Absolutely. I am quite sure there were people in that boardroom secretly saying WTF when they heard plans for this. Yes, on paper it sounds great but practically it didn't. Some must have known that but didn't feel safe to say so out loud.
Who's up for Disney's Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser?
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Absolutely. I am quite sure there were people in that boardroom secretly saying WTF when they heard plans for this. Yes, on paper it sounds great but practically it didn't. Some must have known that but didn't feel safe to say so out loud.
for those who never went, or couldn't, or are just interested in it, Marv/NumidianPrime has put together a summer of the the 'story' with pictures and transcripts
https://numidianprime.wordpress.com/2023/09/30/the-complete-star-wars-galactic-starcruiser/
https://numidianprime.wordpress.com/2023/09/30/the-complete-star-wars-galactic-starcruiser/
YouTuber Jenny Nicholson posted a 4-hour video on the history and her experience at the Galactic Star Cruiser attraction. It's gotten over 9 million views in less than 3 months. Despite the length, It's quite entertaining. However, it's probably better to watch in chunks. It was originally supposed to be a review video, but the sudden closure of the attraction caused her to expand the video's scope.
The video has caught so much attention that Nicholson was even interviewed by Rolling Stone about it.
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The video has caught so much attention that Nicholson was even interviewed by Rolling Stone about it.
How a 4-Hour Video About Disney's Failed 'Star Wars' Hotel Took Over the Internet
YouTuber Jenny Nicholson's deep dive into a Disney flop is long, obsessively detailed, and nerdy as hell. It also may be the best thing on the internet.
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Epilogue: https://www.theverge.com/news/603910/disney-star-wars-hotel-galactic-starcruiser-imagineering-office
The Starcruiser hotel is going to become office space for the Imagineering team working on the Latin America expansion for Animal Kingdom.
The Starcruiser hotel is going to become office space for the Imagineering team working on the Latin America expansion for Animal Kingdom.
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It's kind of sad that after all the effort and money that went into Galactic Starcruiser, this is what it ends up becoming. I guess they really overestimated just how devoted fans are to Star Wars.
Having a pandemic didn't help but that was probably the last in a long string of straws.
IMHO, the whole project was fundamentally misconceived. The Star Wars universe is a deadly and violent one that's fun to watch for an hour or two (movies/TV), to "step into" for a few minutes (theme park rides), or to play around in from the comfort of your living room (video games), but it's not a pleasant place to spend two straight days in - at least, that's not a very appealing prospect for most people, not enough to make the "cruises" financially sustainable.
I don't know if it's really that bad of a place to live, what we see are always the extremes, and the people involved in the fighting the wars and things like that. Other than maybe for people living under The Empire and First Order, it seems like things weren't that bad for the average person.
I imagine it might work as a High Republic era cruise. Murder mystery with Jedi as the events might work. Maybe a pirate raid like some of the park train trips to say the Grand Canyon have rain heists. Not the link like the start of Skeleton Crew but more like Bodacious Space Pirates style of theater piracy.
Sounds like real life!
Too many people to properly escape.
Most of the stuff I saw for it looked pretty nice to me.
Star Wars is (primarily) a series of light-hearted, swashbuckling adventures that appeal to everyone's inner fantasist. The experience was not the reality of living under a fascist, tyrannical regime, it was go on a silly role play space adventure for two days.
The "dark, violent" nature of the SW universe doesn't enter into the equation.
