Kristin Baver over at StarWars.com takes a look at an element of Galaxy’s Edge that required every it as much work as the physical construction of the park, the story – they myth – behind Batuu, the Black Spire Outpost and Galaxy’s Edge itself.
The first thing designers set out to do was create a new outpost on a never-before-seen planet. “We all know Luke’s story and we know that we’re not in it, so we wanted to create a set of stories that allow you to become a character in it, not just a passive spectator,” says Scott Trowbridge, portfolio creative executive from Walt Disney Imagineering.
That meant turning to the real world for an array of inspirations. “George Lucas did it best when he basically took Samurai films and World War II pictures and Westerns and boiled it all together to make Star Wars,” says Pablo Hidalgo, senior creative executive, franchise story and content, for Lucasfilm. “And in much the same way, when we’re looking at a place like Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, it’s not a single place of inspiration. The folks who designed it traveled the world and looked at places like marketplaces in Marrakesh, and other far-flung lands. But a lot of it is a little bit more homegrown. We talked about Westerns a lot, the idea of a frontier town somewhere in the Old West where interesting characters convene and different things can happen.”
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He currently contributes to Star Wars Insider, ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com and Starburst Magazine, having previously written for StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia and Model and Collectors Mart.
He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since it began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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Kristin Baver over at StarWars.com takes a look at an element of Galaxy’s Edge that required every it as much work as the physical construction of the park, the story – they myth – behind Batuu, the Black Spire Outpost and Galaxy’s Edge itself.
The first thing designers set out to do was create a new outpost on a never-before-seen planet. “We all know Luke’s story and we know that we’re not in it, so we wanted to create a set of stories that allow you to become a character in it, not just a passive spectator,” says Scott Trowbridge, portfolio creative executive from Walt Disney Imagineering.
That meant turning to the real world for an array of inspirations. “George Lucas did it best when he basically took Samurai films and World War II pictures and Westerns and boiled it all together to make Star Wars,” says Pablo Hidalgo, senior creative executive, franchise story and content, for Lucasfilm. “And in much the same way, when we’re looking at a place like Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, it’s not a single place of inspiration. The folks who designed it traveled the world and looked at places like marketplaces in Marrakesh, and other far-flung lands. But a lot of it is a little bit more homegrown. We talked about Westerns a lot, the idea of a frontier town somewhere in the Old West where interesting characters convene and different things can happen.”
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He currently contributes to Star Wars Insider, ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com and Starburst Magazine, having previously written for StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia and Model and Collectors Mart.
He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since it began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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