They want to charge cruise ship money without having to pay for a cruise ship or cruise ship staffing levels… (they do probably want to keep the cruise ship staff pay levels, though…) :-/
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That was my take as well. The playback gesture is the same, which looks ridiculous. It made sense that Leia was holding the device up to her mouth but this person should be holding the device lower.
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Set coordinates to the Alpha Centauri quadrant! Wagons ahoy!
Yeah - that’s it - the rebels were a rag tag group of desperate freedom fighters holding their ships together with space bubble gum and space twine. The outer rim backwater worlds were all grungy and dangerous as well.
The Empire and Bespin in the original trilogy were modern and new. Nice places. In the prequels and sequels so were so many other locations. If they are selling this as a special galactic cruise, then it makes sense that the ship looks fancy. I am not sure what time this cruise is supposed to be in, but I assume it is trying to live outside of the conflicts (though they mention pirates!) Even Space Tours, the ride, had things mostly new and clean.
I wonder if a similar experience aboard a tramp freighter that has to make a few stop to drop off - uh - some space ice cream at a space chicken place first - would be a more immersive experience?
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I suppose the other reason for all the glitch effects and de-rezzing is because of criticism like we’ve seen here in the BBS, that clean and pretty doesn’t remind people of star wars, which frequently has a more gritty aesthetic. So, rather than try to distress all the sets and hotel rooms to match expectations better, they just grunged the announcement video.
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Shotgun: Slightly dangerous to wielder. Incredibly dangerous to everyone else.
Lightsaber: Incredibly dangerous to the wielder. Slightly dangerous to everyone else.
The more I see these, the more I’m convinced that someone from Universal Studios is producing them.
Hey You kids, get off of my Death Star!
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It is around $5k for two people to embark on the Galactic Starcruiser.
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I really really want to like this. Sure expensive, but if you give me two days inside Star Wars, that would be amazing.
However, I know it’s going to be a bunch of randos in Cleveland Browns jerseys and screaming kids, fighting over some game.
And the shots from inside look really cheap. Like it’s in a the uncanny valley of Star Wars.
I think I’d just be disappointed.
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It was! I have fond memories of that, probably the best attraction we visited in Vegas at the time. All the immersion Disney is trying to impart, but free and on a walk-in basis. The Borg walkthrough was really well done, too.
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Someone watched ‘the Magic Christian’ and got the wrong takeaway. In the 1960’s, this concept was high satire. Peter Sellars was ahead of his time.
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They seem to be tying the experience in with Batuu (the Star Wars-themed land in Disney World’s Hollywood Studios) and that’s set some time during the events of the most recent trilogy, so my guess is that.
You’re not alone. A few years ago they were billing it as “a Westworld for Star Wars Fans” but now it turns out they aren’t even going to let you fuck the robots.
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My guess is that the experience includes some such activity, but they don’t want to totally undermine it by including it in the advertising. Definitely the idea of three activities (one being, drinking) for a two-day stay is pretty underwhelming.
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This is awesome, thanks for posting
That video doesn’t feel like Disney’s best effort.
I’m almost certain this feature is delayed by a small matter of creative differences.
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Looks like a vaguely Middle Eastern Nighthawks
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Tatooine was vaguely Middle Eastern in general, which isn’t too surprising seeing as how it was shot on location near Tataouine, Tunisia.
The bar is a pretty good fascimile of the Mos Eisley cantina.
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I was 10 years old when A New Hope premiered, and to this day I still don’t know exactly what a “Mos” is. Mos this, Mos that. Is it a descriptor for a municipality, how we use “city” or “town”?
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