There’s a new attraction coming soon to Disney’s Hollywood Studios called Star Wars Launch Bay! We’re not sure what it will entail, but we know that it will bring guests closer to the Star Wars movie franchise and help introduce fans to the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie to be released on December 17, 2015.
The new SW Launch Bay will be located in the former site of the Magic of Disney Animation. While we are sad to say goodby to this amazing attraction (and especially to their free drawing classes), we both cannot wait to experience this new Star Wars experience!
More than a Launch Bay attraction!
Along with the SW Launch Bay, a new experience will be coming to Hollywood Studios in just a few months. Rumored to begin in January of 2016, a Star Wars celebration called Season of the Force (we call it Seasons of the Force…don’t judge) will offer what we hope will be a winter version of the already popular Star Wars Weekends. Seeing as we are both huge Star Wars fans, we hope the new Season of the Force will meet our expectations:
- As close to Star Wars Weekends as possible! Disney hasn’t said whether or not this event will replace SWW, so we really hope it will be pretty much the same awesome Star Wars Summer party we know and love…but MUCH cooler. We’re talking like at least in the 70’s, as opposed to the Mordor-esk heat Florida punishes us with in the summer months.
- More meet and greet characters (Han Solo, please!) and new characters from The Force Awakens and Star Wars Rebels. Come on, how awesome will it be to meet some First Order Stormtroopers or little BB-8?
- The return of the Rebel Hanger. This sit-down restaurant was THE BOMB last year with their Bantha milk (blue milk), Lightsaber Bites (ah-maze-ing gourmet corndogs), and Poutine Fries. Plus all the walk-around characters like Sabine and Ezra from SW Rebels, the trading Jawas, and the galaxy-famous Cantina Band made the price totally worthwhile!
- Harrison Ford actually in Hollywood Studios and at celebrity meet and greets! We’re not kidding around when we say we will literally camp out in the parking lot overnight just to meet him. We love him, he knows.
- And last, but not least, J.J. Abrams at the opening ceremony of Season of the Force. If this director can pull off a 7th SW movie without repeating George Lucas’s mistakes in the prequels, then he deserves to cut the ribbon.
Remember, these are just our hopes and dreams for the upcoming SotF. We’ll see what really happens soon!
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