The $2 BILLION Star Wars Hotel Closes in RECORD Time
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- Can you believe it?! It's gone... In this video, we break down why Disney's Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser failed in just over one year. It could be the price or it could be something else...
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A friend of mine just vacationed in Japan for 2 weeks for 1k, so Disney expecting people to pay 5k just for 2 days in a hotel makes me scratch my head.
For $5k, I flew overseas and spent a week in a brothel. Had the time of my life. Even had some money left over for coke.
Japan is expensive place to go as well 😆, I do have it as a place to go one day 😎
Hotel...I think you mean a closed warehouse with star wars style theme 😂😂😂
@untouchable360x you mean warehouse with coca cola?
Yeah, but did THEY get to spend 2 days in a windowless bunker watching amateur improv artists performing bad 'Star Wars' cosplay?
Only Corporate Disney could buy the two biggest money making franchises and destroy both of them. Good job Kathy and Bob, you had two gold egg laying geese and killed them both. Were they delicious?
walt disney would be sorely disappointed with the new management.
No, no. IBM is also world class in this activity. The destruction of Rolm and Lotus to mention two.
Wokey goes Brokey
@@glennstubbs8232 Yea, they got no innovation left, been like that for decades. Remember Dr. Watson? The Ai supposedly "know-all" to be used in medical field (that I know of). Let me also predict ... their "quantum" tech / chip will fail too
It's not an accident. Study who Walt Disney was and what he stood for and it's clear that this is a revenge program, slowly but surely polluting the name Disney and destroying Walt's legacy.
Who knew that making a Hotel that cost 1,200$ per person per night in a recession would be a BAD idea.
There is no recession according to them
@@narutobroken They say a lot of things that aren't true.
It's way more than 1200 per person lmao.
and you still have to pay extra for parking.
@@williamhaynes7089 and admission fee to get into the park.
Slow clap for Kathleen. She rode the coat tails Lucas and Spielberg.. when left to her own devices she torpedoed the greatest franchises of all time.
Don't downplay Kathleen's talent to screw things up. S1 and 2 of the Mandalorian were a phenomenal financial and cultural success. That had nothing to do with Lucas, Spielberg or Kathleen; the latter was barred from involvement in the show. But through the Bad Animator Filoni she did worm her way into S3, and the result is obvious. It was awful and killed off all interest in the show.
She is Richard Pryor in Brewster's Millions, but she delusionally thinks she's doing a great job.
@@arthurballs9632 let's hope the dial of destiny is one fuck up too far for her to survive
@@gdr1174 Iger was warned years ago that KK was inadvertently destroying Lucasfilm through her arrogance and incompetence, and that Disney shareholders would revolt against him for his mismanagement. It was the real creator of the Mandalorian who told Iger this in 2018. Chances are he wasn't even the first. As the problem is clearly wider than just Lucasfilm.
Who knows what will happen now, but Iger has gotten his company into a complete mess and he can't say he wasn't warned.
Slap? oh you said clap... sure but ...no.
@@arthurballs9632 Who was the real creator Jon Favreau ?
The crazy thing is that Disney could of turned this all around if they took the negative criticism seriously and made the changes need to please future guests.
Their arrogance and ego prevents them from acknowledging any criticism.
Kathleen and Bob could never admit that they were wrong. So this is the result.
"Am I so out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong".
No Disnay know better than you
Bbbuuuutttt all criticism is Star Wars is Sexxxxiiiisssttt and Raaaaaacccccist
If Disney stopped promoting their new characters and acknowledged the og characters, their Star Wars attraction would make money.
Kathleen and anyone agreeing on this idea bet hard on this idea and lost cash.
I believe they have a hefty royalty to pay if they use the original characters though yes? Even though it would be more popular ... It may still be unprofitable. That's my take anyway.
Too late. SW is dead
Honestly, a surprise drop in by some guy in a Vader costume with the Imperial March and a line of stormtroopers to have Vader "redirect" your Starcruiser to one of the Star Wars themed rides with a fast pass would be exciting enough for most people.
@@xxxDAZBOxxx What was the four billion for then? Just the Star Wars name?
R.I.P. Sorry, not sorry.
They did it to themselves by dividng the fans and fanbase from ruining the Star Wars. Karma? Yes!!
