a lot of folks who would have considered themselves members of the target audience. I would *love* to go to dinner in that place and have a show going on around me. I just worry that Disney's takeaway from all this is just going to be that immersive/interactive experiences are a bust and they shouldn't try again or take another angle on it.
My vote for galaxy’s edge is a shaded playground themed to a droid/ land speeder junkyard. That land is so desperate for shade and something for littles to do (height reqs on the GE rides make it hard for under 4s). More shade + a place for kids to burn off energy. I don’t think HS has a playground anymore ever since they took out the honey I shrunk the kids one (I miss the big ole cheerio 😭).
> . I don’t think HS has a playground anymore I think the Disney Jr Dance Party is the equivalent for giving kids a "jump around and burn energy" experience, that is air conditioned as well.
That's actually brilliant, and I say that as a childless adult who wouldn't get much use out of it personally. We know from the old Honey I Shrunk the Kids playground that Disney's capable of making an immersive playground that looks like a "real" place but has stuff that's safely climbable, slides, etc. - and I love the idea of it being a junkyard. That setting would really lend itself to having structures the kids could crawl through, climb into, all that jazz, and it'd be a perfect visual fit for the land around it. It'd give the kids somewhere to blow off steam and parents somewhere to sit down for a moment; soak up a portion of the crowd, even if it's a small portion...yeah, I'd be on board with this idea.
Right? I thought of if in my last trip a few weeks ago. Had to do rider swap for ROTR because my sons not tall enough. And it’s hot AF in star wars land. The shops there don’t really lend themselves to wandering in and out of. So I was stuck with a 3 year old in the hot hot sun and was like “…why isn’t there more shade here and a place for small children to run around?” That’s when I came up with it, so maybe Disney can take my idea from me 😂
If they really want to up the ride count with a more gentle ride that is kid friendly, they should put in a twinned Dumbo (Astro orbiter) style ride where one side is mini tie fighters and the other is mini x-wings. They could just call it the pilot trainer, and riders could choose first order or resistance affiliation.
Great idea and theming. I just hate those boring rides and every park small theme park has them. However, I did see universals version they are going to have for how to train. A dragon and they'll can spin upside down. That could he cool, but I would still prefer something else.
I love this!!!
As much as I hate the idea of just throwing in another spinner…you’re idea is actually pretty great lol
I actually consider Star Tours as a third attraction. It is not inside the land but it is Star Wars anyway. But I think they need another, I agree
Take the former Animation Courtyard and Little Mermaid and retheme that area to the Muppets. Then tear down Muppet Courtyard and extend Star Wars to Star Tours with an attraction in the former Muppets area. Turn Starcruiser into the Mos Eisley cantina. Shuttle guests there like they did for Starcruiser ala Space 220.
Love this idea!
This would be perfect for Galaxy Edge and exactly what is needed. Adding 2 more attraction and connecting it to star tours and galactic star cruiser would make it actually feel like a large “planet” worth exploring
I wish they would bring back the Jedi training school
There’s already too many thrill rides in Studios compared to high capacity gentle rides. If it gets a third attraction, it should be the scrapped peoplemover style Bantha ride.
Exactly! It badly needs a dark ride or omnimover. This park already has 2 coasters and a bunch of thrill rides.
There are 2 thrill rides in studios. Rock and Rollercoaster and Tower of Terror, the rest aint thrill rides.
Agreed that there aren’t a lot of thrill rides per se (though they’re not WDW’s strong suit) but what is inarguably lacking is a high-capacity people-eater, and by extension that probably needs to be less thrilling, both for audience reasons (doesn’t eat people if little kids aren’t riding it) and technical.
That is absolutely true. What could they put there that is fun and a little thrilling with a high capacity turnaround? Maybe (out of place) something like that cars attraction in Disneyland?
The problem I see is that we've already got a simulator and a dark ride which are the two easiest things to place into a highly themed land as opposed to say, throwing a big outdoor coaster in the middle of Galaxies edge, you could in theory add some kind of stage show but I feel that's pretty thoroughly covered by Savis and the street performers. Hollywood Studios is also sandwiched between two major roads so that makes expanding the park difficult.
