The Galactic Starcruiser Is a Surprise Win for Disney
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- čas přidán 8. 03. 2022
- Just a quick video I've thrown together to express my thoughts on the new STAR WARS Galactic Starcruiser, covering the overall experience and providing my opinion. It's an ambitious project, but is it worth the price?
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Most of the reviews in summary: “yeah it’s an incredible experience, but definitely not worth $6000”
Yes I think that’s what it boils down to. Great experience but too expensive for what it is.
At least I'm glad it's not an outright failure. The idea itself is sound, but the price just isn't worth it for the small amount of people that they can all get in at once because of the hotel aspect. Perhaps if this was located at Disney Springs and could see a larger volume of paying guests, the price might be more reasonable.
@@PoseidonEntertainment You’re right. But I felt it could be where it is, just not make it focused on the ship like a cruise; full of itineraries and missions all day long to fill your day. Just an amazing hotel that you could go in and out when you want.
However, In order to get there you still have to take the shuttle up to the star cruiser and back. Perhaps a Resistant Transport vehicle or other (a box truck) as a shuttle connecting the Halcyon to the Transportation and Ticket Center. And of course the shuttle down to Batuu and back if you also have a Batuu visitor clearance pass (i.e. a Hollywood Studios pass).
They could still have the fun character interactive play. And the occasional incursion by the Fist Order. But you can join those when you want or happen to be there. And restaurant and food eateries that you pay for separately. Like in all other hotels.
So instead of the hotel having to provide your whole vacation it only would serve as the best hotel experience on the planet. Or off the planet, shall I say. Either way, the price is definitely way too high. They could just charge it by the night stay like other hotels. It could be the most expensive hotel but not at skyrocket prices.
I think if they did that, they would’ve had a huge long lasting hit on their hands. With their current model, I don’t see them surviving in the long run. Therefore, I have a feeling they’re going to change it after they’ve exhausted all the high-paying cruise-liner vacationer rich fans to the Starcruiser. Perhaps, this was their plan all along.
Insert *Are you sure about that* meme here!@@PoseidonEntertainment
Everything about this seems simply exhausting. Miss an important plot development because you stopped to use the bathroom or were browsing the merch in the ship's store? Insane. FOMO is anxiety inducing! I miss the days when a Disney vacation was mostly unplanned, wandering around and simply encountering cool sights & experiences. Having every waking moment tied to a schedule is the opposite of fun.
Some people like that. I'm with you though. Can't I just sit at the pool for a while?!
@@hillelhalevi The more they keep you distracted with stupid stuff the less chance you have to take notice what a total ripoff racket the whole thing really is.
A Harry Potter experience sounds way more appealing to me. Imagine getting to eat at the great hall. Or take some potion classes!
I floated this exact idea to my family and they agreed
I want to stay the Hufflepuff winery cellar!
Heck yeah! I'd LARP Harry Potter any day!
I can imagine a Hogwarts hotel without the cringy role play where you can just explore by your own.
@FN-1701AgentGodzillaRangerPrime Ω But what if they made a Harry Potter hotel experience for the same price?
For that awkward lightsaber swap, they should have Kylo throw something at Rey to quickly dodge down and swap sabers out of view.
And had the switch happen behind one of the First Order banners to hide her putting down one and grabbing the other
Yeah it's pretty cringe
Got to love that authentic Star Wars feel of everyone recording cellphone videos.
Can’t provide a loan costume or iPhone case for $6000
To be fair to your video, you did say it wasn't worth the price and that it may fail in a year. It took a little longer but you were right.
My husband is a huge Star Wars fan, and when I heard about this I thought it would be fun to go. When I heard the price, though, I thought it was a joke. There are so many more things I could do with $6k than blow it in 2 days.
Im disappointed that a lot of the things they said would be in galaxys edge got cancelled and instead got put into an experience not many people can afford. I wish at ogas cantina you saw more aliens.
I blame it on Paycheck
The price + the thought of having to be “on” for 2 days straight + being in a windowless building = a definite no go for me.
You have to admire the audacity of Disney to charge up to $6000 for a Star Wars hotel experience and then put a gift shop inside it. As much as people paid to be there, that shit better be free.
Same as having shops on DCL ships, for which you pay even more
The big problem here is: it isn't THAT expensive to run. It's Adventurers' Club + Disney Quest (Lite) + Escape Room + Stuff They Were Going to Do for FREE in Galaxy's Edge. Yes, there are a lot of actors, but the Adventurers' Club had 8 characters who worked from 8pm until close, so about 6 hours. This probably has two shifts and four times as many characters? Five? Six? Regardless, you could spend 6 hours at the Adventurers' Club for $20 and a few drinks. An Escape Room is, at most, like $100 per person. Disney Quest was like $45 for a full day. The entertainment portion could easily be covered if each guest paid $300. So where are the other thousands of dollars coming from?
