Mac Tonight
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News Star Wars Galaxy's Edge Disneyland opening reports/reviews
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smooch
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As long as the dinner theatre doesn't have its budget severely cut and become a hollow shell of the concept promised to us. My biggest worry going forward with Disneyland projects is that because Galaxy's Edge performed so poorly and had such a big budget that Chapek will be scared to invest large amounts of money back into the park and lead to cheap expansions.
mickEblu
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Well then he would be a moron. It’s not getting good reiviews because of everything he cut.
smooch
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That's the problem, I think he is a moron in terms of theme park operations. I think he is gonna see the poor performance and think it means they should not invest as much money in to their expansions because they did not perform as well as they liked when they went all out with the budget. I just don't think Chapek is the right person to run the parks, I would like to see someone new that has experience in theme park operations come and lead Disney and hopefully pay to bring back everything that was promised in the original land and add more life to the land in order to get better reviews and create higher demand for the park.
smooch
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Oh he's in there, but he's made of plastic and you have to pay $100 to put him together yourself ;-). In all seriousness though, I really wish there was a life size BB-8 rolling around the land, there are fans who create full size, metal, movie accurate recreations of R2-D2 and BB-8 that actually light up and move and make noises just for their love of the franchise but Disney can't be bothered to have any roaming the parks. But hey, if you pay Disney $25,000 they will build one for you!
THE 1HAPPY HAUNT
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I was defending your right not to answer so why did you qoute me as if I was attacking you?
THE 1HAPPY HAUNT
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Lol. We are not the same person. My main gripe is the ramp, and the land should've also included ot characthers on top of the newer characthers since it is a theme park land afterall, instead of going for total immersion, in which half of the immersive elements they cut out of the budget anyway thus ruining their own goal. I am not one of those who said "a star wars land doesn't belong at Disneyland". I was looking forward to it then it came out they were limiting themselves by forcing it to be set in the new sequel timeline. Then they cut half of the immersive things. Then the stupid gobbledygook the castmembers say was found out etc. No one says "May the Force be with you" anywhere in the land!!! Not even at Savvi's!!!!! How can this be in a Star Wars land???! I think they failed at what they did. They can still correct it and make the land good if they open their massive check book and stop being cheap and stop the immersive crap and make it a general land that is a celebration of all of star wars. Yeah i think not making it on a knwon star wars planet was a mistake but not that big of a mistake if they had allowed luke and others to roam around.Wait a minute...
Didn't someone once accuse you and him of being the same person?!?!?! It makes your rush to defend him that much more suspect...
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lifeisgoodboy
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Apparently it's a thing, at least for La Jolla trophy wives. Is your grocery store also in La Jolla, by chance?
I just checked Amazon and it's there under the search "Star Wars Windshield Sun Shade". They also have a BB-8 one. They don't sell any that have Poe, Finn, Ray, Fa, So, La, Ti or Do. Only the original 1970's/80's characters, and BB-8 who appears to be the only recent character people like. I'm dumb and old, and even I know and like BB-8.
You would think Mr. Chapek, Scott Trowbridge, and WDI in general would've realized that by just a quick Amazon search before they built their Billion Dollar Star Wars Land that has none of those characters except Chewie In Mourning over Han Solo's death, but alas, here we are.
Back OT, why isn't BB-8 found anywhere in Star Wars Land? He was there in the concept art a few years ago, but is entirely absent from the land here in 2019. Seriously, Mr. Chapek, is there anything likable that you didn't cut?!?
The grocery store was in San Louis Obispo, Ca.
lifeisgoodboy
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I wonder when this droid will be at star wars land:
A droid named ‘Jake’ roams Disneyland. Will this and other droids follow you around in Star Wars land?
Just a day after The Walt Disney Co. released a trailer for its latest “Star Wars” movie, Disneyland dropped a major hint of what might inhabit Star Wars land: Galaxy’s Edge in 20…
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TROR
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That droid design is honestly ugly. If they do ever add droids to Galaxy's Edge, I hope they don't have such poor designs.I wonder when this droid will be at star wars land:
A droid named ‘Jake’ roams Disneyland. Will this and other droids follow you around in Star Wars land?
Just a day after The Walt Disney Co. released a trailer for its latest “Star Wars” movie, Disneyland dropped a major hint of what might inhabit Star Wars land: Galaxy’s Edge in 20…
smooch
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Yeah I really don't like that droid design, it genuinely feels like they're trying to make a Star Wars experience without any of the recognizable aspects of Star Wars, if they are gonna put a droid (or hopefully droids) why not use BB model droids if they are so keen on implementing everything from the sequels, although that could be harder to control in the streets so then why not just use an R2 model droid it doesn't even have to be R2-D2
TROR
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There’s no reason to not have R2-D2 and C-3PO in the land. Their lack of presence in the sequels have been the biggest flaw in the trilogy so far.
Sirwalterraleigh
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I have so much to reflect upon this Star Wars land thing....after seeing it.
Somebody is gonna need to give me a book advance to get “maximum effort”
Somebody is gonna need to give me a book advance to get “maximum effort”
If you've seen the video of a droid like Jake at WDW, the kids are hanging on him, trying to stop him, etc... Notice the large base so he can't be pushed over or run over some kid's toes. I think for the lawyers, we'd get more like Jake and not many like BB8 or C3P0.
Jake's design definitely looks more durable/stable than BB-8 or even R2.
A 3PO costumed character might be too difficult to swing (you'd need a performer skinny enough to wear the outfit AND to a decent Daniels impression, to say nothing of how precarious the costume would be and the limited movement.)
But think the park needs ANY droids at this point, so if Jake is what's available, get him out there!
brihow
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Has there ever been a 3PO costumed performer of any kind at a Disney park? I feel like we could easily forgive the performer for being not quite as tiny as 3PO in the movie, as long as they got the movements down.
I think there are too many problematic elements involved with that costume in terms of visibility, mobility, etc., to say nothing of the difficultly in casting.
I mean, maybe they could have 3P0 if he didn't walk around, just hung out in one place. But it'd be tricky.
Just get us some rubber-headed aliens and rolling droids and we'll be happy!
Guys, I’m sure C3P0 would appreciate your concern for his limitations but a costumed character does exist and he can walk around just fine. Having him out in the land is not a bad idea!
KBLovedDisney
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Just have him [C3PO] and R2D2 on one of the balconies at Batuu welcoming guests and arguing with each other.
I don't think TDC understands anymore just how much those small touches does for a Disney/Star Wars fan.
I don't think TDC understands anymore just how much those small touches does for a Disney/Star Wars fan.