The Galactic Starcruiser, Disney's expensive Star Wars-themed hotel, will be converted into office space for Walt Disney Imagineering. This ends hopes for its revival as a new attraction. The Imagineering team will focus on expansions for Florida's Walt Disney World, including a Latin American section for Animal Kingdom and a Monsters Inc. area in Hollywood Studios.
Disney ’s extraordinarily expensive Star Wars hotel isn’t coming back. The building that housed the Galactic Starcruiser is being converted into office space , scuppering hopes that it could be reborn or repurposed into a new interactive attraction. The Wrap reports that the hotel will be converted into an office for Walt Disney Imagineering, the creative arm of the company responsible for its theme parks, retail, and cruise ships.
Galactic Starcruiser was an immersive hotel experience set in the Star Wars universe, where the minimum stay cost $4,800 for two people over two nights. It opened in March 2022 but ran for just a year and a half, shutting in September 2023. It returned to headlines in May 2024 when YouTuber and theme park superfan Jenny Nicholson’s four-hour video on its “spectacular failure” went viral, amassing 11 million views.
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