mickEblu
Well-Known Member
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.
Me highlighting Vi Moradi (?) on ROTR was just me highlighting how psychologically it can actually make the attraction less immersive (hate this word now) instead of more. My overarching point of that post however, was that I believe creating an original 14 acre land land based on IP is counterintuitive. Ambitious but counterintuitive. And when Chapek started hacking away the budget it went from being counterintuitive yet ambitious to damn near crippling it’s chance of being a hit. Again, my personal biggest issues with land have nothing to do with characters, timelines or trilogies and everything to do with the fact that the place feels like an abandoned movie set as well as the fact that one ride that is open is very underwhelming. The chosen bombed out desert village aesthetics don’t help either.
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