Salut à tous,
On vous en parlait déjà en juin dernier mais c'est désormais officiel, des extentions arrivent à Disneyland Paris et Star Wars en fait partie ! Après sa rencontre à l'Élysée avec Emmanuel Macron, Bob Iger, le PDG de Disney, a en effet annoncé un plan d'investissement à hauteur de 2 milliard d'euros soit le projet le plus ambitieux depuis l'ouverture du parc en 1992.
Trois extensions sont ainsi prévues pour le parc Walt Disney Studios : La reine des neiges, Marvel et bien évidémment Star Wars ! Le parc va être aggrandi de 12 hectares et ce de façon successive, une zone à la fois ?
Un nouveau lac sera également construit au milieu afin de relier ces trois nouvelles extensions au parc actuel et il servira de lieu de spectacle comme c'est déjà le cas à Disney World. Cette annonce sonne par contre la fin de l'attraction Studio Tram tour et la transformation de Backlot en Marvel Land. Cette dernière zone sera probablement la première à ouvrir vu que les annonces ont déjà commencée en ce qui concerne la transformation de l'attraction Aerosmith en attraction Iron Man. De même l'hôtel New York va être rénové sur base d'un thème super-héros.
Sur le concept art, on voit bien qu'il s'agit bien de Galaxy's Edge, les extentions qui sont actuellement en cours de construction à Disneyland en Californie et à Disneyworld en Floride. Paris sera donc le troisième parc à accueillir cette zone. Pour plus d'informations sur ce land, je vous invite à consulter les récaps que j'avais faites ici et ici.
Le début des travaux est prévu pour 2021. Il ne faut donc pas tabler sur une ouverture avant 2022-2023 probablement.
Que pensez-vous de cette annonce ? On en parle sur le forum !
À bientôt dans cette galaxie comme dans l'autre...
VIDEO: Flyover the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Construction Site
While the highly anticipated Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge lands won’t debut to Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort guests until 2019, eager fans can take a voyage over the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge construction site – right now!
At Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, guests will be transported to the planet of Batuu, a remote outpost on the galaxy’s edge that was once a busy crossroads along the old sub-lightspeed trade routes. Here, guests will find themselves in the middle of the action at two attractions that take detail and immersion to the next level: one that lets guests take the controls of Millennium Falcon on a customized secret mission, and an epic Star Wars adventure that puts guests in the middle of a climactic battle between the First Order and the Resistance.
As you can see in this video, which Bob Iger shared this morning during the 2018 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge is shaping up to be one of the most detailed and immersive lands ever created in Disney Parks history. Take a look at the video above for construction flyover footage that shows the expansive scale of this thrilling addition
Walt Disney Imagineering, NVIDIA Develop New Tech to Enable Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Millennium Falcon Attraction for Disney Parks
NVIDIA Quadro and Epic Games Unreal Engine multi-GPU customizations benefit all Unreal users.
When Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge opens next year at Disneyland Resort and the Walt Disney World Resort, park guests will visit the planet of Batuu, a remote outpost that was once a busy crossroads along the old sub-lightspeed trade routes. But you don’t have to wait another year to get a glimpse of it.
An in-progress animated sequence from the Millennium Falcon attraction was unveiled today. Produced by ILMxLAB and running in real time, it gives fans the first ever glimpse of the incredible detail and immersion the attraction will offer.
Walt Disney Imagineering teamed with NVIDIA and Epic Games to develop new technology to drive its attraction. When it launches, riders will enter a cockpit powered with a single BOXX chassis packed with eight high-end NVIDIA Quadro P6000 GPUs, connected via Quadro SLI.
Quadro Sync synchronizes five projectors for the creation of dazzling ultra-high resolution, perfectly timed displays to fully immerse the riders in the word of planet Batuu.
Working with NVIDIA and Epic Games, the Imagineering team created a custom multi-GPU implementation for Unreal Engine. This new code was returned to the Epic Games team and will help influence how multi-GPUs function for their engine.
“We worked with NVIDIA engineers to use Quadro-specific features like Mosaic and cross-GPU reads to develop a renderer that had performance characteristics we needed,” says Bei Yang, technology studio executive at Disney Imagineering. “Using the eight connected GPUs allowed us to achieve performance unlike anything before.”
Yang and Principal Software Developer Eric Smolikowski dove into more details during their GTC talk, “Walt Disney Imagineering Technology Preview: Real-time Rendering of a Galaxy Far, Far Away,” and discussed how Disney Imagineering took advantage of the latest NVIDIA technology and the technical modifications they made for the Unreal Engine, which allows eight GPUs to render at unprecedented quality and speed.
Black Spire Outpost Revealed to be the Name of the Village in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge
For those of you who attended one of tonight’s panel discussions at Star Wars: Galactic Nights at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, you were among the first to hear some exciting news about Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. Our story editor, Margaret Kerrison, shared for the first time that the name of the village is called Black Spire Outpost. She also shared some of the history behind the name and how this village is closely associated with the geological formations that surround it.
The largest settlement on the planet Batuu, Black Spire Outpost is an infamous stop for traders, adventurers, and smugglers traveling around the Outer Rim and Wild Space. Off the beaten path, this outpost has become a haven for the galaxy’s most colorful — and notorious — characters. Widely known for the petrified remains of its once towering ancient trees, the spires now stand guard across the river valleys and plains and have long captured the imagination of travelers to this planet. To the first settlers, these petrified spires became more than just landmarks; they became the heart of the outpost itself.