So is a Disney Star Wars theme park inevitable now, or what?

Short answer: God, I hope so!

lol, I saw your response. Your opin­ion has been offi­cially noted. :D

This was the most sur­pris­ing announce­ment I’d ever heard where I was slap­ping my fore­head three min­utes later say­ing, “Duh…” First off, I think it’s the per­fect move for Star Wars (just get it out of Lucas’ hands already), but it’s also one that sort of feels like it already hap­pened 20 years ago. Imme­di­ately visions of Star Wars/Disney char­ac­ter mashups started danc­ing before my eyes, then I focused and real­ized that I was just look­ing at my Don­ald Duck in Storm Trooper armor toy that I picked up at Dis­ney World a few years ago. Then I was all, wait, can you imag­ine Ker­mit as Luke Sky­wal…, wait. I have that fig­ure too. Hmm.

In all seri­ous­ness though, I agree, I think one of the most amaz­ing things that could come out of this announce­ment is a 5th Orlando Dis­ney Park exclu­sively rel­e­gated to Star Wars nerdery. Sure, it’s neat that they’ve announced Episode 7, and con­sid­er­ing the look and feel of the Fire­fly uni­verse, Joss Whe­don is prob­a­bly a great choice to pos­si­bly helm it, but I think the next “real and log­i­cal” step for fans of the Star Wars uni­verse is to have a place where they can “live it”. Dis­ney already has a suc­cess­ful yearly set of Star Wars week­ends at the Hol­ly­wood Stu­dios. I think the demand for an entire theme park is war­ranted for sure. I can imag­ine entire “lands” being devoted to Tatooine (with a Can­tina restau­rant, Jabba’s Palace dark ride ala the Haunted Man­sion that takes you through musi­cal num­bers and a Ran­cor pit!), Endor (Speeder Bike roller coaster any­one? Swiss Fam­ily style Ewok Vil­lage?) and Hoth (dude on stilts in a Wampa cos­tume please so I can take a pic­ture with it.) A license to print money if there ever was one, and so much bet­ter than an pro­posed Avatar land at the Ani­mal Kingdom…