Fans of Disney theme parks and fans of Star Wars had a big week.
"The Walt Disney Company announced plans this week to open new 14-acre Star Wars-themed extensions to both Disneyland and Disney World theme parks by 2019," reports Antonio Pacheco.
In addition to the announcement about the project timelines for the highly anticipated park expansions, Disney "also released a series of artists renderings for the theme parks, showing stylized views of a mountainous, forested planet with many of the images depicting the Millennium Falcon spaceship," writes Disney.
A blog post on the Disney Parks website also has additional info about the design of the Star Wars-themed land, which will create a "never-before-seen planet—a remote trading port and one of the last stops before wild space—where Star Wars characters and their stories come to life," according to the post.
For those who might be more concerned about the master plan of the non-Star Wars portions of the Disney parks, in Anaheim, the Star Wars-themed area will replace "space formerly occupied by portions of Disney’s existing Frontierland and Critter Country grounds and will replace several attractions, including Big Thunder Ranch," according to Pacheco, who also notes the development controversy that has erupted in Anaheim as hotel developers have anticipated the opening of the park expansion.
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