Once I visited for the first time I was excited. By the third time my impression (an opinion I still hold today) is that SW is one big money grab for Disney.
Don’t get me wrong. Disney invested a lot of money for the acquisition, and yes they’d want to make money from it, but the optics (at least for me) seemed a bit overkill.
It’s almost as Disney approached everything SW like:
We’ll sell over priced drinks, have a ton of shops, charge a gazillion dollars for a build it yourself light saber, have some more shops, oh I know let’s build a hotel and charge 5k for it. Then we can create a special Star Wars drink for another 5k and sell it to people not even in the parks.
The focus was never on doing right by the IP.
Don’t get me wrong. Disney invested a lot of money for the acquisition, and yes they’d want to make money from it, but the optics (at least for me) seemed a bit overkill.
It’s almost as Disney approached everything SW like:
We’ll sell over priced drinks, have a ton of shops, charge a gazillion dollars for a build it yourself light saber, have some more shops, oh I know let’s build a hotel and charge 5k for it. Then we can create a special Star Wars drink for another 5k and sell it to people not even in the parks.
The focus was never on doing right by the IP.