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[PhotoDave219]

We attended Star Wars Weekend for Memorial Day. I don't think that we will go again. The trend seemed to be to Disneyfie the Star Wars characters. Mickey, Minnie, and Stitch are not real StarWars characters, so why did they appear on virtually all the merchandise dressed as Star Wars characters? To appeal to the 6 to 10 year old set? Will a Star Wars land reflect more of the same and appeal only to kids?

There were some meet and greets with non-Disney characters and we got a Darth Vader popcorn container that was fun. All in all not a bad experience, but imagine Harry Potter clothes on Mickey Mouse and Minnie as Hermione. For me that would ruin the Harry Potter park experince and may have been one reason why JK Rowling didn't give the franchise to Disney.

It's been that way for about 10 years or longer.

 

[Californian Elitist]

I agree with this, I think disneyland should get the bike coaster and that's it. Out of all the parks the one that doesn't deserve to lose it's tomorrowland identity is Disneyland. Add new lands sure, but don't ever take away from the original ones that were there first.

I don't think DL should get anything in regards to Star Wars Land. I don't think there were ever plans on demolishing all of the current Tomorrowland and replacing it with all Star Wars stuff. Still, it's already a mess. It'd be a sad case with even more Star Wars.

I agree with that but I don't see anything actually happening until 2017 at the earliest.

Studios has a bunch of problems facing them at the moment, right now the first is the parking lot. We've been over that a few times and a few different threads but we all know that when studios has a really large crowd, it's a pain to get in or out.

As far as a popular culture park goes, and that's what studios are when you boil it down, it was made for properties like Star Wars. It's very simple no-brainer and people will come.... As long as they do it right.

Spirit keeps telling Us that the plans keep changing and hopefully that means quality over something rushed.

However personally I don't expect anything open until 2020 the earliest.

I don't see anything happening until that time, either. Hopefully by then, they'll realize that more Star Wars attractions at DL is a terrible idea.

 

[truecoat]

Well, We got a comedian actor in the position of STAR LORD in the Guardians of the Galaxy marvel movie.. so well see how it goes lol.

What a director did before really doesn't matter. The Russo brothers (Cap America) directed episodes of Community, Arrested Development and other sit-coms.

 

[truecoat]

People will put two and two together when the land opens and there's only one ride, when the press announcement showed artwork for the boat ride and Cameron said there would be two rides.

We will. People? They won't even have a clue.

 

[DisneyDad1977]

It's been that way for about 10 years or longer.

I went exactly ten years ago and there was a decent character mix. BUT they kept them separate. All the real characters were around Star Tours and the Mickey Jedi, Minnie Princess, Goofy Vader and Donald Stormtrooper were near MuppetVision.

If you wanted to, you could avoid the Disney-fied characters.

The next year they were all mixed together and the merch was nothing but Disney characters. When I saw Donald as Boba Fett falling into the Sarlacc Pit I knew the end was near!

 

[PhotoDave219]

I went exactly ten years ago and there was a decent character mix. BUT they kept them separate. All the real characters were around Star Tours and the Mickey Jedi, Minnie Princess, Goofy Vader and Donald Stormtrooper were near MuppetVision.

If you wanted to, you could avoid the Disney-fied characters.

The next year they were all mixed together and the merch was nothing but Disney characters. When I saw Donald as Boba Fett falling into the Sarlacc Pit I knew the end was near!

Ah.

The actual Disney characters, Jedi Mickey and Princess Leia Minnie, etc, all of them are in Darth's mall.

The regular Star Wars characters are the ones out in normal guest traffic areas. Luke & Leia have the prime spot.

 

[DisneyDad1977]

Ah.

The actual Disney characters, Jedi Mickey and Princess Leia Minnie, etc, all of them are in Darth's mall.

The regular Star Wars characters are the ones out in normal guest traffic areas. Luke & Leia have the prime spot.

Ten years ago I got a picture taken with Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader, Boba Fett and three different kinds of stormtroopers in front of the Tatooine Traders sign. The next year it was Jedi Mickey in the same spot.

That same year it was Han and Chewbacca in front of the speeder bike photo op. The next year it was Stormtrooper Donald.

Just not quite the same, is it?

 

[5thGenTexan]

Having done five shorter DCL cruises (4 and 5 nights), that seems to be the standard mix, other than the lack of kids. DCL hasn't broken through that "you can cruise with us even if you don't go to WDW" barrier for a lot of people yet.

We have two cruises with DCL in the books. I had been shopping trips recently and doing some serious comparisons between WDW and DLR. DLR was in the lead, mostly due to Carsland and I have a 3 1/2 year old boy. Enough said there. DCL came out with the second half of 2015 and with a with several cruises out of Galveston again it was a no brainer really. We are cruising on Dec 18, 2015 and all thoughts of visiting one of the coasts is out the window. We can afford one trip a year and if the cards fall right DCL will win out everytime. For us anyway.

 

[matt9112]

Avatarland needs the boat ride in order for Disney to say that Avatarland makes AK a full day park

or so you can cool off and not die from the humidity....