Apologists are comparing it, money-wise, to a Disney Cruise, which conveniently leaves out the fact that this amount of money gets you a week on a Disney ship. This "cruise" should either cost half as much, or go twice as long. And that's where Disney failed. In their desperate attempt to gouge their most-loyal customers even more, they've made the pool of possible guests way too small to be sustainable. So, they'll have about a year before it stops selling out - if that long. Then they'll go the discount route. After that works for 2 or 3 months, then they'll start with the budget cuts. (Actually, I believe some budget cuts will happen soon. They needed to pull out all the stops for all the bloggers and the people who HAD to be there ASAP.) These will make people even angrier, so it won't be long until it becomes the Star Wars Hotel, which will take away all the fun stuff and "free" stuff and build a themed pool out back. This hotel will then feature the "Star Wars Dinner Extravaganza", which will be a separate ticket for all, just like the Luau or Hoop-de-Doo.
I feel the only realistic cut to Galactic Starcruiser would be reducing the mission count. This will also help to not overwhelm guests. In addition, by adding a "Peacekeeping Group" paid optional extra, guests can choose to not be a part of the missions.
I miss Adventurers club!! Hangout in my DCP days! along with Fireworks back door....with CM specials on Thursdays (Every Paycheck Comes On Thursday)
I've seen youtube videos where the place is literally falling apart already (such as doorways starting to fall off their frames). The whole thing was a cheesy slap-together job with college interns doing cosplay, and the goal is to shake every single last penny out of you before you even know what happened.
And look at a Disney Cruise Liner. Now look at this hotel. "one of these things are not like the other....."
Yeah it seems like the best solution here would be to spread the missions out more and make the length of the experience longer. It seems really exhausting in it's current state.
This experience as a whole all the customer service, emersion, vignettes, wondering droids, feeling like being in a Star Cruiser etc... is something you could have easily added to the parks. Adding value to the already increased prices. This is really just a montage of corporate greed. Updating those parks was long over due and in planning the futrue seems to have lacked real vision and heart. They need to hire, re-hire and incentivise and retain the PEOPLE that actually make going to Disney a wonderous place for everyone. BRING BACK THE MAGIC! “Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever.” - Walt Disney
A ton of the concepts/elements in the Starcruiser were originally set for Galaxy’s Edge and they placed them in the hotel lol. Imagine if the Ollivander’s experience, wand activities, Celestina Warbeck’s show, the singing frog choir show, butterbeer, etc. were all ripped out of the Wizarding World sections and placed behind a $6000 paywall lol
@@CarloisBuriedAlive basically lol
*wandering droids
Oh dude a Haunted Mansion themed experience would be absolutely awesome in every way. That would be an experience that I might could see myself actually buying. Have your rooms be “haunted” in certain ways, creepy butlers, the works. Maybe the rooms are laid out like they appear in the endless hallway scene. I assume this would probably be a smaller group of people than the Star Wars hotel. You eat dinner in the ballroom, on and on. My brain is going nuts with all of the possibilities for a Haunted Mansion Murder Mystery experience right now lol
If this is even marginally successful, there are many other IPs that can be given similar treatment.
Westworld was kind of lame when it started.
Universal should do that with Universal Monsters
@@TheGrantHC I am honestly super excited for the classic monster section of the new park Universal is building. If it's anywhere near being as themed as the Harry Potter stuff, it will be absolutely awesome.
Not to mention a murder mystery has SO MUCH better pacing opportunities than a high-stakes star wars action story. Events can be spaced out allowing bathroom breaks and stuff, with certain events happening “out of nowhere” and sending people to figure it out over the course of 2-3 days. Murder mysteries are built thematicaly to occur slowly over days, versus star wars which is action-packed, something completely against a hotel theme
@@sandshark2 Very interesting thought; I totally agree.
As with a lot of new Disney projects (and especially Galaxy's Edge), the Star Cruiser just seems to lack ATMOSPHERE. Places where you could linger and really admire the theming and storytelling that's built into the environment. I keep seeing shots of that one outdoor-ish space within the Halcyon with all the rock work that looks vaguely like a Japanese garden - I'm not a super fan, but to me that feels the most "Star Wars" out of the whole experience, and it's a shame that it appears you only get to see that space briefly when you're on a mission. Even experiences like Sleep No More, which Disney clearly took inspiration from, encourage you to linger in rooms, pick up objects, rummage through drawers on your own, etc., instead of constantly running after the characters the the whole time. I see the appeal of the 24/7 roleplaying, but in order to really feel "immersive" and like you're getting your money's worth, they should really have a variety of pacing built into this experience. Would also help with the claustrophobia!
Based on a number of other videos of folks doing the experience (either on the press junket or first wave of guests)... all rooms have multiple purposes that sometimes get used as the location for a character-driven event. That garden is more like a patio that lets you get a feel for what's going on outside without taking you out of the experience to do so. Some rooms are accessible through various switches / events that one can complete on one's own just exploring some thread.
