Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance

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doctornick

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egg said:
Because a wide open celebration of Star Wars isn’t an idea that has legs of its own and instead backs itself on the past success and popularity of the franchise. That’s actually incredibly short-term. Creating something that has creativity and unique storytelling of its own, rather than piggybacking off of the creativity and unique storytelling that people previously fell in love with, is a much smarter idea long-term. Pandora does this to an extent, albeit somewhat unintentionally, and it’s been very successful.

The problem with Galaxy’s Edge is execution. A dirty, depressing, war-torn, fascist area isn’t the most compelling idea, especially without the “frontier” story of hope and opportunity being expressed well. Beloved OT characters would not change that. They’d distract from it, maybe, but they wouldn’t solve the underlying issue. The Pixar Pier solution of adding things guests know and love to a foundationally lackluster area is not one we should be defending with our honor.
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Bravo!

There may be issues with the execution of Galaxy's Edge - I haven't been so I can't comment, but the reviews are mixed rather than universally negative or positive - but the premise of having a proper setting rather than a free for all hodgepodge is IMHO a very solid design choice. The debate can obviously be over whether the setting chosen (not just timeframe but also place and how that's established and presented) is ideal or not. Personally, from a thousand miles away, it still seems to me that the biggest issue is the lack of "streetmosphere"/shows, kinetics and (free) stuff to do over how the buildings look or a lack of Han Solo. YMMV

Regarding involving characters or concepts from other timeframes in Star Wars, there are plenty of ways to do that effectively within the established conceit of Galaxy's Edge without "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" and wrecking the setting. I agree that just going Pixar Pier on the land seems like a complete overreaction.
 
Tom Morrow

Tom Morrow

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Josh Hendy said:
Ok ... POP cultural tentpole 🎪
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Tentpole was the wrong word, it's hard to think clearly lately. Luke Skywalker is a pop culture icon, one of the biggest of all time.

A tentpole is something that supports and props up other things. Marvel films are tentpole films because they're allowed to have a massive budget because they're guaranteed to generate tons of revenue to support other projects, for example.
 
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Josh Hendy

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Tom Morrow said:
Tentpole was the wrong word, it's hard to think clearly lately. Luke Skywalker is a pop culture icon, one of the biggest of all time.

A tentpole is something that supports and props up other things. Marvel films are tentpole films because they're allowed to have a massive budget because they're guaranteed to generate tons of revenue to support other projects, for example.
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Hey it's no problem, I understood you perfectly, it was a good analogy and you made my day!
 
Giss Neric

Giss Neric

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I'm so dumb cause after riding it three times I only found out just by watching a POV of the ride that during the last Kylo scene the explosion was caused by a ship crashing into the Star Destroyer which you can definitely see on the right. You are so focused on the Kylo animatronic that you just think someone blasted him from behind.
 
donsullivan

donsullivan

Premium Member
Mike S said:
Anyone know if Disney actually did something smart and took advantage of the shutdown to work on this ride?
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Since they shut down work on everything else, there is no reason to believe anything happened on this unless they were able to do some software work that could be done from home.
 
donsullivan

donsullivan

Premium Member
Mike S said:
This company is freaking inept. Universal kept working mostly.
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Like many other corporations they made a choice to be extremely conservative in their reactions to the pandemic. Lots of parts of the company(but certainly not all) kept working remotely from home throughout, but access to physical facilities was locked down pretty tight. I know many who have not been allowed in the office building they normally work in since mid March, even to access personal items. What you choose to see as inept, Disney chose to see as an abundance of caution to protect there people from infection, and prevent their facilities from being a conduit for spread of the disease.

We all know they are starting to open things up now and maybe that means, if those teams have been called back, and access to the parks is granted for the work they can get a few weeks of uninterrupted time to optimize the attraction before they reopen. But taking a conservative approach to keeping employees safe does not make them inept.
 
peter11435

peter11435

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donsullivan said:
Like many other corporations they made a choice to be extremely conservative in their reactions to the pandemic. Lots of parts of the company(but certainly not all) kept working remotely from home throughout, but access to physical facilities was locked down pretty tight. I know many who have not been allowed in the office building they normally work in since mid March, even to access personal items. What you choose to see as inept, Disney chose to see as an abundance of caution to protect there people from infection, and prevent their facilities from being a conduit for spread of the disease.

We all know they are starting to open things up now and maybe that means, if those teams have been called back, and access to the parks is granted for the work they can get a few weeks of uninterrupted time to optimize the attraction before they reopen. But taking a conservative approach to keeping employees safe does not make them inept.
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This.

And I’m fairly certain that during portions of the lockdown, having employees in the attraction working on ride programming and troubleshooting would have been illegal.
 
Marc Davis Fan

Marc Davis Fan

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I am very interested to see how this attraction's operations will work upon reopening. How will people be organized into the ITS shuttle and the jail cell? @marni1971, may I ask if you've heard anything about operations plans for attractions with preshow rooms like this? I suppose the same problems apply to FoP, ToT, HM, CTX...
 
marni1971

marni1971

Park History nut
Premium Member
Marc Davis Fan said:
I am very interested to see how this attraction's operations will work upon reopening. How will people be organized into the ITS shuttle and the jail cell? @marni1971, may I ask if you've heard anything about operations plans for attractions with preshow rooms like this? I suppose the same problems apply to FoP, ToT, HM, CTX...
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Not heard, not asked. Not at the moment.
 

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