Entrance revealed into Star Wars Galaxy's Edge for Galactic Starcruiser travelers at Walt Disney World

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Entrance to Batuu from Galactic Starcruiser

Posted: Wednesday January 19, 2022 10:31am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

With the official opening of Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser just over a month away, work is wrapping up inside Star Wars Galaxy's Edge on the special entrance for visiting travelers from the Halcyon.

Entrance to Batuu from Galactic Starcruiser

The entrance is located next to First Order Cargo across from the Milk Stand, and will be used by Galactic Starcruiser guests for the included excursion to Batuu.

Entrance to Batuu from Galactic Starcruiser

In sample itineraries, the trip to Batuu takes place on day 2 of the voyage, with the transport shuttle leaving at 8:15am. The stay on Batuu includes a ride on Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance and Millenium Flacon: Smugglers Run, followed by lunch at Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo. The return shuttle to the starcruiser is at 12:40pm.

Entrance to Batuu from Galactic Starcruiser

Disney has developed a special transport shuttle that will include onboard screens to block the view backstage and to continue the story of the Star Wars adventure during the short ride from the Starcruiser building to Disney's Hollywood Studios.

Inside the transport shuttle that will move guests from the Starcruiser to Galaxy's Edge

The maiden voyage on Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser is on March 1, with test flights expected during late January and into February.

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Rich Brownn9 days ago

I'm pretty sure the Imagineers of days past survived projects they worked on being killed. And there were alot of them, even well into development (Tony Baxter seemed to have the most)

cjkeating9 days ago

You have to assume they are primarily using the support buildings adjacent to the main Starcruiser building? I wonder if this is going to be the DHS WDI field office for Monstropolis/RNRC to save them having to build demountables like they are at DAK and MK?

SoFloMagic11 days ago

I bet the daily reminder that your project could die at any time really helps morale

OceanBlue13 days ago

It's openly discussed by cast members that it is now the home of Imagineering Central Florida.

yensid196714 days ago

"Disney has a history of abandoning things and letting them rot..." TAX WRITE OFF! (the same way when an apartment complex has an empty apartment, they get to write it off on their taxes)

SoFloMagic15 days ago

They're not short of parking lot space.

Disney Maddux15 days ago

Stitch's Great Escape.

Incomudro16 days ago

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Sirwalterraleigh16 days ago

The only chance they would ever have to turn this around would be to redesign it as an OT Mecca and market straight at gen X…which is where a lot of “Disney adults” lie. That’s it… They completely miscalculated why people go to Orlando: for all the stuff. To lock you in, charge you a fortune, and use pathetically bad source material was a doozy even by Disney hubris standards

Vegas Disney Fan16 days ago

It’s Disney, it’ll likely sit there completely untouched for decades. In 10 years an urban explorer will find their way in and be amazed that it looks the same as it did the day it closed, everything still intact, just covered in years of dust. Disney has a history of abandoning things and letting them rot until they find a way of monetizing the land again. (River Country, Discovery island, Life pavilion, etc).

cjkeating16 days ago

Just thinking out loud but if there is ever going to be a relaunch of Starcruiser in any format I wonder if it would be around the time of Mandalorian and Grogu film next summer?

yensid196717 days ago

I think AT THIS POINT IN TIME with no announcements on what will become of the 'hotel', I think Disney should just cut their loses and demolish it. That will provide more land for expansion!

Sirwalterraleigh17 days ago

Source?

TP200017 days ago

I'm forever thankful for this project, because it encapsulated everything that was and still is wrong with Disney's parks division circa 2016-2025. First from Bob Chapek, now from Josh D'Amaro. (Who turns out have the same failed leadership style, even if they have different tailors) The hubris, the cheap budget cuts, the heavy cringe, the 24 year old Comms interns writing press releases, the executive smugness, the blatant inability to tend to details, the brazen greed, the fine art of over-promising and under-delivering. Also the lobby line dancing... "AMAZZZZING!" All of it was just so wonderful to behold. I'm glad they gave this gift to us, and may we cherish it forever! :cool: