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I just got home from a fabulous dinner out with some really witty friends laughing all night long, so I'm honestly in a great mood
![Cocktail glass :cocktail: 🍸](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f378.png)
![Partying face :partying_face: 🥳](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f973.png)
, but for whatever reason this photo is just so troubling.
These are clearly fun and hard working CM's wearing a pre-opening uniform, but for the love of God
don't showcase them like this publicly on the 'Gram. These CM's are not yet ready for Prime Time, nor is this photo suitable for mass public distribution just a few weeks before opening a premium-priced and highly-themed offering.
Are there no Disney executives left with any sense of showmanship?!?
In no particular order, off the top of my head...
- Why? Why would you release this photo publicly? These CM's are not wearing the actual Galactic Starcruiser uniform. They look like nurses wearing generic 21st century scrubs to most folks, or to Disney fans they are obviously wearing a hybrid Launch Bay/ Disneyland Space Mountain uniform. With masks. Outdoors. They look like nurses at a supermarket picking up milk and dog food on their way home from work. It makes the Galactic Starcruiser product look average and mundane and contemporary, instead of premium and exotic and immersive.
- This is a premium priced product. The most expensive hotel at WDW, which is already an expensive place. So why showcase it like this so amateurish and casual? The Brutalist architecture of the entrance is not impressive, it's unadorned concrete, which is what Brutalism mostly was 50 years ago. This Brutalist porte cochere is not impressive or luxurious, so stop showing it. The amateur faux-fun Selfie! staging of the photo makes it worse.
- I'm a little worried about this CM demographic. They look to be an average of 25 years old. Have they been trained in luxury hotel operations? What training do they have? What luxury hotel experience do they have? Do they understand the demographic that can afford this hotel can often be very demanding? Please tell me they aren't just former Jungle Cruise Skippers or Port Orleans desk clerks who are Star Wars nerds and put in for a transfer. I'm worried just by looking at their obvious lack of job tenure, even with how excited they look.
- And again with those uniforms. Who approved branding this allegedly luxury property pre-opening with such cheap and unattractive nurse uniforms? You are literally making it worse. Do not release photos of CM's until the CM's are wearing their official, themed uniforms! This is Disney Theme Park Operation 101 level stuff.
- Who the heck is in charge? It's technically Mr. Vahle, but the multiple errors in judgement it took for him to release this tacky and brand-damaging photo only a few weeks before opening should make investors and fans alike worry.