Pure money laundering, you could build that entire thing for less tham $200 million, they pocketed $1.8 billion. No way its worth 2 billion, that's an entire theme park.
Might as well have, cause they weren't gonna get any *higher* return on it ;)
I think it's a misleading clickbait title situation. As far as I am aware, the $2b number is for all the Star Wars stuff they've added to both Disneyland and Disney World, not just the hotel... so all of the Galaxy Edge world/rides are part of that as well... it's a lot more than just the hotel.
@@control_the_pet_population you're correct, it's the price of all things combined, not just the starcruiser.
tax write off.
That's why they spaz out when the Gov comes knocking
To describe the failure of the Galactic Starcruiser Motel Disney uses the word 'Proud." LOL. As Darth Vader would say "Disney's failure is complete!"
Just attented a large ComicCon in Switzerland. Tons of Star Wars cosplay, but zero people in outfits from the new Triology 😂
Everyone knows why Disney has prioritized the sequel stuff, they have to pay George Lucas a percentage on anything he made. The real problem with modern Disney isn't just a lack of artistic talent, it's greed.
EXACTLY! Same for why they "de-canonizing" the Expanded Universe. (And then proceed to Rip Off the stories from the EU!)
@@sharkdentures3247 The fact that it worked shows how little impact the EU ever had. You know they just said "We're not gonna worry about what the Star Wars crazies think, there' few enough of them. We're just going to sell to general audiences". because look how many people still think the sequels came up with Clone Palpatines. That's like the first thing you learn about the EU is that he survived, Dark Empire is six years after Return of the Jedi.
Isn’t it better to give the customers what they want even if George is given a %?? Half of something is better than all of nothing. No one cares about these new characters.
You forgot proselytizing the woke cult religion
@@bradfoland2127 Kinda ironic calling them the religion, isn't it? I mean who has more objections to progressive values than the religious right? Who's the real religion here, the actual religion that preaches hate, or those who seek to enforce tolerance with fascism?
Honestly, I feel terrible for my mom, who actually wanted to go to this hotel. The price was why she never went.
Honestly, I think she avoided getting fleeced
@kageKun her father (my grandfather) was a big star wars fan. So was she, but she was blind to the truth, and honestly, telling her so didn't matter at all. I'm the only member of my family who saw the truth behind Star Wars and Disney. Guess when this hits major news, I can only hope that she opens her eyes and sees the truth. But Disney and Lucasfilms still needs Ignorant people. Those people are honestly the people who are keeping the corporation from making actual good changes.
@@goldenyoshistar1they're called marks, and pop culture fandom is replete with them.
Clever girl.
Honestly, they could’ve just made a normal hotel that just happened to be Star Wars themed. It fits with all the other themed hotels around Disney world.
They could’ve converted one of their older hotels to do this. I really don’t understand why they chose to waste money on this project.
Universal is building a space themed hotel now.
Planet Hollywood, anyone? Remember? The MASSIVE em, 'success' that turned out to be (I'm unable to adequately describe just how skinpeelingly awful the outlet here in Dublin was - awful and BORING!). Point being, just because there are certain names associated with a venture - any venture - that doesn't automatically make it successful. You'd like another example? Ok - how about Trump? 'Nuff said.
@@daveroche6522 it was actually kind of fun to eat at the Mall of America one a few times to see some random memorabilia - same idea as Hard Rock Cafe but movie props vs gold records and signed guitars. Overpriced bland food. Only true morons go there for "good food", the reality is you pay to sit next to some interesting artifacts you can stare at while you eat, the food is secondary, and the kitchen definitely knows it.
Since the point was to be profitable for Arnie and the other investors, of course the kitchen budget would be lower than at an actual nice restaurant - otherwise where's the profit for them.
That made sure you only went there when cousins were in town and were curious - you'd humor them, but once you had been once yourself, you never had even a tiny temptation to go back. Just like Hooters... only need to have onion rings served by skimpily clad (mostly) "ditzy blondes" once to realize I'm a big nope on that whole concept.
As to the Star Wars hotel - if they wanted to charge what they did, needed to put it in Dubai. In Florida, you could maybe charge double normal rate for a very themed room, possibly triple or quadruple for an entire bespoke building such that it has the feel of being inside a star cruiser... yeah that might even fly. But USD5K for 2 nights??? Blow me Mickey, and KK! :D
5000 for two nights smh
This is just more of the chaos Disney has been dealing with since the days when Michael Eisner was in charge. So many false promises were made in the 1980s and 90s of attractions that never came to fruition. Eisner became known as the face of false advertising.
