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#121: Star Wars Galaxy's Edge (The Story)


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It’s here the wait is over, Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge is open in Disneyland park, and later this fall in Walt Disney Worlds Hollywood Studios. (August 29,2019) But, what’s the story, the back story, the real-life back story and the in Star Wars story behind the land?      You can trace the real-life galaxy’s edge back story all the way to the opening of “Star Tours the Adventure Continues” in 2011, which replaced the original start tours that opening in Disneyland in 1987 then later in Tokyo, Disney MGM Studios and Disneyland Paris. As the story goes, that high level collaboration between George Lucas and Bob Iger, lead to the eventual Disney acquisition of Lucasfilm in October 30th 2012. Less than a year later at the D23 Expo 2013 the mysterious project “Orange Harvest appeared” including crates labeled Banta Milk, Protocol Droids, Lightsabers, Thermal Detonators and top secret plans with blue prints rolled up and visible. all of it addressed to “Project Orange Harvest care of. Walt Disney Imagineering…  

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