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Fully believe that it was given the ability to momentarily foresee the future and accurately described Jenny's soon to come experience before shutting off.
@@nonbinarygenderqueerhomosa8820 It seemed to function like an Amazon Alexa would, which is an AI software- not to mention Disney called it an “AI concierge” 🙃 AI doesn’t just refer to generative AI. Enemies in a lot of video games are a kind of AI too!
I went to the great wolf lodge when I was 13 and I paid about $50 for a plastic wand. And then I pointed the wand at a magic tree and then the tree woke up and a big animatronic face on the tree told me to go to the 4th floor and speak to the elf princess, she told me to consult a giant wolf on the second floor, which then told me on the fifth floor there’s a stone statue. I inserted the wand into the statue and the speakers rumbled and the characters congratulated me on saving the forest. And that was so much cooler than anything described here.
The saddest part of this for me is how much raw LARP energy Jenny is bringing to this- like she is the ideal audience participant- and she just never gets that energy back.
Couldn't have said it better, this is definitely the theme of this video. She literally tried so hard to enjoy it, but you can literally hear the frustration bubble in her voice as the days go on. Poor Jenny.
Imagine if you hired actual "dinner with a show" establishment designers to design your dinner and a show room. I bet they wouldn't make that mistake. Like, this shit is why there are specialized professionals. I get that you want to make sure it all fits in with the official star wars theming but still, get a consultant to catch shit like this! Now granted my dad's a theater design consultant so I'm biased, but I'm also _right._
@@Shenaldrac When IMAX cinema was new, one of the features it advertised was the vertical separation of the seats so that your view is always clear, no matter how tall the person sitting in front of you is
@@ShenaldracWhat's weird is that Disney Imagineers usually (or maybe once did) pay meticulous attention to the sight lines to make sure guests are always seeing *exactly* what they intend them to see and nothing else
I love that Disney will be shamed forever because of that pole. Its such poetic justice. It's sort of like how the Beast in Beauty and the Beast mistreated a powerful sorceress thinking she was a begger, so too will Disney's reputation be cursed for mistreating Jenny Nicholson while she was disguised as an average guest.
actually, at rainforest café you have good views of the animatronics at any table, and it costs max a couple hundred dollars for a big party. so it's actually kinda worse than rainforest café.
I went on this trip, and it was one of the best experiences of my life, and it was largely due to the actors. They were so freaking good at their jobs and went out of their way to engage everyone. I think my niece fell in love with the rogue. Lol I hope all of them went on to find success elsewhere.
@@ACAB.forcutielmfaooooo I looked up at the timestamp I was at bc of your comment also not knowing how long the video was and I am at 2 hours 21 min and im gagged there’s this much more to the story
ultimately it feels like the staff got scammed even harder than the customers. their love, blood, sweat, and tears all given to a corporation that would murder them if it made them a small profit. shout out to the captain and rest of the actors and staff, and i hope disney internally relocated them like Jenny mentioned so that they didn't abruptly lose their jobs
@@danadau.365Disney is somehow its own government in Florida is they make the fire laws probably. All of Disney worlds counts as a pseudo extra-territorial enclave. Very interesting
My sister speculated that maybe they initially planned animatronics of him to pop out of little mouse holes or be on the balcony, and then were like nah too expensive, and wrote that he's dead. Like why else have a captain that's a silly little guy only for him to be unseen right
the fact that Jenny paid $169 to receive guaranteed photos of a very expensive vacation and did not receive ANY photos, and was then refused a refund until she posted about it online is ridiculous. Thinking about the guests who never got that refund... Disney doesn't care about the customer experience if they get to just siphon money. Doesn't make me want to visit.
@@abigaillynch8315 oh man, I'd have to even remember what channel it was. I want to say it was Bloomberg DC? probably in the range of July-August-September this year. It was broadcast some time in the afternoon. I think they were talking about it in terms of Disney as a company, being a financial station. Not sure if thats even worth it, but good luck, thats all I remember.
That's genuinely SO cool, I love how nowadays some youtube video releases hold weight and become events in an of themselves the same way culturally impacful movies do
As infuriating as it was to experience, the idea of a character who only wants to help the First Order being unwillingly thrusted into working with the Resistance is very funny
As bad an experience Jenny had, I'm weirdly glad she did, because if it didn't happen to her then it would've happened to others and their voice and experience would've gone unheard - like being sat behind the pole, if Jenny had been given good seats then the plight of the poor sods who were seated behind them would've gone unnoticed!
This has almost nothing to do with the video but when she was talking about how the actors were getting screwed this most it reminded me of this. I used to work with a lot of people who were in the original Finding Nemo stage show at Animal Kingdom. Many of them were Broadway performers in New York and Disney wanted 'Broadway caliber actors' for the show. To sweeten the deal, Disney told them as long as they worked in the Nemo show, they would be given free housing on Disney property. A lot of New Yorkers liked this idea and so they all came down knowing they would have housing. What Disney didn't expect was these people would stay on the show for 10+ years and would be paying for their housing even if they only performed in the show once a year. So when the pandemic came around, Disney took full advantage of this and laid off all the original stage performers, stripping them of a job and their housing. So long story short... it doesn't matter that they are the heart of the company or how long they had been with the company, Disney will screw over their performers
@@BunnLilahThe larger the company, the higher the odds that empathy is replaced with psychopathy. C-level greed runs rampant. Quality is tossed aside for mediocre facsimiles, which are mass-produced on the cheap. When they mess up, they never admit fault and rarely fix a problem without a class action lawsuit. Lower-level employees are expected to sacrifice for the business, and customers are almost treated with disdain. Lawmakers are recruited to stifle competition through costly regulations and look the other way when data breaches and surveillance issues are exposed. I get it-the company becomes so large that it’s not profitable unless it behaves like somebody with psychopathy, but this doesn't make for a healthy ecosystem. It makes me realize how meaningful those human connections are to maintaining compassion, integrity, and innovation instead of massive profits. I suspect corporations could still exist and maintain healthy relationships if they followed a distributed model instead of a cold, centralized one.
Seeing your sister get bear-trapped by a spontaneously closing umbrella and immediately assuming she somehow did it to herself is peak sibling behaviour.
there’s no experience quite like watching a jenny nicholson video as a podcast, only to glance over at the screen and she’s talking to me from inside a giant porg suit
I would think that if they had made it a bit bigger (so the atrium and bar and the like could support a full hotel) and draw it out for 4 days (the same key events, little added story just spread out what they did throughout 4 nights instead of 2. And everyone would have probably had a better time even the ones who said they enjoyed it, because they would have had time to relax, look around, talk to cast members more and truly take it all in. But of course.. then half as many guest go there a week and the bean counters couldn't have THAT?
I have watched this video so many times, and every time the weird fire shame closets and the fact that the hotel has no fire escapes is insane to me. It would not be immersion-breaking to have doors labelled "Fire Escape - Escape Pod". In a real world emergency I would rather leave the themed environment than have a star wars canon complient horrific death.
from what I've seen on reddit and such, this was p much the only thing Jenny got wrong - apparently there are fire escapes that connect to the shame closests. but even if that's true, the fact that Jenny didn't know eventthough she literally went to there means the hotel's communication about it must have been absolutely abysmal
@@jp-wc4ce If you pause the video on the shot of the inside of the door, it says that there is an exit door - that must be opened from the *outside*. So that inspires confidence.
Much like the comments section of the Evermore video, I’m excited and then left feeling quite sad as I read all of the fantastic ideas from Jenny’s viewers that would’ve been easy crowd pleasers and both logistically and thematically appropriate. The breadth of missed opportunities…
I do love the image of Jenny desperately trying to sell out to the First Order at every turn and getting completely ignored, and still ending up picked by the Resistance to save an important general.
Jenny's Firsr Order supporting character being suddenly and randomly assigned to help the Resistance at the last minute without any previous indication isn't actually the flaw it seems at first, because the same thing happened to General Hux
I'm still sad about Hux. There was a GREAT villain there. Hell, connect him more with Phasma since they met in her book and also get the most out of THAT character, but NOOOOO... Disney had no actual PLAN...!
Can you imagine if the Memory Maker photographers had been there? Jenny would’ve ended up with tons of sad pictures of her and her sister not being allowed to actually engage in the game at all
That's why you spend a few extra hundred dollars on the add-ons. The $6,000 is just the entrance fee at the door of the club -- the real fun comes with the stuff that costs extra, teehee
Chili's imagineers assumedly have to deal with the logistics of sending their customers on a cryptic ARG quest every time somebody orders the chili, unlike Disney imagineers who only did it that one time
Yeah, this was my first time seeing this channel (my Twitter feed was blowing up from people loving this video), and that line sold me on watching the whole 4 hours (and I'm glad I did)
the strangest part for me of that is that they still conned State Farm into sponsoring their Pravda podcast. How are you going to have another company give you money to make your own unwatchable propaganda
I'm honestly surprised that the smuggler storyline didn't have guests carrying other people's luggage into their rooms so Disney didn't have to pay someone to do it.
At the start of the video, I genuinely thought that was gonna happen! I forgot about that until reading your comment lol, I got really sucked into the video
I genuinely thought that’s what they meant 😭 Or making it a fun game for the kids like “we stowed precious illegal cargo in YOUR bags! You must transport them yourselves and avoid anyone who claims they wish to assist you (bellhops) for the Resistance!”
I wanted to pop in and say as a former Cast Member (college program too) that the base pay for any face performer at Disney is around only $20 an hour, but that was what I had heard from a friend also in the college program so it could be different, but yeah, not the best pay for what they were asking from these guys. I also wanted to say that all Cast Members follow a “point” system when it comes to disciplinary action. Three points result in a reprimand, three reprimands result in termination. Being late for your shift got you half a point, and there were days I showed up only a few minutes late for my shift and still got half a point despite having a valid excuse that was outside of my control (bus delays was the big one). Missing a shift gets you a point no matter what, even if you had to go to the ER (I say from personal experience, I was having the worst ear pain to the point I could not eat and everyone I asked told me it would result in a point even though I was practically unable to work). In the college program, your housing lease expires only a day after your employment ends. It was fine for me and worked out okay for the one person I knew who did get terminated but it was still scary. All that to say, those college program Cast Members on the Star cruiser were definitely overworked and underpaid and if they wanted too much time off or if they showed up just a minute late to enough shifts they were at risk of losing both their job and housing in one fell sweep with little to no warning. Edit: wanted to pop in a few more details. There’s a chance that Ouannii’s actresses were paid less because she’s technically not a “face character”. Characters that have masks are considered easier to perform than characters that require the actors show their faces….so another possibility that is also not great. Also wanted to let everyone know that because the college program is an “internship”/contract work (I could not get any internship credits for it though) CPs were not allowed to join the union!
@@kieranhair370.5 points per late penalty out of 3 total points only allows for 6 late arrivals, not 18. Plus, you can only miss 3 shifts total without ever having been late, and that includes for medical emergencies. Not to mention that arriving even a minute after the shift starts still counts as being late, even if it's not your fault. The lack of allowance on top of the fact you're out of housing after a single day of termination makes it hard to believe these conditions are significantly better than most jobs you've worked.
I was sick my entire time as a CP. Horribly sick. I ended up with heat stroke from the work. I remember crying to a leader (manager) that I couldn’t sit and take a break any longer because I would get points deducted. She forced me to stay sitting but I feared being fired. That night I got so sick I probably almost died. The urgent care nearby saw me so much they would let me skip the line because I was not well. It wasn’t just the heat-I was feverish and genuinely sick for over a month. This was February-March 2020. Turns out I probably had Covid on top of constant heat exhaustion. I couldn’t miss work at all though-I could only miss 3 days total. So the doctors gave me steroid injections and tried to get me medical accommodations for the heat. I was finally moved to a safer job after a horrible phone call with the evil people at their accommodations place (Disney may be ok with disability accommodations for guests or at least used to be, but will not care if employees are sick and dying). Anyway, it was slightly better and I wasn’t hiding in the cast member bathroom at liberty square throwing up my whole shift anymore, but it was a nightmare. And then they shut everything down March 2020. We lost our jobs and they kicked us out of housing because of the pandemic. We had two days. My dad made me a flight reservation and thank god he was able to. We were scared we would not be able to fly across state borders so my roommates family said they would house me in Miami for the foreseeable future. Anyway, CPs are not treated well. And yet we’re the longest most enthusiastic people I’ve ever met.
There's something cosmically hilarious about the fact that the person most willing to engage with the role-play, and the only one filming a review is the one whose entire interactive experience doesn't work and who also gets plonked down behind a pole.
