This Star Wars Ride Designed for Planet Coaster Should Be Build at Disneyland Right Now !

Here is a Star Wars ride designed by Guitar Covers Inc for Planet Coaster that should be build in Disney theme parks, and i mean right now! It really put Hyper Spacemountain to shame and i'm pretty sure you will agree with me after seeing the video below!

From The Verge article about it: "This fan-made Planet Coaster creation puts Hyperspace Mountain to shame. Released by Frontier Developments last year, Planet Coaster is an amusement park simulator in which players create their own roller coasters, a sort of spiritual successor to the RollerCoaster Tycoon games. One user channel, Guitar Covers Inc., has been playing the game for a while, and just released a video of a coaster that re-creates the attack against the Death Star from Star Wars: A New Hope.



When you think of it, a roller-coaster ride of a starship dogfight is pretty fantastic. The ride currently running at Disneyland has riders also fly through a dogfight, passing by video of X-Wing and TIE fighters. This video does one better, by having your riders fly past physical props of the fighters, right into the Death Star, through explosions and a debris field."




Video: copyright Guitar Covers Inc

Star Wars Celebration : Rogue One : A Star Wars Story : New Poster and Fantastic Behind The Scenes Video

Star Wars Celebration has started and LucasFilm has released the new poster above and a special video just shown at Star Wars Celebration, taking you behind the scenes of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, about a group of unlikely heroes who unite to steal the plans to the Death Star!




In addition, we learn more about a new 7 foot tall droid, K-2SO: Actor Diego Luna says that the droid is a friend of his rebel fighter character in the movie, Cassian Andor. A brief bit of footage of K-2S0 was already shown in the first Rogue One trailer. When describing the character, Luna says:
 
"One of the most important members of this team is a droid, an Imperial droid that is programmed by the rebellion. His name is K-2SO. He’s probably the best friend Cassian has in the Rebellion, or the only one."
 
During the presentation, there was a brief scene shown in which Jyn hands K-2SO her bag, and he doesn't like the idea of carrying it because he's not that kind of droid. This droid has an attitude.
 


Pictures and video: copyright LucasFilm

Disneyland Releases Unexpectedly New Star Wars Land Rendering !

Disneyland released unexpectedly a new Star Wars Land concept-art, showing much differences with the previous official one! The new image has been unveiled on the fence along Big Thunder Trail in Frontierland – "one of the entry points to this never-before-seen planet in the Star Wars galaxy – revealing more about what guests will find in this all-new land. Nestled between towering spires of rock, this thriving port contains a seemingly familiar architecture of markets, landing zones and buildings. Look closely and you may find hints of some of the thrilling experiences that are coming – like the Millennium Falcon peeking out of one of the cargo bays, marking the location where guests will get the opportunity to pilot the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy".

But what is this in the shadow on the left side of the artwork?...



Also, look how close to Frontierland river will be the land, let's hope guests won't see it from the Mark Twain...



Interestingly, WDWNT think that the previous SWL artwork below was in fact a depiction of the Hollywood Studios version of Star Wars land... It sure would be great if the two SWL wouldn't have exactly the same design...



Your thoughts about this new rendering?

Pictures: copyright Disney

Breaking News ! Disneyland Releases Unexpectedly New Star Wars Land Rendering !

Disneyland released unexpectedly a new Star Wars Land concept-art, showing much differences with the previous official one! The new image has been unveiled on the fence along Big Thunder Trail in Frontierland – "one of the entry points to this never-before-seen planet in the Star Wars galaxy – revealing more about what guests will find in this all-new land. Nestled between towering spires of rock, this thriving port contains a seemingly familiar architecture of markets, landing zones and buildings. Look closely and you may find hints of some of the thrilling experiences that are coming – like the Millennium Falcon peeking out of one of the cargo bays, marking the location where guests will get the opportunity to pilot the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy".

But what is this in the shadow on the left side of the artwork?...



Also, look how close to Frontierland river will be the land, let's hope guests won't see it from the Mark Twain...



Interestingly, WDWNT think that the previous SWL artwork below was in fact a depiction of the Hollywood Studios version of Star Wars land... It sure would be great if the two SWL wouldn't have exactly the same design...



Your thoughts about this new rendering?

Pictures: copyright Disney

New Star Wars Land Rendering

A new Star Wars Land rendering was shown during the Summer Awakens Media Event, and it's the great Greg Pro who did it for WDI. As you can see the pillars of stone partly covered with vegetation don't look the same at all as in the first rendering - see below. May be the "Big Thunder Mountain" new look is to avoid a visual intrusion that wouldn’t fit with Disneyland Frontierland nearby if they realized there was no way they could hide these pillars of stone "from another planet".




Note however that there is less difference with this other visual of the land shown during the Star Wars Land segment in the ABC Special recently.

A closer look at the artwork shows that all the previous announced elements like the Millenium Falcon ( center ), the platform with Storm Troopers ( right ) and the market are still there.



Pictures: copyright Disney

First Teaser Trailer For Rogue One : A Star Wars Story !

Folks, Lucasfilm has released the first teaser - trailer for Rogue One : A  Star Wars Story and it ( almost ) looks like a new Star Wars trailer! Directed by Gareth Edwards, action happen shortly before the one of Star Wars Episode 4 and it tells the story of a group of rebels who set out a mission to steal the plans of the Death Star. So, there we go, back again in Star Wars with a new hype starting today and which will grow until Rogue One release next December! Trailer and screen captures below!




Screen captures of a  selection of scenes:




























Pictures and video: copyright Lucasfilm

New Star Wars Land Artwork Unveiled During ABC Disneyland 60th Special !

