Galaxy's Edge

[AustinTink]

This will be our first trip back to DLR since 2018 so Galaxy's Edge will be totally new to us. In fact, I just stopped calling it Star Wars Land about 5 minutes ago when I realized it was called Galaxy's Edge. I know there is probably a mountain of info on here about it but I'm hoping to just get some simple questions answered.

1) Are the rides barfy like the Harry Potter ride at Universal? I can't do those immersive VR rides.
2) Is it still difficult to get a reservation? I remember hearing something from my husband about the lines when it first opened.
3) How much time should we allot to visit the area? this is our fist time visiting DLR fully on a reservation based system, so the learning curve is steep. Trying to lay out our master plan for our 2 days in the parks.

Thanks for reading and any info you can offer!

 

[katyringo]

Smugglers run might make you a little motion sickness, but no it's nothing like the HP rides. We get motion sickness at Universl but never at Disney.

Rise of the resistance.. no.. it's nothing like that and you HAVE to ride it. It's so unique and amazing.

The land itself doesn't require any reservations. You can go in and out. Both the rides have standby. The waits can get long. Smugglers is available on genie + for a fastpass. A fastpass for rise is only available through an individual lightning lane. It's been $20 per person for the rise fastpass.

Ogas cantina is unique and fun for a first visit. Reservations reccomended. It's drinks- like a bar.

You can also make a reservation to build a droid (droid depot) or a lightsaber (Savy's) Both are $$$$.

There is also the milk stand, ronto roasters, and docking bay 7. All quick service with mobile ordering available. We LOVE getting a ronto wrap. So good! Honestly we really like the food there.

There is also shops and some roaming characters.

We can spend a couple hours there. It all depends on what you decide to do while there! I recommend seeing it at night too!

 

[DLgal]

No reservations needed. Both rides have standby lines and you can purchase ILL for Rise and use Genie+ for Millennium Falcon.

Its never really crowded anymore. You can take your time exploring.

The MF rise is a little barfy. Its a simulator like Star Tours. It moves a LOT more than ST. If you are motion sensitive, be the "engineer" (sit in the back). The other ride is not barfy. Its mostly a trackless vehicle moving through actual scenes. There are two short simulator portions. Neither should cause an issue.

How long you spend depends on what you want to do there. We never spend any significant amount of time there. It never hooked my Star Wars obsessed husband. He's quite bitter about the heavy "new trilogy" theme. But if you want to se everything there, builds lightsaber and a Droid, and have drinks at Ogas, 3-4 hours? That excludes the actual rides. Besides those paid activities, there is not much to actually do there.

Be aware that the restaurants periodically are NOT open on random days. Staffing issues, apparently. Not sure if this will still be a problem when you visit, but be aware.

 

[AustinTink]

Smugglers run might make you a little motion sickness, but no it's nothing like the HP rides. We get motion sickness at Universl but never at Disney.

Rise of the resistance.. no.. it's nothing like that and you HAVE to ride it. It's so unique and amazing.

The land itself doesn't require any reservations. You can go in and out. Both the rides have standby. The waits can get long. Smugglers is available on genie + for a fastpass. A fastpass for rise is only available through an individual lightning lane. It's been $20 per person for the rise fastpass.

Ogas cantina is unique and fun for a first visit. Reservations reccomended. It's drinks- like a bar.

You can also make a reservation to build a droid (droid depot) or a lightsaber (Savy's) Both are $$$$.

There is also the milk stand, ronto roasters, and docking bay 7. All quick service with mobile ordering available. We LOVE getting a ronto wrap. So good! Honestly we really like the food there.

There is also shops and some roaming characters.

We can spend a couple hours there. It all depends on what you decide to do while there! I recommend seeing it at night too!

This is all very helpful. Thank you!

 

[AustinTink]

No reservations needed. Both rides have standby lines and you can purchase ILL for Rise and use Genie+ for Millennium Falcon.

Its never really crowded anymore. You can take your time exploring.

