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Nick Tierce

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Writer. Designer. Rabbithole cartographer. Immersive & interactive adventures. (Past: Niantic, Google, Aconite)

California, USA
Joined December 2008
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11 months
The @HollowMedium team brought home the gold for "Most Innovative Audio Experience" at the 2023 @SignalAwards ! To celebrate, here's a look back at the project, which is available now wherever you listen to podcasts.
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2 years
An injustice has been righted. The full-length version of THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL, with "When Love is Gone" reinstated, is coming to Disney+ on December 11th! (The negative is still lost, but they managed to find a second-generation interpositive to scan in 4K.)
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3 years
Bobbie Wygant having a blast with The Phantom Menace:
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7 months
Batuu's appearance in the latest batch of Young Jedi Adventures episodes is extremely faithful to the layout of Galaxy's Edge at the parks. Offers us a glimpse into the pristine, pre-Oga Black Spire Outpost of 200 years past, when the Halcyon would have first made port!
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4 months
Everyone seeing The Phantom Menace rerelease in theaters this week, don't forget that George said he loves you.
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5 years
To honor the 20th anniversary of TOY STORY 2, I decided to attend the #OogieBoogieBash as my personal id -- Al "Toy Barn" McWhiggen. (Happy to play accessory to my wife @linneabnd 's brilliant Stinky Pete the Prospector.) Here's us stealing Woody:
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30 days
Filled my Starspeeder cabin with only the finest passengers! (And, yes, I let Bard drive.)
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7 months
Randomly found a bunch of Toon Lagoon fabric (presumably from Universal Orlando cast uniforms?) in the LA fabric district:
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7 months
A true hero has uploaded 15+ hours of Starcruiser cabin viewport footage (port side) to YouTube. Not only could you see the finale fireworks from there, but also Rey circling the Halcyon in the Millennium Falcon as she departs with her new droid friend:
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3 years
They finally updated Mission Breakout to acknowledge Avengers Campus!
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3 years
It's always been there. #AvengersCampus
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2 years
Saw RRR tonight with a packed, raucous crowd, and my world will never be the same. Skip school. Quit your job. Leave your family. Do whatever it takes to see this movie in a theater.
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5 years
Putting the finishing touches on my kitbashed datapad phone case, to join my Batuu crew in thematically framing our #PlayDisneyParks app experience at #GalaxysEdge next week! I couldn't resist whipping up a @pablohidalgo -style "visual dictionary" entry for it:
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2 years
This is one of the most jaw-dropping live characters I've ever seen in a theme park. (Give him a show!)
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1 year
In 1999, George Lucas released "The Complete Adventures of Indiana Jones", a set of VHS tapes which numbered the theatrical trilogy as chapters 23, 24, & 25 following the re-edited Young Indy features. Out of respect, I will refer to #DialOfDestiny as "Chapter 27":
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1 year
A Galaxy's Edge construction document just sold at auction, with blueprints of the unbuilt restaurant, explorer's & tailor shop. I viewed the pages privately last week. Everything unbuilt was shown in the auction preview, the rest was just signage specs.
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6 years
This young *Commander* Holdo speculated that Amilyn was assigned to Rogue Squadron -- her costume inspired by the hit '90s comic series. I felt @rianjohnson needed to bask in this glorious amalgamation of cosplay and fan fiction. #HoldoManeuver #SDCC
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3 years
Great theme park animaltronic or greatest theme park animaltronic?
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4 years
@Brandon_Bird Doesn't get more irreconcilable than this:
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3 years
The greatest “I’m dead and I know it moment” in cinema history?
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The greatest “I’m dead and I know it moment” in cinema history?
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3 years
Favreau is trying to kill me, personally.
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He is @BobaFett . The legend returns in #TheBookOfBobaFett , an Original Series streaming December 29 on @DisneyPlus .
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4 years
Look, I'm a fan, but Favreau has gone too far this time with the Holiday Special references in #TheMandalorian :
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2 years
Enjoying my complimentary #DisneyPlusDay Ronto Wrap holder this morning.
