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News Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser coming to Walt Disney World 2021
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GimpYancIent
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Summer 2023? Optimistic you are.
Sirwalterraleigh
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Married5Times
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Now look maybe your method of a foot massage differs from mine but you know touching his wife's feet...............
pdude81
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Certainly hard to figure out what it's worth to them, much like figuring out what the rubric is on Right of First Refusal. However, they make a killing off those points and will take them in trade for any room they sell in any country they sell them in (At least for those who paid the ransom directly). They value them (in trade) usually just less than what you pay in maintenance per point and then charge the next guy triple to stay in the same room. So I don't think the taking of points in trade has anything to do with their booking expectations, especially since they allowed this at the beginning with all day phone holds for Golden Oak members and before the embarrassing videos surfaced.
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Sirwalterraleigh
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…yeah…the whole “make a killing” and rubrics is the well I’m kindly gonna not dive down
TP2000
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Got that. And again, I'm new to this LARP concept. But the LARP thing seems very involved and purposeful; like ComicCon in San Diego, battle re-enactments in Virginia, those medieval fairs in soggy fields that I guess also qualify as LARP, etc.
Having Pinnocchio goof around with you in Fantasyland, or having the Stormtroopers hassle your dad outside the Millennium Falcon ride, or Pluto getting down on the ground to greet an excited Service Dog, etc. seems like just a normal theme park thing that's been happening for many decades. Or is that now considered LARP too?
Forgive me, but I always considered that stuff to be the cute-funny parts of going to a theme park. Not "LARP".
TP2000
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I'm also reminded of the big LARP-esque test they had for several weeks in Frontierland at Disneyland seven or eight years ago. I was baffled by it, and they did it for several weeks. But now looking back, WDI was clearly testing new concepts in themed entertainment, probably the Blue Sky phase of what became the Galactic Starcruiser.
I guess this was actually "LARP"? Or does it not qualify because the participants weren't in costume?
I observed it several times from a bench, and inspected all the elaborate sets throughout Frontierland. The willing participants of this daylong game seemed to be mostly 20something year old SoCal local AP's who hang out there regularly and had done everything at Disneyland so many times that they were happy to try out a new activity. They went around collecting flags and solving riddles and helping actors, and some even got thrown in "jail" for their bad deeds.
But the average tourist family visiting Disneyland from Seattle or Sydney was like "Excuse us please, we've got a Fastpass for Big Thunder to get to!"
For East Coasters who may have missed this big Disneyland experiment years ago, here's a summary of Legends Of Frontierland that WDI tested out for several weeks....
www.latimes.com
A year so later there was also some game they played in Adventureland, where you went around on a treasure hunt collecting these rather snazzy looking jeweled medallions. Then it all went away.
I guess this was actually "LARP"? Or does it not qualify because the participants weren't in costume?
I observed it several times from a bench, and inspected all the elaborate sets throughout Frontierland. The willing participants of this daylong game seemed to be mostly 20something year old SoCal local AP's who hang out there regularly and had done everything at Disneyland so many times that they were happy to try out a new activity. They went around collecting flags and solving riddles and helping actors, and some even got thrown in "jail" for their bad deeds.
But the average tourist family visiting Disneyland from Seattle or Sydney was like "Excuse us please, we've got a Fastpass for Big Thunder to get to!"
For East Coasters who may have missed this big Disneyland experiment years ago, here's a summary of Legends Of Frontierland that WDI tested out for several weeks....
From the Archives: Disneyland’s live-action game is a fun dose of the Old West
For the past decade, Walt Disney Imagineering has been conducting multiple play tests, big and small, in its parks.
www.latimes.com
A year so later there was also some game they played in Adventureland, where you went around on a treasure hunt collecting these rather snazzy looking jeweled medallions. Then it all went away.
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flynnibus
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Disneybounding or wearing costumes at the theme park is not LARPing. You aren't role playing by immersing yourself in the culture and story at the park. You aren't running around pretending you are peter pan and this is neverland. It's why your posed questions were so far off.
Actively participating in a role playing experience in a live action setting would be considered LARPing. Hence the name.. Live Action Role Playing. Pretending you are part of the rebels and trying to gain intelligence through a series of tasks assigned to you in a space you are pretending is the role play setting.. for your enjoyment.. would be LARPing. And that's why it's being referenced in the 360 experience Disney is selling for the Star Cruiser. Wanting people to get into the story and not just observe it like they do in a traditional theme park.
I'm also reminded of the big LARP-esque test they had for several weeks in Frontierland at Disneyland seven or eight years ago. I was baffled by it, and they did it for several weeks. But now looking back, WDI was clearly testing new concepts in themed entertainment, probably the Blue Sky phase of what became the Galactic Starcruiser.