It reminds me of the hotel inspector character in Ocean's 13, who has every aspect of his stay in Al Pacino's hotel sabotaged by Ocean's team so that he doesn't give the hotel the prestigious "five diamond award".
It’s because she books these trips like any normal person would, right? I feel like she could totally play the “RUclips celebrity card” and reach out to these places and get the special treatment, but she doesn’t. She’s so real for that, she goes to these cool parks and shows us what the true experience for the majority of people would be like.
@@et873 Tbh I think these parks would not want her to come unless they could make sure she had the most perfect possible time, and they’re aware that can’t happen because of how low quality so much of this is. So I think they’d rather she not come.
"Luckily there was a fan film that captured the bathroom" *cut to the most jarring psychological drug horror ever connected to any star wars ip* "So you can see, that was themed as well :)"
I wasn't paying attention to what she was saying before she started to play the clip and it scared me so bad I had to rewind to figure out what the hell was going on 😂
1:00:18 I am on my latest rewatch and I just realized when she told the droid that the dianoga eggs were brought on by her, that probably put her on the smuggler path, even if she was avoiding it.
Which may explain why even after avoiding doing so, she was put onto the Resistance as it was prolly the next highest route she's done via interacting with the characters. I really do wonder how the systems worked for deeming what specific route you're on..
It’s honestly disgusting how Jenny got the cold shoulder twice when Disney thought she was a “regular” person. But then immediately resolved the issue as soon as they found out about her following.
To be fair, any company will usually resolve your issue if you contact them via social media instead of emailing or calling. I’ve had to do it with other companies before. They can magically solve your issue somehow once you put your issue on their social media
@@SquiffehhI wouldn’t say any company. I’ve been ignored by multiple on twitter (and even blocked on insta) after having issues getting products that arrived broken returned.
This is really disappointing. I’m not a Disney theme park fan but I’ve been a few times and was always impressed with the level of customer service provided by the staff on the ground. I would’ve expected this level of attention and care from all aspects of their customer outreach. Sad to see they’re just like every other company
This is all companies now. They will screw you over, exhaust you and stonewall you, until you post about it to x million people on Twitter. If you can't, well, what are you going to do about it. If you're hung up on a couple hundred dollars in the first place, can you afford some kind of lawyer? Could that hypothetical lawyer go up against the corp's legal team? I was always anti-consumerist but in a world that's consumer-unfriendly to the point that you could call it consumer hateful, why bother.
The "Luxury hotel" check-in being "standing in a hot drive-in bay with hundreds of other strangers" is where I really laughed out loud. Even Motel 6 has a lobby.
Its so weird that they didn't make a little spaceport terminal as the check-in lobby. Especially given the "shuttle" elevator thing. Like have that be the area where you fade the transition from real world to roleplay world.
Yeah they really could have done something to make the wait comfortable and immersive. They could have interactive terminals that give some fluff about the ship's specs and maybe the captain's history to sell that you're in good hands. Maybe a blurb about how the First Order will be providing extra security or something stupid like that.
@DokturProfesur they could have even just put up some futuristic looking seating and stock a vending machine with dyed trail mix and gatorade in funky bottles and it would have been better than the human parking lot situation they had
the fact that a 6k "immersive" experience still requires me to use my phone and an app is infuriating. how am i supposed to be immersed when i am getting instagram notifications on an alien spaceship
I love how Disney keeps messing things up that Jenny paid good money for and customer support is like, "There is nothing we can do." and when she uses the Black Mirror Social Credit System suddenly they're like, "We have your GPS location right now we are sending a drone to drop off your toy, it should arrive in 23 seconds."
i dont know how it isnt grounds for immediate refund. Here in Australia if any business fuks around like that a quick complaint is made and its sorted, fairly quickly (light speed vs other bureaucratic process). A big company like Disney doing this , i dont understand how that flies. Maybe in US you dont have good gov departments behind you, and have to self litigate. But then i dont understand how this behavior isnt broadcasted and absolutely smashed. The only goal or direction disney seems ot have at the moment is lterraly inserting women into everything. Ddi you notice the podcast section of the video? 30 women, 5 men. i paused on a still of a bar scene in one of the concept marketing, of the identifiable sex (some indistinct aliens) 13 women, 3 men. WTF? im not up to date with all marvel and teen drama, but i saw the cartman south park episode with Kathleen Kennedy and 'put a chick in it and make it lame'. JFC , i didnt think reality would be beyond parody. Maybe women are the target audience? but to that degree?? Seriously, black women seem to be the target. go count. I would have thought it would be run of the mill families (of all backgrounds), but 100% laser focus on trying to direct an audience of a vagina monologues critical race theory latte session to a sci-fi family theme park instead.
oh and i must say, of those 5 men, man, all up they probably had the testosterone of 1 monty python lumberjack. I wonder how long it took to clear house, their ranks are just women, and a few emasculated men.
I’ve had to deal with customer service stonewalling me because I wasn’t a massive influencer, I’m glad she had her issues fixed but I’ll never be able to get my droid back :(
Girl if i spent 6,000 dollars to go to a fancy Star Wars LARP only for the cast members to not roleplay with me and for the game to not work I would've just started crying
the entire video filled me with a sense of longing and want. like. it made me sad without even BEING there! i would have a full on mental fucking breakdown if i went through everything to make a character and try so hard to be her only to just be shafted by poor planning and non care by the tech people. i just want something like this that actually works! hell id pay 10k for an escape like that.
@@GeorgeDroyd1998 I mean yes for sure, but its SO EXPENSIVE that I think making it enjoyable for the adults that have to pay for it, is not that big of an ask. The whole "its for kids" just doesnt hold up if I, the adult, am paying SO MUCH MONEY 😂
The strangest thing just happened, I was sitting here enjoying this video and then Bob Iger came into my home and installed a large structural pillar between my desk chair and my monitor.
@@Largecow_Moobeast As a long-time pillar-head I would have told you previously that it was a relatively unknown hidden gem that you don't need to use a fast pass on, but ever since this video came out and Jenny put it on blast I'd say it's a rope drop attraction. If you can't make it to the park that early you'll definitely want to use a fast pass for it.
The fact that this amazing, four-hour video has captions that are accurate for it is incredible. Thank you so much for making that effort, a lot of creators don't even for smaller things! (No shade, it's a lot of effort, I know, but like... It sucks since audio processing issues.)
In a patreon video a few months ago where she talked about this video she was saying that she pays a professional captioner for her videos. Apparently she had to scour fan wikis because they were both trying to figure out what the place name actually was when they fly to the “quirky” system and it was very hard to figure out! I really appreciate the effort
The problem is clearly that Jenny avoided the smuggler storyline so strongly, when the only activity they had planned for guests was smuggling luggage.
Smuggling luggage as part of the storyline is a clever labor savings technique. Why pay people to bring the luggage up when you can have your guests "smuggle" each other's luggage
The scene of Jenny desperately trying to see around the pole and constantly getting her view blocked by random miscellaneous things, just almost able to see, reminded me of the scene in The Polar Express where the kid can’t see Santa because he doesn’t truly believe. Thus, I can infer that it was, in fact, Jenny who was the problem. If she had simply believed in Gaia in her heart of hearts the pole would have been a non issue
I don't think it's painting with too broad of strokes to say anyone willing to pay $3000 a head for a two night stay at a Star Wars theme hotel probably is already subscribed to Disney+.
Yeah that is utterly egregious, especially since they are gearing toward families in general. Kids are sick or having a bad time and need to be in room then too bad cause Disney says "f you pay me"
It’s so crazy that my family was considering going to this damn hotel as a gift for my high school graduation in 2021 and only didn’t actually plan on it bc we saw how badly the park experience was being affected by COVID and decided to not go until things were back to normal. Watching this makes me feel like we were saved from a potentially horrible family trip
@@Dreikoo assuming you don’t get the table with the awful view that requires you to stand and watch from a different spot in the restaurant so you can’t eat your meal within the restricted timeframe without horking it down during the few minutes the show is not playing. And I have the impression there wasn’t a show with every meal. And also the same limitations don’t exist during character meal experiences at other parks.
the not-being-able-to-see-the-show-from-every-table-in-the-house thing seems like EXACTLY the type of thing that you hear about disney imagineers artfully AVOIDING
Exactly. As a Disney history/imagineering nerd it pains me to look at new Disney experiences and be like "ok I don't even DO this and I know y'all are doing it wrong"
@@guest4635seriously, there might be a few tables that are the best, but no table should be positioned so guests CANNOT see the performance due to some fixture of the room
I think there’s a Disney cruise ship that has a Frozen dinner with the same issue. I can only imagine the meltdowns that causes when little kids can’t see Elsa.
My guess is that Jenny was actually purposefully placed there for booking the least expensive room available. They totally could have built a dining room that accommodated everyone, or at the very least arranged the tables/decor/show elements in such a way that everyone felt included. But they didn’t. Jenny mentions having booked the lowest possible room category. Disney loves doing this horrible tiered price thing and consistently go out of their way to make the lowest paying budget-minded guests feel bad and like they should have spent more to secure a better experience. And it also serves as a way for the more well-off guests to feel justified for spending more. I used to be a lifelong Disney fan. Was even a proud “Disney Adult” for a while. But I’ve fallen out with “like” with them for a few years now. I think their unabashed ceaselessly greedy behavior at every single possible opportunity is disgraceful and disgusting.
if i was seated behind a pole i would have fully sobbed right there in the restaurant. 6k is more than I've ever had in my bank account. And to spend that much and receive this would've made me physically sick.
Too relatable, too sad 🥲 (I'm not mocking, I'm literally saying that for that money I would expect to be carried around on a golden palanquin. Even in a space restaurant 😅)
I feel like I just would have been one of the people she mentions in the video who simply got up and watched from another angle. Like yeah, I'd be annoyed that I got seats that bad after paying all that money. But at the same time, it's wild to me that anyone who paid that much money would actively choose to just stare at the pole. Like, I get Jenny's point about "I shouldn't have to put anything into it when I already put in $6000." On the other hand, having put in $6000 would make me all the more motivated to put in as much effort as possible to keep any of that from having gone to waste. I will drag my damn table from behind the pole and place it in the middle of the room if I absolutely have to.
I like that Disney panic-fixed an error for her twice upon realizing they burned a huge influencer and there was still four hours of stuff to complain about
@@sam4330 I mean, her vids get MILLIONS of viewers; I doubt their own podcast gets more than a couple hundred. It's a good thing the hotel shut down, because this vid would literally have been enterprise-ruining. It's made a meme out of this hotel for like. IRL friends of mine. I'm amazed.
I can't help but love it. Lose money, you ɸûcks! Because, as Lucan wrote of Caesar, I rejoice in [their] ruin: that's what they get, for ripping people off _twice¹_ - the stupidly overpriced experience in the first place, and then _not even making their own mistakes right..._ unless you've got a massive audience (and thus can inconvenience *Disney,* which is of course what really matters). _¹(and for screwing up everything related to Star Wars except like one single show and maybe one or two seasons of another)_
I love that every attempt to bribe Jenny is just neutrally relayed. Like "The customer service was unable to help me but then I tweeted about it and they fixed it and sent me gifts."
It's got an amazing honesty to it, like, "Yeah, they helped me, and that's great, but it's really shitty that this isn't the kind of treatment everyone will get".
@@mastermarkus5307 It’s totally Jenny’s strength. Her unwavering dedication to relay the objective truth and not let her personal experience overtake others. Shoutouts Jenny
It's not really a bribe though. She paid for the experience and should get her money's worth. They essentially tried to reduce bad publicity by only giving customers what they paid for only when they complained loud enough
@@theshire9173 But if you think about it it still works out to being a bribe. They take no measures to ensure an additionally priced benefit they offer is being delivered in any way, but they won’t provide a refund. It’s only once the situation could negatively affect their image to a decent audience that they act like they’re trying to remedy the situation, when all they’re really doing is trying to remedy their PR problem. Why else would they say they can’t offer a refund and then suddenly renege once she posts about it online?
Yeah, like, if anyone remembers the old Epcot walk-around activities, they gave you like a special phone/PDA thing just for it, instead of asking you to use your own, it made it so much more immersive.
Exactly! I'm a huge escape room enthusiast, and some of the best aspects of those are the tactile interactions. That's the true "escape" from our regular world
What makes this exposé so brilliant is not just that you had multiple scammy issues that Disney refused to help with (until they found out you were internet famous), not that the role playing experience was bafflingly broken and underwhelming, but that you were SO POSITIVE and upbeat through the entire stay trying desperately to get involved only to be denied, like the force ghost of Bob Chapek was wandering around to stymie you at every turn.
