History Trivia / StarWarsGalaxysEdge

** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGUsYWmVV2I media preview]] for the opening day of ''Galaxy's Edge'' at Disney World provides the best look at what the land could have been. This stunt show was originally intended to happen in front of park visitors every day -- all of the dialogue was written, the choreography was planned out and the performers rehearsed it -- but in order to cut expenses it was only performed ''this one time'' for members of the press.

** Many people expected Disneyland to be packed once the land opened, with some predicting it to be full capacity. However, it appears said rumors made people become fearful, as the summer of its opening has had some of the lowest park attendance in ages. A similar situation happened to the Walt Disney World iteration, though it didn’t help that the area opened on the same weekend a hurricane was predicted to strike Central Florida.

* RoleReprise:
** Creator/{{Jim Cummings|1952}} returns as the voice of Hondo Ohnaka from the [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars animated]] [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels shows]].
** Creator/PaulReubens reprises his role as [=R3X=] in the steed of ''Ride/StarTours''.
** Creator/FrankOz continues his role as the voice of Yoda from the theatrical films.
** Creator/AshleyEckstein voices Ahsoka Tano in the Holocron voice lines.
** ''Rise of the Resistance'' features the cast of the Sequel Trilogy; they include Creator/DaisyRidley as Rey, Creator/JohnBoyega as Finn, Creator/OscarIsaac as Poe Dameron, Creator/DomhnallGleeson as General Hux and Creator/AdamDriver as Kylo Ren.

** Dinner theater and stunt shows (including a lightsaber duel between Rey and Kylo Ren) eventually became part of the guest experiences on ''Galactic Starcruiser''. The failure of the hotel after a year and a half indicates that the expense associated with supporting this cast of actors -- as well as the actors' understudies, wardrobe and makeup, lighting and sound, dining, hotel services, and the behind-the-scenes dungeon masters -- is so high that Disney can't find enough paying customers to offset it.

* FollowTheLeader: Several aspects of ''Galaxy's Edge'' are Disney's attempts at replicating features of Ride/UniversalStudios' ''Ride/TheWizardingWorldOfHarryPotter''. Savi's Workshop emphasizes building a connection between a lightsaber and its user even more than Ollivander's does with wands. The Datapad and Bounty Hunter games that require using a smartphone to scan QR codes around Black Spire Outpost (as well as a [=MagicBand+=] for Bounty Hunter) are analogous to ''Wizarding World'''s wand-activated interactive props. Blue bantha milk and green thala-siren milk are [[{{Defictionalization}} defictionalized]] drinks like butterbeer and pumpkin juice.

* FollowTheLeader: Several aspects of ''Galaxy's Edge'' are Disney's attempts at replicating features of Ride/UniversalStudios' ''Ride/TheWizardingWorldOfHarryPotter''. The Datapad and Bounty Hunter games that require using a smartphone to scan QR codes around Black Spire Outpost are analogous to ''Wizarding World'''s interactive props activated by wands. Blue bantha milk and green thala-siren milk are [[{{Defictionalization}} defictionalized]] drinks like butterbeer and pumpkin juice.

** The entrance to the building where the dinner theater would have been located is still visible as the archway between Oga's Cantina and First Order Cargo, which is now usually occupied by a drink cart.

** Dinner theater and stunt shows (including a lightsaber duel between Rey and Kylo Ren) eventually became part of the guest experiences on ''Galactic Starcruiser''. The failure of the hotel after a year and half indicates that the expense associated with supporting this cast of actors -- as well as the actors' understudies, wardrobe and makeup, lighting and sound, dining, hotel services, and the behind-the-scenes dungeon masters -- is so high that Disney can't find enough paying customers to offset it.

** Originally Bob Iger wanted the attraction to be based on Tatooine shortly after (or before, sources vary) the fall of the Empire but Lucasfilms CEO Creator/KathleenKennedy convinced him to base it on a new Outer Rim planet during the Sequel Trilogy era. Part of the reason Tatooine wasn't used as a setting is that not only could the land not have any trees planted in it, it would have to conceal the views of all of the trees elsewhere in the park. If it rains (which is more frequent in Florida than California), that would also break the immersion of being on a desert planet.

** Originally, Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo had special ([[AwesomeButImpractical yet impractical]]) custom Sporks as silverware, but people started stealing them and selling them online. Soon after, [[https://wdwnt.com/2019/06/photos-docking-bay-7-food-and-cargo-now-distributing-regular-silverware-instead-of-themed-sporks-at-star-wars-galaxys-edge-in-disneyland-park/ plastic utensils replaced the sporks]] before being replaced with normal silverware. In January 2020 the sporks returned, but were available only for purchase at $11 and limited to just one per customer. They come in a bag that says in Aurebesh: [[TakeThat "SPORK Property of Docking Bay 7"]].

