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Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Any of them for Star Wars fans?
Because the general agreed upon reason for the rejection is the price…no doubt that was a huge part of it.
But was that enough?
Phroobar
Well-Known Member
There is no way I would do it for a two day stay at that price. Even for cruises I look for discounts.
brideck
Well-Known Member
I... don't really recall standing in any lines, though I'm sure you're probably referring to someone's experience from some video or other. The in-person missions, etc. seemed pretty right-sized where everyone got their own station to participate or a meaningful feeling job for the non-gamified events, e.g. distracting stormtroopers, shielding droids from prying eyes, etc.
brideck
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Any of them... Any of the options for Star Wars fans? Yes, of course.
Having experienced it, though, I think this sort of thing would be fun for pretty much any IP, as long as it was well-designed and assuming I was at least moderately familiar with it.
Phroobar
Well-Known Member
Did you have set times or just decide to show up? I just remember my experience on a Disney cruise. All activities where lines. I never experienced that on any other cruise line. It seems this would be similar.
Agent H
Well-Known Member
If I had gotten to do it I wouldn’t have even gone to galaxies edge. I would have stayed on the ship.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
But what if they had an interactive lightsaber/blaster forum…either VR or physical…like the danger room in xmen?
And really high end grade simulators for Starfighters?
And maybe a 24:7 hangout room with food and drink available?
Even at that price point…the line would still stretch from the front door to the gates of geekdom.
But by all means…select few…argue that it wasn’t the “experiency experience” that failed…
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
‘Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith’ takes in $42.2 Million in Re-Release at Global Box Office | The Walt Disney Company
With an estimated $25.2 million in domestic ticket sales, this is one of the top-grossing re-release weekends in domestic industry history.
thewaltdisneycompany.com
Phroobar
Well-Known Member
That's a great idea. They should have had single person simulators or ships to climb in. The hotel having it's own rides and attractions would have been worth it.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
I posted the exact same thing when this was announced…50,000 posts ago
See the path to victory was clear from the start…as a was the intentional failure they chose instead
I’m such a hater…
Except I’m not. I want everything Disney does to succeed. It’s better for the customer…ME…so why wouldn’t I?
I was very optimistic on Halloween 2012…
“Surely they know what they’re doing and won’t screw this up…”
WRONG
The reason I’m hard on them…and their unpaid proxy defenders here…is they’re becoming way too comfortable making mistakes with obvious outcomes…but know they suffer no consequences. Right up on top.
It’s anti quality…it’s anti consumer…it’s anti market…
And yet here we are
But what I won’t
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Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
There’s a growing thirst for content again‘Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith’ takes in $42.2 Million in Re-Release at Global Box Office | The Walt Disney Company
With an estimated $25.2 million in domestic ticket sales, this is one of the top-grossing re-release weekends in domestic industry history.
It’s up to one company not to screw it up (again)
brideck
Well-Known Member
Everything had a set time, outside of exploring the ship on your own or hanging out in the lounge, shop, or dining hall. The things that everyone got to do (lightsabers, bridge training) happened in fairly small groups. Everything else was dependent on what faction path(s) you were participating in and would dynamically show up on your schedule as you unlocked them, e.g. go to the storage room on the lower deck for a secret meeting at 7 PM, etc.
There was actually very little to do on the ship during that period, as they wanted you to go to Batuu. There were special missions and activities in the park that tied into whichever faction path(s) you were participating in, and the cast in the park played along pretty nicely if they knew you were visiting on a cruise.
sedati
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B-but the prequels "ruined" childhoods! (won't use the actual word thrown around back in the day.)‘Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith’ takes in $42.2 Million in Re-Release at Global Box Office | The Walt Disney Company
With an estimated $25.2 million in domestic ticket sales, this is one of the top-grossing re-release weekends in domestic industry history.
Alice a
Well-Known Member
As someone who was in their mid-20s when this came out originally and had no desire to see it after walking out on the first 2 in the theatres, my 3 coworkers who saw ROTS last weekend are in their 20s and had always liked the prequels but were too young to see or remember seeing them in theatres.
Yes, many of us adults in the early 2000s thought the prequels were disappointing, but the kids who watched them repeatedly are now adults with disposable income who are as thirsty for nostalgia and escapism as the rest of us.
Hawkeye_2018
Well-Known Member
The prequels have issues, but they still have the best action scenes we have ever gotten in SW.
Also, watching ROTS again, reminds me a lot of Endgame the way it tied everything together really well
Also, watching ROTS again, reminds me a lot of Endgame the way it tied everything together really well
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
…not those peoples childhoods
But this has been thoroughly explored for 25 years…there were some pretty bad mistakes made. No one is disputing that.
And now that it’s not sinking in: the box office of a 25 year rerelease is an indictment of Disney much more than it is support of George Lucas
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Mmm…that’s pretty revisionist
The action sequences were criticized - righty so - for being over the top on an iMac with no third dimension to them.
A crazy dudes obsession with tech.
The models still hold well enough once they were refined…as in these sequences:
For those of you not old enough to be there (and there’s constant lecturing from whippersnappers)…when that green flashed everyone was jumping up and down and fist pumping…ww2 grandpas on down. That was Star Wars
And of course:
The greatest line of the whole thing…and of course the idiots at Disneys LFL let KK’s emo bearded man boy suck him out a window for orientation ambiguous Jurassic park lady…to the point favreau and filoni are retconning the whole thing hard.
But this is a easy lesson in management and mismanagement…the subtlety points…Johnny Williams thundering away
Start getting these things right again, idiots
erasure fan1
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I've been called a prequel apologist. But I can point out all the issues with them, and there are many. But you're right, so many awesome action sequences. The only Disney star wars lightsaber sequence I will put in with Lucas star wars is Darth Vader rogue one. That one is incredible. as @Sirwalterraleigh says. The fact that Disney learned almost nothing from the mistakes Lucas made with the prequels, is the biggest problem.