It's called cognitive dissonance. Like, I want to be a Star Wars fan so bad, I literally convince myself the last jedi was a good movie and I enjoyed it. If you pay $6k for something, your brain wants to convince you you're enjoying yourself because you don't want to see yourself as someone who would pay so much for crap.
The GSC is such a spectacular failure in that Jenny is the ideal guest. Willing to suspend disbelief, excited for theme park emersion, willing to be inside and sleepless to catch everything for days on end, and very understanding of all the quirks and glitches of something this big… And for it to still fail her, not just a little but spectacularly is inexcusable beyond belief.
I have to disagree. The ideal guest for the hotel is someone who has all that, then will also ignore the bad stuff and aggressively defend and promote the experience for free online.
It sucks cause I am one of those people. Maybe not for a Disney IP but if this was at least affordable I would have totally tried it out and played along. I love being immersed and play DnD on the regular. And all this video makes me think is how it could have done better and how a similar idea but with different concepts SHOULD be tried. A murder mystery hotel for example would be great! And it frankly makes me want to write my own version of one.
@@TheSergio1021Sounds like The Witcher school in Poland would have been great for you then. Much cheaper than GSC and you’re in a real castle in the countryside.
This was a melancholic watch. I recently quit my job of 5 years as an escape room designer, in part because the owner's greed was driving the quality of my work into the ground. It won't be long before my rooms sit empty and unenjoyed, just like this hotel. I really feel for the designers and the actors involved in making this. They deserved for their work to be treated better
It made me angry because there is so much designing talent for immersive experiences but most of the time they simply do not have the Disney budget to execute the cool shit they are absolutely capable of in the industry already!!
1:26:24 My best friend was just on her honeymoon to disney and she texted me a picture of her seated behind a pole at a dinner experience on three seperate occasions.
@@msplendor More like macrotransactions at that point. They wanted 50 bucks for a fake "mixology" course ffs, and that sounded like it was on the cheap end of available options. Absolutely wild that Disney had the gall to charge 6k+ for two days and two nights in the crummiest room, nickel and dime you for everything along the way, AND still ship you off to the normal theme park for a good chunk of the time. Even for them that's unprecedented levels of greed and laziness.
No toxicity to the staff member, but saying that your founder was a tiny little guy, who used tiny little doors, and then immediately following that with "he's dead" is the funniest thing ever.
I am 100% convinced that there simply is no 1st order plot line. Either because they didn't want to have conflict between guests or because no guests could be losers or because they were afraid people would spin it as endorsing fascism. Either way from Jenny's description it seems like there is only 1.5 plot lines , helping the rebels and smuggling something for them. That's all. And of course the primary characters that facilitate this plot are crowded with kids. That's literally all there is to do.
@@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009 it's at 40:45 !! (i feel obligated to point out that the guide DOES say "he's not with us anymore", not specifically that he died... i mean it definitely IMPLIES that he died, but could have been spun up into a pretty funny bit about him just leaving the starcruiser behind to have adventures somewhere else?? but probably not)
It's not just the Empire of the Mouse, all businesses are moving to this nickel-and-dime model from streamers to airlines to auto giants. Sadly, unlike what Jenny predicts, they won't necessarily reach a ceiling because they have so much control over what they sell that the public has no choice but to pay up. Something something capitalism sucks, am I right?
Given that Steamboat Willy is public domain now, maybe someone should make a Terminator like film where a Killer travels into the past trying to kill Steamboat Willy, who doesn't understand why this is happening and the Killer just repeats "I have seen what you will become. I have to stop you NOW"
My favorite thing to come out of the hotel was a tweet saying “Instead of paying 6,000 I’m gonna break into the Starcruiser like all the main characters in Star Wars do at some point.”
I hope 5 years from now we get to see Urban explorer footage of people actually breaking into the Star cruiser ruins. Maybe someone will steal juani's little Droid mask THE SAME WAY THEY STOLE BUZZY.
Jenny having a bad experience at a theme park is so funny to me. She is like the most enfranchised theme park enjoyer that will actively engage with the park and how it is marketed, if you can't give her a good experience, you shouldn't have a theme park
For real. Her trying to be all interactive and supportive of the marketing and then the employees looking at her like she’s having a schizo episode is so sadly funny
I just don't understand how that didn't raise flags with management. Like at all. You have someone actively filming, with a cool toy, and is modestly very approachable. How does someone wandering around not knowing what their doing not make management of a luxury experience go, Hmm. What's wrong with this guest? They're not doing anything.
Also, considering how often Jenny and her sister had to look at their phones to either follow the schedule, interact with AI chatbots, or play glitchy phone games to solve "puzzles", this experience itself could ironically be considered a "screen-based RPG".
Ultimate go-to comfort video. When I’m sick, this is playing. When I’m tired, this is playing. When I’m in a hotel room trying to sleep, this is playing. When I’m doing dishes, this is playing.
She kind of addressed it, but it's bonkers to me that Galactic Cruiser didn't have a meta conceirge that you could go to or that checked in on you and your progress. "Hey, I'm not getting any missions" "hey, i feel lost and like I'm missing something" "hey can you check my magic band? I think something isn't scanning right" , literally anything that would troubleshoot tech and force story moments to get guests back on track. It would be so easy to have cast members check in on assigned state rooms like they do on real Disney cruises that would make sure the guests were having a good time without forcing an immersion break. I also wonder if there was a certain level of acceptance that these elements were broken for some guests and they were prepared to eat that bad experience (obviously did not pay off for Disney) rather than take the manpower to build in contingencies and support. Shameful.
Yes, and you'd think that in a place like this with confined spaces and children, they would have had security cameras everywhere. All it would have taken to improve Jenny's experience was one security staff member noticing Jenny wandering aimlessly and sending out an in-character intervention. "Hi, I'm a Halcyon concierge. Can I help you with something?" It seems shocking that staff weren't trained or empowered to check on a guest who obviously wasn't having a good time.
@@nelsonhamilton8262 the video would've happened regardless lmao.. gameplay wasn't that exciting anyways and it certainly won't diminish other problems
I hope people stop giving Disney money. This, and the fact that you had to have a paid Disney+ account to view the movies in their $6k rooms is just comical.
@@Canseeyt Threaten them... AND have the clout to back it up. She gets millions of viewers, unlike probably literally every other person there with her that weekend. Crazy.
The Honeymoon Suite at the Polynesian Resort that I stayed at with my wife cost us around $2,800.00 with taxes/tips for a 3-day getaway, and the room was _SPACIOUS_ and the view was to die for. The resort had a beach you could visit, a massive pool/theme park-i-fied water slide, tons of restaurants, bars, and other services, and, on top of all of that, we had a great view of the Cinderella Castle for the evening fireworks. The Resort also has a lot of history behind it, so you could easily take an hour or two (or more) just exploring. It was beautiful and, to this day, the experience is something I cherish greatly. With all that said and done... are you telling me that the Star Wars Hotel offered _less_ AND was over twice as expensive for a shorter amount of time?!
Wait, so the in-universe, diegetic offering of this luxury space cruiser is dinner and a show on night one and a trip to a hostile planet under martial law the next day
It's not like they're losing money! Disney+ is not a finite resource and very few people are going to sign up for it to specifically have it on vacation.
@@mastermarkus5307 No, but in the way hotel provide television, there should be a version of Disney+ that can be reset after each stay and person specific like how some planes have individual streaming screens for each seat. I think that’s more along the linear what people are saying - that’s how I took it at least
I think this fact was the final nail in the coffin of the Star Wars hotel. Jenny is the undisputed queen of theme parks. Disney should not have messed with powers above their station.
When I consume pulitzer-level journalism, i prefer for the journalist to cycle through several elaborate costumes while never deviating from their surgical dismantling of the greedy corporation in question. Thank you for your video
It’s a surprise everytime! I don’t know how I manage to forget that she does this but I feel like every time I look away there’s a new extravagant character
I find it so goddamn weird Disney leaned into the "I think Darth Vader and stormtroopers and the bad guys are cool!" demographic. Like I get why its enjoyed amongst the Star Wars fandom. But it kinda feels like if they made an Indiana Jones experience and let you help the Nazis?
Jenny's curse is that her criticisms are so valid and well researched that by the time she shares them the thing she's criticising is already out of business.
Okay, but at the end where you talk about the person working the gift shop giving you a tour and talking to you about their Gaya fan club is one of the cutest things ever. I would have loved to have gone to something like this if it was truly just a hotel where the cast members working were just into start wars larp T-T
To be fair, she actually does say in the video that a number of the vloggers she watched who enjoyed it seem to have treated the experience exactly like that and didn't try that hard to engage with the gameplay elements at all. I can't personally imagine spending that much money and not trying to engage with the full experience, but at the same time those people would have avoided all of the gameplay problems and scheduling issues Jenny talks about, so maybe they were onto something.
You’re right. I was vicariously angry about paying that much for the experience she got and I never even planned to go to this hotel within the couple of months it was open.
A lot of people are saying Disney should've hired Jenny to give them advice, but as she herself said in the video, I am positive that they probably had plenty of employees and creative types that likely predicted the flaws or had more ambitious suggestions that got shut down by corporate to save a bit of money or make it more marketable to a general audience
I think the imagineers should be super star wars fans as a minimum apart from being whatever an imagineer is, maybe some the decision making staff too, I've no doubt some people that worked on it had doubts but they were clearly ignored by the higher ups
Yeah I can imagine the clusterfuck of meetings that led to this being made in its compromised and barely functional finished form. "Well, we can make the space windows work but the effect depends on these LED lights that make it hard to sleep." "We need this number of seats, but that's a load bearing column right there."
yeah I used to be an engineer at Disney (not for the parks so technically not an “imagineer”) and the ideas that I had that were fun and minimally costly to implement were just…not even considered. At all. The suits would smile at you and say they hear you and then that was literally the end of it lmao. very disillusioning
The joy that 14 year old me felt when Perry the platypus rode his little speed boat through the pond in Japan is matched only by seeing Jenny inhabit that giant porg mask
This is astonishing. A luxury LARP experience, but with no luxury, no roleplay, no riddles or puzzles... So a live-action experience : you are there. Alive. Existing. Don't ask for more, it'll cost you extra.
This is the third or fourth time I'm watching this FOUR HOUR dive into the Star Wars hotel (a hotel I never went to, themed around a franchise I don't really care about), and it remains one of the best things to ever be on RUclips.
Seriously! I haven’t been to Disney world in years (at least 2014 or 2015) and I have never really been a fan of Star Wars but watching a 4 hour video of her review, commentary, and documentation of her experience and why it failed is so fascinating to me.
I'm trying to imagine the reaction of Kylo Ren upon entering a room of civilians who cheer to see him. He would be psychologically unable to deal with.
Crawling around in uncomfortable conditions, scanning the barcodes on crates, being treated weird for showing enthusiasm, and being ghosted by the characters who ordered you to do the crate thing in the first place. Warehouse Laborer: A Star Wars Story!
@@SweetSavoryAvery They really did overemphasize the smuggling in that marketing video. Like, did they not do any research on SW at all, and the fact that the outlaw characters are, you know, criminals?
My aunt and uncle went here in place of their honeymoon, which they didn’t get to go on. They didn’t have a wedding, just went to the courthouse, because they needed to save cash for a house, and they’d just had a kid. Almost 6 years, and the ~immersive Star Wars experience~ is what they splurged on for the first time in forever. They also stayed in town to visit the regular Disney park and go to the Halloween parade. All they talked about was the Halloween parade and when I asked about the Star Wars thing that cost $10k+ for them, my aunt’s face dropped and she said “it was alright, I was kind of confused the whole time.” Like Jenny said, middle class people who save up for things like this, it was a very special occasion, we watched their kids for 2 weeks straight, and all they had to say was “eh, it was alright. But I got a cool purple light saber in batu.”
Based on Jenny's video and your aunt's comment on being confused, it seems clear that this should have been less phone based and more just having actors walk around and interact. If you're paying 10k you shouldn't be playing kids games or looking for something to do, you should be able to feel like you're in Star Wars. I could see your aunt having assumed it was the latter based on maybe just the tiniest misleading marketing clips. We who grew up on tech really need to tech our older relatives about looking up reviews online. It might ruin some surprises but it can also save you from an awful experience like this.
Yeah they claim to try to create this immersive experience and you're on your phone all the time like you could be playing a computer game at home for £20 for a week's entertainment.