@@arandomnamegoeshere That's true, but based on what I've heard in reviews about the Star Cruiser's structure, you're not rewarded for lingering. You're rewarded for keeping up with as many missions as possible. If you wander into a room alone, ideally you're doing so to get more involved in the main storyline rather than finding something unique and hidden about the Halcyon or the universe it inhabits.
@Jonathan Pal Mainly because when Disney first announced an "immersive" Star Wars hotel my mind immediately went to SNM, and I suspect that it and other immersive theater productions (along with the rise of VR technology) helped create this obsession with "immersion" that Disney has been on for the past seven or eight years. If you read my comment I'm essentially saying exactly what you are, that the Star Cruiser feels very rushed/confined compared to SNM, and therefore feels like an incomplete experience compared to something like SNM. (And yeah, not to mention the price difference! Would rather pay a fraction of the cost for an immersive theater experience than shell out $4500+ for Star Cruiser.)
Lacking "atmosphere"? It's totally immersive and, when I went, I kind of forgot I was in a building in Florida. It really did feel like I was someplace else. And there is plenty of time to explore the ship. While I was busy most of the time running missions, I wandered into the cargo hold, the engine room, and the garden. With the exception of the scheduled classes in lightsaber and bridge training, you can amble around at your leisure. There is no fixed time when missions have to be completed. Without having gone on Starcruiser, it's really hard to capture how well done it is. The actors NEVER break character and are very quick with banter. How immersive is it? When we were leaving, I saw a little boy crying because he didn't want to go back to Earth. THAT'S atmosphere.
btw, Starcruiser was not really based on "Sleep No More." It was developed by Disney imagineers after visiting European LARPS. Here's The New Yorker story about the development: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/30/larping-goes-to-disney-world
I’m surprised many of you think this is impressive. Everything I’ve seen about this makes me think it’s laughably bad. While the sets look decent, the lack of more interacting aliens and characters is quite obvious….and while I know it’s a role playing ‘space cruise’…I really think a gym, pool, and other cool amenities should have been part of this experience. Not everyone is going to want to go on ‘missions’ the entire time they’re there.
I feel that most people are "impressed" based upon how bad the previous marketing made the "experience" look.
Its laughably bad. There is nothing other than the name on the outside that is “Star Wars” in this dumpster fire
You've gone to a theater expecting a hotel. ;)
This is not a hotel, or "cruise", it's a 2 day LARP. You don't do this kind of thing if you don't want to actively participate. You can go on a real cruise for far less money, so it just depends on what you value.
Spot on. I don't think I would sign up even if it were free. Standing in a clump of other families, while underpaid actors hover around you. And the lightsaber "game" looks like it was made 30 years ago.
I know people want to remember their experience. But everyone constantly filming on their phones doesn't exactly enhance the immersiveness .
This was a media event, so they were all recording as content for their respective channels.
Disney is all about phones now my younger brother didn't have 1/5 of the fun we had as a kid because we were constantly checking wait times on our phones. We didn't get to absorb as much as we could.
@@Eidlones I appreciate that but it's the same everywhere these days , media or not. Just check the uploaded videos from regular guests.
To be fair I think this was the special press event, complete with Disneys favorite influencers
I feel like they could have invested more into the actual Star Wars galaxies edge. I was really disappointed with all the Star Wars stuff in Disney.
Everything offered at the hotel was supposed to be in the park and included in the price of admission. If you look up videos from the parks opening you will see it all
It sucks though because only the highest of class will be able to experience this. Disney essentially paywalled Star Wars fans out of what was promised for Galaxy’s Edge.
You saw offhand Disney didn't you
@@papingosstudios161 I am subscribed to him yes
@@NinthShinigami had a feeling cause you said the same words as him
It's a Chucky Cheese expensive birthday party with a Battlestar Galactica atmosphere
😂
More like Space Mutiny
This doesn't seem like something I would find fun even if I was given the chance to do it for free. The whole thing sounds like busy work to make it feel like you're getting your money's worth. I also get uncomfortable around people playing parts, that's my least favorite part of Rise of the resistance for me so two days of it would be torture for me
While I agree with you I guess this appeals to a whole lot of people. I can see this appealing for a child the role playing. I don’t get why a adult would like this. And yes too much work for me. Not my kinda vacation.
The hotel should not be this expensive and the setting itself should be open to all guests of all admissions
The restaurants the bars the shops: these should be accessible to those with a basic admission
They could keep the character interaction even if they have to limit it. They can also incorporate these mission LARPs(whatever you wanna call them) into the Galaxy’s Edge, again for those with a basic admission
I highly doubt this experience will only be $6k. Given Disney's approach to everything else, there will be inevitable pay upgrades, seasonal pricing, preferential experience upgrades, etc. I expect closer to $10k being the norm for this thing. Also, the free "influencer" stuff is rarely reflective of what the paying customer gets, usually with the paying customer getting less.
