Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser Inside Story To Be Explored 2 Years After Its Closure In Promising New Documentary
Operating for just over a year and a half, little is actually known about the permanently closed Star Warsimmersive experience, Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, located at the Walt Disney World Resort - but this new documentary promises an in-depth and heartfelt look at everything it used to be, two years after its closure. While the Galactic Starcruiser built a reputation based mainly upon its pricing, this unique experience was much more than just an expensive Star Wars-themed hotel. It closed permanently in September 2023 and will reportedly become offices for Imagineering, but there are still ways to experience it.
The upcoming documentary Halcyon Daze: The Final Voyages of Disney's Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, directed by Carrie Coaplen - a four-time visitor of the Galactic Starcruiser - will take viewers inside the resort and its immersive experience, highlighting the community it created in its wake. "This film is about more than a 'themed hotel'," Coaplen says of her upcoming film. "It’s about the bonds that formed among those who stepped aboard and lived through this immersive experience." Its 4-minute-long trailer proves this, focusing on passengers and crew alike. "The Starcruiser may be gone, but its legacy is growing."
What This Galactic Starcruiser Documentary Means For Star Wars
It's A New Way To Experience The Now Defunct Resort
This documentary is a unique opportunity for anyone who wanted to experience the Galactic Starcruiser prior to its closure to step inside and see what it was truly like. It was a difficult thing to digest from the outside; the term "Star Wars hotel" floating around made it hard to understand that it was anything but that. Coaplen's documentary will provide insight as to what it was like from a passenger perspective, and how the experience created a legacy beyond the bounds of its doors - as is typical for any Star Wars property. It will memorialize this Star Wars project.
This Is The Perfect Tribute To The Halcyon's Legacy
As someone who was a part of the Galactic Starcruiser experience, having worked as a Passenger Services crew member for eight months' time, this documentary couldn't be a more perfect tribute to what the Halcyon really was. As I stated before, it was difficult to understand what the Starcruiser was from the outside, which made it even more heartbreaking for me when I realized that so many people would never get to see it and experience it for themselves - even before its closure. I know that before my tenure there as a crew member, I was in the same boat.
The Halcyon Daze documentary, by design, will thus be paying the ultimate tribute by helping those who weren't there to experience it in some way, while also memorializing the physical experience and the community that was created because of it. It was always so much more than just another Disney resort, as it embodied so much of what Star Wars is about at its core. I will always mourn what Star Wars fans will never get to see at the defunct Starcruiser, but projects like these are so promising in keeping it alive somehow.
Source: Carrie Coaplen
- Created by
- George Lucas
- First Film
- Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
- Cast
- Mark Hamill, James Earl Jones, David Prowse, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Ian McDiarmid, Ewan McGregor, Rosario Dawson, Lars Mikkelsen, Rupert Friend, Moses Ingram, Frank Oz, Pedro Pascal
- TV Show(s)
- The Mandalorian, Andor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka, The Acolyte, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Lando, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Star Wars: Resistance, Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures, Star Wars: Visions
- Movie(s)
- Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi, Star Wars: Episode IX- The Rise of Skywalker, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi, Star Wars: New Jedi Order
- Character(s)
- Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Rey Skywalker, Emperor Palpatine / Darth Sidious, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano, Grand Admiral Thrawn, Grand Inquisitor, Reva (The Third Sister), The Fifth Brother, The Seventh Sister, The Eighth Brother, Yoda, Din Djarin, Grogu, Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, Leia Organa, Ben Solo/Kylo Ren
