Disney files construction permit for shuttered Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser

Jan 29, 2024 in "Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser"

Posted: Monday January 29, 2024 9:28am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney has filed a construction permit for the now-closed Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser at Walt Disney World.

The permit is assigned to Sunstate Awning & Graphic Design, a Florida-based company that provides custom fabric and metal awnings.

The permit provides no other information, and the scope of the work is unknown. It remains to be seen if this construction is related to any future guest-facing project at the former Starcruiser or simply part of maintaining the building during its closure.

Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser overview

Disney is remaining tight-lipped on the future of the building; speaking in June 2023, Disney Parks boss Josh D'Amaro said, "No hints yet, but something will happen."

Possible concepts for repurposing the Starcruiser include a much cheaper daytime excursion from Star Wars Galaxy's Edge and converting the facility into a traditional hotel experience. The latter seems more unlikely due to significant changes that would need to be made to the building to operate as a conventional hotel.

Carrying a lofty price tag of around $5200 for the two-day, two-night experience, Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser launched on March 1, 2022. After stronger-than-expected initial sales, Starcruiser bookings quickly stalled, forcing Disney to look to save costs and boost reservations. The final Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser voyage was September 28-30, 2023.

Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser overview

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Disstevefan122 days ago

AI couldn't have said it better ;)

FettFan22 days ago

Republicrats and Democans!

Rhinocerous22 days ago

I know ChatGPT is trained on data sets from a specific time period. It doesn't look up information unless you specifically ask it to. Could be that Google has the same problem. Although I think it more likely that it is summarizing thousands of search results without any kind of filter or critical analysis of the data.

Disstevefan122 days ago

Agreed. Google AI will answer a "Yes" and a "No" answer to the same question. I guess Google AI wants to cover all bases 🤣 Was Google AI coded by a politician? 🤣

danlb_200022 days ago

So it's basically behaving like a human now.

marni197123 days ago

Absolutely not. Told me a flat out lie yesterday.

flynnibus23 days ago

And the responsibility hasn't change - meaning if CFTOD updated them last time, with a new design, why is it so difficult to match the design now? These aren't the old purple signs - these are the modern style. Work done recently knowing they have to update from time to time. So now they finally get around to updating this sign, and even after a year they can't match the sign? For upkeep that is expected? That's why it's all so head scratching..

Stripes23 days ago

The signs at the Osceola Parkway and World Drive interchange are maintained by CFTOD. I believe CFTOD is increasing their signage replacement budget to $2 million next fiscal year.

flynnibus23 days ago

The wierd part about these signs is... this is the updated design they just rolled out. So it's really odd they can't match the design they just did in the last few years when blocking out? Perplexing...

Figments Friend23 days ago

Fun to see this thread pop up again , as I was just rewatching this entertaining 4 hour video commentary about the Galactic Starcruiser. This video was shared much earlier in this thread back when it was first uploaded, and was discussed here at the time. It really is worth a rewatch though, especially now that we know what is to become of the space. Some very spot on observations and commentary…not to mention a fresh take with some honest opinions and not the typical ‘paid off by Disney vlogger / influencer’ non-opinion. View starting at the 3:48:15 mark and after as it has the real commentary I think a lot of us can agree with. Enjoy….. …………………again…..! -

Disstevefan124 days ago

;)

larryz25 days ago

Very clever of those Imagineers, eh? Get WDW to build an expensive "LARP Hotel" project they KNEW would fail, just so they'd have a building already partitioned off for use as an office building, complete with gym space, lunch room, and play places to stimulate their creativity... Gotta hand it to 'em!

Disstevefan125 days ago

While I know the Disney finance folks with their spreadsheets convinced Disney to shut down the Starcruiser, I wish they didn’t give up so quick and did some more testing. The Disney finance folks who shut down the Starcruiser should get transferred to Disney’s movie business to clamp down on the money they spend making movies so they at least break even at the box office then the movies can make some money with streaming and physical media.