If it sells out, the price will be whatever the market will bear.
Might be a win for Disney, but it’s a no go for most middle class folks… this is a loss for most of us barely trying to make ends meet. If you can afford it and enjoyed it, more power to you.
I’m amazed this lasted a year though: how is this a win for Disney?!
It’s frustrating because
1) it’s still sequel based just like EVERYTHING in the park. What the hell is wrong with having a dark ride on Death Star 1?!
2) these activities, the mission LARP included, are nothing that couldn’t be done in the main park with a basic admission
While I don't think the experience looks bad per se, I still don't see anything extraordinary, nothing that would blew me away and nothing I wouldn't have expected. The price tag aside, it's still just too "regular" for a Disney top-tier attraction. I also asume the positive reactions are mainly driven by the fact that - after the terrible marketing - our expectations were at the bottom to begin with. The Starcruiser just still lacks any "WTF" moments - at least for me. (For example: Comparing it to the Secret Cinema Star Wars Experience several years ago, this just falls flat, considering what they COULD have done.)
As someone who has done stage combat, witn prop lightsabers, the fight is shallow and badly choreographed.
There are a ton of little choices they could have made like hiding the light up lightsaber in the support beam and switching it out for the battle lightsaber.
Depending on the video I saw safety mistakes and one of my teachers said they are worried about hitting marks not interacting with each other in the fight. I expect better of Disney as they should be the high bar in an experience like this.
As someone who has worked at Ren Faires for over 20 years and has had to do a lot on little to no budget, I expect Disney and it's cash to give a better experience than what we broke preformers, actors and vendors can do
IKR? The Kylo/Rey fight looked so terribad! It's like they were at war with the railings more than at each other.
I was pleasantly surprised by WDWNT'S review. They seemed to have gotten their money's worth, and the criticisms they did have seemed to be valid. I still don't see this as being sustainable even if they mix it up with different storylines; once the novelty wears off, it's going to start losing money (I can't imagine they'll ever lower prices, considering how much it takes to operate these shows and make sure nothing breaks down). 5 years from now, it'll probably be just a normal SW themed hotel.
A large part of their income comes from covering the mouse. They can't afford to be too honest if they want to maintain access/clicks.
I'm 3 min into this vid and I can't tell if this channel went on the cruise or not. I'm hesitant to listen to those speculating, unlike WDWNT. Seems anyone that goes has a good time so far. Hoping they get confidence to bring some of these elements to galaxy's edge eventually.
No offense but I have trouble buying any notion from a channel/media outlet that widely praises this event specifically. I’ve seen many channels praising every nook and cranny of everything Disneys doing these days and it’s kind of obvious that Disneys pulling their strings
If they lowered the prices and added more quality, I would definitely go there.
I have many issues but my main two points is Disney not saying or acting like this is not larping (live action role play). They do not have safety tools for larp nor did they consult game designers to oversee some of small mistakes they make.
Also I will never get the being on the Halycon a high price cruise in a planetos (world) like Star War a world of futuristic salvage-esque enviorment. There is hardly any luxury like this in the Star Wars universe. It's like we all watched a world from one side of the tracks where our experience is linked and then we go on the ship experiencing the other side we know nothing about.
I’m glad you aren’t trying to hate on it for the sake of hating on it like others. I’m sure it’s a fun experience, I just don’t think it’s worth the price tag. Like you said I’d rather spend that money to go to Tokyo Disneyland. I also think if they themed it to the original trilogy or mandolorian they would have more people willing to shell out the money for it. I know I would love to see mando and boba fett fight on the halcyon against imperials. The lightsabers don’t seem to be real enough to be convincing yet.
Great video! I agree with your opinion, for me the worst thing of the Starcruiser is the fact that if you choose an experience you can’t enter others just because of the story
Do you 'member this? We member....😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 RIP Starcruiser
For $2500 you could book the cheapest flight to Tokyo, get a cheap room for a few nights, go to Tokyo Disney, and do some sightseeing with cash to spare. Speaking from experience.
For $6,000 you could take 1-2 people with you.
Very "campy" sums up my feelings.
They should have just created an intricately themed Star Wars hotel with people in character walking around.
The Las Vegas Hilton for a long time operated "The Star Trek Experience," which had a museum, an extensive gift shop with some exclusive items, a 4D ride that had a whole intro part involving you trying to move through the corridors of the Enterprise during a Borg attack, and an absolutely fantastic restaurant/bar called "Quark's," that offered the strongest drinks in all of Vegas. Many of the drinks were themed, everyone was in outfits that looked like it belonged in Star Trek and there were always characters walking around interacting with guests. There's nothing quite like having a great dinner, and drinking some crazy signature drink that's smoking and bubbling because of the dry ice they added to it, all the while shooting the shit with a Klingon who stopped by your table for a chat.