I guess this was actually "LARP"? Or does it not qualify because the participants weren't in costume?
I observed it several times from a bench, and inspected all the elaborate sets throughout Frontierland. The willing participants of this daylong game seemed to be mostly 20something year old SoCal local AP's who hang out there regularly and had done everything at Disneyland so many times that they were happy to try out a new activity. They went around collecting flags and solving riddles and helping actors, and some even got thrown in "jail" for their bad deeds.
But the average tourist family visiting Disneyland from Seattle or Sydney was like "Excuse us please, we've got a Fastpass for Big Thunder to get to!"
For East Coasters who may have missed this big Disneyland experiment years ago, here's a summary of Legends Of Frontierland that WDI tested out for several weeks....
From the Archives: Disneyland’s live-action game is a fun dose of the Old West
For the past decade, Walt Disney Imagineering has been conducting multiple play tests, big and small, in its parks.
A year so later there was also some game they played in Adventureland, where you went around on a treasure hunt collecting these rather snazzy looking jeweled medallions. Then it all went away.
Cedar Fair parks have done this a lot better with Ghost Town Alive at Knotts Berry Farm and Forbidden Frontier at Cedar Point which now includes the ride Snake River Expedition as almost a spin off. Even then, it gets tiring and something you eventually don't want to keep investigating and spending a whole day on as it starts to feel like actual work for some.
Buried20KLeague
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i prefer the term “Guinea pig”.
Yes, that's a LARP. You can role-play without dressing the part. Dressing the part is optional on the starcruiser.
Morkey Moose
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TP2000
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Ah, okay. That's exactly how I assumed this LARP thing worked, and how it's entry requirements were defined as.
But earlier in this thread we had a few folks claiming that when you had a funny interaction with a Character, or when Stormtroopers hassled dad for a laugh from the kids, that was a form of and/or met a minimum definition of LARP.
I'd disagree with that, and classify that as simply theme park fun. I'm glad I'm not the only one to redefine normal, decades-old theme park operations as suddenly being "LARP".
flynnibus
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Ah, okay. That's exactly how I assumed this LARP thing worked, and how it's entry requirements were defined as.
But earlier in this thread we had a few folks claiming that when you had a funny interaction with a Character, or when Stormtroopers hassled dad for a laugh from the kids, that was a form of and/or met a minimum definition of LARP.
I'd disagree with that, and classify that as simply theme park fun. I'm glad I'm not the only one to redefine normal, decades-old theme park operations as suddenly being "LARP".
While it maybe role playing for a few minutes... telling a joke or two during the day doesn't make your day a stand-up comic set
LARP usually refers to an organized activity or a sustained session by a group. It's not a description for someone acting out spontaneously or momentarily.
TP2000
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While it maybe role playing for a few minutes... telling a joke or two during the day doesn't make your day a stand-up comic set
LARP usually refers to an organized activity or a sustained session by a group. It's not a description for someone acting out spontaneously or momentarily.
Oh, thank God.
The way some folks here tell it, the next time I went to Disneyland and had an Ugly Stepsister pretend to flirt with me on my way to the Matterhorn I was supposed to be immersed in magic and LARP my way to my next destination.
I'll save the LARPing for the high rollers at the Galactic Starcruiser, or those folks wearing itchy medieval garb who wander around soggy fields drinking homemade mead on weekends.
This is a great point.
Matter of fact I was looking into the launch costs for Space X. 40 Million !!!!!
This starcruiser thingy is way cheaper and I still go to space!
Thank you so much for your post. I now realize what a terrible mistake it would have been to miss this experience while saving 39.999 Million bux!!
Wohoo thank you Chapek!!
TikibirdLand
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I gotta say, I was pretty amused at this kind of interaction when we went to Colonial Williamsburg. One lady was mending a quilt and asked my DD where she was from. When she said, "Texas", the lady looked at her puzzled and quized her about where it was and what country was running that "colony". Totally went over the head of my DD. But, we really enjoyed it. I had a carpenter ask me about my "trade" when I talked to him about his tools. I found out that I, too, was WAAY over my head when it comes to "LARPing". But, I think we all found out it was pretty fun; just not sure I have the skills to pull it off.
I have a friend that does the Texian reactments each year down near San Jancinto. Don't know if that's still going on. But, he has his "lived in" Private garb and is usually "killed" during the major battle they have. He loved doing it. And, IIRC, they are full experience when it comes to hygene. Loved to hear his stories. I don't think I want to participate in it though.
Sirwalterraleigh
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My favorite is the guy who insists he play Washington in the reenactment of the crossing of the Delaware…
he’s so big it would have taken the 1776 equivalent of an aircraft carrier to get him across…
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What the world needs is a "Final Countdown"-type event occurring during the American-English War of 1775.