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2 years
BATUU HATS
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1 year
For years, Queen Amidala at Star Wars Weekends in Orlando would assume a curious hand pose. Nobody knew why, and it fell into legend. Tonight, she made her Disneyland debut, hands politely folded, and I could not resist an homage.... #StarWarsNite
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2 years
Dok-Ondar's Den of Antiquities in Galaxy's Edge now offers a metal replica of Luke's star compass from The Last Jedi and Battlefront 2! (Halcyon hyperspace compass when?!)
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1 year
Galactic Starcruiser was the most ambitious & formally unprecedented project Disney ever created. Its existence was a miracle. My heart goes out to all responsible for its ingenious structure & heartfelt story. You elevated Star Wars to the level of ritually participatory myth.
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Today I received a mysterious package which contained what appears to be bootleg vinyls of the DJ-R3X Playlist albums....
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3 years
2019: I wonder if that's a Life Day robe? 2021: There's been zero ancillary media for The Mandalorian, so I've decided that's a Life Day robe. Small addition to my robe for our belated Life Day party this year. (The show used a knee brace!)
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4 months
Rest in peace, to the greatest who ever did it. ♥️
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Variety
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Richard M. Sherman, 'Mary Poppins' and 'It's a Small World' Songwriter, Dies at 95
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5 years
Look at that beautiful beastie crawl. Can you imagine riding on the back of a Bantha through #GalaxysEdge ? The cancelled third ride had echoes of the People Mover and Mine Train Through Nature's Wonderland.
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2 years
reopen Launch Bay with a Gorian Shard meet-and-greet you cowards
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3 years
I would die for Clink. #BadBatch
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2 years
Alright #DatapadBuilders , with the west coast launch of Batuu Bounty Hunters, we've entered a new age of customization! To mark the occasion, I greeblied an insert for my Galaxy's Edge compass to hold the Magic Band puck and a backup battery for marathon hunting....
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1 year
Duel of the Fates, live at the Hollywood Bowl with a full choir!
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2 years
The Star Wars Holiday Special debuted 44 years ago today. To celebrate, a prop discovery that has eluded fans for decades.... Dear friend & keyboard maven @RyanNorbauer has identified Dromboid's Amorphian Mini-Transmitter! It was a modified "MyKit System 7" electronics kit:
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1 year
A big win for theme park interactivity: Knott's just announced an interactive lantern for Scary Farm 2023, with over 100 touchpoints & interactive installations throughout the event. (This was teased in the Grimoire queue video last year, and I'm so glad it's really happening!)
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5 years
Smuggler's Run at #GalaxysEdge achieves something I've been waiting for my entire life. Not just a ride I'll remember....a ride that remembers me. Thanks to the #PlayDisneyParks Datapad app, Hondo will reference how you (and your team!) performed on your last run. Pure magic:
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3 years
May your storytelling have the longevity to allow the same musician to write two different leitmotifs for the same character 45 years apart.
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4 months
Bard has got THE MOVES. #BardWatch
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4 years
With the availability of Achk Med-Beq's @AhmedBest likeness, I couldn't resist kitbashing a Kelleran Beq action figure from #JediTempleChallenge ! You can print your own cardback here:
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6 years
WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR is just as life-affirming as I'd hoped, and doesn't pull any punches. I've never seen an audience burst into applause in the middle of a documentary before. 143
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2 years
I really can't believe it happened, but I've acquired one of my grails at a bargain price: the limited edition box set of "Dressing a Galaxy" by Trisha Biggar — complete with original fabric swatches! Every once in a while.... you can still find a miracle.
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5 years
While mine is still on the workbench, here's a peek at the fruit of my fellow traveler's labor. I think they did an amazing job, each reflecting their own unique character. I can't wait to hit the streets of Black Spire with them next week for a new adventure. 'Til the spire!
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3 years
Behind a tantalizingly locked door in #GalaxysEdge lies the immersive Force ghost of Walt Disney Imagineering R&D's 2014 "Legends of Frontierland" experiment. Let's take a look inside.... Legends of an Abandoned Explorer Shop:
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2 years
Unequivocally my dumbest joke. For the last few years, I've recommended smuggling Taco Bell mild sauce packets into Galaxy's Edge to enhance the breakfast Ronto Wrap. Now, I've made a sticker to help this experience be more in-universe. Get yours here:
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2 years
Keep your secrets of the Force, there's only one Batuu life hack you absolutely must know....