The Galactic Starcruiser had the potential to be great, but Kathy and her dislike for the Star Wars George Lucas created got in the way. Also, the ridiculous pricing. Seriously who was this hotel for? It certainly wasn't for average familes living on a tight financial budget. When Uncle Walt built Disneyland, his goal was not to make it an experience only rich people could enjoy. The current people in charge seem to have forgotten this very important thing.
I'm so happy the Starcruiser will be remembered as a 2-billion-dollar failure and a galactic embarrassment for the company. At this point Disney is like a dying pet that is in pain and needs to be put out of its misery.
Say what you want about Eisner, Disney was a once-successful company that crawled out of the red and entered into a new renaissance under his watch. This shit would’ve never happened with him in charge.
@@JM_Solo During his watch Disney promised several big attractions only to be embarrassed time and time again by not being able to deliver on said promises. As for the 2D renaissance we have the teams of skilled animators who worked long hours to bring us the films that are now classics. Eisner was a figurehead who benefited from the labor and talents of people who to this day have not received the credit they deserve. The animators, imagineers, and cast members whose names have been lost to history.
The magic of Disney came from behind the scenes, not the front office.
Just think: They could’ve taken this exact same hotel (building) but based the aesthetic on the very first ship we saw in Star Wars: Princess Leia’s ship. They could’ve had an animatronic C-3PO at a Help Desk responding to customer inquiries… and he could auto-detect languages and speak to customers in that language. The staff could’ve dressed as Rebel troopers. A couple R2 units could’ve served as bellhops pulling a luggage cart. You could’ve let guest play a game of laser tag: Rebels vs Imperials. They could’ve made a big stunt show around Jabba’s Yacht and the Sarlac pit. This is the kind of stuff Disney used to do. If a technology didn’t exist they would invent it. If it came to a question of cost vs entertainment, they would go entertainment.
I used to love the old Star Tours ride, felt totally immersed even with the silly cute robot, but that was based on the original movies and we were starved for anything that wasn't an EU book. Your idea makes more sense.
You're totally right.
This thing was doomed from the start. The fact that Disney, with all their resources are incapable of seeing things that are patently obvious to even a casual observer is mind-boggling. It is impossible to overstate just how much Disney has tarnished the Star Wars brand.
😢 well said sir. Disney has such bad management
Disney is like cancer infected company. Just waiting for it's death to come.
I was actually going to go to this, until I saw the commercial that they released. When I found out it was based on only Disney Star Wars I did a hard pass. I cancelled my reservation. Contrary to popular opinion there are a TON of people who can afford this insanely expensive trip. Most of us die hard Star Wars fans (older people who are well established in our careers) would never give a dime to the Disney Star Wars story line. This is another example, more proof that the majority of Star Wars fan are fans of the George Lucas Star Wars arc. THERE IS A MAJOR DIFFERENCE!! Another proof of that statement is look at how few people tuned in to the Star Wars Celebration. Heck, one of the actors said that the greatest thing about Star Wars is there isn't good or evil!!! GEORGE LUCAS SAID STAR WARS WAS ALL ABOUT GOOD VS EVIL. But Disney wants to push their own agenda. They destroyed/cancelled all previous story lines in the Expanded Universe. Now they tease characters from that Universe trying to get the main Star Wars fans back, but it's way too late. If you look at my house, you'll see Star Wars life size figures, and a ton of Star Wars stuff all throughout. I do not buy anything Disney Star Wars related!! I did buy a life size Grogu, but that was for the first season, which was good. I stopped watching Mando because it was too agenda driven, and no longer felt like Star Wars. Disney as a company used to be known for customer service, customer always being right, and providing their CUSTOMERS with what the customer wanted. There were books written that were required reading for managers that talked about the Disney model which should be followed. But then something changed. Disney no longer cares about the customer. Management feels they know what is best for the customer, and they push it hard! They allowed wokeness and children inappropriate themes to permeate every aspect of their products. MANY Parents no longer think Disney is a child safe brand! I am one of them!!! Universal is growing and has amazing plans for the future!! Universal listens to their customers and their park is thriving and growing!!! They have Super Nintendo Land coming soon. Their Harry Potter park is 2nd to none! Immersive experiences like Dining, interactive wand experiences, and real world feel!! I was a life long Disney fan, but no longer. Disney's immoral leadership, twisted world views, and greed is causing them to collapse. Oh, they will be here for a while, but if they keep doubling down on agenda driven content rather than good and child safe stories, they will eventually collapse.
