Past me, to future me: “So there’s going to be a Millennium Falcon ride? Do you do one of the Death Star missions?”A made-up location that looks good visually but lacks... a lot. Rise is great, for what it is. The rest is a case study of what NOT to do with a franchise in a theme park. A mediocre ride for an iconic ship. Some assorted props that may or may not be familiar to many fans. Random character appearances of characters that have little to do with the franchise's original success. Then there's shopping, shopping, a quick serve location, shopping, shopping, a too-small restaurant, shopping, shopping, and shopping. Did I forget to mention shopping? They have that, too.
Good thing Disney has been a great steward of the Star Wars franchise.
Current me: “And if it was a Death Star mission, you’d complain about them re-hashing the same stuff over and over again and why can’t they do anything new?”
Agreed but this has an easy solution, make it random like Star Tours, this ride has so much potential but as long as they keep it a single mission it will quickly become boring, and that’s true no matter what that mission is.
Straw men make arguments easy!
Fair. Almost like the icon was bigger than the idea.
I remember Disney announcing that the ride was necessary because every fan wanted to fly the Falcon. But... I don't think they do. The Falcon is kind of garbage. That's one of the OT's main running gags. It's "cool" because of Han and Chewie and the story beats with which it was associated, not on its own merits. A lot of fans want to WALK THROUGH the Falcon. If they want to FLY a ship, its an X-Wing or TIE Fighter, which is why so many video games have been produced with that as the central element. To the best of my knowledge, of the many, many SW games produced, none center on flying the Falcon.
I’ll disagree just for arguments sake.
I was going for FoP and Rise "Good", NRJ and MF "not so good." I agree Canteen has better food. It just seems there is more going on in GE with additional characters, Ogas, gift shop market, droid and light saber building, etc. Pandora could use more of that and with Cameron's new Avatar movies, the time is now.I’ll disagree just for arguments sake.
I so much prefer FoP over Rise. Both other 2 rides got me on once and don’t plan on going again so they are a wash. I’ll take Satu’Li over any of the food offerings in GE. If I want an adult beverage I’ll go to the Nomad Lounge before Oga’s. Ok, not technically in Pandora but it’s so much better. I also prefer the lush surroundings rather than the bare surroundings in GE. All personal choice of course.
I agree with you about the experience being inferior. But my "argument" isn't a straw man. I'm sure you've seen the Star Wars opinions around here--especially around the Force Awakens.
Right. That was my point. If they did ANOTHER Death Star run (after the well-liked, long-lived version on Star Tours, don’t you think people would complain about them rehashing it?
Honestly, no. People like to say the negative people here always go negative, but there are examples where the people who bash a lot of things have given a lot of props for things done well (Kona Cafe for example). Most of those people WANT things to be good. Funny enough, there are much less of the "pixie dusters" bashing really bad things.