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3 years
"My movies don't have eye candy. They have eye protein." — @RealGDT #NightmareAlley hit me where I live. Lingered in the days since. Not often I walk out of a 140 minute movie begging for more, but I really hope that excised hour sees a release in some form.
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1 year
Me: I need to go to bed and stop thinking about Indy. My brain:
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3 years
Watching #Dune on a pumpkin. Happy Halloween, cinephiles!
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5 years
To enable your interactive "reputation" across #GalaxysEdge , certain shop checkout terminals have a dedicated Bluetooth profile reader and screen to display your rank and achievements from the #PlayDisneyParks Datapad app.
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3 years
Never know what you'll find in the fabulous shops of Magnolia Blvd in Burbank. Today I picked up a piece of concept art that I believe to be for the (never installed) sci-fi show replacement for the Carousel of Progress building. Anyone know more about that project to confirm?
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3 years
After an unexpectedly challenging search, I have acquired an angled bible stand in order to properly display and read @kershed 's prodigious Archives, along with other similarly gargantuan reference books.
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1 year
@maggieofthetown The idea of fandom as promotion and cosplay as scabbing (?!) has made me want to crawl under a rock and stay there.
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3 years
Major props to @mlhope for identifying the exact feather-pattern tenugui cloth by Kamawanu used in #TheBookOfBobaFett to wrap baby's gift! I will use it to protect only my most precious beskar....
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8 months
Martin Short. French stormtroopers. CinéMagique.
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8 months
Some unseen source videos of old attractions!!! Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years Boudin Bakery Tour: Cinemagique: Golden Dreams:
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Nick Tierce
1 year
Goodbye, Starcruiser. I love you.
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3 months
The Dark Universe website has a different fly-through than the publicity version, with static loops at each of the land's locations. I stitched them into an hour loop, added ambient sounds & classic monster music for my wife to play while she writes:
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1 year
Pour one out for the writers of the original film, who are unlikely to be paid nor credited due to feature animation not being covered by the WGA.
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1 year
And here is video of @TheRock announcing the Moana live-action remake:
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5 years
They're playing the entrance tunnel music before the "Music and Sounds of Galaxy's Edge" #D23Expo panel. Nice touch.
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1 year
If you asked me to name a better attraction I could not do it. POSEIDON'S FURY is everything.
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1 year
@kelly_knox I really wish he had clarified that by having a character early in the text verbally introduce the idea that it's an energy field created by all living things.
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1 month
LT droid parts have arrived at Droid Depot West, six months after FCC approvals unintentionally announced their existence — but don't expect their massive treads to fit in the box once assembled!
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11 months
For those who remember the infamous "Red Millennium Falcon Shirt", here's my version celebrating the Starcruiser: (I recommend the Royal Heather or Red Heather color options, for authenticity.)
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5 years
Is this a new RISE OF THE RESISTANCE #GalaxysEdge TV spot?
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2 years
That teaser pushed me over the edge, I finally picked up the Kenobi meme goggles that have been available at #GalaxysEdge since opening. Live your meme.
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2 years
Toydarian Toymaker at Galaxy's Edge has released a new plush of Vi Moradi for Life Day! (cc @DelilahSDawson )
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5 years
Revisiting the Indiana Jones Adventure TV special in light of its 25th anniversary. I had forgotten that it presents the fiction as a literal Disney ride that so faithfully "reconstructed" the Temple of the Forbidden Eye, its curse was imported:
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4 years
"You know how to *take* the reservation, you just don't know how to *hold* the reservation."
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Yakface.com
4 years
Walmart continues to cancel preorders for their exclusive TVC Din Djarin and Child @Hasbro @hasbropulse #hasbro #walmart #vintagecollection #kenner #themandalorian
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2 years
The apostrophe explains everything. It all makes sense now.
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2 years
All merch should have its own lore. (And interact with theme park attractions to customize your experience ... but mostly the lore.) The W.E.B. Tech "Mystic Amplifier" attachment was invented by Doctor Strange's apprentice Zelma Stanton from Strange Academy!
