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Disney Irish

Disney Irish

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Hatbox Ghostbuster said:
yeeeaaaaah....I definitely don't think a park overrun with robots would make a better guest experience...but whatever!
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Disney is never going to have their parks ever completely run by bots, at least not in our lifetimes. And that is not what we are talking about. We are talking about simple services like food delivery.
 
Hatbox Ghostbuster

Hatbox Ghostbuster

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Disney Irish Bruh said:
Disney is never going to have their parks ever completely run by bots, at least not in our lifetimes. And that is not what we are talking about. We are talking about simple services like food delivery.
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lol. Do you even hear yourself sometimes??

And its funny you mention food service because every time I've had a human hand me my food at the parks, its always been fresh and warm...but soldier on.
 
Hatbox Ghostbuster

Hatbox Ghostbuster

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MisterPenguin said:
They're developing robots that will actually lift you up and carry to an upper floor of a building. Sounds really dangerous. They're calling them "elevators."
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Doesn't sound like a good idea...

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Rich T

Rich T

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Disney Irish Bruh said:
Well Mr Grumpypants, we're talking about usage such as guests getting their food via bots in the SW Hotel. That leads to better guest experience because its "themed", and they get their food quicker meaning fresher and warmer. So yeah its a better guest experience overall.
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Smiles. Eats a 3 Musketeer bar. Glances at phone. Catches a Poochyena!
 
Disney Irish

Disney Irish

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Hatbox Ghostbuster said:
lol. Do you even hear yourself sometimes??

And its funny you mention food service because every time I've had a human hand me my food at the parks, its always been fresh and warm...but soldier on.
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Well everyone has their own opinions and experiences.

There is a difference in food received inside the parks, and room service delivery in the hotel. We are, or at least I was, talking about room service bot delivery.
 
Hatbox Ghostbuster

Hatbox Ghostbuster

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Disney Irish Bruh said:
Well everyone has their own opinions and experiences.

There is a difference in food received inside the parks, and room service delivery in the hotel. We are, or at least I was, talking about room service bot delivery.
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...OK.

Also, there are dedicated SW:GE Hotel threads elsewhere where this can be discussed. We're not getting the hotel, so its all just cage-rattling.
 
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nevol

nevol

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Rich T said:
I'm just balking at the suggestions that the bots will be interacting with SWGE and WDW hotel guests completely unsupervised. Supervised-- yes, absolutely that's going to happen!

I am tired of being Mr. Grumpypants! Going to try very hard to keep my dang mouth shut and wait until something I can be positive about comes along!
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I never said they wouldn't be supervised, maybe somebody else did. The robots make sense in star wars because they are part of that story world. It is easier to make an animatronic look like a robot than it is to make it look like a human. The recent disney research documents reveal that a full cast of actors would be the go-between between the software running the show and the guests themselves. That is more human touch than what we currently have, which is a relatively character-absent theme park outside of rides and meet n greets. That would be human guides, human actors, and probably human characters in the park during these side narratives. Maybe a few of those major narrative moments would include a droid/soft AI animatronic. The roaming droids are a separate discussion altogether, but the inclusion of 10-50 droids in the land doesn't eliminate human interaction-much to your point of required supervision, it does the opposite. The meet n greets with live actors and static figures at DHS, the roaming droids, and the parade of storm troopers are evidence of things to come. It is not hard to imagine that they'll deploy a full arsenal of interactive characters in different mediums. Free roaming, scheduled showtimes, animatronics, droids, etc. This isn't unlike walking through new orleans square after walking off pirates. You see robots singing. You get outside, you see a costumed cast member. You walk another ten feet, and in front of cafe orleans, you see a live band performing music, this time not in character costume.

I wouldn't advocate for disney to turn all of disneyland into an animatronic, human-absent live action roleplay. I think that the lands not designed for it (and designed to represent the 1800s for example) ought to stick to that.For the record, I think disney is wasting money on turning everything that you used to interface with in the parks into mobile/automated applications. Fastpass/maxpass and now this dining service are all just abstractions from the flow of the theme park whose interface is multisensory but predominately visual. Id rather have my head up facing forward while I'm out in the park, and wait in a faster moving line to talk to a human, than stare at my phone to schedule a meal and then go pick it up and get trapped having to talk to cast any way about the mistakes made in the mobile ordering.
 
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Hatbox Ghostbuster

Hatbox Ghostbuster

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nevol said:
For the record, I think disney is wasting money on turning everything that you used to interface with in the parks into mobile/automated applications. Fastpass/maxpass and now this dining service are all just abstractions from the flow of the theme park whose interface is multisensory but predominately visual. Id rather have my head up facing forward while I'm out in the park, and wait in a faster moving line to talk to a human, than stare at my phone to schedule a meal and then go pick it up and get trapped having to talk to cast any way about the mistakes made in the mobile ordering.
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Agreed! I cringe at the idea that at some point in the future my phone will become a necessary component to have out during my stay.
 
nevol

nevol

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Hatbox Ghostbuster said:
RIP Toontown then.
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Ideally, one of the new hotel wings or an additional wing on that property. Or, that castmember lot north of Mickey and friends. DLR's logistics are obviously a concern. The further the hotel is from the land, however, only means that the ride between the two in an enclosed/augmented bus would too be longer.

Hatbox Ghostbuster said:
Agreed! I cringe at the idea that at some point in the future my phone will become a necessary component to have out during my stay.
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Really ruins the magic. I like to see wait times and fastass return times. Its a bit like an interactive map. But i despise the idea of fastpass to begin with, so i chalk it up to using one evil to mitigate and navigate the effects of another. Really like to go airplane mode though when I'm in the parks and would rather those salaries going to software engineers to turn disneyland into Uber/Postmates/Pokemon Go would instead go toward actual theme park design.
 

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