Disney’s ‘Galaxy’s Edge’ Timeline Reboot Erased a Galactic Starcruiser Nod

For each higher and worse, Star Wars followers will always remember the highs and lows of the notorious “Star Wars hotel,” aka the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. The identical can’t be stated, nevertheless, for Disney itself, which simply eliminated a enjoyable reference to it within the newest replace to its theme parks.

Disney is presently within the strategy of giving Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA, a refresh. It was as soon as absolutely set in a time interval between Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker however is being converted to a wider, vaguer time interval that features earlier eras. That means characters like Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia will probably be roaming the world beginning April 29.

Among the items which might be being refurbished and up to date is Oga’s Cantina, the park’s watering gap the place you may get an grownup beverage and listen to DJ-R3X, voiced by Paul Reubens, spin some tunes. Before the refurbishment, there was a enjoyable wink to Starcruiser within the bar, however after being closed for a number of weeks, it has been eliminated.

WDW News Today observed the change. Before the bar closed, there was an indication on the wall that stated, “Mechanic Wanted! Experience with Chandrilan class 1 starships required. Ability to speak Shyriiwook a plus. Contact Captain R. Keevan of the Halcyon, CSL.” The Halcyon, after all, is the identify of the precise Starcruiser you had been on at Galactic Starcruiser.

Well, that’s now gone. It’s been changed with an indication that claims, “Make some quick credits! Sell your surplus! Imperial, Rebel, Republic, or Separatist—Black Spire Outpost will buy it all!”

Obviously, it’s a really refined change. Even extra so once you understand each of these indicators are in Aurebesh, the official language of Star Wars. So you’d have to decode it earlier than you’d even discover. But that’s what WDW News Today did.

The new message actually speaks to the much less particular Star Wars timeline the park is shifting to. And the Galactic Starcruiser won’t ever formally die, particularly because it was woven into the Star Wars canon. But it’s nonetheless a bit unhappy to see much more references to the failed experiment go away.

Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland will absolutely reopen with the brand new music, characters, and extra on April 29. That’ll be adopted on May 22 with the brand new Mandalorian and Grogu model of the Millennium Falcon experience. Read extra about every at these hyperlinks.

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