Stat Wars Galaxy Edge will almost certainly open mid to late December.
Fall lasts until 12/21. Winter does not start until the Winter Equinox on 12/21.
I think it may open on 12/21 or a week before, just in time for the holidays.
I go on 12/20, simply because I'm travelling from the UK in UK school vacation time.
Not sure if this will be a good or bad thing.
Ideal scenario, albeit I suspect we will be a week too late, will be a DVC preview 12/21! We can only dream.
I watch availibility very closely, I have an addiction to checking RAT for 1 beds. It's looking busier than usual at Xmas to me.
Hard to imagine Disney going with an opening so close to Christmas. Would be chaos. But hey maybe they want chaos. As long as people there they are making money.
There's marketing reasons to sync up something about the opening with the release of Episode IX (officially Friday Dec 20, but really Thursday Dec 19). If an "official" opening is in that timeframe though, I'd expect an earlier soft opening.
IMO SWGE will make it super crowded for a year straight after opening. So we are going the first week of December because I,m not so sure January would be much better.
We just booked for January 2020. If we make it HS then we do, if not we won't be broken up over it. It's just when things worked out for us with school and such. Perhaps with its craziness it will make the other parks seem not so crazy.
October is our fav month for F&W also!I know DH is hoping for a preview or soft opening. Not me! I don’t think I have anything to worry about. We are going for Food and Wine in October.
Theme Park Insider recently guessed the opening date to be as early as 10/1.
https://www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/201903/6639/