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Exactly. The price was never an issue. The ones who complained the loudest couldn't afford it anyways. If Disney hadn't gone the direction they had with the franchise I would have been there in a heartbeat.
Even in the stories where the Light Side wasn't inherently good and the Dark Side wasn't inherently evil were still about good vs evil. Kreia's whole thing is that she saw the Force itself as a twisted Great Old One devouring the souls of the dead to sustain itself, and wanted to sever everyone's connection to it to starve it to death.
Was she right or misguided? Either way, her intentions were righteous.
The EU "Legends" Star Wars is the only Star Wars. Disney Star Crap is dead to me.
Yes! Many people who saw the first Star Wars in theaters in 1977 WOULD pay that price to take their kids or their grandkids to a Star Wars adventure IF it was Star Wars instead of Disney Wars.
The audience is out here, for Star Wars.
Disney could've made a fortune if they'd used the original concept art and designed it based on the original trilogy. They basically lured people in with bait-and-switch.
To quote The Joker: "You get what you fucking deserve"
I am morbidly amused that everything Disney's "Star Wars" attempts turns to Bantha poodoo! If I want an authentic Star Wars experience I'll watch my old VHS copies of Star Wars and play some Battlefront II on my PS2!
*May the Force be with you nerf herders!*
The Xbox and PC versions are better. Xbox has 4 local players and DLC, PC still has online.
Just saying.
And with you, scruffy looking!
Only we can call us that
Its hard to understand why crapping on the OSW and trading up for new poorly contrived characters and destroying a much loved legacy would have resulted in such financial losses.
Yes walt disney must be rolling over in his grave if he saw this farce.
This hotel was a realistic portrayal of the "Holdo Maneuver." What a brave ohmage to Vice Admiral Gender Studies.
You dropped this, king. 👑
Hahaha😂
Lol 👏
With a quick stop at Canto Bight
It was inevitable, the instant Disney said that traditional families weren't their target audience, they instantly limited themselves to a super small demographic of wealthy turbo-nerds and status seekers. And they're shocked there aren't enough of those groups combined to fill a hotel? Anyone with a brain could've told them that. In fact, everyone with brains DID tell them that.... and they just charged ahead anyway....
I mean this could have been themed after the OT or The clone wars and I still wouldn’t be inclined to drop that kind of cash to go. Maybe if the cruiser was an actual themed cruises ship I’d understand the price but I can book an actual 7 night 3 stop cruise for cheaper than their cruiser.
So much this. REAL cruises don't cost as much. While a certain increase is expected to have performers dressed up as a female greedo and a passable attractive twi'lek... all the activities looked half arsed. Like going on a cruise to exclusively play pin the tail on Bob iger. The light Sabre training was a wave your stick and hopefully hit the illuminated flashlight beam. It was just so much skimped on quality wise and rushed into a day and a half. So not worth the price point.
"Dont be to confident in this woke narrative you have constructed. Its power is insignificant compared to the power of the fans."
Me to KK if we ever met........
Hey Lewis And The News once sang to us of The Power Of Love and that love is original trilogy fans to star wars.
@Thomasmemoryscentral yeah and it was played in the movie "back to the future" and who was the executive producer on THAT?
For $5K you can travel to another continent and stay for at least week, if you catch cheap plane, and off season whenever you go, maybe even two weeks
Ikr, even visit the Tunisian valley where parts of A New Hope were filmed, and stay in an underground home. Still less expensive than the Disney Cruiser.
Edit: autocorrect effed me again
People aren't celebrating this one event, they're celebrating the tide turning. People have finally started speaking with their wallets and are refusing these ridiculous prices. We hope this continues.
889$for 2 adults and 1 child is a big FU to families with a lot of children
Intentionally, too.
Is the 3 adults and 1 child price weird only to me? Wouldn't 2 adults and 2 children be more common?
@@nonplayercharacter6478 I thought it was an odd scenario as well.
@@nonplayercharacter6478 Husband, wife, and the wife's boyfriend....