The Disneyland 60 Special is currently aired on ABC and the sequence with Harrison Ford just ended. What did we learned from Harrison about Star Wars land in this three minutes sequence? Not a lot but some interesting concept-arts ( see post below ) or CGI animations were shown. As envisioned they talked about the Millenium Falcon ride during which you'll be sit in the cockpit and be able "to move left or right or firing the lasers cannons"... 






...but also about the supposed big E-Ticket ride in which you'll be "fighting yourself in a battle between the resistance and the first order"!






In addition, more Star Wars lands renderings were also shown during the Harrison Ford sequence, showing street markets, restaurants, the Cantina, and more decors of the awaited land!

And for those of you who missed this ABC Special here is the full Star Wars sequence with Harrison Ford, and more! By the way, in the EW article posted two days ago executive producers of the show Evan Prager and Jesse Ignjatovic answering to a question if the show will reveal the name of the Star Wars land answered "Tune in for the second hour of the show." So, listen well Harrison Ford at 1.05min when he says: "...your first look at the STAR WARS EXPERIENCE". Hmmm... would "Star Wars Experience" be the final title for Star Wars land?




Pictures: copyright Disney

More Star Wars Land Details

A short post with some news about Star Wars land! Making Star Wars, who generally have good sources for SW movies infos - but here we're talking about Imagineering so it might be different - released some rumored information on what the land will include. Here is the information they've posted, some that we knew already, others that we didn't:

- Poe Dameron’s black X-wing fighter will greet guests at the 3rd entrance to Star Wars Land, although an Episode VIII feature to the fighter might make it different from what we know about it from The Force Awakens.

- Characters and creatures from Star Wars: Episode VIII will be featured in the park.

- The Millenium Falcon will be real, life sized, not scaled down at all, and sitting on top of a launch pad.

- The Falcon will be opening and closing its main door and aliens/ troopers will be walking around asking people if they’ve seen anyone leave the ship.

- There will be two major attractions, one larger than “Toon Town” itself.

- Don’t worry about not being able to go inside the Falcon. One of the major attractions will take care of that for you as you fly in the cockpit of the freighter itself.

- The word is the Imagineers loved the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story script, but if that will come into play is still hazy. Initial word was the second major attraction would feature Rogue One content, but now that appears to be somewhat unlikely.

Take all these infos with the usual pinch of salt until more official confirmation!

Always about Star Wars land, i just found this posted by someone named joshcombs on Instagram, saying that it’s a recent WDI invention / patent showing an effect that could be used in a star Wars land attraction, we'll see if it will be the case:

"POSSIBLE STAR WARS LAND SPOILER! Walt Disney Imagineeirng just this year developed a revolutionary device based on a centuries old illusion. This new mirrored fan/propeller system allows for a clear Pepper Ghost effect without dividing a room and hiding frames of a huge pane of glass. For example, the pane of glass which creates the ghost illusion in the ballroom scene of DL haunted Mansion is so large (30 x 90 feet) that if it broke or cracked, they would have to remove the ceiling of the entire ride building and use huge cranes to hoist it out. This new system incorporates a 2D or 3D display screen which reflects off the mirrored fan blades, creating an effect which appears to be a hologram within a specified physical space. The bottom right image shows the traditional, most widely used Pepper's Ghost technique but with a screen instead of a physical object. The text on the left might contain some clues for a new "Star Wars Land » attraction.»

Pictures: copyright Disney - Lucasfilm, Disney Enterprises

Star Wars Night at Disneyland Paris Video Report !

The Star Wars night at Disneyland Paris happened Wednesday night and Max was there to shoot videos! This first one will show you the opening parade...




Next, here is the video of the Star Wars panel inside Discoveryland Theater, with many special Star Wars guests that i let you discover!




Another, but shorter parade happened in Discoveryland in which you'll see better Rey and Kylo Ren.




This next video is from Toon Studios prod and will show you the Defy of the Padawans show which happened on Videopolis stage.




And one more videos from our friends of ED92 showing the final of this Star Wars evening!




Videos: copyright DLPWelcome, Toon Studios Prod, ED92TV

First Star Wars : The Force Awakens Full Trailer!

And here it is, the awaited Star Wars trailer now on line in all the galaxy! The picture below is from the new poster, and if you look well on the right you'll notice a kind of new Death Star... Apparently this is our first look at Starkiller Base, which has an official description at StarWars.com with some intriguing information:
"An ice planet converted into a stronghold of the First Order and armed with a fiercely destructive new weapon capable of destroying entire star systems." 

So the First Order literally transformed an entire planet and converted it into the most destructive weapon we've ever seen in the Star Wars universe. And the Starkiller Base probably also serve as a dock for The First Order's Star Destroyers and other ships from their fleet. As this weapon was converted out of a planet, there's no thermal venting port for anyone to shoot anything into to destroy it. The weapon can vent heat naturally through the surface of the planet...

Anyway, enough talk, here is the first Star Wars : The Force Awakens full trailer!






So, you've watched the new trailer and you've seen that Han Solo / Harrisson Ford, Princess Leia / Carrie Fischer appear in it but not Luke Skywalker who remain invisible, right? Well, not really. Luke IS in the trailer. And in what scene, you ask? In the one below, when we see a robotic hand from a man we don't see the face touching R2D2. I bet you it's Luke who, i remind you, had his hand cut by his father / Darth Vador at the end of The Empire Strikes Back, and since has a robotic hand. Watch the trailer again to double check if you wish!

Pictures and video: copyright Lucasfilm