Nirya
Well-Known Member
I agree with this. Batuu isn’t perfect but I can’t think of any other planet or setting that would have been objectively better, nor have I seen any better ideas on this board. There are plenty of valid criticisms but this is one that I just can’t get behind.
The same goes for basing the land on the Sequel Trilogy. I’m not sure how different the land would’ve ended up if they had based it on the Original Trilogy? Maybe Luke would be a walk-around character instead of Rey, and First Order logos would be Empire logos, but other than these superficial changes, it really wouldn’t be that different.
Basing the land on an original planet rather than a known one is absolutely fine, and is probably the correct decision.
But there’s nothing that prevented them from designing a new planet that had more life to it. I was looking at the layout of the land again and I’m honestly surprised they didn’t just add a water feature backing up to the RoA that could then run to a pool near the RotR ride. There’s already a waterfall where the Fantasmic boat storage is, and I can’t imagine it would have been that difficult to add a waterfall on the opposite side of the ridge in that spot as well.