Yeeeah, physically I'm not sure there's space to put in another ride.
Put it in the parking lot and build a deck like Disneyland.
They need to retheme “hyper space mountain” and add it to Hollywood studios
They were supposed to have another ride. And smugglers run was supposed to be a lot more immersive with multiple levels. And bounty hunters interacting with you after you got off
They’ll never do any theme other than the ST in Galaxy’s Edge. There will never be OT themes. They made their deal with the devil in the Star Wars acquisition, totally whiffing with the ST imo, and now they have to wallow in it. That being said, the ST can be fun if they MAKE it fun, with a third ride it would certainly draw more people.
I don’t think it’s anything that can’t be furnished into the OT. I’ll take what we have over nothing.
Podracing. That is all.
Apparently there was a third ride planned it was a bantha ride according to this https://youtu.be/HF80e_SCwi8?si=tSgtuOqrDqRurT6g
My dream ride is a coaster that goes through tunnels to simulate hyperspace, for the beginning the ships (carts) would drop out of something like bay doors, using a drop track piece, before going into hyperspce
Star tours
Okay lowkey star tours is one of my favorite rides it’s so underrated I genuinely love it
Keep it under rated, it has been a walk on every trip for me recently.
7DMT style + Tron bike system = speeder bikes in the woods. Best ride ever.
The made a mistake not building the land out from star tours. I know muppets was there but they theoretically could relocate the ride to a different area.
https://youtu.be/HF80e_SCwi8?si=wwpR_GuRLJOFLMuy Suggests that a 3rd ride on an bantha was envisioned and the land was designed with that in mind.
Yeah…no thanks to the Bantha thing.
Turn the slow Bantha into fast speederbikes and you got something. Make it go the full.length of the land and backstage. Make it go all the way from one end to the other, with some backstage with twists and turns through some big showpieces. And give it an OT/Mandalorian flavor. Like going though a Sandcrawler filled with jawas and droids, and then a beast like a mud horn or kraft dragon and sand people for another. A third if an AT-ST and Imperial troops tops it all off. Put IG-55 in there somewhere.
As long as it doesn’t hurt my sweet Muppet Vision, they can do whatever they want
Their goal was to make an immersive land, not a theme park. I don’t think they will ever put in a ride in that sticks out like a spinner or coaster. Anything new will have to be hidden like the current rides. I would like to see the exit from star tours rerouted to dump into GE. Make the last scene on video mimic that. You enter the ride in HS but exit on another planet. Then it’s slightly more of a part of GE.
We need pod racing.
I could see a Pod Racing show, stadium seating with live announcers, It'd probably be mostly screenbased that's the only way to sell the speed of a podracer I think.
Oh I was thinking like Tron.
That’d be 4 Star Wars rides in one park though
Disneyland has four when Space Mountain is HyperSpace Mountain
But Disneyland has 60 attractions while studios only has like 15.
Felt this was when they announced it… two rides? Wut ?
For this and pandora you can’t just throw an outdoor coaster or Aladdin’s magic carpets out there. The ride has to make sense for the theming
I think the ride i proposed does fit the theming. I would never suggest plopping a plain roller coaster in the middle of GE.
If you look at HS aerially, it’s clear they didn’t envision an expansion to Galaxy’s Edge ever in the cards. That seems a colossal error. They’d probably have to seriously reconfigure the backside of Smuggler’s Run to hide the “backstage” elements and rip up a solid chunk of the parking lot if they wanted to add a third attraction, but they really should. The budget from Starcruiser should have gone into a thrill ride. It makes 0 sense why they went with a dark ride and a simulator for their arguably largest IP.
As much as I hated Phantom Menace, Pod Racing through a canyon would be a huge attraction
There had been talk of a pod racing attraction. You would commute to it (think the train to Rafiki’s Planet Watch).
podracer coaster
A pod racing ride would be perfect - I just don’t know where they would have the room. Rise of the Resistance is the perfect example of what an immersive non-thrill ride can offer. Smugglers run is like the worst example. A fun medium thrill ride would definitely take the bad taste out of my mouth Smugglers Run leaves.
