News Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Historical Construction/Impressions

[MisterPenguin]

This whole idea of people hiking around GE with interactive droids strapped to their backs in bulky backpacks...In the world's most mobbed theme park land... Oh, I'm being silly. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

They form a bluetooth neural network and become sentient.

And that's how humanity was destroyed.

 

[Incomudro]

But it would be more fun. Isn’t that why we originally started going to theme parks and why we still go?

No.

 

[mickEblu]

No.

 

[Disney Irish]

But it would be more fun. Isn’t that why we originally started going to theme parks and why we still go?

I don't know about you, but us Intellectuals go for the art of it all... Forget fun, theme parks aren't for fun. They are to be revered in the same vein as the Mona Lisa. In fact Disneyland should no longer allow guests to have "fun", that is so mundane. They should only all guests to walk around viewing the majesty of it all and then leave, all for the low price of $200 per visit.

 

[TROR]

I don't know about you, but us Intellectuals go for the art of it all... Forget fun, theme parks aren't for fun. They are to be revered in the same vein as the Mona Lisa. In fact Disneyland should no longer allow guests to have "fun", that is so mundane. They should only all guests to walk around viewing the majesty of it all and then leave, all for the low price of $200 per visit.

See, he gets it.

 

[britain]

I don't know about you, but us Intellectuals go for the art of it all... Forget fun, theme parks aren't for fun. They are to be revered in the same vein as the Mona Lisa. In fact Disneyland should no longer allow guests to have "fun", that is so mundane. They should only all guests to walk around viewing the majesty of it all and then leave, all for the low price of $200 per visit.

You’re being silly, but I personally find going to the Louvre to be more fun than going to Six Flags.

And yes, I think Disney at their best has more in common with the Louvre than Six Flags.

 

[Mac Tonight]

A Star Wars coaster is too conventional. It’s what every non-theme park fan would expect a Star Wars land to have. This land was the third attempt by Imagineering to do something ambitious, as instructed by the Board of Directors. They needed to do something that would prove that Disney still knows how to exceed expectations - Something they haven’t done since Indy in 1995, in my opinion. A coaster wouldn’t do that.

... But a simulator will?

I don't know that I'd call it truly conventional. Disneyland isn't in the business of IP based rollercoasters. There's no precedent for it in the park. There is however, precedent for a SW themed simulator...

 

[Figments Friend]

They form a bluetooth neural network and become sentient.

And that's how humanity was destroyed.

SkyNet.



James Cameron was right...yet again.


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[socalifornian]

True immersion would be a Falcon ride using Space-X tech to actually fly to space and back

 

[Mac Tonight]

True immersion would be a Rise of the Resistance-sized full scale laser-tag battle adventure where you have to put on rebel gear and try to rescue the Princess from inside the Death Star.

...Just typing that out gets me excited.

 

[RedGinger]

You’re being silly, but I personally find going to the Louvre to be more fun than going to Six Flags.

And yes, I think Disney at their best has more in common with the Louvre than Six Flags

I find going to the Loo is more fun that going to Six Flags.

 

[Mac Tonight]

I find going to the Loo is more fun that going to Six Flags.

I once went to the loo AT Six Flags. Not that impressed.

 

[Touchdown]

Their two Texas Parks, and Georgia parks are nice and worth a visit, however Six Flags is truly the Walmart of Theme Parks, to push it further:

Six Flags-Walmart, they’re everywhere cheap and attract the worst customers

Cedar Fair-Target, nearly as numerous, but while not high class much better then Walmart

Hershunds-Cabellas, more specialized, rare, outdoorsy, but really cool and high quality

Seas Parks-Macy’s, a huge step up from Target but still not quite the cream of the crop

Disney and Universal-Designer stores, the upper echelon and best of the best, however you will pay for that quality.

 

[TROR]

I once went to the loo AT Six Flags. Not that impressed.

Ever been to a Six a Flags at the Lou?

 

[Mac Tonight]

Ever been to a Six a Flags at the Lou?

 

[Hawg G]

So, you want the immersion of a ramp, going into an actual MF, but you're OK with a elevator into the MF? Where would this elevator be located that wouldn't ruin the immersion?

Around a corner, for people in wheelchairs. Is that hard to understand?


Another issue I seemed to have missed is that one chess room feed two cockpits, so there is already even more things not making this the perfect Millennium Falcon experience those "in the know" folks were swearing was going to completely blow us away.

Remember, you would be going through an exact replica, ONLY seeing your 5 co-riders, and seemlessly leaving through a different exact duplicate hallway.

 

[TragicMike]

I agree that a coaster would've been better than Smuggler's Run. Especially since nothing about it is that incredible from what I hear. Fun? yes, but not ground-breaking. The GOTG coaster with show scenes at Epcot sounds a lot more exciting.

 

[lifeisgoodboy]

Mark Hamill is 5'9". Even he had to hunch over to get up the ramp.

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Here is more info on the board ramp:

Part IIb: the Boarding Ramp Sets - Millennium Falcon Notes

Useful information on the Millennium Falcon fantasy spacecraft.

sites.google.com

 

[lifeisgoodboy]

Falcon’s Run was a mistake of an attraction. They should’ve just built an indoor space coaster where the riders pilot an X Wing or a TIE and they fly around and through a Star Destroyer.

I did show some picture a while ago. I could show it again:

more on page 659.

 

[RescueTheDay]

I agree that a coaster would've been better than Smuggler's Run. Especially since nothing about it is that incredible from what I hear. Fun? yes, but not ground-breaking. The GOTG coaster with show scenes at Epcot sounds a lot more exciting.

Sounds like a coaster with some basic effects. I’ll pass. I can find a better thrill at my local Six Flags park.