I took a new girlfriend to Vegas and we stayed there and went out to the restaurant and did the ride and all that. She was one of those people that hated sci-fi and thought Star Trek was for complete dorks. By the time our weekend was over she had become a Trek fan and started watching the show with me. That's successful theming and guest experience at work. I don't understand why they wouldn't do something like that at the Disney parks for Star Wars. The amount of business they would get would be insane.
I think the haunted mansion immersive hotel experience would be a great idea. I could see it having a lot of repeatability and depth with so many characters and individual story lines to work with. Some could be on the shorter side, others longer depending on the length of stay. Infinite possibilities really
This video aged like raw milk in the tropics
I give this whole thing a shelf life of a year.
2 tops. Unless they find ways to make it enticing to revisit more than once, like a Medieval Times.
But with the current #boycottdisney I doubt many will be going to this anytime soon outside of the opening week, maybe month.
Twitter people are always boycotting stuff but never successful anyways cause they'll move on to the next thing to get offended about
for the price it should be possible to find a futuristic looking hairdryer and add a Star Wars theming instead of just hiding a standard looking model in a themed box
I know, right? And at the main entrance …off-the-shelf sliding doors, roll-down shutters, ceiling fans(!!!)and security cameras. Everything should have been custom there. It’s the little details on an experience like these that matter, especially when paying what you are.
I feel the biggest things they could do to really sell the 'minigame' activities would be first giving actual moving turret seats for the gunning game. People REALLY want to do something like what we have seen in the millennium falcon of the OT with Luke and han spinning around in the seats.
Second, the lightsaber training. Got to separate the people more, and each person should be in almost like a booth or at least design the wall to be shaped like a series of those tri fold mirrors in fancy dress shops. Each side of these walls has the lasers along them so the person is able to move the saber more to deflect shots from other angles. Instead of just high, medium and low, now you get upper left, medium right, middle low, etc etc.
I can imagine a Bioshock experience. I don’t think any park would do it but imagine a Rapture themed concept similar to this.
Whenever an alarm goes off , run to the atrium…SOUNDS MORE LIKE PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING THAN A VACATION
I'm not surprised to see that your clips come from the three hour video I also watched and enjoyed. I came away thinking that the experience does indeed look fun, if a little silly at times. I agree with your assessment, however I hesitate to call this a win for Disney. For me, a win would be something like Pandora. People go there and seem blown away by it and its attractions, even the boat ride has something to offer. Oh...and it's included with park admission! True, people who have experienced Galactic Starcruiser have been blown away, but so far, all the reviews I've seen have come from people Disney gave free trips too, essentially the press and CZcams Influencers. Can we really accept their reviews as untainted? I mean, they want to be asked back for Disney's next attraction opening, right?
You did say this in the video, and I echo it: is Galactic Starcruiser something that will last? I don't think it will. Its target audience are people who can't afford it. This price point is aimed at rich people who are NOT going to want to stay in a cramped cabin with uncomfortable beds (I've read some pretty negative reviews about the comfort of those bunk beds in the walls). Rich people are used to luxury, and I don't see that being provided by this attraction. While some rich people are going to do this, I don't know that they'll do it again. Once again, those of us who would gladly do this again and again, especially in an effort to better our involvement in the story, simply can't afford it. The concept allows for repeatability, the price does not. Also, it's important to note that a LOT of the things that happen on the Galactic Starcruiser were originally promised to be free in Galaxy's Edge, but Disney naturally decided to greedily put them behind a cost-prohibitive paywall. Only the rich (and people maxing out credit cards) will be able to do these things now.
Yeah.... it looks cool and fun (and often very silly) but I don't think this has lasting potential, at least in this format.
I've been on this with a group of big Star Wars fans, and I think we were all pleasantly surprised with the experience. I think it helped that we were a group of single adults, who'd been saving since the hotel was announced and were able to split costs and bring it into a more comfortable price range per household. I could see how for a single family it could become a lot less accessible. Something I found interesting while looking at our trip, is that a lot of the comparisons it's getting are to escape rooms+, and when I broke down the costs per person per hour that we were on the experience, it shook out to almost exactly the same price as what I'm, on average, charged for an escape room lately.
Aaaaaand its closing down now
Definitely correct with the sustainability part, this is easily a one and done experience if you even choose to pay that price point. plus a note here the experience will also probably degrade over time, I remember the first couple mouths the Rise of the Resistance ride actors were very into it now they just act like any other tired, bland cast members. Maybe if they set it in the original movie era, fix that final fight and make it a day/tour like experience for less id be interested
My biggest issue with Starcruiser, other than the money, is the fact that literally everything they put into it could have easily been folded into Galaxy’s Edge as walk through attractions, interactive queues, dinner shows, etc. honestly they could plop the Starcruiser into the land without the rooms and be Disney’s version of Poseidon’s Fury or the next gen of Disney Quest. It just feels like they took all the interactivity and the more ambitious plans for Galaxy’s Edge and locked them behind a huge paywall. Although it looks fun and I know I’d enjoy it if I ever got the chance to go (or could afford to go) it feels like a very classist move on Disney’s part for me.