@@morgantrias3103omg THIS! Because although its not exactly the same, the entire time during this review all I kept thinking about was how a PC game I bought recently, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, is WAY more immersive as an experience than this hotel that cost people thousands! And I didn’t even get to pick from dialogue options or have the characters call me by a chosen name! And that game cost me about £60 for the gold edition on sale and it was worth every damn penny, it’s fantastic and I can think for is that I got way more out of that £60 I spent on an Ubisoft game than I ever would’ve at any “immersive” in person experience current Disney could ever sell to me for an obscene amount of money Which is really sad and goes to show how corporate greed is just ruining art in basically every form, and is making the Disney company cannibalise itself and destroy any consumer trust they’ve painstakingly built up over the past many decades 🥲
This style of video is so great. Not an influencer cash grab, not a review, but basically an in-the-moment documentation that future historical documentarians (think Defunctland) relish to have access to, as it is so chock full of primary resource information. I've never watched anything else on your channel, but I am excited to dive deep after this video.
Wow, this whole thing seems like such an unmitigated disast- "One of the cast members brought a little bowl for Skippy to drink out of." -a mitigated disaster.
trying to watch jenny nicholson but her videos only get recommended to you Sometimes, so you watch her content through some kids ipad he forgot to log out of
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the ai droid talking to you in your cabin and totally glitching at “now, as for what you can do around the ship….bye!” was a bad omen, in hindsight.
Fully believe that it was given the ability to momentarily foresee the future and accurately described Jenny's soon to come experience before shutting off.
Or maybe it was the first actual symptom of the game being broken specifically for her.
Everything digital isn't Ai... it's just digital, stop abusing the word
@@nonbinarygenderqueerhomosa8820 It seemed to function like an Amazon Alexa would, which is an AI software- not to mention Disney called it an “AI concierge” 🙃 AI doesn’t just refer to generative AI. Enemies in a lot of video games are a kind of AI too!
@@murph64not to mention we saw Rocco Botte from Mega64 train the AI Droid to fall in love with him.
I went to the great wolf lodge when I was 13 and I paid about $50 for a plastic wand.
And then I pointed the wand at a magic tree and then the tree woke up and a big animatronic face on the tree told me to go to the 4th floor and speak to the elf princess, she told me to consult a giant wolf on the second floor, which then told me on the fifth floor there’s a stone statue.
I inserted the wand into the statue and the speakers rumbled and the characters congratulated me on saving the forest.
And that was so much cooler than anything described here.
I LOVED MAGIQUEST!!! it’s actually insane that this isn’t even as good at that 😭
Why didn't the tree just tell you about the stone of the fifth floor!? Coulda saved you a lot of trouble.
@@Claire_Ballard tis about the journey not the destination
@@Claire_Ballard the intent is most likely an adventure for kids, like you meet new characters on your journey to the destination.
@@lowkeyayokai lol, yeah. I know, the comment was sarcastic. My bad 😊
I went to a wedding this weekend and for their first dance I was behind a pillar. I thought fondly of your dinner pillar.
Lindy would be proud
To be fair, wedding dances are generally awful so this was probably to your benefit.
The saddest part of this for me is how much raw LARP energy Jenny is bringing to this- like she is the ideal audience participant- and she just never gets that energy back.
expect for the bad guy asking if she works with fruit. so funny
@@RagmaticalRachel *except
She put more thought into her storyline than the hotel designers did for theirs!
Couldn't have said it better, this is definitely the theme of this video. She literally tried so hard to enjoy it, but you can literally hear the frustration bubble in her voice as the days go on. Poor Jenny.
She is literally the target consumer for this kind of stuff and never gets back what she gives!! It’s infuriating to watch.
I love that because of this video, the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of people who ever see that dinner show, see it from behind a pole
Imagine if you hired actual "dinner with a show" establishment designers to design your dinner and a show room. I bet they wouldn't make that mistake. Like, this shit is why there are specialized professionals. I get that you want to make sure it all fits in with the official star wars theming but still, get a consultant to catch shit like this! Now granted my dad's a theater design consultant so I'm biased, but I'm also _right._
@@Shenaldrac When IMAX cinema was new, one of the features it advertised was the vertical separation of the seats so that your view is always clear, no matter how tall the person sitting in front of you is
@@ShenaldracWhat's weird is that Disney Imagineers usually (or maybe once did) pay meticulous attention to the sight lines to make sure guests are always seeing *exactly* what they intend them to see and nothing else
I scrolled down here a few times and only this time did I realize what you meant lol.
I love that Disney will be shamed forever because of that pole. Its such poetic justice.
It's sort of like how the Beast in Beauty and the Beast mistreated a powerful sorceress thinking she was a begger, so too will Disney's reputation be cursed for mistreating Jenny Nicholson while she was disguised as an average guest.
I feel sorry the actors. I feel like they got pitched a murder mystery in space then realized they were just in a modern rain forest cafe.
actually, at rainforest café you have good views of the animatronics at any table, and it costs max a couple hundred dollars for a big party. so it's actually kinda worse than rainforest café.
Somewhere, Eddy Burback just shivered.
I went on this trip, and it was one of the best experiences of my life, and it was largely due to the actors. They were so freaking good at their jobs and went out of their way to engage everyone. I think my niece fell in love with the rogue. Lol I hope all of them went on to find success elsewhere.
😂
Dude that’s so disrespectful to Rainforest Cafe
the Captain immediately recognizing Skippy like that is the ultimate highlight of these four hours of gold
And the little water bowl they brought out for him!
Oh my god I'm two hours in and didn't realize how long it was 😭
genuinely !!
@@ACAB.forcutielmfaooooo I looked up at the timestamp I was at bc of your comment also not knowing how long the video was and I am at 2 hours 21 min and im gagged there’s this much more to the story
ultimately it feels like the staff got scammed even harder than the customers. their love, blood, sweat, and tears all given to a corporation that would murder them if it made them a small profit. shout out to the captain and rest of the actors and staff, and i hope disney internally relocated them like Jenny mentioned so that they didn't abruptly lose their jobs
Holy shit they expected up to 5 people to share one small room with only that tiny shame closet as "protection" during a fire
How did that get approved by a fire marshal??
@@iggykidd Florida
Yeah thats what I was wondering about, like can the shame fire closet fit 5 people?
@@danadau.365Disney is somehow its own government in Florida is they make the fire laws probably.
All of Disney worlds counts as a pseudo extra-territorial enclave. Very interesting
@@danadau.365 Gotta draw straws I guess
Love the whiplash of the cast member telling you a fun anecdote about a character only to immediately tell you he’s dead
That feels like Star Wars tbh
I had to pause the video to compose myself after that.
He said it as if he had died unceremoniously from complications of type 2 diabeetus
My sister speculated that maybe they initially planned animatronics of him to pop out of little mouse holes or be on the balcony, and then were like nah too expensive, and wrote that he's dead. Like why else have a captain that's a silly little guy only for him to be unseen right
“This is where I watched my parents die, jenny.”
the fact that Jenny paid $169 to receive guaranteed photos of a very expensive vacation and did not receive ANY photos, and was then refused a refund until she posted about it online is ridiculous. Thinking about the guests who never got that refund... Disney doesn't care about the customer experience if they get to just siphon money. Doesn't make me want to visit.
Yeah. That is beyond poor customer service at that point. It's basically like fraud or something.
@@lethargogpeterson4083 right! i'd feel straight up indignant.
Get payed for product
Product is never provided
Don't get refunded for product
Like that's literally just theft
thats corporations now days. the great capitalist america.
You can't visit it anyway.
my LOCAL RADIO did a story on this video. Not the park, or its closing, but THIS VIDEO.
omg PLEASE tell me they have an archive i could find of that!!!
@@abigaillynch8315 oh man, I'd have to even remember what channel it was. I want to say it was Bloomberg DC? probably in the range of July-August-September this year. It was broadcast some time in the afternoon. I think they were talking about it in terms of Disney as a company, being a financial station. Not sure if thats even worth it, but good luck, thats all I remember.
Source?
@@theInfiniteEgg-z8i I did some minor googling and wasnt able to find any archive of the station, but I didn't look really hard.
That's genuinely SO cool, I love how nowadays some youtube video releases hold weight and become events in an of themselves the same way culturally impacful movies do
"Do you work with fruit" is hands down some of the best on-the-spot improv. Makes me wanna side with the First Order.
I don't know how she kept a straight face through that because I started cackling immediately, God damn
he was definitely my fav actor based on the clips, thats so funny
I do feel that's a specific style of improv that only theme park and RenFest folks learn, that kinda banter with people.
"oh youre always saying that. uh huh."
This video is so immersive I felt like Disney stole $6000 from me.
I expected nothing and I still feel ripped off
Disney owes every American 6k. 12k for small children.
@dankdankeryetdanker2726 and thats the first installment
samesies
Hahahaha. Perfect reply. No notes.
getting ghosted by the first order for being too clingy is a classic jenny beat.
jenny beat off you mean
I should really stop reading comments. I'm only at 1:17:07 and I keep getting spoilers.
bwahahahhaa
Sounds about right yeah
*First Order Guy:* Sir, I keep getting texts from this "Jenny" person.
*Kylo Ren:* Jenny Nicholson? That girl scares me. Ghost her.
As infuriating as it was to experience, the idea of a character who only wants to help the First Order being unwillingly thrusted into working with the Resistance is very funny
It's exactly what to expect from Disney star wars. Cowards
"You WILL will like our new heroes !!!"
😂
“We’re just gonna tweak your First Order Story to become a First Order Redemption Arc”
"This peace is making me hateful!"
As bad an experience Jenny had, I'm weirdly glad she did, because if it didn't happen to her then it would've happened to others and their voice and experience would've gone unheard - like being sat behind the pole, if Jenny had been given good seats then the plight of the poor sods who were seated behind them would've gone unnoticed!
This has almost nothing to do with the video but when she was talking about how the actors were getting screwed this most it reminded me of this. I used to work with a lot of people who were in the original Finding Nemo stage show at Animal Kingdom. Many of them were Broadway performers in New York and Disney wanted 'Broadway caliber actors' for the show. To sweeten the deal, Disney told them as long as they worked in the Nemo show, they would be given free housing on Disney property. A lot of New Yorkers liked this idea and so they all came down knowing they would have housing. What Disney didn't expect was these people would stay on the show for 10+ years and would be paying for their housing even if they only performed in the show once a year. So when the pandemic came around, Disney took full advantage of this and laid off all the original stage performers, stripping them of a job and their housing. So long story short... it doesn't matter that they are the heart of the company or how long they had been with the company, Disney will screw over their performers
Expand that lesson for every large corporation. They all feel the same about their workers.
@@BunnLilahThe larger the company, the higher the odds that empathy is replaced with psychopathy. C-level greed runs rampant. Quality is tossed aside for mediocre facsimiles, which are mass-produced on the cheap. When they mess up, they never admit fault and rarely fix a problem without a class action lawsuit. Lower-level employees are expected to sacrifice for the business, and customers are almost treated with disdain. Lawmakers are recruited to stifle competition through costly regulations and look the other way when data breaches and surveillance issues are exposed.
I get it-the company becomes so large that it’s not profitable unless it behaves like somebody with psychopathy, but this doesn't make for a healthy ecosystem.
It makes me realize how meaningful those human connections are to maintaining compassion, integrity, and innovation instead of massive profits. I suspect corporations could still exist and maintain healthy relationships if they followed a distributed model instead of a cold, centralized one.
people still feeding money is so vile
Seeing your sister get bear-trapped by a spontaneously closing umbrella and immediately assuming she somehow did it to herself is peak sibling behaviour.
Something bad happens to my sister: skill issue.
Something bad happens to me: real shit.
She slid that line in there but it honestly had me in stiches! So relatable.
As a forty-four year old man with a forty-two year old sister, I'd just like to publically state that MY SIS IS SUCH A DUMBARSE LOL OMG KILL ME.
I said exactly this to my (only-child) roommate
This does seem like something a sibling would do on purpose as a joke
there’s no experience quite like watching a jenny nicholson video as a podcast, only to glance over at the screen and she’s talking to me from inside a giant porg suit
Yeah, that got me, too. I had been driving and just pulled over when I glanced at the screen and was like "Huh??"
HELPPP FR
😂 I listen at work with a dark screen and every so often pop the screen on to see what she's talking about and this is a hysterical experience 😂
I read this before I got to that part and I was still NOT prepared.
LITERALLY i was putting on socks and i turn and jenny is a flippin porg 💀💀💀
6k to get pushed at breakneck speed through a moderately interactive museum and then thrown out the door at 8 am is… wild to say the least
if i paid 6k i would want to leave at 7pm or something, not 8am!
I would think that if they had made it a bit bigger (so the atrium and bar and the like could support a full hotel) and draw it out for 4 days (the same key events, little added story just spread out what they did throughout 4 nights instead of 2. And everyone would have probably had a better time even the ones who said they enjoyed it, because they would have had time to relax, look around, talk to cast members more and truly take it all in. But of course.. then half as many guest go there a week and the bean counters couldn't have THAT?
