Hyperspace Mountain will return to Disneyland, California in November, having originally been a temporary overlay for that park’s own Season of the Force.
The Star Wars Land we’re not getting (yet) But when will it have the money to do that? Will we still be looking at a Baltimore Gun Club/Rebel Alliance mashup in ten years? It’s not difficult to have a very bad feeling about this. Until then, this stop-gap measure allows the resort to “own” the franchise just that little bit more. The best answer would be “until Disneyland Paris can get its own, real Star Wars Land open”. The question now will be, for how long do we have to accept such a desperate brain-warp of an attraction concept? They just want something Star Wars, and now.Ĭan we blame Disneyland Paris for feeding this desire? Can we blame a resort that still needs every eurocent it can get from capitalising on such an international fervour for these films in this way?Ĭlearly, it was thought that the combined package of a new Star Tours and a Star Wars-splattered Space Mountain was a much stronger proposition than the one attraction on its own. They don’t care about this storytelling faux-pas, they don’t care how inspiring the attraction used to be.
That’s a troubling point: a remarkable number of people seem to genuinely not care that we’ll be being fired out of a cannon inspired by Jules Verne’s “From the Earth to the Moon” into a Star Wars interior show. How will they feel when they realise this one’s just an ill-fitting overlay? Will they even care? Many more casual visitors were already sharing the news of “two new Star Wars rides”. Sneakily, yesterday’s press release didn’t even see fit to mention that the attraction was a reworking of the existing Space Mountain: Mission 2, something only mentioned in Catherine Powell’s later Disney Parks Blog piece. The decision to apply a Star Wars theme to this landmark 1995 attraction, with its stunning exterior and giant Columbiad Cannon unique to Paris, is so laughable, so heart-sinkingly predictable, that for fans it risks overshadowing all the many hugely positive aspects of the 25th Anniversary on its own. Why wait for the real Star Wars Land when you can create your own from the barely-appropriate bones of a once-great icon? Failing to “flesh out” all the selling points of the new, genuinely “Star Wars” features of Star Tours – The Adventures Continue seems even more of a missed opportunity when we learn that, for real and for definite, our Jules Verne-inspired Space Mountain is basically going to be turned into one big Star Wars selling point itself.
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