These activities should have been part of galaxy’s edge and the bar/restaurants should be open to all guests
Aaaaand it's closing
They didnt use "blue dye #2" on the shrimp. They've been brined in butterfly pea tea (natural flower petals)
Its November 2022 and, to this day, the Starcruiser is at 25% capacity. They are giving free stays to travel agents... what a mess
This would’ve worked so much better as a dinner-theater experience Ala Aladdin. Just have a dinner, singing, and First Order hijinks. You could even do a pre-show to set the mood along with a cocktail hour.
I appreciate that this is a non-biased review of the experience. It shows off what Disney put together independent of the "OMG 6K THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS" clickbait, while still roasting Disney for price gouging their customers to get profits out of this expensive endeavor.
Looks like something I'd enjoy doing ...at half the price of admission. I'm a Star Wars fan, but not that much of one.
I'd also like to add that the fact this is a TWO DAY EXPERIENCE and not a weeklong one I thought it was is laughably disappointing. Really makes that 6K tag sting that much more...
Ah yes, $6000 to see a Rey cosplayer make a dumb pose on a conveyor belt.
An issue with this experience, beyond the price, is that this really caters for the extroverted. You only get the full experience if you don't have any issue with heavy interaction, which includes a fair bit of Star Wars improvisation on your side too. You also have to be up for "theme park acting", if you get what I mean. Personally, all that wouldn't make it a fit for me. Or at least too much of gamble for the money involved.
I also already heard rumours that Disney wants to bring this experience to other places, which quickly would mean Disneyland Paris, as it still is supposed to get a Star Wars land. The issue here however is how the heck they expect to deal with all the European languages. I also don't think the price tag would go down well in Europe either. Not to mention that Disney has to up their game even if they go French only, as also in France and Spain you've got Puy du Fou, parks that entirely consist of shows, including interactive ones. This also at a French ticket price tag of just €39. (The parks are worth looking up!)
I think the biggest weakness the Star Cruiser is going to face isn't necessarily in its experience quality or price, but rather the divisive nature of the fandom.
A lot of people - myself are included - are disinterested in the sequel era, so even though I have loved Star Wars for years, I don't see myself going to the resort even if I had the money, as I simply would not feel engaged with that period of the timeline. The resort sounds better than I imagined, but it just wouldn't work for my tastes.
A lot of Disney areas are kind of hit or miss depending on whether you like that specific series/character or not, but the resort needs a strong market to keep it running. And when the series you're theming it after has a sharply divided fandom, that's going to cut into the appeal. Which will contribute to the sustainability issue pointed out in the video.
It’s certainly divisive. On the inside will be those who can afford it and think it will be fun. On the outside will be people who think it’s unjustifiably expensive and those who think it just a terrible thing altogether.
The only place these two groups might interact is Galaxy’s Edge. I hope it doesn’t turn violent. Maybe they could Wouk it into the storyline.
Wow. This is an unbelievable post. Because now the Galactic Starcruiser is a complete failure and is shutting down for good in September.
What makes this video so great is the fact that you went to the trouble of including KOTOR music for the background. 10/10 for that my friend
YES! Haunted Mansion version would have me saying TAKE MY MONEY!!! 🤑
I’m glad Disney invested in a bold project, and by all accounts delivered something unique and of high quality.
That being said, there is exactly a zero percent chance my family will do this.
Even if they drop the price, I have a hard time believing that won’t be at the expense of the experience itself.
It isn't Star Wars, but Tony and Tina's wedding is only $100 or so a person and you got free food in the meantime. I'm not sure how the novelty becomes worth over $1k a person for cosplaying in the sequel trilogy over the course of multiple days.
I too have the fiscal ability to experience this BUT at roughly 6k (hotel and flight) I could take my family to an all inclusive resort for almost 2 weeks.
I totally disagree.... for the amount of people that this actually serves, it's not a good trade off for the amount of people that see it as just another sign Disney is not for them... Or more accurately... doesn't want them
These activities are nothing that really can’t be done in the main park for guests with a basic admission
All this work looks good. But, does it replicate the feeling you got, just after finishing up OG Star Tours with Paul Rubens, stepping out and hearing the Star Wars theme playing as you walked down the corridor? That feeling the experience gave me was worth every nickle I spent. This looks interactive, but not Star Wars, at all. And, they want alllll my nickles!
