Disney CEO Bob Iger spilled the beans on a June grand opening for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland, letting the debut date slip for the much-anticipated new themed land during a wide-ranging media interview.

In a Q&A with Barron’s that was published online Friday, Jan. 4, Iger was asked about efforts to grow attendance and increase capacity at Disney parks.

“When Star Wars opens in Anaheim in June and in Florida later in the year, that’s adding capacity,” Iger told Barron’s. “You’re adding 14 acres of land (each), more rides and more for people to do. It’s the biggest land we’ve ever built.”

Iger’s unofficial June grand opening announcement for Galaxy’s Edge locks the Anaheim theme park into a more specific timeline than the previously announced “summer 2019” debut.

Disneyland officials declined to confirm the new date, saying “summer 2019” remains the only officially announced opening date for Galaxy’s Edge in Anaheim.

In a separate story, Barron’s reported that Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge could open at Disneyland “perhaps by early June.”

Theme park experts have been eyeing June 2019 as the likely opening date for Disneyland’s Star Wars land since last summer.

Theme Park Insider editor and Southern California News Group theme park columnist Robert Niles pegged June 21-23 as a top candidate for the Galaxy’s Edge grand opening event at the Anaheim park with soft opening previews likely on the weekends leading up to those dates.

Niles found that changes in Disneyland annual passholder blockout dates from 2018 to 2019 provided the key clues.

In 2018, Deluxe passholders were blocked out on Saturdays in June and SoCal passholders were blocked on Fridays and Saturdays for most of the month.

In 2019, Deluxe annual passholders will be blocked out on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays starting June 9 and every day from June 21 to Aug. 18. SoCal passholders will be blocked out the entire month of June in 2019.

That’s a significant increase in annual passholder blockout dates for 2019 compared to 2018, suggesting the park wants to start reducing weekend crowds in mid-June and weekday crowds in late June, according to Niles.

The situation is very different across the promenade: Deluxe annual passholders won’t find any block out dates at Disney California Adventure between May 27 and Aug. 30.

Galaxy’s Edge will be set in the Black Spire Outpost on the remote planet of Batuu, located on the outer rim of the Star Wars galaxy. The new themed land will be home to a pair of E-Ticket attractions: Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run flight simulator and Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance trackless dark ride.

A nearly-identical version of Galaxy’s Edge is scheduled to open in late fall 2019 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios near Orlando, Florida.