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Hello and welcome to Sky Talkers. I'm your host Charlotte.

Hey, everyone. I'm your other host, Caitlin. And welcome to this week's episode where we're doing something a little bit different.

We're coming to you with some breaking news about Disneyland, Star Wars, Galaxy's Edge, Disneyland. Yeah, we just came off of a press

conference from the Disney Parks, and I'm just going to go through who was on it. So it was

Asa Kalama, who is the VP of Executive of Creative and Interactive Experiences at Walt Disney Imagineering.

Michael Surnah, the executive creative director of Disney Live Entertainment,

and Matt Martin, friend of the pod, senior creative executive Lucasfilm content, franchise,

and strategy. And what was announced there, we didn't know what was going to be announced,

but here's what was announced. They are shifting the timeline in Galaxy's Edge in Batu,

in Disneyland and Disneyland only. And what this means

is a lot of significant changes, I would say, and a lot of things were announced and we're

going to deliver you the news and talk through it. Yeah, I think we should probably start with

kind of the overall thesis statement that Disney sent us about

these changes. They said, quote, new storylines will be brought to life on Batu spanning multiple

eras of the planet's rich history. These updates will enable you to experience the galactic

civil war, a new republic, as well as the age of the resistance and first order. Now, if you are not as familiar

with the Disney parks or like with Batu and Galaxy's Edge, a little, I guess, background on it,

Batu is set up to be like, it was set up to be its own planet storyline inside of Disney World

and Disneyland. And the thought process when Batu was initially developed was that you're like stepping

into the Star Wars world, right?

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