Steph15251
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I am an average guest and I could careless about Star Wars and marvel ,but I do not do attractions because of what ,there IP is.
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News Star Wars Galaxy's Edge opening day reports - Disney's Hollywood Studios
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TalkingHead
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If you’re here, you’re not an average guest.
Steph15251
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I go to Disney because I am not paying for it ,if I was I most likely would not go.
erasure fan1
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Is it fatigue, or you just don't care that much about star wars? I don't see all that much fatigue really. The fatigue that I mostly see has to do with Disney, and their handling of the brand. You said yourself you haven't liked anything Disney has done with it.
I’m going off.... other sources.
CinematicFusion
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This is the biggest problem
Timmay
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No, but you must have that survey data handy. Right?
RSoxNo1
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I'm going off... math.
Aluminum
Aloooo min eee um
Rogue1138
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There's no such thing as franchise fatigue. If there was, Marvel would've been seeing diminishing returns for year since they release 2-3 very formulaic movies a year. The problem Star Wars has is Disney assumed that the name alone is enough to carry the brand and have been very lazy with marketing and building excitement. There hasn't been a public roadmap for the franchise in year, outside of the vague "stuff is coming" we got for three years out. Solo was a monster of their own making. 90 day marketing blitz, no trailer in front of The Last Jedi, pushing the date to compete with Infinity War instead of Dec where they've had success and letting the clickbait media run with the sky is falling articles for cash that Star Wars hates fans/is SJW nonsense/etc. The retail releases for Star Wars have been terrible. One big release a year that gets picked over by scalpers quickly and the rest sits empty until the next release.
Even the stuff like Kenobi feels less "look at all the awesome new Star Wars" than "please sign up for Disney+ and we will throw anything to get you to buy in". I have a personal feeling that the MCU will be taking a hit since they're throwing all the established characters to D+ and have some very lackluster films slated for theaters.
SW:GE has that problem too. They went for full immersion and cut the budget to a little immersion with very little "live the saga" type marketing.
n2hifi
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That's the funny thing about TOT. I agree it is one of the best rides in the park, but I can no longer ride it. No one in my family will ride it either (mostly since I don't) and they consistently give it low numbers in Touring Plan reviews because of the 'stomach' factor.
Tom Morrow
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Diagon Alley is the same situation and only has one attraction when SWGE will soon have two. But nobody minds when it's Potter because they weren't positioning themselves to hate it beforehand like with Star Wars.
Steph15251
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The stomach factor is not why I do not ride it anymore
Or it's because the one ride is supported with an immersive land you can walk around and enjoy without having to spend hundreds of dollars in upcharge experiences to feel like you truly got your value out of it.
A small group people were poised to dislike Star Wars land, sure. But people wouldn't be disappointed if they hadn't been "positioned" to enjoy it in the first place.
CinematicFusion
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Not sure I follow?
Last time I went to Potter world, they had a dueling dragon ride, a ride in the castle, a train ride and another ride in a bank.
Cool place to walk and explore with solid rides.
People come for the rides... ROTR isn’t open yet and that’s what is causing the problems.
The ride that opened at Star Wars land isn’t as good as the two main rides in toy story land.... that’s another problem.
UNCgolf
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Those are in two different lands, though. Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade are in separate parks. Diagon Alley only has the Gringotts ride -- the Hogwarts Express is actually outside Diagon Alley itself, and you can only ride it if you have a park hopper ticket.
With that said, I don't think comparing Diagon Alley to Batuu is a great comparison. Diagon Alley is an iconic location for HP fans; Batuu itself doesn't really mean anything to any Star Wars fans. That was a problem they'd have in general, though, because Tatooine is really the only iconic location that would lend itself to a theme park land (it wouldn't make sense for places like Endor and Hoth to have restaurants and shops, and Bespin is all indoors). The prequels have at least two planets that would make for a great theme park land (Coruscant and Naboo) but I'm sure Disney did not want to center their new Star Wars land on an area from the prequels.
It's a little unfortunate, though, because those two planets are tremendously suitable for building an elaborately themed, immersive land. Naboo would have been gorgeous and Coruscant impressive.
Tom Morrow
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I walked around SWGE and felt it was immersive and I didn't spend a dime. What is it about Diagon Alley that makes it so much better other than the fact that the shops are famous from the books and films?
It isn't fair to count both Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley as one land because they require a two park pass or two one-day tickets to enjoy both. I'm under the impression that Galaxy's Edge is most closely being compared to Diagon Alley for 1. having one ride (but soon two, unlike Diagon), and 2. having the rest of the experiences more or less involve spending money. In terms of quality of rides alone, currently Hogsmeade blows the other two away, of course.