It's a high priced Disneyfied LARP with a deemphasis on the R part
I can understand the appeal, but for me this is just exhausting. When I go to a hotel, I just want to relax, not spend every moment in a theater kid's interactive skit
That help panel in the rooms is perfect. They nailed it and would love to have that in my house haha
There is a much better fantasy version of this in Utah and tickets are only like 20 bucks for a park entry. It's called Evermore Park and just about everything disney is doing with this is directly based off of what they've been doing for years now. In Evermore the story is dynamic and constantly changing with every week having different quests and events based off of the actions of guests in previous weeks. If you can't justify shelling out 5 grand but want a similar experience this is the place.
I live in Utah and while I enjoy evermore it really doesn’t even hold a candle to a Disneyland attraction
@@billymanziel5666 I'm not referring to their attractions, just comparing their interactive qualities to those of the galactic starcruiser.
@@C._Bradford it’s still not even in the same league.
I don’t think there is any property I love so much that I’d pay that much money for though. But man… a haunted mansion version would be sweet!
I was super skeptical and I had watched this video before with the same impression (didn’t think it was worth it) but my wife didn’t want me to have FOMO so she gifted it to me once it was announced it was closing. I don’t cosplay or LARP and was overall underwhelmed with GE.
This thing blew me away, while this video does a decent job explaining it, nothing compares to experiencing and there is/was literally nothing else like it in the world. I’d have gladly picked up a second job and paid twice as much to go back. Such a shame it is closing, hopefully something just as good or better rises in its place.
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Doesnt matter how you try to spin it..it looks nothing like stars wars and it's not worth the money
as a non-Star Wars fan I must say that it looks absolutely awesome. Specially the character interactions and the whole Halcyon ship intrigue me. The way your actions influence your experience is also very cool, however the price tag is WAY too high. And in my opinion its a bit disappointing, that most things on the Starcruiser, were promised to be part of Galaxy's Edge, but got cut out.
As a Star Wars fan it bugs me to no end that they have so many eras of lore and they restrict everything in terms of theme park attractions to the sequel trilogy
I won’t get into details about how the sequel trilogy pushing the reset button on the status quo of the universe to match that of the original trilogy harms the first six films…okay maybe I just did.
But needless to say how do you have a theme park based on Star Wars and not have Darth Vader. More specifically, how do you have a Star Wars dark ride that’s not on the Death Star and has no menacing Darth Vader animatronic?!
No matter who you ask it’s a safe bet that when it comes to Star Wars everyone will say the original trilogy was the one that worked. They will also prioritize Darth Vader over Kylo Ren in a heartbeat
It’s a no brainer: a dark ride set in a new hope/rogue one would print money!
Imagine if Universal did something like this for Harry Potter
it is so not worth the price to me. i love star wars, i love things like larp, and it’s cool that disney started one of their own in a way, but i can attend a wizarding school themed larp in the uk (i live in florida) for about the same price. plane ticket and all. that sounds much more exciting, especially for it being NEARLY THE SAME PRICE than an officially licensed experience here.
Disney should just retheme one of their older cruise ships for this concept, have it be a week long with excursions and then maybe it would be worth it
Great Video as always!
My relative price point would be in the cost of an African Safari which at a very nice lodge all in costs $600 per person per day. So a family of four for two days would be $4800 the same price as this experience. Personally I would take the African safari over the Star Wars Disney experience. At 3000 I would probably buy in.
As a Star Wars fan, I have never had much of a desire to go to Galaxy's Edge in the first place, let alone the Galactic Starcruiser. The whole thing with it taking place during the Sequel Trilogy, and specifically between The Last Jedi and the Rise of Skywalker really takes away all the potential both experiences can have. I grew up watching the Prequels, and I think I'm confident in saying that the Clone Wars is my favorite time in all of Star Wars, but anything from Episodes I through VI is just so much more appealing to me, even in productions after the Disney purchase such as Rebels, Rogue One, and the Bad Batch. The Mandalorian takes place after Return of the Jedi and it still appeals to me more than being crammed in such a specific period of time in the Sequel Trilogy. On the plus side for the Galactic Starcruiser, nothing is inherently forcing it into a box as far as time period is concerned, you just change characters and whatever the screens project, but with it having a connection to Galaxy's Edge, it's no longer the Star Wars hotel it probably should have been, now it's part of the narrative of the canon and crammed into a box. As cool as it is to see Hondo Ohnaka as a real thing, and to see a Pantoran as the captain of this ship, and as much as I admire the dedication of a few people to wear makeup and prosthetics all day, it's just not speaking to me. I don't know, I guess for me, I'm very much content in my Star Wars being movies and shows, I don't need to "live" in Star Wars.
I don't mind that it's in the sequel trilogy, that's the trilogy that Disney 100% owns. I grew up with the original series (one of my very first memories was seeing ANH in a drive-in, I was maybe 2 or 3).. and was in my mid 20s when the prequels came out. Remember the entire Galaxy's edge area is supposed to be in 34 ABY, where TLJ is 35 ABY - so 1 year before what happened in TLJ.
