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Re: Disney to acquire Lucasfilms
« Reply #15 on: Oct. 31, 2012 08:06 AM »
Quote from: RedOctober25 on Oct. 31, 2012 07:31 AM
Star Wars could expand into the swampland.

Hmmm...Dagobah, the planet of Yoda, was swamp-like.
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« Reply #16 on: Oct. 31, 2012 09:58 AM »
You figure they have Tattoine already.  Add in Dagobah, a Hoth themed ice cave restaurant (qs), the Cantina Bar (ts), a speeder bike roller coaster, and a toy story mania like x-Wing shooter.


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Re: Disney to acquire Lucasfilms
« Reply #17 on: Oct. 31, 2012 10:21 AM »
I'd like to see a whole Star Wars park, or a double-sized expansion of DHS with Star Wars theming.  Anything that would drive 1/2 of the Disney crowd to flock to that park, so that I can enjoy the other parks without as much crowding!  ;)
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« Reply #18 on: Oct. 31, 2012 11:47 AM »
Quote from: zackiedawg on Oct. 31, 2012 10:21 AM
I'd like to see a whole Star Wars park, or a double-sized expansion of DHS with Star Wars theming.  Anything that would drive 1/2 of the Disney crowd to flock to that park, so that I can enjoy the other parks without as much crowding!  ;)
Now that would be something...  Star Wars Weekend all year long.


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Re: Disney to acquire Lucasfilms
« Reply #19 on: Oct. 31, 2012 12:39 PM »
That's an interesting purchase.  I think I heard once that Disney already owned the theme park rights to Indiana Jones and Star Wars, so the purchase may not signal a huge expansion assuming they already owned the rights.  However, I also heard that relations between Disney and Lucas were strained for several years after Star Tours made its debut, so that may have prevented further expansion at that time. 

Anyway, I think that regardless of whether or not they could have expanded the Star Wars offerings in the parks before, they have the opportunity to time movie releases with new attractions at the parks to maximize the profitability of both portions of the franchise like Roger mentioned in a thread about a rumored roller coaster from a year or two ago.
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Re: Disney to acquire Lucasfilms
« Reply #20 on: Oct. 31, 2012 07:33 PM »
Quote from: mSummers on Oct. 31, 2012 12:39 PM

Anyway, I think that regardless of whether or not they could have expanded the Star Wars offerings in the parks before, they have the opportunity to time movie releases with new attractions at the parks to maximize the profitability of both portions of the franchise like Roger mentioned in a thread about a rumored roller coaster from a year or two ago.

After I thought about this some more....how about a pod racing ride that uses the Radiator Springs Racers technology?  It would be perfect for indoors (get it dark, will make 50mph seem faster) which is what they were concerned about putting it at DHS in the first place.

I also think this started when Disney was prodding to make a full Star Wars land and in exhaustion one of the lawyers for Disney yelled at George, "What will it take for you to let us do this, buy you out????" to which he said "Yes."

BTW, Disney didn't own the full theme park rights to Star Wars.  Legoland (both coasts!) were allowed to have Star Wars weekends of their own.  Who owns Legoland in the U.S.?  Merlin.

Merlin is a division of Blackstone, who also owns the Busch theme parks and....Universal Studios Florida.

I don't see Disney pulling the plug on Lego though.  They make Toy Story and Avengers LEGO.  (And Harry Potter, and Hobbit/LOTR, etc.)


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« Reply #21 on: Oct. 31, 2012 10:20 PM »
The pod racer idea would be awesome, but would require a huge building.  Although they could just have the building follow the shape of the track which might be easier to build
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Re: Disney to acquire Lucasfilms
« Reply #22 on: Dec. 04, 2012 10:58 AM »
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Re: Disney to acquire Lucasfilms
« Reply #23 on: Dec. 04, 2012 03:02 PM »
Just noticed my post above didnt work. Link worked in preview but broke when I posted it. Fixed now... (I hope)
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