Does anyone else think Galaxy’s Edge is a misfire?

[LindseyDisney]

To this day, I’m still mad at Disney for saying they were going to have actors and robots roaming Galaxy's Edge FOR YEARS BRUH. Then they were like, 'NEVER MIND! WE NEVER SAID THAT! NEVER SPEAK OF IT AGAIN! ALSO WE HAVE THIS NEW HOTEL!!! Liars!!! LIES!!!

 

[ChrisFL]

If they modify the land…it’s an acknowledgment of failure. They won’t do that. so they’ll let it rot and claim victory instead.

one thing I really don't like about Disney.

Yeah also the Starcruiser ruined so much for us as a lot of the plans for the land went to a new MASSIVE paywall that no one wanted to pay.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

That's why I think expanding the land with OG characters is a good compromise. They don't have to admit that Galaxy's Edge was a mistake, and they can make fans who wanted the OG characters in Galaxy's Edge happy. It would also improve guest experience by expanding the land with more rides, shows, etc. But again, they will never do this.


I honestly think Disney is done with Star Wars Land for the parks

By adding the classic characters…it’s an automatic admission that “bobs Star Wars” can’t stand on its own.

They very deliberately tried to downplay the OT stuff at first…until what they mistakenly let LFL under Kennedy do with it (and they’re all gone except for her) failed…
They’ve pivoted to “around return of the Jedi” ever since.

If Disney ever got new management…that might be the first - most obvious - move.

But they’re not getting any new management…as it stands

 

[Ayla]

one thing I really don't like about Disney.

Yeah also the Starcruiser ruined so much for us as a lot of the plans for the land went to a new MASSIVE paywall that no one wanted to pay.

And then disappeared entirely when it spectacularly failed.

 

[TalkToEthan]

……..not only a misfire but lousier aim than stormtroopers.

We needed both a viable script for a proper launch and a superb execution of the land——neither came close


Galaxy’s Edge with its post Return of Jedi setting was poorly conceived and its execution I’m afraid was ever worse.

In short big wig ego at the expense of honesty

 

[FiestaFunKid]

Look at the excitement classic Luke Skywalker generated on The Mandalorian for fans of all ages (see the youtube reactions)...we could have had that type of magic in the parks. It's not all bad, cool artifacts/details, an actual Falcon, but could have been so much more if not for hubris driven miscalculation by leadership. Side note - I don't think it feels enough like an abandoned alien outpost. I said it before, but the commonly used rocks and trees motif doesn't just stand out enough or breathe any new life.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

……..not only a misfire but lousier aim than stormtroopers.

We needed both a viable script for a proper launch and a superb execution of the land——neither came close


Galaxy’s Edge with its post Return of Jedi setting was poorly conceived and its execution I’m afraid was ever worse.

In short big wig ego at the expense of honesty

Post return of the Jedi would sell

Like the mockup in mgm for Star tours…no one ever scoffed or thought too deeply on it

They put it in purgatory between two awful movies…

And that’s said with the phantom movie and attack of the yoda in existence

 

[AdventureHasAName]

The three obvious solutions are:

1. Complete re-skin of the land to Return of the Jedi. All the OT main characters are still alive and you get Ewoks, Jabba, Vader, etc. You can still have the Mandalorian and Grogu and nobody is going to complain.

2. Have the timeline shift throughout the park day. Early in the morning you get walkaround characters from the prequel trilogy. In the afternoon you get original trilogy characters. In the evening you get characters from the sequel trilogy.

3. Different days mean different walkaround characters. Monday and Tuesday are prequels; Wednesday and Thursday are sequels; Friday, Saturday and Sunday are the original trilogy characters.

Personally, I would pick option #1, but I'm 50 years old. Regardless, any of these three options are better than what we currently have.

 

[DisneyNittany]

To be fair to Disney, I thought SWGE was the worst land in Orlando and could never be touched, but then Universal decided to create a land around a HP spin-off, that nobody liked, set in Paris, that transports you to the British MoM (which goes against that mode of travel) when the F&F area was just sitting there ready to be incorporated into the Greater London Wizarding World...

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

The three obvious solutions are:

1. Complete re-skin of the land to Return of the Jedi. All the OT main characters are still alive and you get Ewoks, Jabba, Vader, etc. You can still have the Mandalorian and Grogu and nobody is going to complain.

2. Have the timeline shift throughout the park day. Early in the morning you get walkaround characters from the prequel trilogy. In the afternoon you get original trilogy characters. In the evening you get characters from the sequel trilogy.

3. Different days mean different walkaround characters. Monday and Tuesday are prequels; Wednesday and Thursday are sequels; Friday, Saturday and Sunday are the original trilogy characters.

Personally, I would pick option #1, but I'm 50 years old. Regardless, any of these three options are better than what we currently have.

