News Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser Permanently Closed Fall 2023

[Sirwalterraleigh]

True. Some people don't like SWGS $$$$ and look for other reasons to nit pick

It blew…don’t go into this valley, Colonel Custer

No need to run interference for “the parent company”

 

[Tha Realest]

If TWDC went all in on gambling and built a Star Wars casino with attached real lux hotel featuring Star Wars experiences in Las Vegas it would do well I think. Could you imaging a space casino? That might be just what the money spending public wants. They just have to drop this family thing and go all in on making money......

And when you leave a Rose Tico face character tells you you’re a bad person

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

There’s a reason cruise ships fly foreign flags

The counter to that is remember who’s ships are the most overpriced on the high seas?

 

[GimpYancIent]

You can have your grips with SWGS, but I don’t understand this one. It’s free valet parking, what’s the big deal?

There is nothing free about the entire venue. Valet parking is palatable if offered as an option, mandatory? no.

 

["El Gran Magnifico"]

I’ve a thought. Newly formed.

Turn it into a giant trash compactor. They can charge people to dress up as Stormtroopers and try to escape.

No clues, or hints, or anything like that. Just contracting walls. And maybe some type of serpent. Obviously a release form would be needed.

 

[dreamfinder912]

It’s not even that it priced people out. I’m not priced out, but I”m sorry, spending $6,000 for a 2 night experience is nuts. There are so many better things I can that amount of money on. And I’m the kind of person who probably would have done this if it was priced reasonably. Chapek just got greedy when he priced this thing.

I don't make judgements on how other people choose to spend their money. Some people want to go to Europe each summer. Some people want children. Some people want specific cars. For what the Starcruiser is and includes, it isn't any more outrageous than any other Disney experience.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

I don't make judgements on how other people choose to spend their money. Some people want to go to Europe each summer. Some people want children. Some people want specific cars. For what the Starcruiser is and includes, it isn't any more outrageous than any other Disney PRODUCT.

FTFY

 

[Lilofan]

I don't make judgements on how other people choose to spend their money. Some people want to go to Europe each summer. Some people want children. Some people want specific cars. For what the Starcruiser is and includes, it isn't any more outrageous than any other Disney experience.

Not exactly. The Disney sold out limited party (75 ppl ) 24 day voyage , visit all Disney Parks worldwide, hotels, most food and drink , include Eiffel Tower in France, Taj Mahal in India, Giza Pyramids in Egypt , private chef, private doctor , tour guides, charter flights to all destinations all for $110K per person.

 

[dreamfinder912]

Not exactly. The Disney sold out limited party (75 ppl ) 24 day voyage , visit all Disney Parks worldwide, hotels, most food and drink , include Eiffel Tower in France, Taj Mahal in India, Giza Pyramids in Egypt , private chef, private doctor , tour guides, charter flights to all destinations all for $110K per person.

Exactly. I didn't find the 110k trip to be of more or less value than Starcruiser. I tried to convince my parents to go, as it's about the only way they'd go to any park overseas. I don't see where we aren't in agreement here. I didnt try and itemize the 110k to determine specific value but for convenience and service I'd say it's equal to Starcruiser.

 

["El Gran Magnifico"]

private doctor

Was the private doctor for the park food?

 

[Tha Realest]

Exactly. I didn't find the 110k trip to be of more or less value than Starcruiser. I tried to convince my parents to go, as it's about the only way they'd go to any park overseas. I don't see where we aren't in agreement here. I didnt try and itemize the 110k to determine specific value but for convenience and service I'd say it's equal to Starcruiser.

For what you get and what’s included, you could argue that was a better value than SWGS.

 

[josiah mazelin]

I wonder if they can just include this as part of Hollywood studios. I mean theres an entrance directly in the park. Not sure what they would do with the rooms.

 

[James Alucobond]

I wonder if they can just include this as part of Hollywood studios. I mean theres an entrance directly in the park. Not sure what they would do with the rooms.

The entrance is a ride in the back of a truck across the parking lot. It’s not positioned in such a way to lend itself to being connected to the park.

 

[MagicHappens1971]

I wonder if they can just include this as part of Hollywood studios. I mean theres an entrance directly in the park. Not sure what they would do with the rooms.

The entrance in the park isn’t connected to Starcruiser. You have to take a “transport” backstage to Starcruiser

 

[TheIceBaron]

I'd love to be a fly on the wall at Disney's management meeting deciding cancel this. I wonder why they think it failed or what other numbers they are looking at.

 

[Wendy Pleakley]

It’s not even that it priced people out. I’m not priced out, but I”m sorry, spending $6,000 for a 2 night experience is nuts. There are so many better things I can that amount of money on. And I’m the kind of person who probably would have done this if it was priced reasonably. Chapek just got greedy when he priced this thing.

This is what it comes down to.

This has to be for the small subset of people who can throw $6,000 at an experience without blinking.

A lot of people can "afford" this, in the way they can afford to spend that much on a couple of weeks at WDW.

For most people though, that's their vacation budget for the year or two years. Who is going to do a short experience if it means no other trip for that period?

 

[Tomi-Rocket]

Wow…instead of lowering the prices to make it affordable to a greater audience, they decide to just close it. I would have loved to have gone.

SAME!! When I initially heard about it I was so excited, my whole family are SW fans! Then I saw the pricing and knew we’d never be able to go. So deflating. But the disappointment knowing they’d rather close it rather than lower prices enough for the average family to go was palpable. Huge thumbs down on this decision.

 

[HauntedPirate]

Some people, including a number of posters around here, predicted that this would have a difficult time surviving past 2 years due to the very limited and very niche audience it was targeted at. A LOT of other people said it would be fine and would go on for years and years with no problems filling rooms.

 

[donaldtoo]

As I’ve posted before, quite frankly, I’m surprised it lasted this long.
I was excited when I first heard about it, too. But, then my thoughts started goin’ towards what the price point might be. Sure enough, once they announced it…WTH…?!?!?!
We’re not poor, but, we’re not insane, either…!!!!!
Obnoxious IPmoniUS barges and Stargate are easy enough to get rid of and sell for scrap metal, but, what the hell is Disney gonna’ do with this other giant hard structure of a miscalculation…?!?!?!
Maybe they could turn it into a TV fundraiser special where they blow the whole friggin’ thing to hell, and donate the proceeds to laid off Loser Cruiser CMs…?!?!?!!!!!
Do any executive butts get burned (or worse) for this…?!?!?!
It’s like the whole Disney Company has a collective head up its collective butt, and they can’t pull it out…!!!!!

 

[Ravenclaw78]

SAME!! When I initially heard about it I was so excited, my whole family are SW fans! Then I saw the pricing and knew we’d never be able to go. So deflating. But the disappointment knowing they’d rather close it rather than lower prices enough for the average family to go was palpable. Huge thumbs down on this decision.

Equity actors are expensive. Maintaining show spaces is expensive. We have no idea what the exact operating costs were, and the 30% discounts offered for APs and Visa cardholders imply that they were running on margins at least that much higher than their costs, but it was never going to be possible to run it at "average family" pricing without going in the red by thousands of dollars per family. With only 100 rooms and a show that required insanely high levels of roleplay and interaction from the cast members, the Starcruiser was always advertised as a "boutique" premium product and not a mass-market offering. The only questions are whether they priced it at a level that even their target market were priced out and/or felt there was insufficient value for the money (clearly yes), and whether there was a price at which they could have filled their rooms without operating at a loss (maybe?).