Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge Disneyland Construction Continues

DISNEYLAND, CA — Big news coming from Disney's Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge expansion on Tuesday.

According to a resort spokesperson, construction teams have installed the highest steel beam for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, the new Star Wars-themed land coming to Disneyland Resort in Anaheim with an expected opening date of 2019.

Chances are, you've seen the enormous crane moving pieces of the steel frame into place in the construction area. Early the week of August 22, the crane went to work raising then lowering the prefabricated star-shaped steel beam into place.

"This milestone capped off the infrastructure for a 130-foot-tall rock spire, the highest point in the new land," she said. At the top, you might see the American flag, as well as an evergreen tree, representing unity, as described by this Disney Imagineer.

Can't quite vision how it will look when completed?

Watch this video to see how Disneyland park Imagineers will transform this steel frame into an otherworldly mountain and building structures in the below video:

For now, Disneyland visitors can see the spire of the future Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge mountain from areas throughout the park, but you can specifically get a great view of the construction in progress while riding Big Thunder Mountain Rail Road. Expect Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge to contain all of the Disney Imagineer brilliance that guests have come to know and love.

"Once completed, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge will include approximately 10,000 tons of structural steel and approximately 200,000 square feet of hand-carved rockwork," the spokesperson said.

Guests across the country in Florida will see the same themed land being built in tandem to the Disneyland Park.

"The same 14-acre land also is under construction at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida," the spokesperson said. "Both are scheduled to open in 2019."

Photos courtesy Joshua Sudock/Disneyland Resort