Only take your favorite child 😃
A vision of Gordon Ramsay screaming at some storm troopers for being bad cooks is something I never thought I would of needed
At 100 rooms even if the price was pushed up to 10,000 per room through drinks, food upgrades and merch, if it was booked solid for a year you’re talking 365mil GROSS - they musta lost huge if this thing cost 2B 😂
I heard on another video that the occupancy rate at this hotel was about 25%. At least for the guests willing to pay the crazy cost, it wasn't too crowded!
people wanted STAR WARS ... the y got served up DISNEY Star Wars..... not the same. and the fact they are announcing that Rey will be the lead for up coming new movies. who has $6k to spend on a 2 day vacation, locked up inside a concrete building. people who love Star Wars were not going to this. the well off hipsters who paid up did so to brag about it and there aren't enough of them around .. terrible business model.
Disney could give away complementary Bud Light to attract hotel guests.
They cater to that demographic so yeah, those Bud Light drinkers would be the only ones there.
That makes no sense. The Bud Light boycotters didn't have money to buy better beer than Bud Light. How would they have money for this?
Haha! Thanks for that.
what the fuck does that have to do with anything
Can't wait to see them rebrand that hotel into something Guardians of the Galaxy. And watch them destroy the only Disney Marvel that seemed interesting the last few years.
Nah, its going to sit abandoned for years before they remember it exists and tear it down
@@paulrasmussen8953 maybe Disney can recoup some of their losses by selling tickets to the demolition of it.
I rather go to Super Mario Land bro
I had heard that they would tear it down and put something else in it's place. But it's been running at 25% occupancy, so what can you do? It has a large staff (regular hotel staff plus all the character players) in relation to the number of guests and probably wasn't making any money. I doubt the feedback from the guests who did stay there was not all that positive, either, and the return bookings (coming back again) were undoubtedly low. All hotels consider REVPAR (revenue per available room) to gauge how well they are doing, so 25% occupancy is bad.
2:01 Its called The Parental Rights in Education Bill
He knows just reading a article
This is just like the Gru meme
"By Star Wars"
"Vote for Joe Biden"
"Open an expensive hotel"
"Economy crashes so no one can afford to attend your hotel"
"Your hotel closes"
You know what they could have done to make it work in the OT?
You play an Imperial Cadet, get picked up by Jan Ors and run a mission given by MON MOTHMA to get the Death Star plans! Maybe even end it with meeting Leia to hand them over.
Jan Ors? Who's that? Kathleen Kennedy told me there was no media aside from movies pre-Disney! 🙄
And you can decide to try and sabotage the mission! And if the designers don't want two endings, Kyle Motherfucking Katarn can make certain the Rebels prevail.
To anyone who remembers the old Ewoks caravan of courage film, young Wicket's oft repeated:
"star cruiser crash!" Seems very appropriate here :D.
“10,000?! We could almost buy our own ship for that!” - Visitors after finding out the ticket cost for their family on Galactic Starcruiser
Perfect! 🤣
"Yeah And Who's Going To Fly It Kid? You?" Actually Yes, Thanks Disney. My Family Has More Imagination Then You. Jump In The Car Kids. Too Infinity.... Oops, May The Force...
😂
Disney: These guys must really be desperate. This could really save my neck.
Reminder: Disney and Reedy Creek are supposed to be legally separate. Iger's insistence that undoing Reedy Creek is an attack on Disney is essentially an admission to securities fraud.
Disney is laundering money.
Yeah, and some of the repairs go unchecked at the parks.
In a world of creation and art,
One woman sought to play a part.
Arrogant and full of pride,
She set out to take the reins and ride.
A franchise once so bright and bold,
Now in her grasp, it soon grew cold.
Jealous of the creator's fame,
She sought to make it her own game.
But in her quest for glory and might,
She lost sight of what was right.
Firing those who dared to disagree,
She ruled with an iron decree.
And as the profits slowly fell,
She refused to listen and couldn't tell,
That her self-insert characters were just a ploy,
To make people love her and forget the joy.
Now the franchise lies in ruins and disarray,
Thanks to the woman who wouldn't stray.
From her path of ego and disdain,
She caused it all to go down the drain.
So let this be a lesson to all,
Who seek to rise but then do fall.
Humility and respect go a long way,
And can make or break a franchise any day.
That was beautiful, thank you!
