No I didn't think otherwise but one thing I was NOT expecting was shops similar to STAR TRADER in a land that is supposed to be the most immersive ever. and seeing normal price tags and watto and yoda plush dolls in these shops count to me as another little item to note on so far how Disney does not get STAR WARS and how unwell planned out the theme of the land was to begin with.
I'll definitely watch the last one that's currently out on DVD...as I haven't seen it yet, my sister has it. That won't be till this summer. Then I'll just wait for the newest one to come out. We wont be going to WDW till 2020, so hoping both rides will be open by then and FP+ will be active for those rides.Well that is definitely the plan! And we done this before with other big rides at opening. We watched Finding Nemo in line when FNSV opened in 2007 and both Cars movies when RSR opened (although the line only ended up being 90 minutes when it was posted at 130 minutes when we first rode it but also covered Mater's which was an hour too). Its just a fun way to get into the spirit and time does fly. But those were around two hours and under. As said we're prepared to go up to five but who knows when we go it may not be anything close to that but we are bringing the movies either way.
I’m sure the controls are so simple and foolproof that you could sit a blindfolded gazelle in the pilot seat and still get a perfectly satisfying ride.
Your such an eternal optimist, aren't you?
This is optimism.
The ride’s going to be great. What it’s not going to be is Microsoft Flight Simulator. The Imagineers would not design one of the most important rides they’ve ever worked on to be an experience that an unskilled guest (99 percent of those who’ll ride) could muck up.
This is optimism.
I agree! (I don't think you're being sarcastic....) I might be alone, but "interactivity" is overrated. Immersion to me is more passive. Again, that's just me.
But you’re immersed in the real world while you interact with it all the time.
Agreed. Team-based games of skill are for home video gaming where time and pricing are not a factor, or for competition-based stand-alone experiences (paintball, escape rooms) where you know you're paying money for something that requires skill. It's NOT a scenario for a mass-market Disneyland attraction that Joe Public and his family have spent a ton of money and waited three hours in line to ride.
True. I interact with the real world enough at my job, though.
Movies and novels are "immersion" without "interactivity." I doesn't mean my brain is passive. Just my body is inert.
You don't have to pay $125 and wait in line for three hours to interact with the real world. And you don't stomp to Guest Services and demand a refund because Billy Bob Jr. couldn't understand the Falcon controls.
From the pictures I've seen, the shops will not be anything like Star Trader. And to me, the idea of having plush dolls of characters from the movies in the park does not break immersion because these plush dolls simply represent legendary characters that people in that universe would have heard about and may admire as heroes or villains or whatever and therefore give toys representing them to their kids (or as gifts for themselves). I would assume that if the Star Wars movies were real that at least some of these stories would have reached the Outer Rim planets...especially since some of those characters have visited the planet multiple times, and there is currently both a Resistance and First Order presence there.
He's right! I got so many Galactic Credits on my last run!The controls will be so basic and simple that an unskilled Disney exec with no gaming, Star Wars or actual Disney Park experience could do it. Think about that a moment.
