Recent content by DrStarlander

Yes, this would have instantly been one of the best Disney attractions anywhere. Put us in a Falcon cockpit motion-base ride vehicle, but use the DisneySea Peter Pan ride system and then I'd add one aspect: a climactic LSM launch for a hyperspeed jump moment. Feeling thrust back into your seat...

"Extremely slight defense" is fair. And I agree with "stupid." Despite the inclusion of some data screens, Star Wars is famously a hands-on, analog world. There are countless scenes of characters fiddling with real mechanical things like levers, knobs, and switches, to make stuff happen -- no...

Oh sure, execution is whole other topic. The problems are so numerous it's complicated to keep track of them...

Exactly. Build the Star Wars land we've been waiting 40 years for (and still are), with Darth Vader, Han Solo, Obi Wan, Yoda, Jawas, Jabba the Hutt, droids, creatures, John Williams music... Then when something else proves good, even if not "better," (like The Mandalorian) bring it to the...

"just re-use the OT forever"...yeah, how dumb that would have been, right? Use one of the most beloved and successful IPs in the history of entertainment, with characters and content known to generations? Doing just that would have been absurd. 🤣

Your tone sounds super defensive of Disney's approach, and antagonistic toward any criticism of Disney's approach. They took a risk spending billions of dollars on a huge project based on stories and characters no audience had shown interest in. It was foolish. Not just in hindsight. Nobody...

Sounds like your defense of SWGE is that Disney was making a strategic choice to base it on the yet to be released sequel content (at the time of design) as part of an overall initiative to relaunch the SW brand and set the stage for many years of franchise success? Do I have that right? I...

I was at a swim meet at a neighborhood outdoor pool this summer and, for no reason in particular, they played the Star Wars music over the loudspeaker. I recall thinking at the time, this feels more Star Wars-y than Star Wars Galaxy's Edge. Just the music is that powerful and its absence is a...

The stadium was pretty modern looking, right? The art direction of the stadium in the movie seems off to me actually, it doesn't fit the rest of the Wizarding World even for the 1990s. I'd rather go to a 1920s Quidditch World Cup arena myself than this building....or a smaller, more...

Absolutely, there's an opportunity to change (or really establish) the tone with street performers. Last time I was in Key West there was a guy doing the juggling and balancing stuff and a huge crowd gathered around and incorporated interactively into the "show." People loved it. I can imagine...

You know I've wondered if there's an equivalent to the writing theory that "there are only seven basic stories" but for settings. By that I mean perhaps there are a limited number of archetypes of place-types as related to "the character," which in a theme park is the guest. Something like: 1...

It also helps the Wizarding World lands that they are grounded in a timeless, charming part of the real world (shop-lined village streets, tavern, castle, train...). These things are cozy and relatable like a Thomas Kinkade painting. Who wouldn't want to go there and browse around a candy shop...

Absolutely, that could be an issue. But my main gripe are the pink sidewalks and the most likely fix there is sculpted, themed concrete. So that's swapping like with like. As far as the street, I'm not sure the concrete that guests walk on is literally the roof of the utilidor. Well, I hope not...

The efforts in Montgomery County, Maryland are what I see most cited including their standards for products and installation -- like uniform wire cut brick and tight installation methods to achieve a smooth surface. There's a lot of old problematic brick in cities around the world, installed...

Who is talking about the buildings? Why would they not do bricks in the street at WDW no matter what? They've replaced the concrete with bricks at Disneyland and they've used bricks on every other Main Street in the past few decades. And they upgraded bricks on Center Street at Magic Kingdom...