I hate when people call the Parental Rights in Education Act, the don’t say gay bill because I can tell they didn’t read the damn thing 😂 Has nothing to do with saying gay.
Easier to keep sheeple backing them if they make everything sound like an actual attack instead of ripping entitlement out of activist hands.
That’s how the hateful ignorant do things. The truth would kill their argument so they just keep lying. And lazy people just see the lies and run with them.
HB 1557. This is a bill that protects children and nowhere does it prohibit the word gay.
lol don't call it "the state's Don't Say Gay law" when you know that isn't what it actually is
Right. These A holes never do research, they just read AP fake news. It is 7 pages long and never mentions gay anything. It has already saved many young kids from the nose ringed, blue haired degenerates.
He was reading from the article, which was written by butthurt Disney
$6,000 dollars a night in this economy? I stayed at ALL inclusive luxury resorts, VIP access, two bedroom, two and a half bath suites, and that was only $1,000 to $1,600 a night. 6,000 per night for Disney crap is OUTRAGEOUS!
They could gone the extra parsec and make a short about it sinking titanic style after hitting a massive ego. The money they’d make from the Reylos could buy a ticket for 1 person.
"Gentlemen, it's been an honor playing with you." *plays Nearer My God To Thee*
THE PEOPLE RUNNING STAR WARS ARE OUT OF THEIR MINDS IF THEY THINK PEOPLE CAN AFFORD $5000 FOR 2 NIGHTS! NOT TO MENTION WE ARE IN A BAD ECONOMY RIGHT NOW!
They don't care.
And Disney will blame it on a bad economy and not their outrageous price that wouldn’t have worked even in a good economy.
So... Star Wars costed 4 billion for Disney... They earned around 2 billion for TFA, 400 million for RO, a billion for TLJ, a loss of around 300 million for Solo, and 600 million for ROS, minus the probable numbers for all the shows on Disney+ and spent 2 billion for this stupidity and I seem to recall a cost of 1 billion for Galaxys Edge...
Under the assumption that this would be around the net income Disney has had for this franchise...
They would still be almost 4 billion in the red for Star Wars...
Remember all the plastic toys nobody's buying.
You are right that Disney is still in the Red with Star Wars.
Now TRA grossed 2 billion it didn't earn anywhere near
that for Disney.
The theaters get a cut.
It cost 250 million to make.
It was at least that for marketing costs.
At best you are looking at a billion in profit.
TLJ maybe 400 million
RO less because they had to re-shoot so much of an almost finished film.
#Sololostmoney
TROS probably only broke even.
Galaxys Edge minimum 1 billion each there are 2 of them.😊
no movie in the world could let you earn 2 billion dollar :(
Ya, they should have stuck with Mickey Mouse
an incredible series of multi-million dollar failures, and disney's management acts as if everything is fine. i think in the end their shareholders will lynch them.
For something to fail, it has to have a chance of success. This did not fail. This was pure sabotage to the SW brand
$6,000 on bootleg Star Wars? No wonder they closed. I’m not a Star Wars fan but I can understand why people are upset
You can rent a house in Bali (not directly on the beach though) for $6000USD....PER YEAR. 2 nights at a hotel run by a groomer company based on a theme that hates the fans? Pass.....
What an abysmal failure for Disney. So many bone-headed decisions in the creation of this hotel. Disney arrogance knows no bounds.
Star Wars WAS American culture... until Disney destroyed it forever
You completely hit the nail on the head when you said that not focusing on the OT was the biggest mistake. This hotel would have been a license to print money if it had been made in the 80s or 90s.
Let me put this entire thing into perspective:
You can rent a massive house down in the Outer Banks for a week and buy all the food you’d need for ~$3k
As some from Raleigh I'm dying. 😂
Couldn't they just make it a regular hotel and make the shuttle a regular shuttle that connects to Galaxy's Edge? Wouldn't it be cool to go back to your hotel in Galaxy's Edge? Expend the exterior with a pool and add an exercise room. Put a Star Wars museum. Have meet N' greets with Vader every now then. They could even decorate for the holidays like Light day or May the 4th. I'm sure people would pay 200 bucks a night for that.
Nah easier to wonder why it failed when they spent so much on an interior that makes Spaceballs look more Star Wars authentic.