@@giwake Or at LEAST let me check out at 11 like a 60$ a night motel 6...jesus christ.
I’m DEAD at them knocking on your door to make sure you are awake so you can gtfo as soon as possible. I’ve stayed in hostels less hostile.
What Westworld irl would be like
I have watched this video so many times, and every time the weird fire shame closets and the fact that the hotel has no fire escapes is insane to me.
It would not be immersion-breaking to have doors labelled "Fire Escape - Escape Pod". In a real world emergency I would rather leave the themed environment than have a star wars canon complient horrific death.
Knowing Disney those fire-safe shame closets were probably death-traps anyway.
from what I've seen on reddit and such, this was p much the only thing Jenny got wrong - apparently there are fire escapes that connect to the shame closests. but even if that's true, the fact that Jenny didn't know eventthough she literally went to there means the hotel's communication about it must have been absolutely abysmal
@@jp-wc4ce It amuses me greatly that we've now taken to collectively calling them shame closets lmao
@@jp-wc4ce If you pause the video on the shot of the inside of the door, it says that there is an exit door - that must be opened from the *outside*. So that inspires confidence.
Construction gives Oceangate vibes
The way this entire thing could have been saved with a laser tag room
Honestly this could have been the best laser tag this side of the mississippi and they didn’t even think of it
OH MY GOD, how did they not think of this????!!!!
*Emergency Sirens* the ship is being boarded! To arms!
100% best idea I’ve ever seen for this
Much like the comments section of the Evermore video, I’m excited and then left feeling quite sad as I read all of the fantastic ideas from Jenny’s viewers that would’ve been easy crowd pleasers and both logistically and thematically appropriate. The breadth of missed opportunities…
I do love the image of Jenny desperately trying to sell out to the First Order at every turn and getting completely ignored, and still ending up picked by the Resistance to save an important general.
When you’re a total sell-out but nobody’s buying 😅
"hmm... yes, this traitor to our cause will do nicely for the resistance."
It’s like the polar opposite of a villain origin story.
“The bad guys didn’t want me so I was forced to become a good guy!”
@@reed1159 No one would ever suspect it!!
Now, THAT’S a movie plot
Jenny's Firsr Order supporting character being suddenly and randomly assigned to help the Resistance at the last minute without any previous indication isn't actually the flaw it seems at first, because the same thing happened to General Hux
Oof
I'm still sad about Hux. There was a GREAT villain there. Hell, connect him more with Phasma since they met in her book and also get the most out of THAT character, but NOOOOO... Disney had no actual PLAN...!
@@mastermarkus5307 Right?? Hux had so much potential! 😭
Lt. Croy and General Hux are Resistance Spy boyfriends
Petition for an edit of the sequel trilogy with everything the same but hux is played by jenny
Can you imagine if the Memory Maker photographers had been there? Jenny would’ve ended up with tons of sad pictures of her and her sister not being allowed to actually engage in the game at all
All the shots would have a pole in the way.
"You get out of it what you put into it" is a WILD thing to say to someone after they've *put six thousand dollars* into it.
That's why you spend a few extra hundred dollars on the add-ons. The $6,000 is just the entrance fee at the door of the club -- the real fun comes with the stuff that costs extra, teehee
AND genuinely tried to get into the experience.
For 6K i better be getting a lap dance from count dooku
for six thousand I should be getting a tender bedside chat with sheev each night im there
@@jaspertaylor2810I’ll take one from grown up Anakin…or Obi-Wan.
All the TVs at chili’s are synchronized too. You don’t hear the Chili’s imagineers bragging
But Chili’s doesn’t have more money than God.
I think chilli's imagineers should brag more
Chili's imagineers assumedly have to deal with the logistics of sending their customers on a cryptic ARG quest every time somebody orders the chili, unlike Disney imagineers who only did it that one time
Maybe they should brag?
If you have the money, the skillet queso IS worth $6000
Can’t believe this video was in production longer than the hotel was open
HOW DOES THIS NOT HAVE MORE LIKES IM CRYING
LMAOOOOOO
Jenny Nicholson has more commitment than Disney.
omg lol
@@michaelacatapano You literally commented on this the instant it came out. NO ONE'S WATCHED IT YET
"I'm always saying, cut out the rot."
"Do you work with fruit?"
What a fantastic piece of improv! 😆
Honestly big credit to that actor, he was killing it in even clip he was in.
"Why did they make their own fake podcast anyway? Nobody's watching this except me and I'm only watching it as performance art". Great line.
Yeah, this was my first time seeing this channel (my Twitter feed was blowing up from people loving this video), and that line sold me on watching the whole 4 hours (and I'm glad I did)
the strangest part for me of that is that they still conned State Farm into sponsoring their Pravda podcast. How are you going to have another company give you money to make your own unwatchable propaganda
The singer moving away from the pole just to be hidden by ANOTHER POLE, is pure unintentional comedic genius
That bit made me discover a whole new laugh I didn't even know I had in me.
It was like halfway between Rich Evans and Jimmy Carr
@@CosmicTeapot That laugh sounds like a hate crime to me.
Time stamp or it didn't happen
Gaya was lying about being a Twi'lek. She's clearly Polish.
@@activatekruger446 1:29:25
I'm honestly surprised that the smuggler storyline didn't have guests carrying other people's luggage into their rooms so Disney didn't have to pay someone to do it.
At the start of the video, I genuinely thought that was gonna happen! I forgot about that until reading your comment lol, I got really sucked into the video
Disney execs seeing this comment: "WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN"
I genuinely thought that’s what they meant 😭 Or making it a fun game for the kids like “we stowed precious illegal cargo in YOUR bags! You must transport them yourselves and avoid anyone who claims they wish to assist you (bellhops) for the Resistance!”
See that’s the problem. You can’t do anything fun with the general public. They’d just steal stuff or stupidly mess it up.
That’s probably what they wanted to do, until Disney’s legal team was like ‘LIABILITY’. Because people’s luggage would absolutely go missing.
I wanted to pop in and say as a former Cast Member (college program too) that the base pay for any face performer at Disney is around only $20 an hour, but that was what I had heard from a friend also in the college program so it could be different, but yeah, not the best pay for what they were asking from these guys.
I also wanted to say that all Cast Members follow a “point” system when it comes to disciplinary action. Three points result in a reprimand, three reprimands result in termination. Being late for your shift got you half a point, and there were days I showed up only a few minutes late for my shift and still got half a point despite having a valid excuse that was outside of my control (bus delays was the big one). Missing a shift gets you a point no matter what, even if you had to go to the ER (I say from personal experience, I was having the worst ear pain to the point I could not eat and everyone I asked told me it would result in a point even though I was practically unable to work). In the college program, your housing lease expires only a day after your employment ends. It was fine for me and worked out okay for the one person I knew who did get terminated but it was still scary.
All that to say, those college program Cast Members on the Star cruiser were definitely overworked and underpaid and if they wanted too much time off or if they showed up just a minute late to enough shifts they were at risk of losing both their job and housing in one fell sweep with little to no warning.
Edit: wanted to pop in a few more details. There’s a chance that Ouannii’s actresses were paid less because she’s technically not a “face character”. Characters that have masks are considered easier to perform than characters that require the actors show their faces….so another possibility that is also not great.
Also wanted to let everyone know that because the college program is an “internship”/contract work (I could not get any internship credits for it though) CPs were not allowed to join the union!
They'd rather treat their employees like crap than have do what they were hired for.
Being allowed to show up late 18 times before you get fired actually sounds significantly better than pretty much every other job I've ever had lmao
@@kieranhair370.5 points per late penalty out of 3 total points only allows for 6 late arrivals, not 18.
Plus, you can only miss 3 shifts total without ever having been late, and that includes for medical emergencies.
Not to mention that arriving even a minute after the shift starts still counts as being late, even if it's not your fault.
The lack of allowance on top of the fact you're out of housing after a single day of termination makes it hard to believe these conditions are significantly better than most jobs you've worked.
I was sick my entire time as a CP. Horribly sick. I ended up with heat stroke from the work. I remember crying to a leader (manager) that I couldn’t sit and take a break any longer because I would get points deducted. She forced me to stay sitting but I feared being fired. That night I got so sick I probably almost died. The urgent care nearby saw me so much they would let me skip the line because I was not well. It wasn’t just the heat-I was feverish and genuinely sick for over a month. This was February-March 2020. Turns out I probably had Covid on top of constant heat exhaustion. I couldn’t miss work at all though-I could only miss 3 days total. So the doctors gave me steroid injections and tried to get me medical accommodations for the heat. I was finally moved to a safer job after a horrible phone call with the evil people at their accommodations place (Disney may be ok with disability accommodations for guests or at least used to be, but will not care if employees are sick and dying). Anyway, it was slightly better and I wasn’t hiding in the cast member bathroom at liberty square throwing up my whole shift anymore, but it was a nightmare. And then they shut everything down March 2020.
We lost our jobs and they kicked us out of housing because of the pandemic. We had two days. My dad made me a flight reservation and thank god he was able to. We were scared we would not be able to fly across state borders so my roommates family said they would house me in Miami for the foreseeable future.
Anyway, CPs are not treated well. And yet we’re the longest most enthusiastic people I’ve ever met.
@@Cocoanutty0this sounds nothing short of hellish im so sorry you endured that
There's something cosmically hilarious about the fact that the person most willing to engage with the role-play, and the only one filming a review is the one whose entire interactive experience doesn't work and who also gets plonked down behind a pole.
It reminds me of the hotel inspector character in Ocean's 13, who has every aspect of his stay in Al Pacino's hotel sabotaged by Ocean's team so that he doesn't give the hotel the prestigious "five diamond award".
@@lietkynes432"he's a VIP."
"So what does that make me? A VUP?"
I can’t believe this is $6k…for
2 days!! My husband I went to Thailand for 2
Weeks 😊for that!
It’s because she books these trips like any normal person would, right? I feel like she could totally play the “RUclips celebrity card” and reach out to these places and get the special treatment, but she doesn’t. She’s so real for that, she goes to these cool parks and shows us what the true experience for the majority of people would be like.
@@et873 Tbh I think these parks would not want her to come unless they could make sure she had the most perfect possible time, and they’re aware that can’t happen because of how low quality so much of this is. So I think they’d rather she not come.
I'm dying at Jenny consistently being the only person enthusiastically participating and getting absolutely nothing in return
one of my favorite recurring motifs of her theme park vids ngl
I think we're the winners here. At her expense of course.
If Nicholson was a Disney princess, she'd sing a song of endless disappointment and misery.
@@DrCruel Yes!!
@@DrCruel If?
"Luckily there was a fan film that captured the bathroom"
*cut to the most jarring psychological drug horror ever connected to any star wars ip*
"So you can see, that was themed as well :)"
ya that needed a flashing light warning i think
I just know Randy Moore is fuming somewhere.
@@enterthesphere what a callback
I wasn't paying attention to what she was saying before she started to play the clip and it scared me so bad I had to rewind to figure out what the hell was going on 😂
@@saraha2667 Tbf, all flashing light warnings are timestamped in the description
1:00:18 I am on my latest rewatch and I just realized when she told the droid that the dianoga eggs were brought on by her, that probably put her on the smuggler path, even if she was avoiding it.
OH
I thought the same thing 😮😢
OMG you're so right. A dianoga is the trash squid that attacks Luke and Co in the trash compactor in A New Hope
Which may explain why even after avoiding doing so, she was put onto the Resistance as it was prolly the next highest route she's done via interacting with the characters. I really do wonder how the systems worked for deeming what specific route you're on..
Oh God 😱
It’s honestly disgusting how Jenny got the cold shoulder twice when Disney thought she was a “regular” person. But then immediately resolved the issue as soon as they found out about her following.
To be fair, any company will usually resolve your issue if you contact them via social media instead of emailing or calling. I’ve had to do it with other companies before. They can magically solve your issue somehow once you put your issue on their social media
@@Squiffehh which doesn't make it any less disgusting
@@SquiffehhI wouldn’t say any company. I’ve been ignored by multiple on twitter (and even blocked on insta) after having issues getting products that arrived broken returned.
If a company doesn't want to entertain your valid issue with something you've paid for do a chargeback through your card.
Yup, gives very “No Real Person Involved” from Succession
"Hello, Disney customer service, are you famous or can we just tell you to fuck off?"
Seems to be their MO.
