The Wonderful World of Disney Magical Holiday Celebration to show more of Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance

Nov 28, 2019 in "Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance"

Posted: Thursday November 28, 2019 9:35am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

“The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration” kicks off the holiday season Thursday, Nov. 28, from 8-10 p.m. EST, on ABC and will offer more footage of the upcoming Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance attraction.

Inside Rise of the Resistance Gun Deck and AT-AT Bay

According to Disney, there will be several Disney Parks sneak peeks, including an exclusive behind-the-scenes look into Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, opening in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge on Dec. 5, 2019, at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida.

More details of the “The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration”:

Join hosts Matthew Morrison and Emma Bunton along with co-host Jesse Palmer as they present the two-hour primetime special on Thanksgiving night from Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida and Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland Resort in California.

Musical performances include the following:

GRAMMY® Award-winning icons Sting and Shaggy perform duets and solo numbers from Walt Disney World Resort, including a new festive reggae version of “Silent Night (Christmas is Coming).”
GRAMMY® Award-winning rock band Portugal. The Man performs “Happy Christmas” and “Merry Christmas Everybody” from Disneyland Resort.
Three-time GRAMMY® Award-winning group Pentatonix will sing a cappella renditions of “Deck the Halls” and “Here Comes Santa Claus” from Walt Disney World Resort.
Singers Ingrid Michaelson and Andy Grammer perform an all-new original holiday song from Disneyland Resort.
International pop star Ally Brooke sings “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” from Walt Disney World Resort.
Singer-songwriter and TV host Emma Bunton (‘Baby Spice’), performs “Santa Baby” from Walt Disney World Resort.
The Tony, Emmy, and two-time Golden Globe -nominated artist Matthew Morrison performs a medley from Walt Disney World Resort of “When You Wish Upon A Star” from the upcoming album “Disney Dreamin’ with Matthew Morrison” and the classic “Let it Snow.”
Acclaimed two-time Billboard-Award winning electronic violinist Lindsey Stirling pulls all the strings for “Carol of the Bells” from Walt Disney World Resort.

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erasure fan1Feb 09, 2025

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.

ParadoxPortalsFeb 08, 2025

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.

UNCgolfFeb 08, 2025

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.

DisneyCaneFeb 08, 2025

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 RealestFeb 08, 2025

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)

PiebaldFeb 08, 2025

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 RealestFeb 07, 2025

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

JackCHFeb 07, 2025

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

HauntedPirateFeb 07, 2025

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 HFeb 07, 2025

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

TheMaxReboFeb 07, 2025

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