Full-Immersion…that’s what we have been promised with Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge at Hollywood Studios and now also with the building of the Star Wars Hotel. We have documented what that will look like for Galaxy’s Edge when it opens next week, but what does that look like for the Star Wars Hotel that is currently in construction.
The resort will close guests off from the real world with projection windows displaying scenes from outside of the space cruiser, so a transportation system would need to do the same.
Disney has even released concept art of what the shuttle would look like, in story at least:
Well, here’s what that transport actually looks like…
It’s a heavily modified bus. Guests will enter from a jetway which will put them inside the sealed-off center section of this bus. They won’t see a driver, nor the outside world of Central Florida, at least not until they disembark at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.
A look inside the transport from above reveals a limited number of seats, all facing inwards.
The inside of the transport is heavily themed, leading guests to believe they are in a space capsule on its way to a day of vacation fun on Batuu.
The experience is completed by large screens that act as windows out into space. This should make for a pretty neat arrival in Black Spire Outpost starting with seeing Batuu from space.
Is this a good decision by Disney to seam the hotel and Galaxy’s Edge together like this?
