Tha Realest
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See? Now I would pay $6,000 for a fully immersive experience within EPCOT circa 1984-86. Especially if I could LARP as nine-year-old me.
Great call! This is right out of Epcot 1984.
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News Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser coming to Walt Disney World 2021
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CinematicFusion
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TikibirdLand
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I want to do Seabase Alpha, only if the Hydrolators are working!
Great call! This is right out of Epcot 1984.
lazyboy97o
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Custom fixtures really isn’t much of a thing, especially for commercial fixtures that are used a lot and have to hold up to abuse. There’s a lot of engineering and design that goes into toilets and there are a lot regulations that go into bathroom design.
Bathrooms are also weird psychologically. Immersion very much does and pretty much has to end at the door. The restrooms in Africa and Asia at Disney’s Animal Kingdom are very easy to see this where the land outside is old and worn but the bathrooms are fresh and new. Just bad lighting can make people think a bathroom is small and dirty.
TikibirdLand
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Not to mention, what does a "refresher" even look like in a galaxy, far, far away? Haven't really seen any in the movies...
CinematicFusion
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I keep thinking I’ll see Buck Rodgers in the background if I look hard enough.
Great call! This is right out of Epcot 1984.
Twiki: ”Be ba de ba beep… shake that butt Buck!”
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GimpYancIent
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Interesting. So, you are into bathrooms?
lentesta
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Great call! This is right out of Epcot 1984.
I can never un-see this. Thank you.
durangojim
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I have a video of a walkthrough of one of the regular cabins. In my opinion it looks fine as in adequate…for a $200 a night value resort. If anyone wants to see it, pm me and I’ll send a link. It’s from a tiktoker who is on the ship apparently. A couple interesting observations: there is a phone in the room which is built into the wall. The room is small. The doors are pocket doors so at least they kept that aesthetic.
corran horn
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That's not a negative to me. SeaBase Alpha is great.
Great call! This is right out of Epcot 1984.
Tha Realest
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So it's combined all the negatives of a cruise (high cost, cramped quarters, fixed itinerary) without many of the benefits (being on the ocean, lounging by the pool, visiting unique locales that are inaccessible to most).
durangojim
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That’s what it seems to me. I’m not one of those people who views their room as only a place to sleep so even when I’ve cruises we get a larger room with a balcony. This has no privacy at all when it comes to the bunks and main bed and there’s no view.
pdude81
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There are a lot of people doing windmill dunks on an 8 foot rim here. You all could be right, but the couple pictures and videos we've gotten are tough to form an opinion from. You need to get some of the information about how those appear to people in real life. If people come out of there and (by and large) say the dinner show sucked, then by all means start up the slam dunk contest. Until then it's all known. The same people say the same things on these threads (for and against), and few will believe anything the freebie cruisers say. 3/3 is the drop date for real information.
surfsupdon
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Nice to see a comeback of Resort specific merchandise. Haha!!
runnsally
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I like the rooms but seems like they took the cruise idea a little too far…did the rooms really need to be that small?
CinematicFusion
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That was on Disney for releasing a marketing campaign that was decidedly underwhelming.
Add to the fact that this hotel was designed as a generic space fantasy hotel that combines elements from Epcot, Buck Rodgers, Battle Star Galactica and of course Star Wars and we get the blow back it’s receiving now.
But… as you say on 3/3 we will start getting answers.
Was it just a terrible marketing campaign and the experience is everything a Star Wars fan could hope for?
I can’t wait to see the reviews.
I was completely on board paying $7000.00 to experience a Star Wars hotel until I saw the marketing campaign.
Now I’m in wait and see mode and leaning more to not wanting to do it anymore.
3/3 we get answers…
Tha Realest
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Underpromise / overdeliver is a cliche but there is truth to it. When execution seems to fall short of what's been previewed, and the offerings don't appear to justify the cost (which is a repeated mantra from those who've tested this), then I don't think it's premature or unfair to look critically at this project.
I'm good freinds with someone who did a test voyage and the basic take on it was it didn't feel like a Star Wars experience at all and that it was a generic space hotel. The actors are good, but since it's all characters no one has seen before, there's was no real excitement to it. It was like if you gave the Citizens of Hollywood space uniforms and told them to not be funny. They walk around trying to make situations work, like a bad guy yelling at bartender he wants a drink, but he hasn't paid his tab so he can't and leaves. The rooms were comparable to cruise ship cabins but not as nice and more claustrophobic. There's no real resort amenities here, but we all know that. The highlight was going to Galaxies Edge. The detail in the land and attractions surpassed, in their opinion, what they experienced onboard. They said, "you have 14 acre, billion dollar land vs. a "Space Dave and Buster's." They said the food was excellent but that alone can't justify the cost. The biggest take away was that this resort needs loads of Star Wars characters...and there's none. Chewie...Rey and Kylo...if you even really consider them Star Wars characters. People are going to be paying a ton of cash expecting Star Wars and Disney is not giving them what they want. They compared it to building a Lord of the Rings resort, with 2 characters from the Hobbit.
