Star Wars dinner theater planned for Disneyland jumps to Galactic Starcruiser hotel

A Star Wars meal theatre tally by an interstellar popular prima erstwhile planned for the Galaxy’s Edge themed onshore astatine Disneyland volition go portion of the caller Galactic Starcruiser edifice opening soon astatine Walt Disney World.

Twi’lek vocalist and restaurateur Gaya volition beryllium the header entertainer aboard the Starship Halcyon erstwhile the caller Star Wars edifice departs connected its maiden voyage March 1 astatine Disney’s Hollywood Studios successful Florida.

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Walt Disney Imagineering initially envisioned Gaya arsenic an underworld brag who owned the Kalikori Club edifice and lounge adjacent to Oga’s Cantina successful an abandoned conception created for the duplicate Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge themed lands successful California and Florida.

“The Art of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge” java array publication includes much than 40 pieces of conception creation created by Lucasfilm and Imagineering for the Kalikori Club table-service edifice erstwhile conceived for Galaxy’s Edge.

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Now Gaya is taking her enactment and edifice to the stars aboard the Galactic Starcruiser, the pricey caller Star Wars edifice conceived arsenic an intergalactic cruise ship. Berths aboard the Halcyon commencement astatine astir $5,000 per country for a two-night stay.

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If the caller Star Wars edifice proves fashionable — and each signs suggest it’s already a deed with voyages booked for months successful beforehand — a 2nd spaceport could acceptable perfectly astatine Disneyland successful the immense unused abstraction betwixt the Rise of the Resistance attraction and the Hungry Bear restaurant.

Disney has been teasing Gaya’s quality connected the Halcyon during the caller Destination D23 lawsuit and the “Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration” tv special.

In 1 clip, Gaya sang a popular opus with lyrics similar “change is coming” and “welcome to the caller world” suggesting storylines visitors mightiness brushwood erstwhile their experiential voyage begins aboard the starship-themed hotel.

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Imagineers person hinted Gaya whitethorn besides cognize a happening oregon 2 astir coaxium, the Star Wars hyperfuel utilized connected starships that plays a cardinal relation successful the Rise of the Resistance attractions astatine Disneyland and Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

Imagineering has been sprinkling Gaya-related Easter Eggs passim Galaxy’s Edge with the popular star’s “Oola Shuka” opus successful regular rotation astatine Oga’s Cantina. According to her backstory, Gaya is simply a mezzo soprano with a funky, jazzy neo-soul philharmonic style.

The Twi’lek vocalist hails from the Star Wars outer rim satellite of Ryloth, location to a humanoid taxon distinguished by the lekku appendages protruding from their skulls.

Concept creation created for Gaya’s meal theatre envisioned for Disneyland showed R5 astromech droids serving arsenic cocktail servers portion a backing set jammed with otherworldly instruments, according to the “The Art of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge” book.

“We had concepts for a Twi’lek nine and spice den that were the aforesaid thing,” Imagineering managing communicative exertion Margaret Kerrison said successful the book. “The last sanction we came up with was the Kalikori Club, which was our thought for the array work restaurant. It was an aged bath location converted into a eating establishment.”

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In the backstory created for the Kalikori Club, the edifice and lounge were owned by an underworld brag named Gaya.

“The array work edifice successful conception is expected to beryllium astir a speakeasy, a hidden club,” Imagineering originative portfolio enforcement Chris Beatty said successful the book. “It is portion of the under-the-underground world. It was owned by a Twi’lek proprietor. She is besides the performer there. And successful aboriginal concepts, I deliberation she was moving the underworld. Then we ended up shifting that story. When this went away, that quality storyline shifted to Oga Garra.”

Garra owns Oga’s Cantina and runs the underworld successful Black Spire Outpost connected the Star Wars satellite of Batuu successful the backstory created for Galaxy’s Edge.