Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge / YMMV

Awesome Music:
- The Grammy-winning theme music for Galaxy's Edge is an original composition by John Williams that doesn't use any existing Star Wars motifs. However, its attempts at evoking an "exotic locale" make it more closely resemble Williams' Indiana Jones style of music.
- Conversely, the soundtracks that play inside the land's individual attractions are remixes of Williams' music from the movies, unified by the Galaxy's Edge theme which becomes a Leitmotif for the planet Batuu itself. Some notable instances of movie music repackaged for attractions are the use of Yoda's theme in Savi's Workshop, and the countdown to the destruction of the first Death Star that plays when the escape pods drop at the climax of Rise of the Resistance.
- The Rise of Skywalker's theme is reused as the opening and ending theme of Galactic Starcruiser, which accompanies the video that plays inside the elevator ("transport pod") when guests enter and leave the hotel.
Broken Base:
- The land being based around the sequel trilogy instead of the original and prequel trilogies. Some don't mind this and argue that it makes sense for Disney to use the most recent films since they're the most relevant, with the original and prequel trilogies already being represented in Star Tours. Others though, argue that the original and prequel trilogies are more iconic amongst the popular consensus and are disappointed that the land features very few elements from those films. Of course, much of this is gonna depend on how one feels about the sequel trilogy and the reboot in general, which is a whole other can of worms entirely.
- The land being located in Disneyland Park. Some don't take issue with the land's presence and feel it makes given that Star Tours is already present in the park and it wouldn't really fit in California Adventure. Others though, hate it, feeling it clashes poorly with the structure of Disneyland and the other lands, which use generalized ideas (Fantasyland, Tomorrowland, etc) instead of specific IPs (even though the generalized land rule had been broken years prior with Mickey's Toontown, which is themed around the Classic Disney Shorts and Who Framed Roger Rabbit). This only really applies to Disneyland, as most don't have a problem with its placement in Hollywood Studios in Florida.
- The Galactic Starcruiser hotel. Some fans reacted negatively to the hotel’s interior design, feeling that it being sleek and shiny clashes with the typical Used Future Star Wars aesthetic (outside of the prequels) and that it being a concrete box with no windows (only “viewports” that are really TV screens, plus a single “simulator” courtyard) created a claustrophobic experience. Others thought that the activities and live-action role play nature of the hotel genuinely sounded like fun experiences. The most common agreement between most fans was that the hotel’s price tag was far too steep and placed the experience well out of the reach of the average guest.^note Ultimately Disney would close the hotel permanently, after only a year and a half in service.
Complacent Gaming Syndrome: R units (aka "R2 droids") are more commonly recommended to be built at the Droid Depot over BB units, as they're sturdier, react more frequently if given personality chips, and can be fitted with numerous bonus accessories that are incompatible with the BBs.
Fan Nickname: To differentiate between the Galaxy's Edge parks in Disneyland and Disney World, the California version is sometimes referred to by fans as "Batuu West" and the Florida version as "Batuu East".
Fanon: Some fans like to think that Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is about the Rebel Spies and guests from Star Tours gathered together to fight back at the First Order after being roped into the Rebellion. This can even carry over if riders on Star Tours got the Crait sequence, which ends with landing on Batuu.
Fight Scene Failure: At the start of Rey's duel against Kylo in Galactic Starcruiser, Rey ignites her lightsaber and immediately ducks to dodge a blaster bolt. It's very obvious that the performer needs to dive to the floor in order to drop her first saber, which has an oversized handle and a blade which is a retractable coil of LED lights, and pick up another saber with a solid LED blade that she can fight Kylo with.
Hilarious in Hindsight: The cabins on Galactic Starcruiser have a clean white and orange color scheme reminiscent of BB-8. Later, Andor would use the same color scheme for a prison. (One group of Halcyon passengers did wear Narkina 5 prison uniforms for a day aboard ship.)
It Was His Sled: Another contributing factor to the failure of Galactic Starcruiser is that people who couldn't afford to stay there can get the entire experience and storyline spoiled for them by numerous vloggers on YouTube. These videos also preserve the experience for posterity now that the attraction has closed.
Memetic Badass: The very week that Galaxy's Edge opened, a video (dead link) was posted of a little girl angrily refusing to tell the First Order anything, and forcing them to admit defeat. She got a lot of love as the Resistance's version of Lyanna Mormont.
Memetic Mutation:
- "If there's one Jedi left, it's not you." "AFFIRMATIVE."^note
- “This is going to be an incredible Defunctland episode”, most commonly said after Galactic Starcruiser’s closure was announced.
