News Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser coming to Walt Disney World 2021

MickeyMinnieMom

MickeyMinnieMom

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I could imagine all sorts of things... since these are 2-3 day experiences, maybe some are all adults, others are all families with younger kids, others are a mix... who knows??

I’m curious to see what they do right out of the gate, and then how that changes over time.
 
flynnibus

flynnibus

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You all that keep circling back to the idea Disney isn't going to market to it's core audience.. are smoking dope.

The proposition Disney laid out for this was your classic Disney Deluxe Hotel staying guest with DDP.
 
nickys

nickys

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MickeyMinnieMom said:
I think that’ll be a non-issue, honestly. I think there will be interested parties — both families and couples/singles — who can afford this and will jump at it. They won’t be holding rooms BACK — at least not early on.
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But you already said they could have room blocks ....

Sure there will be families who will book. But say they announce on September 1st 2019 that bookings will open a month later for dates from 1st March 2020.

Families will need to coordinate school dates, one or two parents’ vacation times etc. Plus they are moe likely to want to combine it with a traditional WDW vacation.

Star Wars geeks have far less to “coordinate” as such. All they have to do is be ready on the dot on booking day. Many will plan to simply fly down, do the “experience” and fly home.

I’m not suggesting Disney won’t market this to their usual demographic. But the geeks are much more likely to book now, sort it out later.
 
flynnibus

flynnibus

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nickys said:
Star Wars geeks have far less to “coordinate” as such. All they have to do is be ready on the dot on booking day. Many will plan to simply fly down, do the “experience” and fly home.
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who is going to travel to the theme park capital of the world just to do one thing and leave? This will just bring more people to the region that might not have made it past the tipping point before. They'll stay at another hotel and see more of SW:GE, do the VR experience in DS, visit USF, etc.
 
MickeyMinnieMom

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flynnibus said:
You all that keep circling back to the idea Disney isn't going to market to it's core audience.. are smoking dope.
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I don’t know who “you all” is, but I agree. :) They just won’t need a ton of marketing early on, IMO. Just putting out there what this thing is in detail would do it, I would guess. But maybe they won’t want to take a chance... ;)
 
MickeyMinnieMom

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nickys said:
But you already said they could have room blocks ....

Sure there will be families who will book. But say they announce on September 1st 2019 that bookings will open a month later for dates from 1st March 2020.

Families will need to coordinate school dates, one or two parents’ vacation times etc. Plus they are moe likely to want to combine it with a traditional WDW vacation.

Star Wars geeks have far less to “coordinate” as such. All they have to do is be ready on the dot on booking day. Many will plan to simply fly down, do the “experience” and fly home.

I’m not suggesting Disney won’t market this to their usual demographic. But the geeks are much more likely to book now, sort it out later.
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I explained in an “ETA” above what I meant by blocks.

I agree that most families would eventually tack this onto a longer vacation. That said, you might be surprised at how many people have the ability and desire to book quick one-off trips on short-ish notice — yes, even WITH kids!! ;) We do it with two kids. We have plenty of friends who do as well. As others have said, there’s a real market out there including among families for high-ish end experiential trips.
 
danlb_2000

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flynnibus said:
Gimp has a really nice measuring tool that works when you export the PDFs to TIFF :)
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When I first did my measurement, I saw the 1" to 10' scale, and just measured the rooms as they appeared on the screen, forgetting that I needed to adjust the zoom the correct scale. Pretty embarrassing when you consider that I was a professional draftsman at one point in my career.
 
flynnibus

flynnibus

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danlb_2000 said:
When I first did my measurement, I saw the 1" to 10' scale, and just measured the rooms as they appeared on the screen, forgetting that I needed to adjust the zoom the correct scale. Pretty embarrassing when you consider that I was a professional draftsman at one point in my career.
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Don't worry.. my first attempt I was trying to estimate based on guessing the width of the stairwell doors.. and ballparking from that.. until I finally just downloaded the full images :)

I still am intrigued by what they are representing in those cabin squares, and why no washcloset is shown. 'incomplete' drawings, or not necessary? I'm leaning towards 'incomplete' even tho I want it to be because they are modular installs...
 
MickeyMinnieMom

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Thought I’d add wrt Disney marketing to families on this... look at the most recent concept art and who is featured...
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danlb_2000

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flynnibus said:
Don't worry.. my first attempt I was trying to estimate based on guessing the width of the stairwell doors.. and ballparking from that.. until I finally just downloaded the full images :)

I still am intrigued by what they are representing in those cabin squares, and why no washcloset is shown. 'incomplete' drawings, or not necessary? I'm leaning towards 'incomplete' even tho I want it to be because they are modular installs...
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I am assuming incomplete. There are some random things in some of the cabins, not sure what they are supposed to represent. It's possible that the details are shown in one of the second floor cabins and they just hadn't been copied to the first floor ones yet.
 
Tim Lohr

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danlb_2000 said:
My guess is that not all of these are real elevators, so are just for effect like the old Hydrolators.

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Yeah part of this is Story/show related, and some of it is functional/utilitarian... I'm assuming the "Hydrolator" aspect is "show" something at the main entrance of the actual building to "take guests" from this "airport" type of facade building that you enter, up to the space craft themed hotel "in orbit above earth" or "in a galaxy far far away" ...but the 5 numbered elevators on the blueprint seem like actual, functioning elevators, 2 of them are near an staircase.

Where is this "bridge over L-402 Canal"? That sounds like it could be some type of themed transport from the hotel to the park
 
Tim Lohr

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sedati said:
This got me thinking. There are stairs in Star Wars canon. There are elevators. But I don't believe we've ever seen escalators. Oddly enough, there are even Jetson's style people-tubes (see the Coruscant sport's club in "Attack of the Clones." It's a subtle detail, but you can see it just as Anakin and Obi Wan are walking towards the bar.)

This also gets me wondering. Disney doesn't do gambling, but what if you have galactic credits that are used for fun. They could have betting on podraces and fathier races. You could have Sabaac tournaments along with the other games of the galaxy.

And if the passengers run out of things to do, the mock shuttle could just drive off into the Florida swamps so you could meet Yoda on Dagobah.
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Yeah in Return of the Jedi there are both stairs and elevators that Luke and Vader use on the Death Star... the look of this hotel has that same kind of "militarily industrial" look of the Death Star
 
danlb_2000

danlb_2000

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tl77 said:
Yeah part of this is Story/show related, and some of it is functional/utilitarian... I'm assuming the "Hydrolator" aspect is "show" something at the main entrance of the actual building to "take guests" from this "airport" type of facade building that you enter, up to the space craft themed hotel "in orbit above earth" or "in a galaxy far far away" ...but the 5 numbered elevators on the blueprint seem like actual, functioning elevators, 2 of them are near an staircase.

Where is this "bridge over L-402 Canal"? That sounds like it could be some type of themed transport from the hotel to the park
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It is a permeant replacement for this temporary bridge which was originally built to give access to the parking lot construction project.

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bcoachable

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Wondering if the "Hydrolator" concept we are now talking about could have been the "tunnel" concept that the six times once removed bus driver rumor was all about...
 

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