Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance will not be part of Extra Magic Hours

Nov 27, 2019 in "Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance"

Posted: Wednesday November 27, 2019 3:03pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney's Hollywood Studios Cast Members have been notified that Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance will not be part of the park's Extra Magic Hours.

Billed as the most advanced and ambitious Walt Disney Imagineering attraction to date, the ride will open to guests on December 5 2019 at Disney's Hollywood Studios.

Despite still appearing to hit the opening date of December 5, we have been hearing multiple reports that the attraction is struggling to operate for extended periods of time, which explains the park not having greatly extended operating hours during the opening period, and now the decision to not operate the ride during EMH. It would appear likely that as the ride becomes more operationally stable, it will be included in EMH.

The first Extra Magic Hours date for the Studios following the opening of the ride will be December 8 from 7am to 8am.

Millenium Falcon: Smugglers Run and the remainder of the shops and eateries will continue to operate during EMH.

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    erasure fan16 days ago

    Luke was absolutely terrible, at least when we saw him meeting people. It looked like a mediocre Halloween costume with a really lame looking blonde wig. As far as the aliens... Yes, absolutely they need more. One of our best memories was from star wars weekends meeting all the masked characters, aliens and droids. They had sand people, Gamorrean guards, aurra sing, zam wesell, kit fisto (and he never comes out) Jango, Boba, darth maul, R2... It was awesome. If Galaxys edge had rotating classic aliens like those. I guarantee the reception of the land jumps WAY up.

    ParadoxPortals7 days ago

    It definitely could be because of the actor faces not matching the characters, but I also wonder, seeing as Galaxy's Edge takes itself so seriously as an in-universe 'real' world, meet and greets for these military generals and soldiers types just feel weird. Vader shouldn't be concerning himself with engaging with children, and Vi Moradi is supposed to be an undercover agent who has more important business to do. If Disney Parks Star Wars took itself less seriously like in the old days, maybe these character interactions would feel less off? ...I however love the Galaxy's Edge meet and greets, even if it's odd to see a much more restrained Kylo Ren conversing with us Black Spire visitors whilst he hunts for Rey to assassinate her. The Stormtroopers and Rey 'stealth mission' role-play with children she sometimes does are always entertaining.

    UNCgolf7 days ago

    I think it's hard to do meet and greets for live action human characters played by human actors -- this applies to Marvel too, although most of the Marvel characters can wear a mask that eliminates the issue. They obviously don't look the same as the actor, which makes them feel like a knock-off. And kids absolutely notice this too; it's not unusual for kids to look at a M&G and say that isn't the character they're supposed to be meeting.

    DisneyCane7 days ago

    Last week I flew out of MIA and unexpectedly saw their fleet of self driving wheelchairs. It reminded me a lot of droids moving around the Star Wars universe. I wonder if Imagineering could integrate that technology into GE. I don't know how well they can navigate in a really crowded environment but airport terminals can get pretty congested. Some of the Star Wars technology is becoming less sci-fi and more just sci by the day!

    Tha Realest7 days ago

    Don’t disagree. I think the masked ones work much better. I took my then 4-year-old to meet Vader and he was absolutely terrified (admittedly so was I as he came from behind the wall)

    Piebald7 days ago

    Maybe a hot take but I'm not a fan of any of the "human" m&g associated with Star Wars. The prince and princesses are fine across the parks but for SW they just never hit (and yes I know they are mainly for kids). Rey and Vi are pretty lame. Luke would probably be terrible. More droids...more aliens...*that* would be cool and make the land feel more alive. Always thought the Jawas trading were so cool. Stormtroopers, Kylo and Chewbacca are great because the interactions you see feel more genuine

    Tha Realest8 days ago

    Since he can manifest across the Galaxy maybe he can use his Force push powers to start moving the DHS canons

    JackCH8 days ago

    Yeah, I let my excitement get the better of me and go too fast.

    HauntedPirate8 days ago

    But did Bob tweet it out? I can't believe anything about Galaxy's Edge in California unless Bob tweets it out. I'm still waiting for it to open, because he said all he needed to do was tweet when it opens and... here I sit... waiting...

    Agent H8 days ago

    Hopefully this is The start of them adding original and prequel trilogy characters to the land and maybe sometime in the next5 to 10 years they will finally get rid of launch bay

    TheMaxRebo8 days ago

    Believe this will only be for Disneyland (per a # in another post from the Disney account) and they have sort of adjusted the timeline of theirs already to be less specific The DHS one still seems focused on the same "Story"/time period

    JackCH8 days ago

    It also only has a hashtag for Disneyland 😭 I let my excitement get the better of me.

    JackCH8 days ago

    No idea who that is.

    Nobody nobody8 days ago

    I found Miachel Cole’s burner.