when does star wars in disney world open
2019
title: Walt Disney Parks and Resorts text: released "", the first of a new trilogy of films. was announced on August 15, 2015 as Star Wars Land, and is currently under construction at the Disneyland Resort in California and Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida. Both lands are set to open in 2019. At D23 Expo 2017, Disney Parks chairman Bob Chapek revealed Galaxy's Edge as the area's official name, announcing an attraction set inside the hangar bay of a First Order Star Destroyer. The Disneyland version of Galaxy's Edge is currently slated to open first, with the Walt Disney World version following later in 2019. In addition, title: Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge text: Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge "Star Wars": Galaxy's Edge is an upcoming "Star Wars"-themed area being developed in Disneyland Park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, as well as in Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. It will encompass 14 acres at each park. The lands were announced on August 15, 2015 and construction at both parks began on April 14, 2016. The lands are scheduled to open at both locations in 2019, with the Disneyland version opening in the summer, followed by the Disney's Hollywood Studios version in the late fall. Walt Disney Imagineering title: Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge text: November 2017, Trowbridge announced that the planet portrayed by the land is called Batuu, which appears in the 2018 novel "". In May 2018, Trowbridge revealed that the name of the planet's village is Black Spire Outpost, an organization briefly mentioned in the 2018 film "". It was also announced that the Disneyland version of the land would open in summer 2019, followed by the Disney's Hollywood Studios version in late fall 2019. The names of the two new attractions at each location were announced in November 2018 during the D23 Destination D event held at Walt Disney World. Walt title: Star Tours – The Adventures Continue text: of the original trilogy (Episodes IV–VI). The attraction opened on May 20, 2011 at Disney's Hollywood Studios, on June 3, 2011 at Disneyland, on May 7, 2013 at Tokyo Disneyland, and on March 26, 2017 at Disneyland Paris. In April 2005, at "Star Wars" Celebration III, creator George Lucas confirmed that a "Star Tours II" was in production. In May 2009, /Film reported that filming for the new version of Star Tours was underway in West Hollywood, California. During pre-production, one of the locations that Imagineers wanted guests to visit was the ice planet of Hoth while it was under title: Avengers: Infinity War text: 2018, screening also at the adjacent El Capitan Theatre and Grauman's Chinese Theatre. It was released in most countries worldwide, including the United States, on April 27, 2018, with a few debuts beginning as early as April 25, and was shown in IMAX and 3D on select screens. In the United States, the film opened in 4,474 theaters, 408 of which were IMAX; this was the widest release for a Disney title ever and the second-widest ever after "Despicable Me 3"s 4,529 theaters. Three of AMC Theatres' locations screened the film for 24 hours straight, with 53 of their locations