News Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser coming to Walt Disney World 2021

Minthorne

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Please stay on topic - Starcruiser. Thanks
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TP2000

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I have a bit of a unique inside perspective on this because I had a pretty in-depth conversation with Harrison Ford about this topic. I was extremely lucky to have had a private lunch with Harrison August of 2013. We spoke a lot about Star Wars and how he was signed up for months at that point to reprise his role but Disney still had not made an official announcement yet. I asked him about the history and rumor about him not not enjoying playing Han Solo and he said that couldn’t be further from the truth. When they were filming Return of the Jedi he did try to persuade George Lucas to not have him survive the final battle. He felt it would have made a much more emotional ending if they all didn’t survive and his character made the most sense to sacrifice. George obviously didn’t agree but the story got out there over the years. He said it became a big joke on late night shows that he wanted to be killed off because he didn’t like playing Han so he has played up that story for laughs. The truth is he loved his time playing the character and that’s why he signed back up right away. Harrison said at that point in his life and I would assume still to this day he only picks rolls that he thinks he will enjoy doing. He said he has more money than he can ever spend and he wasn’t interested in winning anymore awards. At the end of his career he just wants have fun and enjoy acting. That is the sole reason he picks what roles he does now. That’s why he immediately said yes to retuning to play Han Solo, now in two different sequel films The Force Awakens and The Rise of Skywalker and if the rumors are true he’ll be making an apearance in future Dianey+ shows. However he did admit as much as he loves playing Han his heart is playing Indiana. The way he talked about Indiana it sounded like he would play the character up until he was physically dead if Disney would let him. 😂

Fascinating! I've always liked Harrison Ford, he seems like a genuinely good man without much pretense. But as a Southern Californian, we just need to keep him from flying anymore airplanes.

Back OT, is there no info leaking out from any test stays or even test meals at this place? It seems awfully close to a grand opening of a big new facility to not have CM previews, testing stays, advance media peeks, etc.

I don't want to think it's suspicious, but it seems... suspicious. 🧐
 
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durangojim

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A Facebook group is reporting that there are emergency exits in each room behind the “space window” which can drop down apparently. This seems insane to me. If true why would the do this?
 

TP2000

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A Facebook group is reporting that there are emergency exits in each room behind the “space window” which can drop down apparently. This seems insane to me. If true why would the do this?

Because you have to have two ways to get out of a building during a fire. When you stay at a Hampton Inn, the windows are an emergency exit route. On the upper floors, a fireman on a ladder rescues you, but it's at least an option.

You can see the fire exits and emergency window openings on the exterior of the building.

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Sirwalterraleigh

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Because you have to have two ways to get out of a building during a fire. When you stay at a Hampton Inn, the windows are an emergency exit route. On the upper floors, a fireman on a ladder rescues you, but it's at least an option.

You can see the fire exits and emergency window openings on the exterior of the building.

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But since you have to crush the windows in any Hotel anyway…it’s interesting that the “screen”
Doesn’t meat coded to he smashed 🤔
 

MisterPenguin

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So what’s the deal with parking/transportation to this thing? Doesn’t appear to be surface lots for customers?

which makes sense but you gotta get there, right?

It's all valet. Not sure where the lot is though


Posted 11 days ago in this thread...

Enhance!

Certainly seems like valet parking above (over 80 spaces and numbered), and definitely cast parking below:View attachment 617765
 

MoonRakerSCM

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Back OT, is there no info leaking out from any test stays or even test meals at this place? It seems awfully close to a grand opening of a big new facility to not have CM previews, testing stays, advance media peeks, etc.

I don't want to think it's suspicious, but it seems... suspicious. 🧐

Kinda like movies... if it's good... they'll show bits and pieces because they know it'll generate massive positive news. If it's bad though... review embargo in place and they're hush hush about it. You can always tell when a movie is going to be a dud.

It's all valet. Not sure where the lot is though

The question is, is valet parking included for your $6000?
 

Cesar R M

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I think Revenge of the Sith might be better than The Last Jedi, but I also don't think Last Jedi really works. In a vacuum it's a decent movie -- not great, because just about every part of the Canto Bight plotline is bad and feels like it fell out a separate movie -- but it didn't really go anywhere interesting or do anything new for Star Wars (not suggesting that the other films did either; I just see that mentioned as a plus for the Last Jedi and it's never made sense to me). Rian Johnson is a very good filmmaker but I think it's his worst film.

With that said, The Force Awakens is a large part of The Last Jedi's problem. It gave him almost nothing to work with; that movie set up the rest of the trilogy to fail by resetting the galaxy to the original movies. There just wasn't much room to do anything interesting from that starting point. If anyone deserves the lion's share of the blame for the overall failure of the sequel trilogy, it's JJ Abrams.

I think the prequel trilogy is a lot more interesting (not the same as saying they're better) than the sequel trilogy. The movies are worse from a filmmaking standpoint for the most part (the scripts and direction are quite bad) but they're bad in an interesting way. The underlying plots are honestly pretty good, and there's an alternate universe where the prequels are excellent films because Lucas let other talented people direct the movies and write the scripts based off of his plot treatments. The sequel trilogy is generally well made but in a bland, mostly directionless way. For better or worse, the prequels are very much the artistic output of a single visionary with all the good and bad that entails. The sequels feel more like something put together by a corporate committee.
Agree with this. The "new" trilogy felt a lot like a reboot but using third party chars and killing the liked ones.
Like Disney/Co making sure that these fan chars are dead and they can use new ones.

I mean, the dark sith.... the giant planet destroying weapon. The weakness on the weapon... The random hero living in an almost desert planet doing very basic stuff ( rey )...
The worst was how they ruined the republic from the start by making it useless and in the end they did nothing and were destroyed.

Every single character introduced was almost ad-nauseam replacement of the classic ones.

You got your "new" whinny Anakin, you got your Luke, You got your Solo, you got your Antilles, you got your chewbaca partner comedic thing. And a lot of forgettable additional characters that were quickly forgotten between directors and movies.
 

Cesar R M

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Because you have to have two ways to get out of a building during a fire. When you stay at a Hampton Inn, the windows are an emergency exit route. On the upper floors, a fireman on a ladder rescues you, but it's at least an option.

You can see the fire exits and emergency window openings on the exterior of the building.

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I assume that there is a maintenance corridor behind the "fake 3d windows" for maintenance purposes and escape routes?
 

Sirwalterraleigh

Premium Member
Agree with this. The "new" trilogy felt a lot like a reboot but using third party chars and killing the liked ones.
Like Disney/Co making sure that these fan chars are dead and they can use new ones.

I mean, the dark sith.... the giant planet destroying weapon. The weakness on the weapon... The random hero living in an almost desert planet doing very basic stuff ( rey )...
The worst was how they ruined the republic from the start by making it useless and in the end they did nothing and were destroyed.

Every single character introduced was almost ad-nauseam replacement of the classic ones.

You got your "new" whinny Anakin, you got your Luke, You got your Solo, you got your Antilles, you got your chewbaca partner comedic thing. And a lot of forgettable additional characters that were quickly forgotten between directors and movies.
Hmmm…this hadn’t occurred to me before? 🤔
 

Sirwalterraleigh

Premium Member
Kinda like movies... if it's good... they'll show bits and pieces because they know it'll generate massive positive news. If it's bad though... review embargo in place and they're hush hush about it. You can always tell when a movie is going to be a dud.

not at all the same.
This thing is expensive as all hell and a very tough sell. If it was marketable…they’d be marketing the living crap out of it to line bookings up.

pretty common sense here.
 

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