This is really disappointing. I’m not a Disney theme park fan but I’ve been a few times and was always impressed with the level of customer service provided by the staff on the ground. I would’ve expected this level of attention and care from all aspects of their customer outreach. Sad to see they’re just like every other company
best comment 🤣
Remember when Disney made everyone feel like they were famous and deserving of all the luxuries!? Kinda miss those days.
This is all companies now. They will screw you over, exhaust you and stonewall you, until you post about it to x million people on Twitter. If you can't, well, what are you going to do about it. If you're hung up on a couple hundred dollars in the first place, can you afford some kind of lawyer? Could that hypothetical lawyer go up against the corp's legal team?
I was always anti-consumerist but in a world that's consumer-unfriendly to the point that you could call it consumer hateful, why bother.
The "Luxury hotel" check-in being "standing in a hot drive-in bay with hundreds of other strangers" is where I really laughed out loud. Even Motel 6 has a lobby.
Its so weird that they didn't make a little spaceport terminal as the check-in lobby. Especially given the "shuttle" elevator thing. Like have that be the area where you fade the transition from real world to roleplay world.
Yeah they really could have done something to make the wait comfortable and immersive. They could have interactive terminals that give some fluff about the ship's specs and maybe the captain's history to sell that you're in good hands. Maybe a blurb about how the First Order will be providing extra security or something stupid like that.
@DokturProfesur they could have even just put up some futuristic looking seating and stock a vending machine with dyed trail mix and gatorade in funky bottles and it would have been better than the human parking lot situation they had
To make it even better, it was indistinguishable from Eastern bloc architecture.
@@LessDevoidDisney probably subcontracted out to Russian imagineers.😂
the fact that a 6k "immersive" experience still requires me to use my phone and an app is infuriating. how am i supposed to be immersed when i am getting instagram notifications on an alien spaceship
I love how Disney keeps messing things up that Jenny paid good money for and customer support is like, "There is nothing we can do." and when she uses the Black Mirror Social Credit System suddenly they're like, "We have your GPS location right now we are sending a drone to drop off your toy, it should arrive in 23 seconds."
i dont know how it isnt grounds for immediate refund. Here in Australia if any business fuks around like that a quick complaint is made and its sorted, fairly quickly (light speed vs other bureaucratic process). A big company like Disney doing this , i dont understand how that flies. Maybe in US you dont have good gov departments behind you, and have to self litigate. But then i dont understand how this behavior isnt broadcasted and absolutely smashed. The only goal or direction disney seems ot have at the moment is lterraly inserting women into everything. Ddi you notice the podcast section of the video? 30 women, 5 men. i paused on a still of a bar scene in one of the concept marketing, of the identifiable sex (some indistinct aliens) 13 women, 3 men. WTF? im not up to date with all marvel and teen drama, but i saw the cartman south park episode with Kathleen Kennedy and 'put a chick in it and make it lame'. JFC , i didnt think reality would be beyond parody. Maybe women are the target audience? but to that degree?? Seriously, black women seem to be the target. go count. I would have thought it would be run of the mill families (of all backgrounds), but 100% laser focus on trying to direct an audience of a vagina monologues critical race theory latte session to a sci-fi family theme park instead.
oh and i must say, of those 5 men, man, all up they probably had the testosterone of 1 monty python lumberjack. I wonder how long it took to clear house, their ranks are just women, and a few emasculated men.
I’ve had to deal with customer service stonewalling me because I wasn’t a massive influencer, I’m glad she had her issues fixed but I’ll never be able to get my droid back :(
@@Marchwin_AU I kinda seems like they're just stealing peoples money at this point.
@@hihi123hiful they most definitely are
Girl if i spent 6,000 dollars to go to a fancy Star Wars LARP only for the cast members to not roleplay with me and for the game to not work I would've just started crying
Seriously. All I keep thinking throughout this video is "thank GOD this wasn't me" because I would've had a mental breakdown.
the entire video filled me with a sense of longing and want. like. it made me sad without even BEING there! i would have a full on mental fucking breakdown if i went through everything to make a character and try so hard to be her only to just be shafted by poor planning and non care by the tech people. i just want something like this that actually works! hell id pay 10k for an escape like that.
I mean Starwars and their directors have made it VERY clear that it’s for kids so as long as they were enjoying it whats the deal
@@GeorgeDroyd1998 Then why command 3k from adults and have absolutely 0 promotional material stressing its for children?
@@GeorgeDroyd1998 I mean yes for sure, but its SO EXPENSIVE that I think making it enjoyable for the adults that have to pay for it, is not that big of an ask.
The whole "its for kids" just doesnt hold up if I, the adult, am paying SO MUCH MONEY 😂
The strangest thing just happened, I was sitting here enjoying this video and then Bob Iger came into my home and installed a large structural pillar between my desk chair and my monitor.
😂👏🏻
Did he offer to remove it for $80/day?
That one got me
Got me good
Do you need to pay for a fast pass for the pillar or is the line ok without?
@@Largecow_Moobeast As a long-time pillar-head I would have told you previously that it was a relatively unknown hidden gem that you don't need to use a fast pass on, but ever since this video came out and Jenny put it on blast I'd say it's a rope drop attraction. If you can't make it to the park that early you'll definitely want to use a fast pass for it.
The fact that this amazing, four-hour video has captions that are accurate for it is incredible. Thank you so much for making that effort, a lot of creators don't even for smaller things! (No shade, it's a lot of effort, I know, but like... It sucks since audio processing issues.)
In a patreon video a few months ago where she talked about this video she was saying that she pays a professional captioner for her videos. Apparently she had to scour fan wikis because they were both trying to figure out what the place name actually was when they fly to the “quirky” system and it was very hard to figure out! I really appreciate the effort
The problem is clearly that Jenny avoided the smuggler storyline so strongly, when the only activity they had planned for guests was smuggling luggage.
You're so right
No way! I would get to do my IRL job on my vacation! Immersive!!!!
Smuggling luggage as part of the storyline is a clever labor savings technique. Why pay people to bring the luggage up when you can have your guests "smuggle" each other's luggage
@@moonbongyang6460 when I saw the 'luggling smuggage' montage that was my first thought as well. Good to know I'm not just paranoid
And won't they be surprised when they learn just WHAT they had been smuggling in in that luggage!
The scene of Jenny desperately trying to see around the pole and constantly getting her view blocked by random miscellaneous things, just almost able to see, reminded me of the scene in The Polar Express where the kid can’t see Santa because he doesn’t truly believe. Thus, I can infer that it was, in fact, Jenny who was the problem. If she had simply believed in Gaia in her heart of hearts the pole would have been a non issue
In the words of a wise replyguy, “you must have the wrong personality “
See, or see not - there is no pole.
@1:26:53 Are we not doing "Phrasing" anymore?
She doesn't get her view blocked by "random miscellaneous thing", what are you talking about about? It's just the pole the entire time.
@@TheDrag0nSlayer There’s two poles, and also the base of the wall when Gaia goes onto the main dining floor
Not including Disney+ is ABSURD. It’s a 2 day stay. Free Disney+ would basically be advertising for the service.
Not to mention it gives Disney another way of lying about their subscriber number: Just say that everyone who books at the Starcruiser is another sub!
I don't think it's painting with too broad of strokes to say anyone willing to pay $3000 a head for a two night stay at a Star Wars theme hotel probably is already subscribed to Disney+.
@@fleasy4393so then there's even less of a reason for it to not have Disney + included on the tvs.
the amount they charge for disney+ is in and of itself a racket. why they'd offer _anything_ affordably or for free is beyond their understanding.
Yeah that is utterly egregious, especially since they are gearing toward families in general. Kids are sick or having a bad time and need to be in room then too bad cause Disney says "f you pay me"
It’s so crazy that my family was considering going to this damn hotel as a gift for my high school graduation in 2021 and only didn’t actually plan on it bc we saw how badly the park experience was being affected by COVID and decided to not go until things were back to normal. Watching this makes me feel like we were saved from a potentially horrible family trip
your family didn't just dodge a bullet, you all dodged a deathstar laser.
It must be great to be a California Rich Kid.
If you had gone, I bet your high school graduation would have felt like a black stain on your family's history for years to come 😂
@@colinmontgomery1956 What was the point of this comment?
@@NoriMori1992 Jealousy
a 45 minute limit on a dinner at a $6k+ stay would send me over the edge
The galaxy’s edge even
Immersive sith lord experience by flooding you with so much hate and anger that it drives you insane
45 minutes is as long as my lunch break was in high school
@@Dreikoo assuming you don’t get the table with the awful view that requires you to stand and watch from a different spot in the restaurant so you can’t eat your meal within the restricted timeframe without horking it down during the few minutes the show is not playing. And I have the impression there wasn’t a show with every meal. And also the same limitations don’t exist during character meal experiences at other parks.
@@Dreikoo There was only one dinner with a show
the not-being-able-to-see-the-show-from-every-table-in-the-house thing seems like EXACTLY the type of thing that you hear about disney imagineers artfully AVOIDING
I get the vibe that this was the kind of thing that got lost in the sauce as soon as the imagineers were given an impossibly low budget
Exactly. As a Disney history/imagineering nerd it pains me to look at new Disney experiences and be like "ok I don't even DO this and I know y'all are doing it wrong"
@@guest4635seriously, there might be a few tables that are the best, but no table should be positioned so guests CANNOT see the performance due to some fixture of the room
I think there’s a Disney cruise ship that has a Frozen dinner with the same issue. I can only imagine the meltdowns that causes when little kids can’t see Elsa.
My guess is that Jenny was actually purposefully placed there for booking the least expensive room available. They totally could have built a dining room that accommodated everyone, or at the very least arranged the tables/decor/show elements in such a way that everyone felt included. But they didn’t. Jenny mentions having booked the lowest possible room category. Disney loves doing this horrible tiered price thing and consistently go out of their way to make the lowest paying budget-minded guests feel bad and like they should have spent more to secure a better experience. And it also serves as a way for the more well-off guests to feel justified for spending more.
I used to be a lifelong Disney fan. Was even a proud “Disney Adult” for a while. But I’ve fallen out with “like” with them for a few years now. I think their unabashed ceaselessly greedy behavior at every single possible opportunity is disgraceful and disgusting.
They bought the cash cow and instead of milking it they made steaks out of it, now the cow is gone.
they also managed to somehow overcook the outside while leaving the inside raw as well in the process
@@Aisubun I was going to say, "and then they cooked the steaks well done" but yours is even better 😀
great metaphor
👍😄
yep
if i was seated behind a pole i would have fully sobbed right there in the restaurant. 6k is more than I've ever had in my bank account. And to spend that much and receive this would've made me physically sick.
Yeah especially when she's calculated that to $2/min.
Too relatable, too sad 🥲 (I'm not mocking, I'm literally saying that for that money I would expect to be carried around on a golden palanquin. Even in a space restaurant 😅)
Same.
I feel like I just would have been one of the people she mentions in the video who simply got up and watched from another angle. Like yeah, I'd be annoyed that I got seats that bad after paying all that money. But at the same time, it's wild to me that anyone who paid that much money would actively choose to just stare at the pole.
Like, I get Jenny's point about "I shouldn't have to put anything into it when I already put in $6000." On the other hand, having put in $6000 would make me all the more motivated to put in as much effort as possible to keep any of that from having gone to waste. I will drag my damn table from behind the pole and place it in the middle of the room if I absolutely have to.
@@kieranhair37 it’s cute that you think you’d be allowed to do that.
I like that Disney panic-fixed an error for her twice upon realizing they burned a huge influencer and there was still four hours of stuff to complain about
😂
I haven't ever thought of her as an influencer, but I suppose she is in the way that matters to a company.
@@sam4330 Of course she is. She gives an honest review for the viewing of a lot of people, companies are scared of these people.
@@sam4330 I mean, her vids get MILLIONS of viewers; I doubt their own podcast gets more than a couple hundred. It's a good thing the hotel shut down, because this vid would literally have been enterprise-ruining. It's made a meme out of this hotel for like. IRL friends of mine. I'm amazed.
I can't help but love it. Lose money, you ɸûcks!
Because, as Lucan wrote of Caesar, I rejoice in [their] ruin: that's what they get, for ripping people off _twice¹_ - the stupidly overpriced experience in the first place, and then _not even making their own mistakes right..._ unless you've got a massive audience (and thus can inconvenience *Disney,* which is of course what really matters).
_¹(and for screwing up everything related to Star Wars except like one single show and maybe one or two seasons of another)_
I love that every attempt to bribe Jenny is just neutrally relayed. Like "The customer service was unable to help me but then I tweeted about it and they fixed it and sent me gifts."
It's got an amazing honesty to it, like, "Yeah, they helped me, and that's great, but it's really shitty that this isn't the kind of treatment everyone will get".
