Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge is at the cutting edge (heh) of reality imitating fiction, with Disney spending massive sums of money on converting a little pocket of its park to looking, feeling, tasting, and smelling like it’s really a part of the Star Wars universe, only with many more opportunities to give Disney your money.
But this next endeavor, as reported by TheForce.net, is taking things to a whole ‘nother level. What is Disney doing? They are currently testing two X-Wing drones the size of cars to, (emphasis mine), “fly over the land during a one-time media event scheduled for December.” It’s worth noting that these are one-time only experiments, for a media event, and these specific devices will probably not be seen by the public.
But just. Let me reiterate. These are flying, car-sized drones shaped like X-Wings. Which basically just means they’re real-life X-Wings. That fly. In the sky. Yeah, sure, that’s not space, but it’s something.
Oh, here’s a picture of the in-progress drones, courtesy of BlogMickey.com:
It’s making me excited for the second version of Galaxy’s Edge, which will probably just involve getting shot by lasers in space.
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I don't know if any comments yesterday mentioned it and my current interwebs is too bad to check, so I’ll say today happy belated birthday. Thank you for being the weekend editor here; I hope you had some great video games yesterday to celebrate.