UPDATE: The official Disney Parks Blog as well as StarWars.com have since been updated with this news.
This morning, guests on Star Tours – The Adventures Continue boarded Starspeeders at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disneyland park to discover a thrilling new journey to the farthest reaches of space and found themselves landing unexpectedly on a planet in the outer rim of the Star Wars galaxy – a planet known to C-3PO, and now to us, as Batuu.
This remote outpost on the galaxy’s edge was once a busy crossroads along the old sub-lightspeed trade routes, but its prominence was bypassed by the rise of hyperspace travel. Now home to those who prefer to stay out of the mainstream, it has become a thriving port for smugglers, rogue traders and adventurers traveling between the frontier and uncharted space. It’s also a convenient safe haven for those intent on avoiding the expanding reach of the First Order. While Batuu may be new to us, it is clearly already familiar to many characters from the Star Wars saga as a stepping off point for epic adventures.
As the Creative Executive on these projects working alongside so many talented Imagineers and Lucasfilm partners, I look forward to sharing more updates from Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge as we further explore the stories and adventures you’ll be invited to discover when our new lands open in 2019.
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Earlier this week the official Disney Parks Blog shared a sneak peek of the Star Tours Starspeeder flying through the sky above the planet Crait from The Last Jedi. At the end of their article, they teased that another Star Tours destination would be revealed this week as well. Via this post on The Kingdom Insider, we now know the name of that new destination – Batuu. The ride concludes with fans landing on this new planet, which also happens to be the name of the planet from 2019’s Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge theme park additions.
Disney’s classic Star Tours attraction got a slight overhaul this week, including the previously announced planet of Crait. However, riders were surprised by a brand new ending — a landing on the planet of Batuu, which is the name of the planet from Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.
