News Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser Permanently Closed Fall 2023

Tha Realest

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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
 

dreamfinder912

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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.
 

Lilofan

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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

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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.
 

Tha Realest

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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.
 

Wendy Pleakley

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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

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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. 👎🏻
 

donaldtoo

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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…!!!!! :hilarious:
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…?!?!?!!!!! :D
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…!!!!! :hilarious:
 

Ravenclaw78

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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?).
 
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