More Details on Star Wars Land Coming to Disney Parks

If you're a tech geek like me than you've been watching all week about some of the news coming from the Consumer Electronic Show-- or CES. On top of the normal gadget news we typically hear from the show, we got some more details about what is coming to the new Star Wars Lands at Walt Disney World and Disneyland.

During CES Jon Snoddy, Executive Vice President of Imagineering (the people who design the rides) gave out some new details on what we can expect.

From Business Insider:

Thanks to the involvement of Industrial Lights and Magic, the legendary special-effects firm that Disney acquired in its big 2013 purchase of "Star Wars" studio Lucasfilm, Snoddy says that one of the rides will be "unprecedented, in a way."
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While Snoddy didn't share any details on exactly which ride this was in reference to, the description lines up with the previous announcement of an attraction that takes riders through a battle between the evil First Order and the heroic Resistance — inspired by the record-smashing movie "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."

I think lots of Star Wars fans are excited to hear that ILM is involved with Imagineering on developing the new lands!

Snoddy hinted that one of the rides that Disney Imagineering is working on with ILM is a "boat ride," with boats moving alongside a track, kind of like Disney park crowd-pleaser "Pirates of the Caribbean."

Where ILM comes in, Snoddy says, is in helping Disney mix super-high-resolution projections with real-life physical sets and characters to create an immersive mix.

Thanks to Disney Imagineering's robotics and ride know-how, they'll know where the boats will be at any moment, down to the millimeter, meaning that they can predict with almost guaranteed accuracy where a rider's attention will be.
Indeed, Snoddy says that having ILM's expertise on tap has made a huge difference in the already-complicated business of building a new Disney park attraction, let alone one that's this immersive.

Not a great number of details, but its interesting to see how Imagineering is approaching this project. It's also good to know that they truly are looking to build an immersive experience like we heard back in August.

​So what do you think about the new Star Wars Lands coming to Disney Parks?

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