Putting aside that you missed the point, I agree that bad and cheesy videos hurt the chances of someone trying the experience though I would argue price was a MUCH bigger factor. Where I disagree with you is that videos are somehow the be all to an experience that you are trying to make it out to be or that they can be used to tell people who went they are somehow wrong.
I can watch someone skydive, not the same as going. I can watch a ride through of Splash, not the same as going. I can watch people swimming with sharks, not the same as going. I can watch a video of a barbecue, not the same as going. Even something as basic as talking to a friend over facetime is a lesser experience than seeing them in person.
The people who went, by and large, really seemed to enjoy it. Saying those videos made you and many others not want to go is perfectly reasonably. Telling people who actually went they didn't enjoy it because you didn't like the videos is just wrong.
Please point to a single post where I am trying to tell somebody who went and enjoyed it that they really did not enjoy it.
Putting your false claim to distract from this disaster closing aside, as I have said several times, I believe that people went and
LOVED it (even capitalized it so people like you would be able to note the emphasis, apparently to no avail).
Your Splash Mountain analogy was wrong on its face, because any posters who did exactly as you said would be factually wrong. Splash has been an enormous hit for decades, beloved by millions, and every video of Splash shows it to be exactly what it is - an incredible music filled, animatronic heavy, fun, thrilling, world-class attraction that has made it hugely popular and duplicated around the world.
However, making those same assumptions and conclusions on the Starcruiser would be factually correct.
You, like others, continue to try to sell this "You really can't tell how awesome it is looking at countless videos where it looks embarrassing, sad, poorly themed, designed by a soccer mom who has never seen "Star Wars", and filled with man-children playing dress up, BUT if you were there it would look like nothing like that" yet provide no proof of any kind because you can't, it is exactly what we all see it is.
And unlike Splash, where millions watch the videos and can't wait to go experience it themselves, millions watched the videos and rejected the concept and it closed in a year.
If the tiny amount of people who where interested in this (again, wait for it...)
LOVED their experience in the 8 year old's birthday party with their fellow LARP'ers, that does not mean anybody else wanted to LARP with them.
Where one cannot exactly understand the sensations of riding Splash, skydiving, swimming with sharks, attending a BBQ, talking to a friend on Facetime on video, etc., experiencing those in person
enhance the perceived experience, it
doesn't negate everything you see on the videos.
You're trying to sell me that I'm talking to Amy Schumer on Facetime, but when I see her in person it's Margot Robbie.
It is what it looks like it is - and it looks terrible.
Millions of potential customers (like me) with disposable income, desire to experience themed experiences, and who like Star Wars and Disney watched the videos and reviews. Seeing what the concept is, they had no interest in LARPing with the LARP'ers who
LOVED it (this is where you tell me I'm saying people didn't love it again), and it closed due to lack of interest.
lol
