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“Chewie, we’re home.”
That line, from “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is what walking into Disneyland’s new Star Wars land, opening Friday, embodies.
Han Solo’s three words carried with them a new hope for fans who had grown resigned that the franchise had faded away after the prequels ended in 2005.
And now, after resurrecting Luke, Leia, Han, Chewbacca and company in theaters, Disney has brought Star Wars back to us again, live and interactive. And with George Lucas’ blessing as he stood on stage with Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Billy Dee Williams to officially open the park Wednesday evening.
As with their movie magic, Disney plays to its strengths, this time by creating a Star Wars city that anyone can walk into, explore and interact with creatures, ships, lightsabers and droids.
This is your insider’s guide on what to see, do and eat during your time on another planet. The now functional, detailed and movie-accurate 14-acre playground is where millions of guests will start visiting on May 31.
The brief guest logistics are these: In order to get a Disneyland ticket that includes the new Star Wars land, you must stay at a Disney hotel the night of or night before your visit. Day passes without a hotel reservation will be available after June 23.
For now, you will also be relegated to only four hours in the new expanded land, the rest of the day you’re riding flying elephants and getting your picture taken with the sisters from “Frozen.”
If Orlando is more convenient than Anaheim, Walt Disney World’s nearly identical Star Wars land opens at Disney’s Hollywood Studios on August 29.
If you want to wait for Disneyland to open the second, bigger Star Wars ride, “Rise of the Resistance,” so you can confront Kylo Ren while racing through a Star Destroyer hangar and its prison cells, you should wait until the end of the year.
And if you want to wait until the crowds die down, maybe think about visiting sometime after the next presidential election.
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