My biggest problems revolve around lore (eg: omg look a ship full of people swinging laser swords like Jedi after all the Jedi have been wiped out except Luke). So it doesn't fit with the actual lore Disney set out. Jedi are all but forgotten and are something of legend at the time, and it just doesn't make sense to even have the lightsaber training thing. Would make a lot more technical sense to do blaster training - pair off with either the First Order (who, if you recall, recruits stormtroopers now, no longer cloning them) or the Rebels, have fun with some laser tag, etc. That would make more sense - More Han Solo and less Force User.
Definitely not worth its price. If there was a significantly cheaper experience with more infrequent events so I could relax a little between them and possibly making the sustainability of the experience easier, I would 100% want to do something like this. I'm not a Star Wars fan but an RPG-like immersive multi-day experience sounds really fun
March 2024...this video didn't age well
You would think the windows would be the size of entire walls
Such a win that it closed after 1 year ahah
But, you can say that "you were there". So... for a while it seems... there is a line to get in and each room is $6000 for 2 days. Grand Floridian Suite for 2 days plus park tix? Fort Wilderness Lodge or Treehouse for 2 days? Probably equivalent. It is obscene though how much stuff costs. Park tix have gone up 400% in 20 years. Is that right?
It's ambitious so I give them big cred for letting their imagineers imagine. And yeah it cost a lot to build and run for ~200 guests at a time so it should cost a lot, but 5-6k is not sustainable. I haven't been nor will I every pay this much for it.
In the end I can get a more immersive Star Wars experience with my $300 Oculus VR headset and Vader Immortal.
As an engineer I think a lot of potential immersive elements have been missed. If I was building a fake spaceship I'd have windows everywhere, we're in space - show me space! I'd have the whole ship on a motion simulator, which could be done by building the hotel on a barge in a lake and then hydraulically moving it slightly to match actions the ship is supposedly performing. Maybe this would be a problem for wheelchairs and older people but cruise ships move and older people are on those all the time.
At the very least I'd have simulated windows on the box truck you take to Battu and a course the truck follows that moves the vehicle in the way shown on the screens (This would be cheap and easy). Pot-holed section for turbulance, road tilted slightly left and right for curving planetary entry. Uphill for acceleration, downhill for deceleration - all this could be done slowly in 500' of road and feel real.
You read my mind! I can't imagine that there can be an ongoing demand for this, at the current price point.
The wear and tear on the attraction is inevitable. Though it dates me, I am reminded of the Star Trek: The Experience attraction at the then called Las Vegas Hilton.
Initially quite imersive, and well done - terrific effects, themes and cast - only to deteriorate over time.
For example the casino and bar area - so imersive, and truly special. From slots to table games it was out of this world.
Terrific dealer and bar staff, well costumed and very good at improvisation.
I digress, but my point is about upkeep. Thanks again for the wonderful post!
It's so much fun watching these in 2023! This thing has been pared down to two "voyages" per week, and has been a complete and utter fail.
i was really looking forward to hearing your takes on this one
this is definitely a lot better and more interesting than i expected, but definitely not worth the price and unless they constantly update storylines and minigames i dont see this being something that would work long term
Oh my GOD - I would sell a kidney on the black market in a freaking heartbeat to have a Haunted Mansion experience like you mentioned.
I think you as always are spot on!
For me, from seeing a lot of videos on this I really really really want to go, the whole experience seems like something made for me, I am huge into role-playing and cosplay and this here is right up my alley the only issue is the cost because if I ever want to go, which I am eventually, I’d have to do a ton of saving
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I would have a great time with this today, but an especially great time as a kid. When our kids are a little older we fully intend to do this as a family.
Lots of this does seem corny or even a little awkward, but I keep in mind that this is designed largely for families, and kids will enjoy some of the silliness. It's just unfortunate that it does cost so much. While it's in our budget, it will be our only vacation the year we do it.
It looks amazing from the videos, but the price and how short it is are my only issue. If they lowered the price and extended the number of days then I’d consider it
I can't wait for coupon day.
My little cousin has a HUGE crush on Rey and I would love to see him experience this.
LOL I can’t blame him Daisy is attractive
@@NinthShinigami She is beautiful.
The force pull conveyor belt looks so stupid. They should’ve had it run a far shorter distance.
Hope there is an update video with some of the stuff coming out about this hotel
A mansion hotel would be so kool. Only if it's not too scary lol. Loved mansion and cant wait to ride it on my bday march 31st.
I’m very surprised PE found this impressive. I’ve seen a good 7 videos of the media soft opening and found it boring and disappointing. As a fan of Star Wars I wanted a win but what was being offered fell very short. Maybe if the experience wasn’t rushed it would be more tolerable and less overwhelming. Not to mention the cost is stupid redic
Lmao they gentrified LARPing
I just want a tower of terror hotel already.
Wow, 🤯 I just got the notification for this video right now (event though you uploaded it 6 days ago).
Best video on the hotel that I’ve seen yet.