Moe: It's okay if you have to resist the urge to reach through the cage to pet the fuzzy animatronic lothcat. We all feel exactly the same way. There's a reason that they eventually became available for people to buy.
Pandering to the Base: Starting in 2022, Batuu West began hosting meet-and-greets with characters who don't appear in the Sequel Trilogy. Since the characters in question were not yet confirmed to have survived or died by the New Republic's fall, this came off as Disney introducing anachronisms, for the sake of attracting visitors who prefer the Original Trilogy (in the case of Boba Fett) and/or the Disney+ shows (in the cases of Fennec Shand, Din Djarin the Mandalorian, and Grogu the Child) to the sequels. Judging by the large crowds of guests greeting Din and Grogu, followed by the clan's subsequent appearances at Batuu East and Disneyland Paris' Discoveryland, Disney succeeded at attracting such visitors. They later made a similarly-anachronistic appeal to fans of the Prequel era by adding an Ahsoka Tano meet-and-greet to Batuu West, prior to her live-action TV show's debut.
Special Effects Failure:
- While Rise of the Resistance is full of breathtaking effects, one effect that is viewed as not so impressive is the Kylo Ren animatronic's movement when the ship's hull is breached. Since it's fixed to one place with immobile legs, the animatronic waves around its arms in feigned vacuum looking much like a wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube man. The "debris" that slides into place to hide him from view when the scene ends also isn't very convincing.
- Some of the rock spires of the park are only covered on one side, meaning their internal skeleton can be seen from the parking lot behind them, or the road leading to Galactic Starcruiser.
Spiritual Successor:
- The entire land is this to Pandora – The World of Avatar in terms of immersive storytelling.
- Millennium Falcon: Smuggler's Run, and Galactic Starcruiser's bridge and engineering room, are successors to Mission: Space in that they allow guests to pilot their own spaceship and control the outcome of their mission. All three rides even get guests to act by having the buttons and switches light up.
- Smuggler's Run is also one to Star Tours, being a Star Wars-themed motion simulator ride that sees guests fly to various planets across the galaxy.
- Galaxy's Edge later received its own successor in Avengers C.A.M.P.U.S. — a land that serves as a Canon Foreigner location in a major film series, was at least planned to feature a flight ride (Smuggler's Run and the canceled Quinjet Experience) and customizable RC robot merchandise (the Droid Depot R2, BB, and C1 droids and Spider-Bots).
Tainted by the Preview: Fans were fairly excited for Galactic Starcruiser when it was announced, eager to see what a fully immersive Star Wars experience could be like. But then the first trailer for it dropped, looking quite cheap and bare-bones... and then Disney revealed the pricing plans for the two-day excursion, which start at nearly $5,000. Its reception took a nosedive, with reactions to visitor reviews of the resort accusing them of being shills for Disney who were bought off.
They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
- Originally, the restaurant menus were all listed as in-universe menus, with the dishes all named as Batuuan foods. However, for clarity's sake, the menus were changed to listing what the foods actually were. Some fans were very unhappy about this, considering it to be immersion-breaking. Currently, the food names are a mix of the In-Universe names and the real world food that they're made of.
- The Batuu Wishing Tree, where it was said denizens of Black Spire would tie cloth strips to its branches to make a wish, started attracting guests who'd do the same thing. It was later announced (for the Florida park so far) that all cloths were going to be removed from the Wishing Tree to discourage this, which many decried because it cut out the immersion and as a guest activity was harmless.
- In the first couple of months after Galactic Starcruiser closed, former Halcyon passengers tied ribbons to the locked gate that used to lead to the transport shuttle dock where passengers would be taken back to the ship. The park staff have since removed the ribbons and blocked off the area with cargo containers.
Visual Effects of Awesome:
- The Hondo animatronic in the pre-flight briefing for Smuggler's Run is nothing short of astounding in its realism and fluidity of movement - he looks like he stepped right off the screen, straight from The Clone Wars or Rebels. One can be forgiven for legitimately mistaking him for a cast member in costume at first, it's that convincing.
- Too much to list in Rise of the Resistance, from the massive near-screen perfect First Order hangar, to the enormous walker bay, animatronic appearances from Finn, Kylo, and Hux, a hologram of Rey that looks just like a real one, daring escapes through the ship while Kylo pursues and an enormous space battle rages, Kylo cutting into the roof of the elevator with his lightsaber, all while in pods with no tracks and custom responses to the incoming obstacles.
- In Galactic Starcruiser, the hologram of Yoda appearing out of his holocron, which is projected onto a wire spinning in a cone shape.

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