Lets Respect
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I cannot wait to see the price for this experience
(with such a small building relatively speaking)
(with such a small building relatively speaking)
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News Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser coming to Walt Disney World 2021
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Bairstow
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That sounds like daily guest relations nightmares waiting to happen.
This is a vacation activity aimed at families with children. There's almost certainly going to be a degree of flexibility built into whatever activity/roleplay structure they go with.
GoofGoof
Premium Member
Just my opinion, but I can’t see them making it very restrictive. If people want to come and go they will let them. They may not encourage it by providing buses to parks or DS but they won’t try to stop people either. I think the immersion is going to have to be at an individual level. We already know guests won’t be required to wear costumes and it’s highly unlikely they will restrict phones and other devices. Even though I’m skeptical it will happen, many on here insist this place will be geared towards and appropriate for small children. With all of these distractions, people will need to use their imaginations to be fully immersed. You will get out what you put in. Those who want a more casual experience might come and go some. Those who want hard core full immersion will not leave, will not use personal devices and will probably dress up.
Bairstow
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I don't follow. Most of the themed interactions will, as a matter of course, need to be guest-to-castmember, not guest to guest. If someone's dad needs to step out to call the office and have a smoke it's not going to shut down the Galaxy.
Missing20K
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I meant more about how having doors from within the “ship” that just open out to the parking lot might break the immersion of the experience. Poor word choice by me using “narrative”. My bad.
Sarcasm.
Bairstow
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They'll probably need those too, in the form of clearly marked emergency exits and fire doors. They'll theme around this to some extent, but it's not an option.
Missing20K
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Exactly what I was getting at. Can’t really theme an emergency exit sign. Or fire stairs. Or extinguisher cabinets. My main point being there is only so much immersion that can realistically happen.
djkidkaz
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TiggerDad
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It's actually the old entry toll plaza. The new one is the other side of the parking lot.
djkidkaz
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This is one of those projects that when it was announced I could foresee it never getting built cause it was so far out of the realm of anything Disney had done before. The idea that they would theme an entire hotel around one franchise seemed crazy. Who would have thought it would be the Magic Kingdom theater that got the axe?
What @TiggerDad said, that's the current toll both which will soon be demolished. In the map below, the red triangles are the new booths.
Missing20K
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Very helpful map. Is the orange portion towards the parking lot the "bridge" or whatever it's going to be, to SW:GE?
The red is the SW Resort. The orange is its roadway access to the parking lot (in dark grey). The access to the orange from the highway is only for emergency vehicles. For everyone else, they access the resort from the DHS parking lot.
The light grey is the new road from the highway that cars will take. They will enter at the top of the picture (underneath the yellow line representing the DHS-CBR gondola line). The will exit a little south of that back onto the same accessway they came in.
TiggerDad
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@danlb_2000 posted permit drawings that show the existing entrance road (S. Studios Dr.) remaining, but with some type of entrance control moved up earlier than where the current toll plaza is. This appears to be access directly to the resort hotel.
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nickys
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He’s very good at maps!
@danlb_2000 posts the permits, and @MisterPenguin then overlays them onto maps with helpful coloured bits to explain it to those of us who need help visualising things!
@danlb_2000 posted permit drawings that show the existing entrance road (S. Studios Dr.) remaining, but with the toll plaza moved up earlier. This appears to be access directly to the resort hotel.
Yes, I've downloaded the hi-rez versions and overlaid them on Google maps.
What do you mean by the toll plaza 'moved up earlier'? We have aerials of the new toll plazas currently being built exactly where I have them marked on my map in comportment with other permit blueprints.
TiggerDad
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You are correct that the toll plazas for DHS parking are being built as shown on your map. I was referring to the center of the map I posted, where it shows the road dividing, and then two Stop lines. I see that as a guard booth controlling access to the SW resort. I shouldn't have called it a toll plaza. It is closer up the road than where the current toll plaza is.
Missing20K
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Where might we find said high res images to download ourselves? I've looked through the permit thread and can't seem to find them. Sorry if it's a dumb question. Slow at work and I'm always curious to see other firms drawings.