Disney files for possible construction on Jedi Training Academy
Thanks to Matt Hochberg of MGMStudios.org for finding some more information regarding the soon-to-be-permanent Jedi Training Academy coming to the Disney-MGM Studios sometime in the near future.
Disney has filed plans with the Orange County Comptroller’s Office to begin construction on a permanent stage for Jedi Training Academy. According to the plans, the stage will be built where the Endor village currently is.
The description of the project offered within the official files is “to design, engineer, construct, and install an outdoor stage reminiscent of the Imperial Bunker on Endor from Star Wars”. Not withstanding the fact that the bunker was in Return of the Jedi and not Star Wars, we can only assume that such a stage must be for the Academy, although in the file I read there is not mention of the Academy.
If this is the case, and construction begins soon, do we then feel more confident in the validity of the rest of the rumored changes going on over at the Disney-MGM Studios that accompanied this one?
Jedi Academy to Replace Endor Village? « Broke Hoedown said,
July 5, 2007 @ 12:39 pm
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Matt said,
July 5, 2007 @ 1:25 pm
I hope the Ewok village can remain because the Ewok singing at night has always been enjoyable for me.
I haven’t heard anything about an update to Star Tours even in this flurry of rumors. I haven’t heard that anyone asked Anthony Daniels about in Weekend 4 of Star Wars Weekends .
biblioadonis aka George said,
July 5, 2007 @ 6:40 pm
Maybe they can do an older person’s Jedi Academy Training.
I can dream…
David said,
July 5, 2007 @ 7:12 pm
Personally George, I’d rather have Tie-fighter flight school myself!
Mike said,
July 6, 2007 @ 12:49 am
I’m with George. I’m pretty sure I can kick Kit Fisto from here to next Tuesday
Brian said,
July 6, 2007 @ 2:58 pm
A small bit of geeky nit-picking here:
All six movies in the series fall under the name “Star Wars,” as in “Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope” and “Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi.” So the construction filing is accurate.
David said,
July 6, 2007 @ 3:21 pm
Well, Brian if you are old enough like me to remember when the film came out the first film was “Star Wars” not “A New Hope”. That name only came later when the vidoes were released. So as a point of nit picking, the Ewoks were not in “Star Wars”.
Also, the whole use of “Episode” was used in the opening text, but only the prequels actually used it in the marketing as a title. Look at the old posters, they said “Return of the Jedi” in large print and then Star Wars in much smaller print. Man, we’re getting pretty geeky here…
biblioadonis aka George said,
July 6, 2007 @ 7:35 pm
Yes we are.
And NO! Not a Tie-Fighter school! Imperial scum! X-Wing, B-Wing or even the awesome A-Wings!
And actually, the label of Episode IV was put on the print release after Empire Strikes Back. They re-released the film (Star Wars: A New Hope) to theaters in 1981 with the Episode IV tag added to the crawl.
I remember watching Empire in the theaters in 1980 and being blown away when we saw it was Episode V.
Sigh…