The problem is Bobby will never admit defeat…even as they sink and founder most of the times these days

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

To be fair to Disney, I thought SWGE was the worst land in Orlando and could never be touched, but then Universal decided to create a land around a HP spin-off, that nobody liked, set in Paris, that transports you to the British MoM (which goes against that mode of travel) when the F&F area was just sitting there ready to be incorporated into the Greater London Wizarding World...

Even still…they really did a good job building that land

The problems with EU is there just isn’t enough attractions

It’s a shell similar to mgm in 1989 when you factor in crowd size.

But I do agree that trying to split the baby of Harry Potter and put a chunk 5 miles away was not a great idea

Should have been in studios for multiple reasons

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Look at the excitement classic Luke Skywalker generated on The Mandalorian for fans of all ages (see the youtube reactions)...we could have had that type of magic in the parks. It's not all bad, cool artifacts/details, an actual Falcon, but could have been so much more if not for hubris driven miscalculation by leadership. Side note - I don't think it feels enough like an abandoned alien outpost. I said it before, but the commonly used rocks and trees motif doesn't just stand out enough or breathe any new life.

I’m sure I’ll be scoffed at by defenders

But that episode of mandalorian was favreau and filonis “apology” to Star Wars fans…it was perfect.

I think Disneys management was too stupid to realize what they were doing…however…of course…and immediate cheapened it by going back to the well.

I hear there’s another “apology” coming in Asohka season 2

 

[Tha Realest]

Even still…they really did a good job building that land

The problems with EU is there just isn’t enough attractions

It’s a shell similar to mgm in 1989 when you factor in crowd size.

But I do agree that trying to split the baby of Harry Potter and put a chunk 5 miles away was not a great idea

Should have been in studios for multiple reasons

We cancelled a trip next month for that very reason. One big headliner goes down + a bit of weather and it seems like the place is in shambles.

 

[Chef Mickey]

It wasn't for lack of effort IMO - details are there, Rise was a huge step forward in attraction tech and execution - but a major miscalculation of what content people wanted showcased.

The characters are not as timeless as those from the classic films and the land itself is based on fairly generic rock work and trees - it's not amazingly transformative to a Star Wars specific time and place - so it doesn't generate the high level of immersive feeling as Harry Potter does with it's familar locales.

And just anecdotally, regular people (not us parks fanatics) were raving about Potter after it opened. I do/did not sense the same with GE with the exception of some Rise love.

Rise lacks re-rideability and it doesn't help they don't maintain it at all.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

We cancelled a trip next month for that very reason. One big headliner goes down + a bit of weather and it seems like the place is in shambles.

I thought the park was very well built and funded…but it just lacks…now 4 months after I saw it.

Honestly…it’s Bob and his little water boy joshie poo’s Dream

Underbuilt…lacking comfort to hold a whole days crowd…and suspiciously engineered for $500 line skips…it seems.

I like UOR…always have…but islands is the most attractive park to visit again. And epic will need a lot more to replace it as it stands.

 

[Jon81uk]

We cancelled a trip next month for that very reason. One big headliner goes down + a bit of weather and it seems like the place is in shambles.

Although Islands of Adventure has the same issue. If there are thunderstorms it closes at least half the park.

 

[Basil of Baker Street]

First and more most, SGE is not visually appealing. An OT character swap may help but the land is just bland and feels lifeless. It's borderline depressing just walking around. I'm baffled that a company can create such a stunning land like Pandora, then the bed with SGE.

 

[LindseyDisney]

On unrelated note, I can't do Millennium Falcon, makes me sick. Also I don't care for the ride. I feel like they could have made a different ride system for Millennium Falcon.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

First and more most, SGE is not visually appealing. An OT character swap may help but the land is just bland and feels lifeless. It's borderline depressing just walking around. I'm baffled that a company can create such a stunning land like Pandora, then the bed with SGE.

Pandora was two guys who care not for budgets and timelines

 

[Pizza Moon]

On unrelated note, I can't do Millennium Falcon, makes me sick. Also I don't care for the ride. I feel like they could have made a different ride system for Millennium Falcon.

There should’ve been a Falcon walkthrough like Disneyland Paris’ Nautilus, some small indoor Nockturn Alley area that’s like the underworld of Coruscant, and Falcon should’ve been a speederbike, pod racing, or X-Wing rollercoaster.

The piloting the Falcon concept was always more gimmicky than practical, and all the dumber when you consider you already had Star Tours in both parks, I mean, unfathomably stupid.

When it was first announced I expected Falcon to be more like Peter Pan at DisneySea to be honest than Star Tours.

Rise is perfect for what it is, just needs a different theme, same could be argued for Guardians at EPCOT, though at least Guardians is beloved unlike the Sequels. Those two rides themselves work without their IPs.

One of the reasons the VR broomstick ride was cancelled for Diagon Alley/Ministry of Magic was because the experience itself when duplicated so many times (similar to Falcon) means the actual experience itself is much lesser because you have to replicate it so many times. If you pour all the resources into one thing instead of a bunch of the same lesser thing, you end up with a more impressive product.