Supreme Leader
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Ok this pleases me.
Ok this pleases me.
Vi Moradi is one of the few walk-around characters in Galaxy's Edge. Which does make it odd that she has to speak to you via hologram if you're both on Batuu...I thought we were being recruited by Princess Leia and Ray. Who's this lady? Aren't there any real characters in Galaxy Edge?
She's got stuff to do elsewhere in the base.Vi Moradi is one of the few walk-around characters in Galaxy's Edge. Which does make it odd that she has to speak to you via hologram if you're both on Batuu...
This reminds me of how counterintuitive it is to do original stuff with very well known IP. We get on ROTR and the villain is Kylo Ren yet we have this obscure character Vi Moradi that “Scott Trowbridge” made up talking to us via hologram? I think the imagineers think that it somehow gives more weight and believability to Batuu being this real place. But In reality I just think it waters down the experience. People want to see the characters they know in STAR WARS land. I don’t think combining original characters with known ones from the movie is a good idea, especially humanoids. People would be much more excited seeing a Leia hologram there or something. Again this is the imagineers putting this damn Batuu story nobody cares about before fans/ human beings desires.Vi Moradi is one of the few walk-around characters in Galaxy's Edge. Which does make it odd that she has to speak to you via hologram if you're both on Batuu...
Oh course it had to be a woman. That way little girls can relate to the ride better.This reminds me of how counterintuitive it is to do original stuff with very well known IP. We get on ROTR and the villain is Kylo Ren yet we have this obscure character Vi Moradi that “Scott Trowbridge” made up talking to us via hologram? I think the imagineers think that it somehow gives more weight and believability to Batuu being this real place. But In reality I just think it waters down the experience. People want to see the characters they know in STAR WARS land. I don’t think combining original characters with known ones from the movie is a good idea, especially humanoids. People would be much more excited seeing a Leia hologram there or something. Again this is the imagineers putting this damn Batuu story nobody cares about before fans/ human beings desires.
Honestly my takeaway from Batuu is that when creating a land based on IP you have to go ALL IN because you have already set an expectation of what fans/ guests are going to see. If you re not going ALL in you may as well just create an original land not based on IP. In themed entertainment, I’m not sure you can split the difference.
Being fair, the Imagineers created Rex to fly the Starspeeder in the original Star Tours- instead of using a pre existing character. And no one complained.This reminds me of how counterintuitive it is to do original stuff with very well known IP. We get on ROTR and the villain is Kylo Ren yet we have this obscure character Vi Moradi that “Scott Trowbridge” made up talking to us via hologram? I think the imagineers think that it somehow gives more weight and believability to Batuu being this real place. But In reality I just think it waters down the experience. People want to see the characters they know in STAR WARS land. I don’t think combining original characters with known ones from the movie is a good idea, especially humanoids. People would be much more excited seeing a Leia hologram there or something. Again this is the imagineers putting this damn Batuu story nobody cares about before fans/ human beings desires.
Honestly my takeaway from Batuu is that when creating a land based on IP you have to go ALL IN because you have already set an expectation of what fans/ guests are going to see. If you re not going ALL in you may as well just create an original land not based on IP. In themed entertainment, I’m not sure you can split the difference.
Star Tours and Indy are great examples of IP being used in an original way on attractions. On Star Tours you have the Trench run, Star Wars score and C3PO/ R2D2 in the Q but you also have Rex, an original funny and lovable robot. But let’s not compare a wonderfully designed Robot AA with great voice acting to a human “CM” (I know she’s an actor but when the majority of people see her first as a character/ CM walking awkwardly around the land that’s how they ll view her) that somehow found their way onto ROTR with all the characters we ve seen from the last trilogy. In that way it doesn’t strengthen the concept that we re on Batuu, it actually cheapens the fantasy of being in the world of the last trilogy and brings me back to reality and a bunch of other awkward decisions they made with GE. She could be walking around the land but having her on the attraction is a misstep IMO.Being fair, the Imagineers created Rex to fly the Starspeeder in the original Star Tours- instead of using a pre existing character. And no one complained.
But Star Tours also used classic OT characters in the queue, and ended with the trench run- the most iconic scene in Star Wars. Which is far more then Rise of the Resistance seems to be offering.