Star Wars fans will be able to spend hours upon hours hunting for Easter Eggs hidden throughout the new Galaxy’s Edge themed lands coming to Disneyland and Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
“I think that’s going to be a part of the fun,” Lucasfilm vice president and creative director Doug Chiang said. “There are so many visual Easter eggs. You will have many, many hours trying to discover them all.”
In fact, there are so many Easter Eggs, hidden messages, secret features, historic callbacks and inside jokes woven into Galaxy’s Edge that the creative teams at Walt Disney Imagineering and Lucasfilm that built the Star Wars lands have lost count of them all.
“We’ve put so many Easter eggs in this land,” Imagineering executive creative director Chris Beatty said. “You lose track quickly of all the amazing things.”
Some of the Easter Eggs in Galaxy’s Edge won’t reveal their full backstory until future Star Wars books, comics, animated television shows and films are released.
“The detail is endless,” said Pablo Hidalgo, Lucasfilm senior creative executive for franchise story and content. “You just really lose yourself in it.”
The Easter Eggs will be hidden throughout the Black Spire Outpost village on the Star Wars planet of Batuu, the setting for the new 14-acre themed lands coming to Disneyland and Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
Want to impress your friends with your vast knowledge of the hidden secrets of Galaxy’s Edge? We can help. Let’s take a closer look at 17 of our favorite Galaxy’s Edge Easter Eggs. WARNING . . . SPOILERS AHEAD:
1) The cargo pods In Docking Bay 7 containing groceries and produce collected from throughout the Star Wars galaxy will be emblazoned with the numbers 77, 80 and 83. The numbers reference the years — 1977, 1980 and 1983 — that the original trilogy of “Star Wars” movie were released. You’ll see references to the three dates throughout Galaxy’s Edge.
Visitors will see the the cargo pods being lowered into the quick-service restaurant from a battled-damaged food freighter docked on the roof.
2) A hairy one-eyed space squid will pop up in the murky water of a glass cistern tank feeding a Galaxy’s Edge drinking fountain.
Fans of the original 1977 “Star Wars” movie will remember the squid-like Dianoga creature that nearly drowned Luke Skywalker in the murky water inside the Death Star garbage compactor. The audio-animatronic Dianoga will “live” in the pipes of the drinking fountain and nearby bathroom in the Black Spire Outpost village. The Dianoga will be triggered when thirsty Galaxy’s Edge visitors push the button on the drinking fountain.
“We’ve had a lot of fun as a team having those little, fun Easter egg moments or surprises,” Beatty said. “There’s moments like that just hidden throughout the entire land.”
3) Bartenders in Oga’s Cantina will make interstellar cocktails that appear to be pumped from tanks suspended above the bar that are seemingly filled with marinating alien creatures.
“The bar, when it’s done, is filled with all kinds of containers and different apparatus that have creatures in them that have come to life that are being used as garnishes for drinks,” Beatty said.
4) Keen-eyed observers will spot droid tracks running through the cement walkways of Black Spire Outpost near the Droid Depot shop.
Imagineers took rubbings from the wheels of the 1977-era R2-D2 to create the set of three droid wheels used to create the droid “footprints” in Galaxy’s Edge.
5) The DJ R-3X animatronic figure in Oga’s Cantina employs the original outer shell from the Star Tours RX-24 figure with new electronic functions on the inside.
The former Star Tours droid pilot known as Rex takes on a new job in Galaxy’s Edge as space age disc jockey spinning an alien soundtrack in the Black Spire cantina.
6) Rex’s 3-hour set list includes a B-side from the Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes, the cantina band that played the infectious Benny Goodman-esque “Cantina Band #1” song in the original “Star Wars” film.
“Everyone loves that classic cantina sound that we’ve heard for 40 years,” Imagineering portfolio creative executive Scott Trowbridge said. “We wanted to bring that to this cantina as well, but not that same song that we heard. We assume that Figrin D’an, they’ve probably got other hits. So we’ve got some other music that is in that same style.”
7) The line-up of droids for sale out in front of the Droid Depot shop in Galaxy’s Edge makes a call out to sad EG-series power droid seen in the belly of the Jawa Sandcrawler in the original 1977 “Star Wars” film.
Inside the shop, visitors will be able to build their own droid and browse the collection of astromechs from the “Star Wars” movies.
