Zootopia’s storyline takes place almost completely in Zootopia, which is very fleshed out and specific. Star Wars is not centered on a singular planet, and is a space opera taking place in different planets every few minutes.
As an IP Star Wars, across 3 trilogies and innumerable books, comics and video games is "fleshed out" to a level that does not bear comparison to a single film like Zootopia. Other points are debatable but let's not argue that Star Wars lacks for fleshed out content. As others have already said, I think the real challenge is how to anchor a land around a single location.
huh?The basis of an exploitable and deplorable IP
I mostly agree with this part ^is one that is easily recognizable and interesting for a person to explore.
Hard disagree. Tatooine is far from the only recognizable destination in Star Wars. To claim it's not interesting in any way is both a personal value judgement and rather unimaginative. Mos Eisley, Mos Espa, Jabba the Hutt's palace, pod-racing courses, tusken raider caves, camps, canyons,Star Wars fits recognizable with Tatooine, but is not interesting in any way, as a hot desert planet in hot climate with no shade is depressing.
Again, this is kind of an insane take. Just off the top of my head, the "consumer" (I prefer guest...) would be able to recognize:If it were to have been a different planet, it’s not recognizable to the consumer.
the Death Star,
the ice planet Hoth,
the redwood forests of Endor,
Coruscant's Jedi temple, Galactic Senate and city-scape
Dagobah, Yoda's swamp
Bespin the cloud city,
Mustafar, the hot lava planet that birthed Darth Vader
Even less iconic locations like Naboo's palaces, the Wookie home world of Kashyk, Yavin 4 where the Rebels had their base, Geonosis,
Hopefully we can at least agree there are sufficient fleshed out worlds to work with. As for how to execute a Star Wars world that can only pull from a couple of the above places, that's a far trickier question to answer.Galaxy’s Edge feels star wars but just doesn’t give you that “Harry Potter” feeling. There aren’t enough fleshed out worlds to make it amazing enough. Harry Potter, Zootopia, Frozen, etc are all ips based on a solidified location that make them better for consumers.
Just food for thought, if you were in Disney’s shoes, how would you have done Galaxy’s Edge aside from changing the time period?
I won't pretend I have a perfect answer for exactly how Disney should have implemented Galaxy's Edge. I think avoiding a specific time period would be wise, but I'd take a Tatooine with Mos Eisley and Jabba's Palace over the very mid Batuu that we did get. Having part of the land take place on a Star Destroyer you can explore beyond the portion of the queue we got on Rise would also be interesting.
I'd also say saving room for future expansions that could take place on Coruscant or Mustafar, maybe accessible through hyperspace tunnels of some kind would be preferable than simply expanding Tatooine.