The future of Star Tours, Star Wars Launch Bay and Star Wars shows at Disney's Hollywood Studios

Posted: Thursday March 7, 2019 1:21pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

With the opening of Star Wars Galaxy's Edge on August 29 2019, guests at Disney's Hollywood Studios will have a land dedicated Star Wars, but how does that leave the park's other Star Wars attractions?

The answer is, at least for the foreseeable future, that they will all remain open.

Star Tours was the first Star Wars ride at a Disney theme park

Star Tours: The Adventures Continue, Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular, Star Wars Launch Bay and Star Wars: A Galaxy Far, Far Away are all planned to remain open in addition to the brand new Star Wars Galaxy's Edge.

Star Wars A Galaxy Far, Far Away overview

We've been told that Disney sees the existing offerings as a celebration of the Star Wars universe, including the original movies and sequels. Whereas Galaxy's Edge is an all new offering where guests get to be part of a new story.

With huge crowds expected for Galaxy's Edge, the park will certainly need every inch of available capacity.

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Agent H2 hours ago

Retheme would be my guess it’s a really versatile ride system

Nobody nobody2 hours ago

Real question for everyone: in the event of star tours at DHS closing, what do you think will happen to the ride itself? Will the simulator system be re-used for a retheme, or will the attraction as a whole and maybe things around it, be totally torn down for something new?

Agent H8 days ago

You could even retheme the backlot express next door to slushy burger

Agent H8 days ago

I finally had a idea I really like for a star tours retheme unlikely I know but how about phineas and ferb think about it you would enter the O.W.C.A receive A random mission from major monogram to stop one of Danvilles many villains and board the Vehicle without a cool acronym or V.W.A.C.A you could team up with agent P to defeat dr. Doofenshmirtz fight professor poofensplotz with agent pinky maybe even venture into the 2nd dimension to free it from 2nd dimension doofenshmirtzs tyranny and return back to the base only to have your memory erased by the amnesia-inator mind you I don’t think Disney will actually do this but I think it could be cool

tissandtully8 days ago

I think an Animation Domination courtyard would be cool, Family Guy, Simpsons, American Dad, Bob's Burgers

Nobody nobody9 days ago

I didn’t think Deadpool would’ve either, but here we are. I honestly think we underestimate Disney guests nowadays. They’ll be fine with many things as long as it’s an IP attached. Social media and all that. Also family guy wouldn’t suffer from the “universal did it” syndrome Simpsons would.

tissandtully9 days ago

I would enjoy this, but I don't think the Family Guy humor is very accessible to the average Disney guest. Simpsons? Absolutely. It would be sad though if they just moved the Universal ride over lol

Nobody nobody9 days ago

Attempt to move the convo that was happening in monsters inc threadto the right thread. As was said by @ToTBellHop before it was deleted in the monsters Inc thread: the idea for the new falcon ride is to allow Disney to close star tours at DHS, If I’m not mistaken. I personally and genuinely think that a good retheme would be family guy, at least at dhs. Reasons: Deadpool’s sucesss shows there’s an audience for that brand of humor in some form at Disney parks Family Guy is the perfect brand for the “randomization” Star tours thrives on. You could make a fun plot out of Brian and Stewie taking you on an adventure. Making the draw of the ride, as well as the novelty of a family guy ride humor as opposed to the thrill that has been outclassed. Could have some fun merch, walk around characters, and food, even retheme backlot cafe. There are no sacred cows at the American Disney parks sans Disneyland, and DHS is the “Disney acquisition ip” park. If this is the direction of the parks, might as well have fun with it.