Luke Skywalker and a new projection show will highlight the return of Season of the Force at Disneyland next month.
Disneyland's Star Wars-themed celebration starts March 28 and continues through May 11 this spring. As teased last week, Luke Skywalker will make his debut in the Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge land for the event this year. Disney provided no additional details about that addition, so - for now - it's up to you to imagine how and why Luke has made his way to Batuu during the Galaxy's Edge timeline.
The other big new debut during this year's Season of the Force will be a new projection show in Galaxy's Edge. Shadows of Memory: A Skywalker Saga will play nightly on the spires around the Millennium Falcon. The show will continue past the end of Season of the Force on May 11, Disneyland said.
The new projection show joins the ongoing Fire of the Rising Moons as nighttime entertainment in Galaxy's Edge. Fire of the Rising Moons is the special Star Wars soundtrack that plays throughout the land to accompany Disneyland's fireworks show on nights that the fireworks run.
Across the park in Tomorrowland, the Hyperspace Mountain overlay on Space Mountain returns for Season of the Force. Disney also will be offering new Star Wars-inspired food and drink items for the celebration. Full menus are still to come, but Disneyland did today announce a new non-alcoholic Pi-Co Punch that's coming to Tomorrowland's Galactic Grill. That will have pineapple juice, coconut milk and lime juice, garnished with pineapple chunks and lotus root.
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I'm not sure how I feel about this. It's one thing to have fireworks viewing in Galaxy's Edge with a custom Star Wars soundtrack, but doing a show with added projections kind of breaks the conceit and immersion of the land. I guess WDI has pretty much killed many of the original stories and setting of Galaxy's Edge anyway, so this is just an extension of that, but I do feel that they could do a better job of framing this show so there's a rationale for it occurring in Black Spire Outpost.
I'm also concerned about crowds trying to view this show. The area around the Falcon is one of the largest open spaces in Galaxy's Edge, but can still feel cramped when night falls and you get dozens of folks trying to snap photos of themselves in front of the ship with their newly built lightsabers. Overall, it might be even a smaller/tighter viewing area than Hogsmeade (both USH and IOA) for their nighttime projection show. I would expect Disney will take queues from Universal's Harry Potter projection shows in their crowd control because the stairs by Docking Bay 7 and Dok Ondar's is likely to be the prime viewing location, but those locations and MFSR would need to remain open for guests during the show (much like how HPFJ operates during the nightly show).
Bob (weatherman): "Galaxy Edge isn't the success we hoped for, what can we do?"
Kathleen (SW noob): "Projection show."
Bob: "How does that fit?"
Kathleen: "Eh...the force can now throw projections on the rocks?"
Bob: "Sure why not, as long as it is the original trilogy because that is the one we weren't able to ruin."
Star Wars fan: How does this all fit, it doesn't make sense."
Bob+Kathleen: "Shut up, we don't care!"
Hey OT! That was quite a post. Now can you try and do one that is funny?
At this point, the fan hate towards Kathleen Kennedy is ridiculous. Without her, there wouldn't be a Star Wars franchise, or E.T., Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, the Goonies, or scores of other properties. Making this stuff is way harder than consuming it. People are entitled to their opinions, but calling Kathleen Kennedy a Star Wars "noob" is disrespectful of perhaps the most influential producer still working today. OT perhaps you would prefer that the franchise just freeze all future projects and stay stuck in the way it was when you were in HS? That's what every fan of everything wants. There are kids growing up now who will say that SWGE is the best thing that ever happened and will decry the future leadership for changing a thing. That is the nature of fan-dom, but I'll say it again: making this stuff is hard, and takes a tremendous amount of creativity and courage. There are always hits and misses, but there is no need to denigrate the creative folks who do their best to entertain us.
@Mr. Sirota - I could not agree more. And with Lucasfilm being owned by Disney, there is a "hate-at-all-cost" element to the criticism of Ms. Kennedy. There is a thriving industry when it comes to generating clicks by hating on the Walt Disney Company. There is an army of vloggers all over YouTube posting anti-Disney video titles (often with all-cap words and supported by sensationalist cartoon thumbnails) all in an effort to generate clicks.
@Jonah:
“Never been more correct, you have”
I believe it was @RobertNiles who supplied the most succinct observation of Star Wars fandom I’ve ever read when he stated
“Nobody hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans”
There definitely exists a space (see what I did there) for any fan base to criticize, disagree or ignore creative output from a company. But the coalescence of Disney and Star Wars has reached a point of borderline ridiculousness with the amount of vitriol hurled their way over every little thing that is created or announced. I realize that the Loud are sometimes also the Few, but man are they sure loud.
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Just found out about the Fire of the Rising Moons show for our last visit to DL. The fireworks view is modest--you're basically in front of one of the auxiliary banks of fireworks for the main castle show, but you can't see the largest fireworks. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it tremendously, because of the awesome music and vibe. Also, it's a whole lot less people (I typically avoid the evening pre-fireworks or pre-parade crowd if I can at all help it). Highly recommended! Glad they are adding additional evening entertainment to SWGE.