The MF rise is a little barfy. Its a simulator like Star Tours. It moves a LOT more than ST. If you are motion sensitive, be the "engineer" (sit in the back). The other ride is not barfy. Its mostly a trackless vehicle moving through actual scenes. There are two short simulator portions. Neither should cause an issue.

How long you spend depends on what you want to do there. We never spend any significant amount of time there. It never hooked my Star Wars obsessed husband. He's quite bitter about the heavy "new trilogy" theme. But if you want to se everything there, builds lightsaber and a Droid, and have drinks at Ogas, 3-4 hours? That excludes the actual rides. Besides those paid activities, there is not much to actually do there.

Be aware that the restaurants periodically are NOT open on random days. Staffing issues, apparently. Not sure if this will still be a problem when you visit, but be aware.

Star Tours is a barf trigger for me. If I close my eyes and just feel the motion it's better, but I'm not sure I'm willing to risk being sick all day. The other ride seems much more manageable for me. Kind of sounds like the Men in Black ride at Universal.

We probably won't build anything. We're all too old and cheap for that now.

 

[bwvBound]

We enjoy using the Datapad on Disney Play while visiting Galaxy's Edge.
Link: https://disneyland.disney.go.com/attractions/disneyland/star-wars-galaxys-edge-play-app/

 

[koncra]

This will be our first trip back to DLR since 2018 so Galaxy's Edge will be totally new to us. In fact, I just stopped calling it Star Wars Land about 5 minutes ago when I realized it was called Galaxy's Edge. I know there is probably a mountain of info on here about it but I'm hoping to just get some simple questions answered.

1) Are the rides barfy like the Harry Potter ride at Universal? I can't do those immersive VR rides.
2) Is it still difficult to get a reservation? I remember hearing something from my husband about the lines when it first opened.
3) How much time should we allot to visit the area? this is our fist time visiting DLR fully on a reservation based system, so the learning curve is steep. Trying to lay out our master plan for our 2 days in the parks.

Thanks for reading and any info you can offer!

We've only been to SWGE in Disneyland once, but we've done it in Florida a bunch of times. To answer your questions though,

1) I have always had a hard time on simulator rides like Harry Potter, Flight of Passage, etc but didn't find either Star Wars ride to be as bad... I think because you don't have to wear 3D glasses it helps keep it more calm.

2) As long as you make a park reservation you can enter SWGE no problem, no virtual queue required anymore. I can't speak to the lightning lanes in California as our trip was before they were integrated, but regardless you can always do the standby line.

3) Depends how much time you want to spend admiring the architecture, if you're only there to have a quick look around and ride the 2 rides I think a time allotment of 3-4 hours is plenty.

 

[theluckyrabbit]

Star Tours is a barf trigger for me. If I close my eyes and just feel the motion it's better, but I'm not sure I'm willing to risk being sick all day. The other ride seems much more manageable for me. Kind of sounds like the Men in Black ride at Universal.

We probably won't build anything. We're all too old and cheap for that now.

If you choose to ride MFSR, try sitting in the back (engineer). I don't get motion sickness at all when I'm engineer, but do if I sit closer to the front. So gunner is so-so for me and pilot is a no go.

 

[AustinTink]

If you choose to ride MFSR, try sitting in the back (engineer). I don't get motion sickness at all when I'm engineer, but do if I sit closer to the front. So gunner is so-so for me and pilot is a no go.

I make sure to remember that. Do you have to tell the CM at boarding or something?

 

[AustinTink]

2) As long as you make a park reservation you can enter SWGE no problem, no virtual queue required anymore.

I was worried about that. Good to know!

 

[AustinTink]

We enjoy using the Datapad on Disney Play while visiting Galaxy's Edge.
Link: https://disneyland.disney.go.com/attractions/disneyland/star-wars-galaxys-edge-play-app/

Thanks! I'll check it out.

 

[theluckyrabbit]

I make sure to remember that. Do you have to tell the CM at boarding or something?