@@mastermarkus5307 It’s totally Jenny’s strength. Her unwavering dedication to relay the objective truth and not let her personal experience overtake others. Shoutouts Jenny
It really is an admirable quality.
It's not really a bribe though. She paid for the experience and should get her money's worth. They essentially tried to reduce bad publicity by only giving customers what they paid for only when they complained loud enough
@@theshire9173 But if you think about it it still works out to being a bribe. They take no measures to ensure an additionally priced benefit they offer is being delivered in any way, but they won’t provide a refund. It’s only once the situation could negatively affect their image to a decent audience that they act like they’re trying to remedy the situation, when all they’re really doing is trying to remedy their PR problem. Why else would they say they can’t offer a refund and then suddenly renege once she posts about it online?
any task that makes me take out my phone should automatically lose -10000000 immersion points
Yeah, like, if anyone remembers the old Epcot walk-around activities, they gave you like a special phone/PDA thing just for it, instead of asking you to use your own, it made it so much more immersive.
@@alexbrown128 Well see, this is much more expensive, so obviously they're going to cheap out- wait.
Exactly! I'm a huge escape room enthusiast, and some of the best aspects of those are the tactile interactions. That's the true "escape" from our regular world
Yeah like, it’d be cool if they gave you in universe PDA’s or tablets or something.
Gosh the phineas and ferb adventures were so much fun@@alexbrown128
What makes this exposé so brilliant is not just that you had multiple scammy issues that Disney refused to help with (until they found out you were internet famous), not that the role playing experience was bafflingly broken and underwhelming, but that you were SO POSITIVE and upbeat through the entire stay trying desperately to get involved only to be denied, like the force ghost of Bob Chapek was wandering around to stymie you at every turn.
It's called cognitive dissonance. Like, I want to be a Star Wars fan so bad, I literally convince myself the last jedi was a good movie and I enjoyed it. If you pay $6k for something, your brain wants to convince you you're enjoying yourself because you don't want to see yourself as someone who would pay so much for crap.
...at least it wasn't the Force Ghost of Michael Eisner?
@@F1areon The force Ghost of Michael Eisner would have went all out on the experience.
The GSC is such a spectacular failure in that Jenny is the ideal guest. Willing to suspend disbelief, excited for theme park emersion, willing to be inside and sleepless to catch everything for days on end, and very understanding of all the quirks and glitches of something this big…
And for it to still fail her, not just a little but spectacularly is inexcusable beyond belief.
I have to disagree. The ideal guest for the hotel is someone who has all that, then will also ignore the bad stuff and aggressively defend and promote the experience for free online.
It sucks cause I am one of those people. Maybe not for a Disney IP but if this was at least affordable I would have totally tried it out and played along. I love being immersed and play DnD on the regular. And all this video makes me think is how it could have done better and how a similar idea but with different concepts SHOULD be tried. A murder mystery hotel for example would be great! And it frankly makes me want to write my own version of one.
@@tomservodoctor42That’s an ideal shill. A guest is a person who is treated as a guest
@@TheSergio1021Sounds like The Witcher school in Poland would have been great for you then. Much cheaper than GSC and you’re in a real castle in the countryside.
@@WellBattle6 I just checked it out. Unfortunately, it closed in 2022, but damn did it look cool.
This was a melancholic watch. I recently quit my job of 5 years as an escape room designer, in part because the owner's greed was driving the quality of my work into the ground. It won't be long before my rooms sit empty and unenjoyed, just like this hotel. I really feel for the designers and the actors involved in making this. They deserved for their work to be treated better
It made me angry because there is so much designing talent for immersive experiences but most of the time they simply do not have the Disney budget to execute the cool shit they are absolutely capable of in the industry already!!
have you considered creating digital games? your work deserves to be seen and enjoyed!
Oh hey, another escape room employee screwed by ownership! I hate how common this is.
All the time watching I was like 'I wonder where that actor is now? They seem to be working so hard, they need a break!'
@@cherryr9285 How do you know that? His work might be terrible
The singer used to be my voice teacher and watching this unfold through her instagram stories with zero context was WILD
Oh dang I hope she didn’t get screwed over by her contract. She has a lovely voice
She's a great performer!
thats so fucking awesome, this country is great i changed my mind
That's weirdly hilarious, I hope she gets new offers in the future!
Somebody get her to sign on to VShojo quick, she'll do gangbusters in Karaoke streams
1:26:24 My best friend was just on her honeymoon to disney and she texted me a picture of her seated behind a pole at a dinner experience on three seperate occasions.
my favourite disney character is Inconvenient Pole
@@arthropodqueenbest thing disney did with starwars
No amount of luck should determine the experience someone is paying 6k for, I should be swimming in aliens and animatronics for that price
Yeah 6k for RNG and micro transactions is insane
@@msplendor More like macrotransactions at that point. They wanted 50 bucks for a fake "mixology" course ffs, and that sounded like it was on the cheap end of available options. Absolutely wild that Disney had the gall to charge 6k+ for two days and two nights in the crummiest room, nickel and dime you for everything along the way, AND still ship you off to the normal theme park for a good chunk of the time. Even for them that's unprecedented levels of greed and laziness.
SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS??? I'm not that far in the video yet, that CANT BE RIGHT 😭😭😭
I'm chuckling at the image of swimming in aliens and animatronics. But, real talk, completely agreed!
If I spent 6k on Chuck E Cheese I would expect the be allowed to Bite of ‘87 one of my friends. Cannot believe they made a torture camp for that price
No toxicity to the staff member, but saying that your founder was a tiny little guy, who used tiny little doors, and then immediately following that with "he's dead" is the funniest thing ever.
Feels like people would be wanting to see the little guy and its good to make sure they know that won't happen.
100% this was an animatronic they were too cheap to build and then too cowardly to scrap completely
I am 100% convinced that there simply is no 1st order plot line. Either because they didn't want to have conflict between guests or because no guests could be losers or because they were afraid people would spin it as endorsing fascism. Either way from Jenny's description it seems like there is only 1.5 plot lines , helping the rebels and smuggling something for them. That's all. And of course the primary characters that facilitate this plot are crowded with kids. That's literally all there is to do.
I need the timestamp for that i think I missed
@@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009 it's at 40:45 !! (i feel obligated to point out that the guide DOES say "he's not with us anymore", not specifically that he died... i mean it definitely IMPLIES that he died, but could have been spun up into a pretty funny bit about him just leaving the starcruiser behind to have adventures somewhere else?? but probably not)
me at the beginning of the video: haha what a silly idea for a hotel
me at the end: We need to kill that mouse
maybe THIS was the true immersive adventure experience
It's not just the Empire of the Mouse, all businesses are moving to this nickel-and-dime model from streamers to airlines to auto giants. Sadly, unlike what Jenny predicts, they won't necessarily reach a ceiling because they have so much control over what they sell that the public has no choice but to pay up. Something something capitalism sucks, am I right?
Given that Steamboat Willy is public domain now, maybe someone should make a Terminator like film where a Killer travels into the past trying to kill Steamboat Willy, who doesn't understand why this is happening and the Killer just repeats "I have seen what you will become. I have to stop you NOW"
@@wjzav1971 That's basically the plot of that one shitty cuphead ripoff lmao
FEEL the MOUSE. FEEL it.
since i started cancer treatments Ive watched this video at least 6 times. watching it again lol jenny just makes me happy.
Hope all goes well!
@@drackyslime thanks! ^-^
May the schwartz be with you!
My favorite thing to come out of the hotel was a tweet saying “Instead of paying 6,000 I’m gonna break into the Starcruiser like all the main characters in Star Wars do at some point.”
I've got a bad feeling about this....
this is where the fun begins!
I hope 5 years from now we get to see Urban explorer footage of people actually breaking into the Star cruiser ruins.
Maybe someone will steal juani's little Droid mask THE SAME WAY THEY STOLE BUZZY.
@@redrenegade13 We here in the Jenny fandom don’t talk about Buzzy. It’s still too painful.
Honestly that joke was almost worth it 😂
Jenny having a bad experience at a theme park is so funny to me. She is like the most enfranchised theme park enjoyer that will actively engage with the park and how it is marketed, if you can't give her a good experience, you shouldn't have a theme park
For real. Her trying to be all interactive and supportive of the marketing and then the employees looking at her like she’s having a schizo episode is so sadly funny
The guy from the First Order she kept "harassing" in case he'd give her a mission looked so confused the entire time lmaoo
This is a woman who had a good time at a Flintstones theme park YEARS AFTER IT CLOSED.
Genuinely, if for some reason I ever have the chance to open a themed experience, Jenny is my first consultant call, no matter what the theme is.
Jenny LIKES Carousel of Progress. Unironically! Likes it! They were handed such an easy layup and fumbled it so hard it’s hilarious.
When a "screen-based" RPG breaks, the game crashes. When a LARPG breaks, it holds you hostage for two days and drains your bank account
😂😂😂
...and the pirates eat the tourists
I just don't understand how that didn't raise flags with management. Like at all. You have someone actively filming, with a cool toy, and is modestly very approachable. How does someone wandering around not knowing what their doing not make management of a luxury experience go, Hmm. What's wrong with this guest? They're not doing anything.
@@natewilson111 I was here for this comment 😀
Also, considering how often Jenny and her sister had to look at their phones to either follow the schedule, interact with AI chatbots, or play glitchy phone games to solve "puzzles", this experience itself could ironically be considered a "screen-based RPG".
Ultimate go-to comfort video. When I’m sick, this is playing. When I’m tired, this is playing. When I’m in a hotel room trying to sleep, this is playing. When I’m doing dishes, this is playing.
You wanted to a steal a quilt? I think you meant you wanted to SMUGGLE a quilt off the ship
Smuggler route unlocked
In luggage!!
"They expect you to smuggle a few things!"
@@elle1107 smuggage 👍
No she covered that, this was the first order playthrough smugglers playthrough is next..... oh.
She kind of addressed it, but it's bonkers to me that Galactic Cruiser didn't have a meta conceirge that you could go to or that checked in on you and your progress. "Hey, I'm not getting any missions" "hey, i feel lost and like I'm missing something" "hey can you check my magic band? I think something isn't scanning right" , literally anything that would troubleshoot tech and force story moments to get guests back on track. It would be so easy to have cast members check in on assigned state rooms like they do on real Disney cruises that would make sure the guests were having a good time without forcing an immersion break. I also wonder if there was a certain level of acceptance that these elements were broken for some guests and they were prepared to eat that bad experience (obviously did not pay off for Disney) rather than take the manpower to build in contingencies and support. Shameful.
Yes, and you'd think that in a place like this with confined spaces and children, they would have had security cameras everywhere. All it would have taken to improve Jenny's experience was one security staff member noticing Jenny wandering aimlessly and sending out an in-character intervention. "Hi, I'm a Halcyon concierge. Can I help you with something?" It seems shocking that staff weren't trained or empowered to check on a guest who obviously wasn't having a good time.
Seems like the kinda thing that probably would have gotten cut for being unnecessary expense.
You’d think they’d you know…want to make sure the one person filming 24/7 has the best experience…so this video doesn’t happen lol.
@@nelsonhamilton8262 the video would've happened regardless lmao.. gameplay wasn't that exciting anyways and it certainly won't diminish other problems
@@QuadrupleAndyand yet, it did
"They said they couldn't do anything about the problem I had untill I tweeted from my account with thousands of followers"
Always a great sign
And that happened twice in this one experience. Absolutely insane.
It’s always nice to know that you have to threaten a company just to get the service and treatment you deserved in the first place 🙂
@@Canseeytnot once but twice!
I hope people stop giving Disney money. This, and the fact that you had to have a paid Disney+ account to view the movies in their $6k rooms is just comical.
@@Canseeyt Threaten them... AND have the clout to back it up. She gets millions of viewers, unlike probably literally every other person there with her that weekend. Crazy.
The Honeymoon Suite at the Polynesian Resort that I stayed at with my wife cost us around $2,800.00 with taxes/tips for a 3-day getaway, and the room was _SPACIOUS_ and the view was to die for. The resort had a beach you could visit, a massive pool/theme park-i-fied water slide, tons of restaurants, bars, and other services, and, on top of all of that, we had a great view of the Cinderella Castle for the evening fireworks. The Resort also has a lot of history behind it, so you could easily take an hour or two (or more) just exploring. It was beautiful and, to this day, the experience is something I cherish greatly.
With all that said and done... are you telling me that the Star Wars Hotel offered _less_ AND was over twice as expensive for a shorter amount of time?!
Wait, so the in-universe, diegetic offering of this luxury space cruiser is dinner and a show on night one and a trip to a hostile planet under martial law the next day
Honestly, knowing how the cruise industry operates, this really isn't that far off of being on an actual cruise ship.
