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    Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge becomes a live-in video game with the Disney Parks app

    by Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times Jul 09, 2019 5 minutes

    ANAHEIM, Calif. - On a recent Friday evening, there were plenty of distractions to be found in Black Spire Outpost, the fictional intergalactic city that is the heart of Disneyland's Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge.

    Some tried to catch a glimpse of the one-eyed dianoga-creature that lives in the pipes near a drinking fountain. Others jostled for a space to watch Disneyland's fireworks, standing just a few feet away from a charred-looking droid roasting prop meat. A pair of Stormtroopers joked with guests that they had drawn the attention of the evil First Order. And Resistance spy Vi Moradi was spotted rushing among the curved paths.

    Amid this bounty of theme park activity, I stood alone near the clustered shopping stalls of the Black Spire Outpost marketplace, my face buried in a phone. While an obsession with personal screens is often considered a modern societal affliction, here on Galaxy's Edge it's

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