Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, Disney’s live-in theme park, could change how we vacation
LA TimesAn immersive “Star Wars” experience comes with expectations: Wielding a lightsaber. “A game gives people who are not actors the tools to pretend,” says Sara Thacher, one of the Galactic Starcruiser architects with Walt Disney Imagineering, the company’s secretive arm devoted to theme park experiences. By midafternoon on the second day, in which guests board a transporter truck — outfitted to look like a spaceship — and spend part of their time in the theme park land Galaxy’s Edge, I’ve received more messages from fake “Star Wars” characters than from real-life friends. “Play allows you to try on and model different versions of yourself,” says Scott Trowbridge, the creative executive with Imagineering who led the teams that created Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge as well as the Galactic Starcruiser. This is much more than for ‘Star Wars’ fans.” “It’s a little hard to describe in a single word or a single sentence,” Trowbridge says.
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