![]() ![]() ![]() In August, Target stores opened Star Wars Trading Post locations within the big box retailers that carry once-exclusive Galaxy’s Edge toys, dolls, droids and lightsabers. Galaxy’s Edge merchandise had already started to seep out of Batuu - likely on a pirated starcruiser piloted by space scoundrels. When did Anaheim become part of the Star Wars galaxy? Now the storytelling bubble has been burst so completely by coronavirus that exclusive Galaxy’s Edge merchandise is being sold at an off-planet shop in Downtown Disney. None of the Galaxy’s Edge merchandise was supposed to show up in Tomorrowland’s Star Trader gift shop or the Emporium on Main Street U.S.A. Walt Disney Imagineering’s immersive storytelling went so far as to prohibit the use of the words “Star Wars” and “Galaxy’s Edge” from any attraction, restaurant or shop in the land. SEE ALSO: Disneyland cancels Candlelight Ceremony as coronavirus threatens Christmas events Provided you could suspend belief enough to forget that the same merchandise was sold at both Batuu West in Disneyland and Batuu East in Disney’s Hollywood Studios. That meant those lightsabers sold at Doc-Ondar’s Den of Antiquities and the plush alien critters available in the Creature Stall could only be found in Galaxy’s Edge. The original concept behind Galaxy’s Edge was that the 14-acre land was in a separate universe from Disneyland with visitors to Black Spire Outpost stepping foot on the Star Wars planet of Batuu - at least according to the backstory developed by Walt Disney Imagineering. ![]() theme parks report no COVID-19 outbreaks since reopeningĭisney once boasted that the merchandise sold in Galaxy’s Edge would be exclusively available in the Star Wars land. ![]()
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