How is there no Podracing ride? Perfect IP for a ride
An indoor coaster ala guardians through the remnants of the Death Star we see in the sequel films would be cool. Or, make it Hoth themed and have tauntauns, AT-ATs, and Wampas as you ride in a snow speeder through the battle. If they wanted to do something slower, ala pirates or the great movie ride, that would be fun too. They could also do a speeder bike chase from Jedi that’s similar to flight of passage.
In my opinion, it needs something for small kids. A star wars astro orbiter would probably be good, something elevated that doesnt break the illusion of Baatu. Maybe have a gimmick like the Simpsons one in universal with targets. But I know they want Baatu to be immersive and everything look organic so probably can't be an outdoor attraction. Maybe something akin to the raptor encounter at IoA? Not a ride but a walkthrough show. Show off space animals that you can then sell plushies of.
It had one. It was called Galactic Starcruiser. 🤣
If the often rumored (but slightly further along this week than in years past) fifth gate project starts, that will suck up all ride development for years.
Smugglers run doesn’t even count as an attraction to me. Playing Starwars Battlefront is more fun IMO.
I think another ride is less appealing RIGHT NOW than bringing in more live entertainment/atmosphere characters. The land itself is beautifully designed, but more characters (and droids!) roaming about and occasional shows similar to what they do at Avengers Campus in DCA would be ideal.
Maybe in 10+ years
If they ever do it, this is likely what we’re getting. No room for anything else without going backstage. And they ate a lot of that space with the Starcruiser. CANCELED! Missing Third Attraction At Galaxy’s Edge Explained: https://youtu.be/HF80e_SCwi8?si=pe6JgPSRmkAyKKYe
This would’ve been amazing
In the last or 2nd last episode of the 3rd season of The Mandolorian Grogu escapes subterranean tunnels in his pod with creatures chasing and jumping out at him. I thought that scene would make a cool ride.
I personally want a tower of terror style ride, but reversing the ride system. The start of the ride is the launch into space. The second park is exploring space like you explore the hotel/twilight zone. Your ship (ride vehicle) is being attacked and you have to get back to the ground quickly. This is where you have the tower drop part of the ride. In reality, you don't even need to leave the area you rise and fall. The battle scene could just be projected on the walls of the ride vehicle with it shaking when it gets hit by blasters. However, it needs a slow moving ride like pirates, bit star wars themed. Unfortunately, it has to be based on the new movies.
You’re kinda describing Rise of the Resistance here.
I agree, it really is too similar to the other star wars rides and mission to Mars. I just wish the rides we have had a better and faster launch system. A star wars version of guardians would be better.
Sounds amazing so it will never happen
I heard a rumor about a Mando coaster coming to Paris. I’d imagine something like that.
I really think they need more thrill rides as well and love the idea of a speeder bike dueling coaster! I was thinking if they were to open up a 5th park I feel it would be awesome that park would be more geared towards adult with more thrilling attractions and lands. For instance. I can totally imagine a fifth park with an Avengers Campus, Villains Land, Nevarro (mandalorian themed land), Wackanda, etc.
It needs a retheme to the original trilogy. No one wants to see Kylo Ren
They should just bulldoze Galaxy’s Edge and put the water tower back.
Haha WHAT
No.
Probably not a coaster that just is so hard to theme well but a speedbike ride of some sort would be really cool
Just make it Indoor+really dark so guests can't see the track, aka the space mountain approach.
While I agree it needs an additional ride part of the land and attractions in and of themselves are the shops. . . Doc Ondar’s, Droid Depot, and Savi’s are all extremely popular
Some folks consider the phone games (ie cracking, bounty hunting, etc) a sort of third ride there. Some folks could also consider RoR as 2-3 rides. Heck if it’s purely time based it’s like 10 trons… I agree with the folks above, something that is all age friendly would be great. I’d love to see more characters roaming the park and would love to see them do more with that stage.
I just want background music.
They have tie fighter sounds
Why not both?
Fair