What gets me is that it's so much more expensive than a 4 day disney cruise on thier newest ship which is just as themed and looks to have better entertainment and food. Sure it's not very star wars, but it just seems like such a better value.
They have a Star Wars lounge and a Star Wars kids area, close enough.
Excellent. Keep up the good work, DeSantis. *Parental rights bill
Some other great ideas for hotels:
Top Gun Maverick International Hostel (you get to stay in a barrack for only $700 per night)
The Titanic Riverboat Casino and Hotel (actually not a bad idea, except for the sinking part)
Doctor Strange's Motel of Madness (two fun-filled days of looking for your room)
Breaking Bad Motor Lodge and Dispensary (great place to tweak up, but don't try to re-negotiate your bill if you know what's good for you)
I went to DW in FLA... What a MISERABLE experience... The only people who smiled were the employees who were payed to. Over priced, and the wait for everything was way too long.
RIP Lucas Star Wars
Aww Disney thought new star wars has fans
The name star wars has fans
The kids that disappointed parents dragged to the new movies walked away from the theaters curious how their parents could ever be fans of such a bad story.
The 70s iteration has a massive fan base
The 00 iteration has a much smaller fan base
The 20 iteration has no fans and the biggest budget to advertise.
Whenever a major Corp buys intellectual property they ruin it. That's a 100% truth across every single time it has happened
That made my day, It's time for Disney to crash and burn
Watching Doucheney fail is so satisfying, except for the fact that their employees keep paying the price for their "leadership's" lack of vision, quality, and common sense.
If it was actually on a real Star Destroyer where I could use the force and fly a TIE fighter, I'd probably be willing to give up $6000 for a couple of nights for that. In fact, I'd consider that a bargain. I guess I could just stay at home and borrow my friend's copy of Jedi Survivor for a couple of nights and get a similar experience though. Then spend that $6000 I just saved on cocaine, alcohol and prostitutes and still have $5,500 change left over. Actually, that's my weekend sorted! Sweet!
Not gonna lie, Gordon Ramsay yelling at stormtroopers sounds like a good time
they could have built a complete hotel in the park, make it look like a ship docked somewhere, then rent out the rooms for double the going rate to have a 'living on a ship theme' experience while you spend your day in the park.
For under $5000.00, you could go to Costa Rica for two weeks and go deep-sea fishing, jungle hiking and zip-lining, luxury hotels with five star restaurants on mountaintops and anything else you can think of. Disney could not pay me five grand to suffer for two days inside a fake, concrete spaceship-themed motel. I have a root canal I need to get fixed. I'd rather do that.
Kinda warms the heart, doesn’t it?
I feel bad for the cosplay actors and other staff, everyone needs a job… but the devils in the details …
I hope they steal everything they can get their hands on when that final day comes.
I havn't spent a penny on any Star Wars or other Disney product since they announced they were buying the franchise and would discontinue and ignore the Extended Universe. I spent a fortune buying original SW merch. I can't wait until George buys the franchise back for pennies on the dollar, and reignites the original EU
In an alternate reality, Disney is closing a failed hotel called "The Galactic Heighliner."
That price.... they may have sold a few more nights with OT characters and locations, but ultimately that price was crazy.
Can't wait to see the Defunctland episode about this one.
The official name of that law in Florida is called The Parental Rights in Education Act. I never hear any media outlets say that.
I drove across the US for a month on that budget. 30 hotel nights, across 18 states. Including a return ticket from Europe and a high-end rental car plus gas. You can't do that for 10k nowadays. It wasn't in the nineties, if you're wondering. Let's say Bush Jr. Late second term.
For $5,000 a day there's a point where you can just pay to have a set made and hire some extras to walk around in costumes.
What are the odds of failure holdo-manuevering across a galactic Cruiser?
I didn’t see the starcruiser coming to an end because I totally forgot it existed😂
I used to think women could do anything a man could do. And then Kathleen Kennedy somehow destroyed a 50 year old vibrant and strong franchise...
Wrong woman. From a woman who was a teen-aged-girl that night in 77 and sat in the movie theatre when 20th Century scrolled the opening credits "A long time ago, in galaxy far, far away .... " I was excited , didn't know why yet but could feel it in my bones .. then I sat through the second showing before I could even process what I had just seen. "The greatest SCI-FI flick I had ever seen".