When the CM comes by with the role cards, I just say I want to be engineer. That's usually enough -- there's never been any competition from other guests for that role!

 

[chezcurrie]

Wanted to add that I love love love Galaxy’s Edge at night, and there is a nice spot to watch the fireworks behind the millenium falcon that is not as crowded (they tape off the area where you can sit, etc). I would suggest planning to return after dark (maybe for drinks at Ogas or dinner at Docking Bay 7) just to check it out!

 

[Meriweather]

Star Tours is a barf trigger for me. If I close my eyes and just feel the motion it's better, but I'm not sure I'm willing to risk being sick all day. The other ride seems much more manageable for me. Kind of sounds like the Men in Black ride at Universal.

We probably won't build anything. We're all too old and cheap for that now.

I can not ride Star Tours, but MF was fine. If I felt bad I just concentrate on the control board that is to the side of your seat and just push the buttons

 

[DLgal]

I make sure to remember that. Do you have to tell the CM at boarding or something?

They haven't been assigning roles or handing out cards since the reopening. The groups have to just work it out amongst themselves now.

 

[DLgal]

Star Tours is a barf trigger for me. If I close my eyes and just feel the motion it's better, but I'm not sure I'm willing to risk being sick all day. The other ride seems much more manageable for me. Kind of sounds like the Men in Black ride at Universal.

We probably won't build anything. We're all too old and cheap for that now.

It's nothing like Men In Black, really. The motion is most similar to the teacups when they are NOT being spun. So, your car will move both forwards and backwards as well as side to side with some rotation, but it's all VERY smooth and again, you are moving through a very large show building and the movement is done as a tool to keep you looking where they want your attention to be. I cannot imagine it will make you sick in any way.

Without spoiling, there is a VERY brief "flight simulator" type section at both the very beginning of the experience as well as the very end. In the first, you will be standing. You can simply look down and you will feel like you are on a monorail or something. At the end, you will enter into what looks like an elevator. Again, you will miss what's happening on the screen, but if you look down, you'll feel nothing more than a small drop and some very minor movements.

Definitely ride it. It's a must do.

 

[AustinTink]

It's nothing like Men In Black, really. The motion is most similar to the teacups when they are NOT being spun. So, your car will move both forwards and backwards as well as side to side with some rotation, but it's all VERY smooth and again, you are moving through a very large show building and the movement is done as a tool to keep you looking where they want your attention to be. I cannot imagine it will make you sick in any way.

Without spoiling, there is a VERY brief "flight simulator" type section at both the very beginning of the experience as well as the very end. In the first, you will be standing. You can simply look down and you will feel like you are on a monorail or something. At the end, you will enter into what looks like an elevator. Again, you will miss what's happening on the screen, but if you look down, you'll feel nothing more than a small drop and some very minor movements.

Definitely ride it. It's a must do.

I've done the Gringotts ride, Transformers, and Spiderman at Universal. I did ok with those. Is it similar in motion to those?

 

[DLgal]

I've done the Gringotts ride, Transformers, and Spiderman at Universal. I did ok with those. Is it similar in motion to those?

I wouldn't say similar, but I would say all of those are more intense, so if you could handle those, you will be fine. This ride is NOT screen heavy like those are. There are more fully fleshed out sets in actual three dimension.

 

[SOCALMouseMommy]

Star Tours is a barf trigger for me. If I close my eyes and just feel the motion it's better, but I'm not sure I'm willing to risk being sick all day. The other ride seems much more manageable for me. Kind of sounds like the Men in Black ride at Universal.

We probably won't build anything. We're all too old and cheap for that now.

If you decide you don’t want to ride MFSR, I suggest waiting in line with your party so you can see the inside of Smugglers Run (inside the millennium Falcon!) then taking the chicken exit. The inside of MFSR is so cool, especially if you are a Star Wars fan.

 

[Pluto468]

Jumping on to ask a Rise question. Would that be ok to ride with a bad back? I can't do roller coasters or Indy or anything jerky. I'm ok with Astro Orbiters or Pirates.