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5 years
We had a kitbash party with enough "greeblies" to outfit our phone cases to look like in-universe datapads! Here's @linneabnd , @DavidMDaut , & @hastin hard at work with a mountain of vintage model kit part trees, just like the ones used by the original Star Wars prop makers:
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3 years
The story presented by Galactic Starcruiser is a compelling, multi-faceted one in which I witnessed deeply felt moments. The system by which I experienced that story was broken for me on my voyage, but I suspect the cracks I fell through will be patched.
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2 years
I made a shirt for the D23 Tron 40th dance party at SDCC next week. (Adapted from a pennant design I still can't believe exists.)
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3 years
Eight of @BobMackie 's never-before-seen original costume design illustrations for the Star Wars Holiday Special are coming up for auction from @JuliensAuctions . I would love to add one to my collection, so if everyone could stay cool, I'd appreciate it.
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4 years
At long last, I have finally unearthed the lost "tone poem" TV spot:
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2 years
The banner on the Cantina Band raft is upside-down and backwards. Bold creative choice. #StarWarsNite
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5 years
With a heavy heart, I attended the final Pixarmonic Orchestra performance tonight. "Clearly I will go sailing no more ... "
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3 years
Life Day celebrations in Black Spire Outpost, as depicted in Star Wars: The Life Day Cookbook. Imagining how great this would be as a seasonal event in #GalaxysEdge ! Illustrated by @jhustak . (Going to buy an extra copy so I can frame this.)
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5 years
Unsurprisingly, the interactive app is the most anticipated element of #GalaxysEdge for me and my Batuu crew, so we decided to go the extra parsec and make sure our phones look the part for opening day ...
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5 years
Building Batuu: Explore Black Spire Outpost with Your #StarWars : Datapad through the Play Disney Parks App: #GalaxysEdge
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3 years
#StarTours opened 35 years ago today. To celebrate, I scanned the original 1987 press kit in my collection for all galactic passengers enjoy. (I particularly love the logo pattern backed stationary!) It can be downloaded here:
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5 years
Watch the intro video and try not to cry over the third #GalaxysEdge ride that got cut. (They just had to drop that shot in there!)
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Michael Honeck
5 years
Let us edutain you!
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1 year
There's a bookend from the original broadcast of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles in which Old Man Indy accidently drops a hamburger into a mailbox, so he tells the postwoman a story about being a spy in the war to get her to open it for him.
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1 year
NEW! Indy Month continues and yhis week we are talking all about George Lucas’ passion project, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles! His dream to educate with Indy may be finally coming true! Plus : quick, non spoiler reviews for Dial of Destiny!
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11 months
Starcruiser "Tone Poem", circa 1999:
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5 years
Adult travelers to Black Spire Outpost are out of luck, but kids 9 & under can pick up "Bina's Guide to the Creatures of Batuu" at the Kowakian cart for a scavenger hunt — collect all of the stamps around #GalaxysEdge to receive a paper "Expert Creature Tracker of Batuu" coin!
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3 years
It's the 19th anniversary of Attack of the Clones, and here's hoping for the 20th next year we can finally see the mythic deleted scene of Padme assembling Threepio's plating....
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4 years
"Baby, you got a stew goin'."
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2 years
I can't believe we're two complete trilogies into the Jurassic saga and not one character has saddled up and ridden on the back of a dinosaur.
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Nick Tierce
5 years
The Ancients have heard our pleas! #GalaxysEdge sporks are now available for sale at Docking Bay 7:
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Nick Tierce
2 years
Spot me at #StarWarsCelebration next week and say "I'm a Star Wars Freak™" to receive your very own limited edition Bobbie Wygant trading card!
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Nick Tierce
3 years
Bobbie Wygant having a blast with The Phantom Menace:
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Finally, I would like to point out that the kids enter Black Spire through the Fantasyland entrance that only exists at Disneyland, the canonical Galaxy's Edge as consistently depicted across expanded media appearances. 😉 #WestCoastBestCoast
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9 years
JURASSIC WORLD, I've got to hand it to you: you're winning at product tie-ins. http://t.co/0ILm6qQENk
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3 years
Mute the hashtag if you must, my themed luggage is officially #GalacticStarcruiser bound! Destination: Halcyon.
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3 years
When I noticed The Book of Boba Fett used Thermodyne camera cases as Star Tours crates, inspiration struck. I found a local set of second-hand, more manageably sized models for use on our Galactic Starcruiser trip!
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