Lucasfilm To Open Star Wars Theme Park |
| SAN FRANCISCO Ca (AP) A new addition to George Lucas's ever-expanding commercial empire was announced yesterday. Lucasfilm Ltd. revealed plans to construct a mammoth Star Wars theme park with luxury hotel, amusement rides and a full scale, live action golf course. The park will be much larger than any other amusement park, encompassing several square miles. Numerous locations for the theme park are being considered with a site near San Mateo, CA as the leading candidate. The Skywalker Hotel will offer suites based on a Tatooine underground desert habitat, a Kashyyk tree house, a Naboo royal palace, a Dagobah swamp cabana, a Coruscant highspire penthouse and an Utapau cliffside dwelling. The hotel will also feature several other amenities like the four-star Hutt Palace restaurant specializing in exotic alien cuisine featured in the films. The Ewok Cannibal Firepit Barbecue is intended for children. The hotel will also have two adult bistros, D'an's Cantina and the Deathstick Nightclub. The amusement rides include the Millenium Falcon Lightspeed Destroyer, the Rebel X-wing Roller Coaster, Speeder Bike Pursuit, the Boonta Eve Podrace, the Coruscant SkyDrive, the Grievous Deathwheel and the Mustafar Lavalanche. Many games and shows will be provided for the entertainment of children like Whack-a-Space-Slug, the Pfang & Talyn Petting Zoo, Kashyyk Wroshr Tree Tower Swing, the Gungan Sea- Quarium Swimming Pool with live gooberfish, Watto's Astro- Jetsam Emporium and Betting Parlor and Max Rebo's All-Star Alien Floorshow featuring lipsist Sy Snootles and dance artiste Oola. More interactive activities like the Jawa Potshot Shoot Out, Mos Eisley Backstabber Bazaar, Droideka Dreadnaughts, the Death Star Obstacle Course and the Geonosis Coliseum Execution Playground are intended for participation by the entire family. The golf course will contain holes derived from famous settings in the films. The front nine will consist of the Tatooine Dune |
Sea with live banthas and the infamous Sarlacc pit beast; a Coruscant street warren with mercenary snipers; Dagobah swamphole with quicksand traps; a Kamino arcology driving range defended by Jango Fett; Jabba's dungeon with Gamorran guards and Animatronic Rancor; a Tusken Raider encampment with rampaging Anakin Skywalker; a Naboo waterfall hazard ending with a Trade Federation droid onslaught; the Coruscant power plant stalked by Darth Maul; and the Asteroid Cavern with mynocks and giant tooth- encrusted jaws. The back nine will include the Endor Forest with meddling Ewoks, rolling logs and a trio of AT-ST walkers; the Beggar's Canyon labyrinth with rocket podracers; the Cloud City carbonite freezer with a lightsaber wielding Darth Vader; Mos Espa sandstorm hellhole with patrolling stormtroopers; Geonosis droid factory with robotic machinery and hazardous molten steel; Hoth glacial abyss with hungry wampa and AT- AT walkers; Geonosis Execution Arena tee and battlefield fairway; the Death Star spacedock featuring a claustrophobic trashmasher tee, automated defensive lasers and awe inspiring planetbuster; and the final hole will feature a full scale Mustafar volcanic eruption with Emperor Palpatine wired for 10,000 volts of static electricity. It is estimated that the park will employ 6,500 workers and will cost in the range of 5.7 billion dollars. Construction is slated to begin soon and the park is expected to open by Memorial Day 2013. Its premiere will no doubt be attended by numerous Star Wars celebrities and a kilometer-long army of Star Wars fans. It is anticipated that the demand for entry into the park will be so intense that reservations will be necessary. The delay for tickets could be several years. "Weesa hopin' to host a big big Jedi Masters Tournament," said Lucasfilm spokesthing Jar Jar Binks. "Da prize will be lotsa Republic credits and weesa inbite all da goffers to come. Meesa bettin on Ani Skywalker but wedder anyone surbibe, meesa doan tink zo." |