** Some merchandise went fast after the land opened. By the time the reservation period ended, a number of items were unavailable such as sabaac decks, lothcats, and especially kyber crystals. While Savi's still had crystals for the workshop, Dok-Ondar's limited theirs for months to "buy one with purchase of a holocron" and only had out-of-packaging red and blue ones.

* TroubledProduction: ''Rise of the Resistance'' was delayed for four months after the opening of ''Galaxy's Edge'' in Hollywood Studios, and six months in Disneyland, because the NFC chips that guide the trackless ride vehicles were discovered to be buried too deeply in the floors for the vehicles to detect them, requiring all of the floors to be torn up and replaced. Even after the ride opened, technical problems sometimes cause it to be shut down for maintenance.

** Originally Bob Iger wanted the attraction to be based on Tatooine shortly after (or before, sources vary) the fall of the Empire but Lucasfilms CEO Creator/KathleenKennedy convinced him to base it on a new Outer Rim planet during the Sequel Trilogy era. Part of the reason Tatooine wasn't used as a setting is that not only would the land need to have no trees, it would also have to conceal the view of all of the trees elsewhere in the park. If it rains (which is more frequent in Florida than California), that would also break the immersion of being on a desert planet.

** Dinner theater and stunt shows (including a lightsaber duel between Rey and Kylo Ren) eventually became part of the guest experiences on ''Galactic Starcruiser''. The failure of the hotel after a year and half indicates that the expense associated with supporting this cast of actors -- as well as the actors' understudies, wardrobe and makeup, lighting and sound, dining, hotel services, and the behind-the-scenes dungeon masters, -- is so high that Disney can't find enough paying customers to offset it.

** Originally Bob Iger wanted the attraction to be based on Tatooine shortly after (or before, sources vary) the fall of the Empire but Lucasfilms CEO Creator/KathleenKennedy convinced him to base it on a new Outer Rim planet during the Sequel Trilogy era.

** Dinner theater and stunt shows (including a lightsaber duel between Rey and Kylo Ren) eventually became part of the guest experiences on ''Galactic Starcruiser''. The failure of the hotel after a year and half indicates that the expense associated with supporting this cast of actors -- as well as the actors' understudies, wardrobe and makeup, the behind-the-scenes dungeon masters, dining and hotel services -- is so high that Disney can't find enough paying customers to offset it.

** Dinner theater and stunt shows (including a lightsaber duel between Rey and Kylo Ren) eventually became part of the guest experiences on ''Galactic Starcruiser''. The failure of the hotel after a year and half indicates that the expense associated with paying so many actors is so high that Disney can't find enough paying customers to offset it.

** Dinner theater and stunt shows (including a lightsaber duel between Rey and Kylo Ren) eventually became part of the guest experiences on ''Galactic Starcruiser''.

** There were plans for autonomous droids rolling around the park alongside guests, [[https://wdwnt.com/2019/04/roaming-interactive-droid-characters-will-not-appear-when-star-wars-galaxys-edge-opens/ with a few test runs in Tomorrowland]]. But ultimately they were cut due to worry of them breaking from the large crowds as well as negotiations falling through with the Puppeters' Union. Eventually this started getting softened, with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b03hnyjFkzg R2-D2 making free roaming appearances]] in the park starting January 2020.

** In 2018, as part of a multi-billion expansion of the park, ''Galaxy's Edge'' was originally announced to have a version in Walt Disney Studios Park at Disneyland Paris Resort. However, for unknown reasons, the land would end up getting QuietlyCancelled in 2022.

** Creator/JimCummings returns as the voice of Hondo Ohnaka from the [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars animated]] [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels shows]].

** Within a week, the black kyber crystals were [[https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxysEdge/comments/bz9nk9/merchandise_update_as_of_69_info_in_comments/ pulled from store shelves]] due to bad behavior from guests trying to find one and to scalpers reselling them. Disney eventually reintroduced them, but lined the containers with black paper to prevent people from shining lights through them to find the black crystals. As concession, black crystals are much less rare than they were before, dropping from a 1 out of 100 chance to 1 out of 7.

** ''Galaxy's Edge'' was originally announced to have a version in Disneyland Paris Resort's Walt Disney Studios Park as part of a 2.3 billion dollar expansion of the park in 2018. However, for unknown reasons, the land would end up getting QuietlyCancelled in 2022, with the third theme being undecided.

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** The digital queuing system to get onto ''Rise of the Resistance'' was regularly reaching capacity within 30 minutes of park opening for its first month in Florida. Likewise in California, the digital queue regularly filled up within minutes of the park opening at 8 a.m. It got so packed that the infamously lengthy wait for the Peter Pan ride at Disneyland dropped from 50 minutes to 30 minutes. It took, of all things, the ''COVID-19 pandemic'' to finally make it relatively possible for guests to ride after joining the line at any time.
** When plushes of [[Series/TheMandalorian the Child]] were introduced to Toydarian Toymaker, the first thousand all sold out by noon.