“This shop will be polluted with droids that are full size,” Beatty said during a tour of the shop. “The whole back wall here is filled with astromechs and BB units. There’s an Imperial droid in here. There’s a medical droid. If you’re a fan of Star Wars droids, there’s a droid from almost every one of the franchise films. It’s going to be just chock full of fun characters that you know and love.”
8) A backdrop in Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run queue will let Star Wars lovers recreate the famous scene where Han Solo and Princess Leia kiss for the first time.
Disneyland cast members will want to keep an sharp eye on the amorous spot where couples will certainly be snapping selfies amid an authentic backdrop of pipes, levers and digital readouts.
9) The shelves, nooks and cages in the Creature Stall in the Black Spire marketplace will be filled to the rafters with animatronic aliens and animated scenes.
A Loth Cat from the Disney animated series “Star Wars Rebels” will be napping on a little bed in the shop, his breathing body suggesting that the animatronic creature is alive.
An animatronic bulbous-eyed Worrt with green eyes, a spiny back and flicking tongue will be eating fireflies in a glass case.
10) Dok-Ondar’s Den of Antiquities will be a treasure trove for Easter Egg hunters. The upper level of the shop will be filled with familiar props from the “Star Wars” movies.
A 12-foot-tall taxidermied Wampa like the one that almost killed Luke Skywalker on the icy Star Wars planet of Hoth lurks in the rafters. The taxidermied head of a deadly four-eyed Nexu creature is mounted to the wall.
“If you love the prequels, the original trilogy, the current trilogy, the standalone films or the “Clone Wars,” we’ve placed things in Dok-Ondar’s shop for all of you,” Beatty said. “There’s so many Easter eggs in this shop I’ve lost count.”
11) Most of the signs outside the Black Spire shops and restaurants will be written in the Star Wars language of Aurebesh.
A sign painted on the Droid Depot shop translates to “Sales Service Trades.”
Visitors can use the Galaxy’s Edge Data Pad translator tool within the Disneyland mobile app to decode the messages.
Translate signs and audio into English.
12) Eagle-eyed scouts will spot a Rathtar creature frozen in carbonite near the exit to the Smugglers Run attraction.
The dangerous tentacled predators with razor-sharp teeth make a cameo appearance in “The Force Awakens.”
13) A land-wide mobile game using the Disneyland smartphone app taps into the doorway control panels being used as a First Order surveillance system throughout the village outpost.
Players align themselves with the Resistance rebels trying to disable the surveillance system or the First Order troops determined to thwart their counter-espionage efforts. The objective: Hack into the door panels and disable or enable the most devices, depending on the faction you support. The winning team earns a digital reward: Galactic credits.
“The team has built some really fun Easter eggs into the game that reference elements and characters that guests might know from the Star Wars classic trilogy as well as things that we’ve seen throughout the Star Wars galaxy,” Imagineering producer Rachel Sherbill said.
14) Secret radio transmissions will be heard throughout Black Spire Outpost. Ride queues will be strewn with shipping containers filled with illicit cargo. Droids throughout the land will be uploaded with starship schematics in their memory banks.
The hacking, scanning and decoding tools found in the Galaxy’s Edge Data Pad mobile game on the Disneyland app will be able to help you unscramble all the encrypted messages.
15) A new gunmetal grey TIE Fighter variant never seen in any “Star Wars” films will guard a First Order gift shop that doubles as a recruitment station in the Black Spire village.
“It’s more of an assault vehicle within the world of the TIEs and the First Order,” Beatty said.
16) Disneyland cast members dressed as Black Spire villagers will speak an in-universe lingo to intergalactic travelers visiting Galaxy’s Edge.
It will help to know a little Batuuese when you land in Black Spire Outpost. “Refreshers” are restrooms, “hydrators” are water fountains, “younglings” are children and “data pads” are smartphones. “Bright suns” or “Rising moons” means good morning or good evening depending on the time of day. You’ll hear lots of cast members calling out “Til the spires,” which means goodbye.
17) Padawan learners strong with the Force will need to utter a secret phrase to enter Savi’s Workshop where they can build their own lightsabers using scavenged parts from fallen Jedi temples.
Savi’s space junkyard serves as a cover for the secret lightsaber-building shop to avoid detection by the villainous First Order, bent on destroying the heroic Jedi Order.
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