I don’t remember if it was canon or legends but I remember hearing about a Red Star Destroyer that was owned by Lando and was used as a luxury resort in the aftermath trilogy, this would be better idea for a theme park than the galactic Star cruiser if you ask me since it will be set before the sequel trilogy so no doubt we will see OG characters return.
The fact that the hotel rates were based on more number of adults than children actually staying in the rooms shows Disney is catering to childish adults rather than the children themselves.
As a huge star wars fan, I would NEVER pay 5 thousand dolars for something that doesn't even feature my fav characters. 5000$ is like, 25000 of my country currency. Maybe, and just MAYBE if it was the og trilogy stuff I would be it would be a one time only experience. Imagine paying 5000$ for sequels, hell no.
The freaking DJ....An animatronic Max Rebo and band jamming out nightly would have been amazing!! That's just one of the many ways this thing failed.
Kathleen Kennedy should be charged for this loss.
Anyone remember Star Trek: the Experience in Las Vegas? I thought that had just the right mix of a fun ride, performers, real props on display and then the Quark’s Restaurant and bar… with really cool alcoholic drinks . Every time I was sent to Las Vegas on business, I always booked into the Hilton so I could hang out in Quarks and argue with the Klingon performers (they were fantastic in their role). Great memories. Something like that could work for Star Wars. Keep it intimate, keep it real (props) and just enough fun for the kids.
This is a victory and a massive kick in Kennedy’s ego.
The mere fact the hotel, let alone Galaxy’s Edge, wasn’t modeled of the Jedi Temple or even Mos Esly for Galaxy’s Edge, and contained things from the entire Star Wars universe was a good indicator of just how much logic was used and how aware Disney is of their own fanbase, what they want and what they like.
What, no way!? How awful. Who could have ever foreseen or predicted Disney's Galactic Starcruiser Interactive LARPing Experience to fail? Especially when it focused strictly on the Disney/Lucasfilm Sequel Trilogy that was horribly written and directed, with characters nobody liked? It couldn't have also been the outrageous $5,000.00 price tag for a simple "three"-day, two-night stay in cramped accommodations with sub-par experiences, no amenities, an average dinner show experience, and overpriced merch? Nor could it have been the Actors/Actresses and Directors publicly berating and name-calling fans? Surely not! Especially since Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, ABC, CNN, The View, etc. ALL reviewed it and publicly stated 5/5 Star glowing reviews about just how phenomenal and worthwhile the experience was. I also thought all the fans unequivocally loved this version of Star Wars and were flocking to it in droves! So, how on earth could this happen!? :'( (
The true fans saw this coming from day one 🤗 Good work, everyone 🇺🇸
I regret the $40 I spent to see the sequels, why would I spend thousands to interact with sequel content.
Nothing fell faster then budweiser..
I Love The Idea Of Spending The $6,000 On Taking The Family Around The Country Visiting Comic Cons. I Am So Pitching That To My Wife and Kids Tonight. Cosplay the Whole Trip, Eat When and Where We Want, Sleep When and Where We Want. Dress As Who We Want. Drink, Buy Toys, Shirts And Comics. I'm Already There, Me And The Family Watching Disney Burn.
Expecting your guests to perform high-level improv 24/7 is a lot when most of them just want to stare, drool and take selfies.
They hired the Jurassics park lawyer
It was a bad idea from beginning to end.
A very expensive lesson for them to learn.
They shouldn't surround themselves with yes people, sometimes what you don't want to hear *_isn't_* a bot.
90% of people can’t justify paying such outrageous pricing. If the price was $500 per night would be more enticing.
Disney is the poster child for the business model of Go Woke Go Broke.
I can't wait for Kathleen Kennedy to get her contact extended another 4 years
They didn't close it on purpose, they had to in order to pay their lawyers to save them from Da Boss, Ron DeSantis
Coastal cities have programs to put homeless, um 'unhoused' into one-star (wars) hotels.
Sounds like a match made in Heaven!!!
Let’s just put it this way, if you’re going to charge everyone 5000 dollars for two nights in your themed hotel without making darn sure that the immersiveness and tune of the place is 100% up to scrap with the price what do you expect is going to happen? This one is fully on Disney and Kathleen Kennedy.
The only thing Disney doesn't gouge you on is the free air that you breath at the park. But they are working on that.
At $6,000 for 2 nights, sooner or later you run out of the limited number of people with too much money to spend. Make it $200 and people will come...