Disney files construction permit for shuttered Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser

Jan 29, 2024 in "Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser"

Posted: Monday January 29, 2024 9:28am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney has filed a construction permit for the now-closed Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser at Walt Disney World.

 

The permit is assigned to Sunstate Awning & Graphic Design, a Florida-based company that provides custom fabric and metal awnings.

The permit provides no other information, and the scope of the work is unknown. It remains to be seen if this construction is related to any future guest-facing project at the former Starcruiser or simply part of maintaining the building during its closure.

Disney is remaining tight-lipped on the future of the building; speaking in June 2023, Disney Parks boss Josh D'Amaro said, "No hints yet, but something will happen."

Possible concepts for repurposing the Starcruiser include a much cheaper daytime excursion from Star Wars Galaxy's Edge and converting the facility into a traditional hotel experience. The latter seems more unlikely due to significant changes that would need to be made to the building to operate as a conventional hotel.

Carrying a lofty price tag of around $5200 for the two-day, two-night experience, Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser launched on March 1, 2022. After stronger-than-expected initial sales, Starcruiser bookings quickly stalled, forcing Disney to look to save costs and boost reservations. The final Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser voyage was September 28-30, 2023.

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GimpYancIent13 days ago

Concertina / razor wire strung on a 7 - 10-foot-high chain link fence around the building would give it the correct esthetic.

Incomudro15 days ago

Hopefully the Tiana crew will do some time.

MisterPenguin18 days ago

Just make sure the newly configured spaces have two or three of the narrow windows into one room.

JoeCamel18 days ago

Trailers are for the lesser offenders the hard core are sent to this big house

Sirwalterraleigh18 days ago

The river country dvc

Sirwalterraleigh18 days ago

Define “frequently”?

donaldtoo18 days ago

Do we have any maximum security trailer prisons…?! :cyclops:

flynnibus18 days ago

For people that frequently work out of trailers?

Disstevefan118 days ago

The Imagineers will not be released from the Star Cruiser Correctional Facility until they have destroyed and replaced ROA with Cars.

Basil of Baker Street18 days ago

Do we know if employees are being assigned there or sentenced? Looks very penitentiary-ish.

Nubs7018 days ago

Lease hold improvement

Disstevefan118 days ago

We KNOW Disney LOVES losses on paper. They treat write offs like income ;)

Sirwalterraleigh18 days ago

No I think they can maybe write off the partial demo now of the interior and maybe the retrofit as part of the “loss”? Who doesn’t love loses on paper?

JoeCamel18 days ago

You mean they got WDI to foot the bill for the demo.....