Yes, you are correct.
They need to have at least one stop outside of Republic space so they can avoid Republic labor laws.
Like taking a cruise to Somalia in the real world?
It's so immersive!
The fact they didn't even give you complementary Disney + while on board is indefensible.
None of the resorts do and it's been a common complaint for some time
It's not like they're losing money! Disney+ is not a finite resource and very few people are going to sign up for it to specifically have it on vacation.
@@mastermarkus5307 No, but in the way hotel provide television, there should be a version of Disney+ that can be reset after each stay and person specific like how some planes have individual streaming screens for each seat. I think that’s more along the linear what people are saying - that’s how I took it at least
I think this fact was the final nail in the coffin of the Star Wars hotel. Jenny is the undisputed queen of theme parks. Disney should not have messed with powers above their station.
@@silvercoronet mastermarkus wasnt disagreeing though
"Scan this QR code to get one extra hour in the Ball Pit!" - The Star Wars Hotel, apparently
The ball pit: a salad bowl with 3 balls in it.
@@vegasa2067 And it's hidden behind a pole.
I love that this reference refuses to die.
**JUMP IN THE PIT**!
@@vegasa20673 balls and wee
The Dashcon ball pit
Came back for my monthly rewatch. The "May he rest in peace" never fails to get me
When I consume pulitzer-level journalism, i prefer for the journalist to cycle through several elaborate costumes while never deviating from their surgical dismantling of the greedy corporation in question. Thank you for your video
Looked up from this comment to howl laugh at the porg costume
It’s a surprise everytime! I don’t know how I manage to forget that she does this but I feel like every time I look away there’s a new extravagant character
More journalists should format their stories in convenient numbered lists
Just don’t give Disney money it’s the normies fault not the corporation.
This is a great video, but Pulitzer level journalism? Come on.
The ability to arrest and prosecute Chewbecca is unironically a good selling point
After you leave, Disney orders you back to Orlando for mandatory jury selection in Chewy’s trial.
Fr that’s funny as hell why did they cut that
I mean, it is Florida. You're going to get a lot of very enthusiastic "law and order" types.
I find it so goddamn weird Disney leaned into the "I think Darth Vader and stormtroopers and the bad guys are cool!" demographic. Like I get why its enjoyed amongst the Star Wars fandom.
But it kinda feels like if they made an Indiana Jones experience and let you help the Nazis?
@@acg1189 it’s like poetry, it rhymes
Jenny's curse is that her criticisms are so valid and well researched that by the time she shares them the thing she's criticising is already out of business.
Disney works on the inside the same as it does to the outside, just hyping up their stuff for money with little to no regard on being able to deliver
she made a wish for stringent research stamina on a monkey's paw....
I was losing all hope shed post again... not a Star Wars pun.
If she’d tell us what she’s researching now, we could pull off a GameStop short sale….
On the brighter side, it does mean that she won't get accused of giving bad reviews because she wants the company to fail...
Okay, but at the end where you talk about the person working the gift shop giving you a tour and talking to you about their Gaya fan club is one of the cutest things ever. I would have loved to have gone to something like this if it was truly just a hotel where the cast members working were just into start wars larp T-T
To be fair, she actually does say in the video that a number of the vloggers she watched who enjoyed it seem to have treated the experience exactly like that and didn't try that hard to engage with the gameplay elements at all. I can't personally imagine spending that much money and not trying to engage with the full experience, but at the same time those people would have avoided all of the gameplay problems and scheduling issues Jenny talks about, so maybe they were onto something.
Jenny’s vlog footage is so immersive I feel like I’m really on a mediocre $6000 Star Wars-themed cruise
A dream within a dream in an existential crisis.
Mediocre seems a bit generous tbf
You’re right. I was vicariously angry about paying that much for the experience she got and I never even planned to go to this hotel within the couple of months it was open.
I woke up after watching half the video the previous night and convinced myself I went for .5 seconds while half asleep
@@H4NDCRAFTED Food looked really good though!
despite all the issues, captain croy’s “do you work with fruit” line handily beats any improv moment from the entire evermore video.
Hahaha so true
can u give a timestamp pls
oh hi li you're very cool
@@iheartbruschetta about 1:49:20
1:49:25@@iheartbruschetta
A lot of people are saying Disney should've hired Jenny to give them advice, but as she herself said in the video, I am positive that they probably had plenty of employees and creative types that likely predicted the flaws or had more ambitious suggestions that got shut down by corporate to save a bit of money or make it more marketable to a general audience
I think the imagineers should be super star wars fans as a minimum apart from being whatever an imagineer is, maybe some the decision making staff too, I've no doubt some people that worked on it had doubts but they were clearly ignored by the higher ups
Can confirm- Disney constantly shut down ideas that weren’t lucrative enough
Yeah I can imagine the clusterfuck of meetings that led to this being made in its compromised and barely functional finished form. "Well, we can make the space windows work but the effect depends on these LED lights that make it hard to sleep." "We need this number of seats, but that's a load bearing column right there."
@@EvanCWaters “We can’t put a fire escape in, it’s too much.”
yeah I used to be an engineer at Disney (not for the parks so technically not an “imagineer”) and the ideas that I had that were fun and minimally costly to implement were just…not even considered. At all. The suits would smile at you and say they hear you and then that was literally the end of it lmao. very disillusioning
The joy that 14 year old me felt when Perry the platypus rode his little speed boat through the pond in Japan is matched only by seeing Jenny inhabit that giant porg mask
This is astonishing. A luxury LARP experience, but with no luxury, no roleplay, no riddles or puzzles... So a live-action experience : you are there. Alive. Existing. Don't ask for more, it'll cost you extra.
This hotel should be named "Life: A Boring and Expensive Experience: A Star Wars Scam Hotel"
Star Malls: The Live! Experience™
disney just got their hands on the same "imersion" juice EA has been using to make the sims games for 10 years now
@@portobeIIatruest shit EVER
@@portobeIIa sims 4 even has the dlc based on the disney star wars land
"The very first time a luxury cruise ship became a symbol of the hubris of man" was a titanically funny line. Ice cold, cracked me up.
Ba dum tsssssssss!
it split you in two
Let that one sink in
sunk cost fallacy, innit?
Gawd damn you aint taking no prisoners lol
I hope the lady playing the captain has moved on to bigger and better things, she seems terrific. She recognized Skippy, for crying out loud
Right?! She was amazing!
Real recognizes real! I loved her
She had so much charisma!!
This is true, she was wonderful, I can't even begin to imagine remembering so many names and story beats😵💫
I saw the fan film Jenny linked to, and her acting + improv against a dude that was trying to act high off his own supply was fantastic
I have rewatched this video so many times & I still gasp every time we get to the cost section.
Same😂
I LOVE that Chewbacca's whole role in the story is to be a damsel in distress. He's doing a great job
If they'd put him in the slave Leia bikini from RoTJ the hotel would still be open.
“This is just a normal Wookiee named Tom”
Well, he’s not a damsel since he’s married.
@TrekBeatTK have you been married? 😅
Accurate to Rise of Skywalker
“Mickey” is a nickname, nicknames are for friends, and Michael Mouse is no friend of mine.
Mickey as a character would hate Disney as a brand
This is my favorite comment 😭
I would think them pretentious enough to be Michelangelo Mouse! LOL
Government name in the same vein as Charles Entertainment Cheese
It's also another word for roofie.
I would pay $2 per minute to watch a room of Disney execs watching this
that'd be around $480
@@Owl90 Shut up and take my money!
same
@@Owl90 that's it!? worth
@@Owl90$490 cause of the extra five minutes. Still more worth it than this hotel.
This is the third or fourth time I'm watching this FOUR HOUR dive into the Star Wars hotel (a hotel I never went to, themed around a franchise I don't really care about), and it remains one of the best things to ever be on RUclips.
I’m in your boat as well! Good thing we don’t have any inconvenient support poles, else we wouldn’t be able to watch the video.
Seriously! I haven’t been to Disney world in years (at least 2014 or 2015) and I have never really been a fan of Star Wars but watching a 4 hour video of her review, commentary, and documentation of her experience and why it failed is so fascinating to me.
In universe, the guy pumping his arms and cheering at Kylo Ren coming out to torture the passengers is so funny
He might torture us, but he makes the Star Tours run on time!
I'm trying to imagine the reaction of Kylo Ren upon entering a room of civilians who cheer to see him. He would be psychologically unable to deal with.
PUNISH US DADDY 😂
@@baconsinatra8837 he'd probably burst into tears and repent to the light side on the spot
Right?! Like they're supposed to be cowering in fear.
Crawling around in uncomfortable conditions, scanning the barcodes on crates, being treated weird for showing enthusiasm, and being ghosted by the characters who ordered you to do the crate thing in the first place. Warehouse Laborer: A Star Wars Story!
Truly a thematically engaging experience.
So immersive!! Very cool!!
I was thinking drug mule but yeah
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@SweetSavoryAvery They really did overemphasize the smuggling in that marketing video. Like, did they not do any research on SW at all, and the fact that the outlaw characters are, you know, criminals?
My aunt and uncle went here in place of their honeymoon, which they didn’t get to go on. They didn’t have a wedding, just went to the courthouse, because they needed to save cash for a house, and they’d just had a kid. Almost 6 years, and the ~immersive Star Wars experience~ is what they splurged on for the first time in forever. They also stayed in town to visit the regular Disney park and go to the Halloween parade. All they talked about was the Halloween parade and when I asked about the Star Wars thing that cost $10k+ for them, my aunt’s face dropped and she said “it was alright, I was kind of confused the whole time.” Like Jenny said, middle class people who save up for things like this, it was a very special occasion, we watched their kids for 2 weeks straight, and all they had to say was “eh, it was alright. But I got a cool purple light saber in batu.”
That is heartbreaking.
Based on Jenny's video and your aunt's comment on being confused, it seems clear that this should have been less phone based and more just having actors walk around and interact. If you're paying 10k you shouldn't be playing kids games or looking for something to do, you should be able to feel like you're in Star Wars. I could see your aunt having assumed it was the latter based on maybe just the tiniest misleading marketing clips. We who grew up on tech really need to tech our older relatives about looking up reviews online. It might ruin some surprises but it can also save you from an awful experience like this.
Yeah they claim to try to create this immersive experience and you're on your phone all the time like you could be playing a computer game at home for £20 for a week's entertainment.
Wow Im so incredibly sorry for their experience, I cant imagine how disappointed they must feel
@@morgantrias3103omg THIS! Because although its not exactly the same, the entire time during this review all I kept thinking about was how a PC game I bought recently, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, is WAY more immersive as an experience than this hotel that cost people thousands! And I didn’t even get to pick from dialogue options or have the characters call me by a chosen name! And that game cost me about £60 for the gold edition on sale and it was worth every damn penny, it’s fantastic and I can think for is that I got way more out of that £60 I spent on an Ubisoft game than I ever would’ve at any “immersive” in person experience current Disney could ever sell to me for an obscene amount of money
Which is really sad and goes to show how corporate greed is just ruining art in basically every form, and is making the Disney company cannibalise itself and destroy any consumer trust they’ve painstakingly built up over the past many decades 🥲
This style of video is so great. Not an influencer cash grab, not a review, but basically an in-the-moment documentation that future historical documentarians (think Defunctland) relish to have access to, as it is so chock full of primary resource information.
I've never watched anything else on your channel, but I am excited to dive deep after this video.
Light. Darkness. A balance.
Light when the saber is on. Dark when the saber is off. Balance because if you accidentally move it it falls apart.
underrated comment
@@nonameless2 797 likes (the 797th is mine) and still underrated. 🤣
Wow, this whole thing seems like such an unmitigated disast-
"One of the cast members brought a little bowl for Skippy to drink out of."
-a mitigated disaster.
The whole chapter celebrating the cast members is a tonic.
Threw up my hands at that part. YES. SOMEONE GAVE THE LITTLE GUY A DRINK.
If the Galactic Starcruiser is the Titanic, the cast/crew are the violinists who played on as the ship sank
THAT'S the immersion we are looking for, cast members are a true blessing 😭🙌
Cast members deserve better than Disney. :/
At $2 per person per minute this video would’ve cost me $492 if I were to watch it aboard the galactic starcruiser.
But if it was on Disney+ you'd have to pay extra for it
Imagine the thrill of watching Jenny behind a pole!
trying to watch jenny nicholson but her videos only get recommended to you Sometimes, so you watch her content through some kids ipad he forgot to log out of
Guess we are literally stealing Jenny's money :D
That's alot of space bucks