 

[asianway]

Ten years ago I got a picture taken with Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader, Boba Fett and three different kinds of stormtroopers in front of the Tatooine Traders sign. The next year it was Jedi Mickey in the same spot.

That same year it was Han and Chewbacca in front of the speeder bike photo op. The next year it was Stormtrooper Donald.

Just not quite the same, is it?

Would love to see a pic of Han. I thought he only ever did the Indy mashup show

 

[acishere]

Wait, people are saying NBC didn't air the last few Revolution episodes? They aired 22 episodes with the last being on May 21, the series finale... Were there supposed to be more that 22 episodes? It ended with a cliffhanger, so the story obviously didn't end... And according to IMDb, episode 22 was to be the season 2 season finale anyway, so it appears they DID air every episode...

I just hated the way they ended it... A new story was obviously beginning...

They wrapped the season up. They just didn't write a more concrete ending in case they were canceled. I guess they were expecting NBC to be desperate for things to renew and would bring them back on Fridays for a final season or something instead of outright canning them.

 

[spacemt354]

We will. People? They won't even have a clue.

We aren't people?

And yes that's true, I'm sure a lot of folks don't even know avatar is even coming to Disney

 

[Crafty]

I think that Star Wars places Disney in an unusual situation because the characters are not traditional Disney ones, but are from a franchise that was popular but separate from Disney.

I think that the overlay of Mickey, Minnie, Donald, etc onto the Star Wars characters is to meld the two franchises together. In my opinion, it downgrades the Star Wars characters and plays to elementary school kids.

When Avatar-ride opens, will we see blue Mickey and Minnie? Probably because it is a similar import.

 

[Mike S]

Since DCA got Cars Land, DHS should have Star Wars Land to itself. Redoing TL in DL into Star Wars sounds like one of the stupidest things.

 

[Cesar R M]

Ten years ago I got a picture taken with Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader, Boba Fett and three different kinds of stormtroopers in front of the Tatooine Traders sign. The next year it was Jedi Mickey in the same spot.

That same year it was Han and Chewbacca in front of the speeder bike photo op. The next year it was Stormtrooper Donald.

Just not quite the same, is it?

We attended Star Wars Weekend for Memorial Day. I don't think that we will go again. The trend seemed to be to Disneyfie the Star Wars characters. Mickey, Minnie, and Stitch are not real StarWars characters, so why did they appear on virtually all the merchandise dressed as Star Wars characters? To appeal to the 6 to 10 year old set? Will a Star Wars land reflect more of the same and appeal only to kids?

There were some meet and greets with non-Disney characters and we got a Darth Vader popcorn container that was fun. All in all not a bad experience, but imagine Harry Potter clothes on Mickey Mouse and Minnie as Hermione. For me that would ruin the Harry Potter park experince and may have been one reason why JK Rowling didn't give the franchise to Disney.

Imho, the could be trying to reduce the popularity of the older actors, so it paves way to new actors.
aka slowly phasing their images down. (could benefit both Disney economic wise.. aka less royalties and to sell more generic merchandise of the gang)

Could also be other things.. for example, your average "neckbeard" fan of starwars (the most vocal) do not expend as much money as the family crowd with kids. adding more things with the gangs will attract them(the young ones) to the star wars franchise.

 

[Captain Chaos]

They wrapped the season up. They just didn't write a more concrete ending in case they were canceled. I guess they were expecting NBC to be desperate for things to renew and would bring them back on Fridays for a final season or something instead of outright canning them.

Hey, at least it is left open in case someone somewhere decides to pick the series up (though unlikely).

 

[tamotu99]

I dont mind too much the Disney characters/Star Wars stuff, as long as there is still just Star Wars stuff, its pretty harmless in my mind, as long as Luke/Han/leia./Ackbar dont dissapear then i dont mind (they can remove Jar Jar though)

 

[PhotoDave219]

Ten years ago I got a picture taken with Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader, Boba Fett and three different kinds of stormtroopers in front of the Tatooine Traders sign. The next year it was Jedi Mickey in the same spot.

That same year it was Han and Chewbacca in front of the speeder bike photo op. The next year it was Stormtrooper Donald.

Just not quite the same, is it?

No disagreement from me. I'm an original trilogy kinda guy.

 

[Sped2424]

I don't think DL should get anything in regards to Star Wars Land. I don't think there were ever plans on demolishing all of the current Tomorrowland and replacing it with all Star Wars stuff. Still, it's already a mess. It'd be a sad case with even more Star Wars.



I don't see anything happening until that time, either. Hopefully by then, they'll realize that more Star Wars attractions at DL is a terrible idea.

The plans aren't to demolish, but change most if not all the aesthetic of tomorrowlans to something more star wars like. At least according to mice chat. They said also possible was the bike coaster, cantina, and possible meet and greet in the millennium falcon.

 

[wdisney9000]

No, crown jewel means to be the most valuable and the thing you put on the pedestal as the showcase of what's the highest you have achieved... It's what you want to project.

Disney calls 7DMT a "crowning jewel". What does that project?