Disney files construction permit for shuttered Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser

Jan 29, 2024 in "Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser"

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Posted: Monday January 29, 2024 9:28am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney has filed a construction permit for the now-closed Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser at Walt Disney World.

The permit is assigned to Sunstate Awning & Graphic Design, a Florida-based company that provides custom fabric and metal awnings.

The permit provides no other information, and the scope of the work is unknown. It remains to be seen if this construction is related to any future guest-facing project at the former Starcruiser or simply part of maintaining the building during its closure.

Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser overview

Disney is remaining tight-lipped on the future of the building; speaking in June 2023, Disney Parks boss Josh D'Amaro said, "No hints yet, but something will happen."

Possible concepts for repurposing the Starcruiser include a much cheaper daytime excursion from Star Wars Galaxy's Edge and converting the facility into a traditional hotel experience. The latter seems more unlikely due to significant changes that would need to be made to the building to operate as a conventional hotel.

Carrying a lofty price tag of around $5200 for the two-day, two-night experience, Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser launched on March 1, 2022. After stronger-than-expected initial sales, Starcruiser bookings quickly stalled, forcing Disney to look to save costs and boost reservations. The final Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser voyage was September 28-30, 2023.

Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser overview

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larryzAug 30, 2024

We should probably change the title to "Mostly Off-Topic Movie Discussion In A Failcruiser Thread."

zombiebbqAug 30, 2024

only 19 more years to go until they use the building again! /s

ScreamfaceAug 30, 2024

The planned ending for TFA was to see how strong Luke has grown in the force from the OT by levitating giant boulders behind him. Until the next writer decided to go another way.

Fido ChuckwagonAug 30, 2024

Can we change the thread title to “Galactic Failcruiser” in honor of this one year anniversary?

easyrowrdwAug 29, 2024

Maybe so. But the latter (minus the sea monster, probably) is what Lucas apparently planned too. We weren't getting the former with either Lucas or Disney, which was what I was trying to say in the beginning.

Mike SAug 29, 2024

Going off looking for answers to help him right his wrongs vs. going off to give up and die. Yeah, I know which I’d be more interested in.

ScreamfaceAug 29, 2024

Luke being a recluse meditating, growing stronger in the force is a much cooler idea than him milking sea monsters titties and abandoning the force.

easyrowrdwAug 28, 2024

You know, that's kind of what I assumed was happening with Rey. I'm not deep into Star Wars but it seemed to me that the Force was kind of willing things to happen. I wonder if they would've gone with that if they hadn't brought JJ back for 9. I agree with your overall point. What you highlighted at the end was definitely disappointing for me. The "right back where we started" retread of TFA was a letdown. It felt so lacking creatively.

asianwayAug 28, 2024

They need to let it cool off for a year

FigmentJediAug 27, 2024

It's all about the context of what broke him. Between all the stuff with "The Whills living inside everyone's Midichlorians are essentially manipulating fate across the galaxy" thing in the microbiotic world, the whole "Darth Maul's hot Twi'lek apprentice Talon literally seduced the Kylo Ren equivalent to the dark side" thing, and the talk of Luke having had more support in setting him his new order before things went wrong, it's not like George's version was going to be as much of a hard "Nothing was accomplished at all in the 30 year gap between trilogies" reset as what Disney ended up going with.

easyrowrdwAug 27, 2024

Those settings look cool, but it doesn't show or say anything about the character. The complaints weren't about his habitat. Yes, Disney executed it. But they were following Lucas's idea for Luke. Maybe it would've been executed better or received differently if Lucas had been in charge? Given how the prequels were executed and received, I doubt it.