Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge (Disney's Hollywood Studios)

[Nick]

You forget there is more to star wars than just the films. You have the Clone Wars, The rebels tv show, etc which are to get kids into the series. Those were toy sales. Movie people may be watching yet not buying into anything outside of that..

I didn't forget, but common logic would assume Star Wars make less money during a Anthology year than an Episode year in every business area that they make money.

People who watch the films most certainly do buy merch.

 

[fryoj]

of note, Hasbro lost money due to Star Wars and Marvel declining sales. Which may mean IP fatigue of Star Wars.



Hasbro (HAS) Beats Q1 Earnings and Revenue Estimates in Q1 - Nasdaq.com

This could be simply that as kids skew more and more towards digital entertainment, historical big sellers like action figures and play sets aren't as popular.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

of note, Hasbro lost money due to Star Wars and Marvel declining sales. Which may mean IP fatigue of Star Wars.



Hasbro (HAS) Beats Q1 Earnings and Revenue Estimates in Q1 - Nasdaq.com

One data point does not make a trend. How are the sales compared to two or three years ago? Sales could have been inflated due to the "big" movies. Additionally this could be more of Trolls fault and whatever that other thing is.

 

[Dan B]

Still very limited on updates , this was about all I could find:



This was three weeks ago in the same area:

Not really an update but I found this interesting, must have a lot of dirt to shift to warrant setting up a conveyor!

 

[SeventyOne]

No detail, but the groundlings tell me Pew Pew Land will have a dinner show.

Probably more Medieval Times than musical, but holding out hope for some numbers from The Star Wars Holiday Special.

 

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[GAcoaster]

This is WAY behind California's construction. Not only are the Imperial Walkers not even up yet, the building they're in isn't even up yet. They have to be 6-9 months behind Disneyland.

And, I would think the DL would be the ones further behind with the earthquake building codes, but here's what Westcoaster show's as of May 2nd:

 

[Scott W.]

This is WAY behind California's construction. Not only are the Imperial Walkers not even up yet, the building they're in isn't even up yet. They have to be 6-9 months behind Disneyland.

And, I would think the DL would be the ones further behind with the earthquake building codes, but here's what Westcoaster show's as of May 2nd:

Wow, I didn't think it was that far ahead.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

I'll buy a beer for a poster if either of these lands are open in 2019.

 

[AlexanderMBush]

I'll buy a beer for a poster if either of these lands are open in 2019.

I see Disneyland's more likely to open in 2019. But, at this point; I can't see HWS opening SWL by 2019.

 

[Scott W.]

I'll buy a beer for a poster if either of these lands are open in 2019.

I'll take that bet.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

I'll take that bet.

 

[Nick]

I'll buy a beer for a poster if either of these lands are open in 2019.

Since you are including DL in this, I'd easily take this bet. How soon we forget what Avatar looked like 2 years ago.

 

[belloq87]

No detail, but the groundlings tell me Pew Pew Land will have a dinner show.

Probably more Medieval Times than musical, but holding out hope for some numbers from The Star Wars Holiday Special.

Let's get a Bea Arthur AA in the cantina!



Okay, probably not a great idea...

This is WAY behind California's construction. Not only are the Imperial Walkers not even up yet, the building they're in isn't even up yet. They have to be 6-9 months behind Disneyland.

And, I would think the DL would be the ones further behind with the earthquake building codes, but here's what Westcoaster show's as of May 2nd:

I look at this and get depressed!

 

[Mike S]

Since you are including DL in this, I'd easily take this bet. How soon we forget what Avatar looked like 2 years ago.

Or the fact that Nintendo in Japan is supposed to open in 2019 and just started construction in comparison to SWL, especially at DL.

 

[fryoj]

Found this pic with a March 2015 date for Avatar. Not too dissimilar from DL's now. So I'd say DL is clearly in range for a 2019 opening. If you say DHS is 6 months behind(and I don't think they are that far. Maybe 3-4 months IMO), Holidays 2019 isn't unreasonable.

 

[AlexanderMBush]

Found this pic with a March 2015 date for Avatar. Not too dissimilar from DL's now. So I'd say DL is clearly in range for a 2019 opening. If you say DHS is 6 months behind(and I don't think they are that far. Maybe 3-4 months IMO), Holidays 2019 isn't unreasonable.

I would say Disney is more ahead with SWL at Disneyland than what this aerial of Avatarland shows.

I think 2019 for Disneyland is a good idea, and that way; it gives them a way to detract people coming to Universal for SNW by 2020.

 

[belloq87]

I still say that staggered openings represent a huge missed opportunity to do something really special for a unified, bi-coastal Grand Opening event.

But nope! Disneyland's is going to get all the big hype from being first.