TROR
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There've been much better and more deserving pieces composed for theme parks. Still cool though.
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There've been much better and more deserving pieces composed for theme parks. Still cool though.
Disney Analyst
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RobWDW1971
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And the reason they are not being used now when the headliner isn’t open and the land is getting so many difficult to change later “meh” reviews is......
Anjin
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Is there an emoji for hanging your shoulders and sighing deeply? They are putting on a good show acting like this was all part of the plan. I wish I could get Scott Trowbridge off mic and ask him how he really feels about the roll out of SWGE.
mickEblu
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Well there was that one interview where he sincerely asked the crowd (after seeing the meh reaction to GE) if they were into the approach they took with GE with guests being part of the story. I’m just over here thinking what story? You have 2 stormtroopers from TL walking around and Chewie and Rey awkwardly looking at a ship behind a fence once in a while. Perhaps he should wait until ROTR opens and they roll out some more interactive elements to ask that question.
TP2000
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And several months ago the Cast Members over on Micechat already spilled the beans on all these characters and their locations/stories that were once planned for the land. Before Mr. Chapek cut them from the budget and made Ky'le from Tustin a character instead.
Chris Beatty is a WDI executive toeing the company line at a public industry trade event. He has a Tesla payment and a mortgage in Pasadena to pay for, after all, so he has to talk a good game. Nothing more.
In short, and I'm rarely this impolite, put up or shut up Mr. Beatty.
TP2000
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There's also Vi Moradi*, Presented by Clairol Color Crave.
She's part of the story. No one's ever heard of her before, but she'll mumble at you about "the resistance" just enough to make you wonder if she's on the payroll, or just a crazy lady who wandered in from the Harbor Blvd. bus stop.
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NateD1226
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Speaking of Grammy noms, they are so bad this year.
sedati
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Aspects of this have been said before. There are built spaces not yet utilized and the general design has many second level areas that seem intended for performance spaces. The land was said to have flex built in well before opening.
chadwpalm
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But there is more story......if you elect to look for it. Play Disney App, comics, websites, etc. tell much of the story of Batuu/GE and its inhabitants (like Vi), the problem is in their hubris they thought it would be enough. That somehow the common guest would go searching for backstory when it wasn't put right in front of them. I do find it slightly insulting that they would claim they have more story and live show plans in the works when we know these were things that originally got cut due to budget and all of a sudden it's as if it was planned all along. Just admit you made a mistake, fix it, and move on.There's also Vi Moradi*, Presented by Clairol Color Crave.
She's part of the story. No one's ever heard of her before, but she'll mumble at you about "the resistance" just enough to kind of make you wonder if she's on the payroll, or just a crazy lady who wandered in from the Harbor Blvd. bus stop.
Mickeyboof
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Virtually every land is flexible for additional characters and stories.
RobWDW1971
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Said differently, they spent billions of dollars to acquire the Star Wars universe and its endless selection of known and loved classic characters and instead put somebody named Vi Something front and center of their billion dollar lands.
Brilliant, WDI, brilliant.
RobWDW1971
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And the Imagineers of those other lands were smart enough to NOT limit their land to a hyper-specific time and place that needlessly limits who and how they can expand the story.
Mickeyboof
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TiggerDad
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She wasn't there when I went, not that I cared.There's also Vi Moradi*, Presented by Clairol Color Crave.
She's part of the story. No one's ever heard of her before, but she'll mumble at you about "the resistance" just enough to make you wonder if she's on the payroll, or just a crazy lady who wandered in from the Harbor Blvd. bus stop.
TP2000
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You're lucky. When I went they had given Chewbacca the night off.
Mickeyboof
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Ah, good, still developing.
I get that she can't say the storytelling was simply cut, but come on. Five years+ in the making.
BubbaQuest
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Why give you everything now when we can up-charge for it later?!
Phroobar
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Storytelling is available for an additional $100 reservation where a $15 an hour CM will try to recite two paragraphs written backstage by her middle manager ten minutes before. Synergy!