{"id":291732,"date":"2026-04-29T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/291732\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:36:08","slug":"disneyland-welcomes-a-new-star-wars-era-to-galaxys-edge-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/291732\/","title":{"rendered":"Disneyland welcomes a new Star Wars era to Galaxy\u2019s Edge \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darth Vader\u2019s search for Luke Skywalker has brought him to Batuu with a squadron of Imperial Stormtroopers now that Walt Disney Imagineering has expanded the Star Wars timeline in Disneyland\u2019s Galaxy\u2019s Edge to include the original trilogy of movies.<\/p>\n

Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia meet-and-greet characters started making appearances on Wednesday, April 29 in Star Wars: Galaxy\u2019s Edge at the Anaheim theme park\u00a0after Imagineering introduced storylines from the \u201cEmpire Strikes Back\u201d and \u201cReturn of the Jedi\u201d eras of the sweeping space opera.<\/p>\n

Iconic John Williams orchestral scores and themes from the first six Star Wars films also started playing Wednesday as background music in Galaxy\u2019s Edge.<\/p>\n

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Disneyland brought back Hyperspace Mountain and released a new line of Aurebesh merchandise and collectible popcorn buckets earlier this week just in time for the annual run of Star Wars Nite after-hours parties.<\/p>\n

The expanded Star Wars timeline in Galaxy\u2019s Edge rolled out ahead of the new mission starring the Mandalorian and Grogu coming to Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run on May 22.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Luke Skywalker meet-and-greet character in Star Wars: Galaxy\u2019s Edge at Disneyland. (Courtesy of Disneyland)<\/p>\n

Imagineering and Lucasfilm have been careful to introduce the original trilogy characters in Galaxy\u2019s Edge in a way that\u2019s authentic to their locations and relationships to each other.<\/p>\n

You won\u2019t see Darth Vader and Kylo Ren appearing side by side in Galaxy\u2019s Edge since the two Star Wars villains were never alive at the same time during the sweeping epic. Darth Vader dies a year before the birth of Kylo Ren in the Star Wars saga.<\/p>\n

\"DarthDarth Vader and a squadron of Imperial Stormtroopers will begin appearing in Disneyland\u2019s Star Wars: Galaxy\u2019s Edge land on April 29. (Courtesy of Disneyland)<\/p>\n

The Kylo Ren meet-and-greet character has left Galaxy\u2019s Edge and gone over to Star Wars Launch Bay in Tomorrowland for photo ops \u2014 replacing Darth Vader.<\/p>\n

Galaxy\u2019s Edge opened in 2019 with a very limited timeline focused on the sequel era of stories and characters set between \u201cThe Last Jedi\u201d and \u201cThe Rise of Skywalker.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Star Wars galactic calendar marks time on either side of the attack on the Death Star, known as the Battle of Yavin. Dates fall before the Battle of Yavin (BBY) or after the universe-saving attack (ABY).<\/p>\n

Up until now, Galaxy\u2019s Edge has been set between 34 and 35 ABY in Black Spire Outpost, the outer rim village on the Star Wars planet of Batuu.<\/p>\n

Imagineering\u2019s expansion of the Star Wars timeline in Disneyland\u2019s Galaxy\u2019s Edge now stretches from 3 ABY during the Empire Strikes Back era to 35 ABY during the Rise of Skywalker era.<\/p>\n

Disney\u2019s creative arm has been very careful not to introduce any new characters or storylines that would upset the galactic timeline in Galaxy\u2019s Edge \u2014 which is considered canon in Star Wars lore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darth Vader\u2019s search for Luke Skywalker has brought him to Batuu with a squadron of Imperial Stormtroopers now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2223,163,165,164,7,2222,1341,611,420],"class_list":["post-291732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-amusement-parks","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-disney-california-adventure","tag-disneyland","tag-orange-county","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}