Disney wants more 'Star Wars' in its theme parks

Ron said:
I'm sure it was fun but that sounds like way more headache than it's worth to go on a ride.
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I don't think anyone needs to go to to the same lengths as we did. We just wanted a low number and, in truth, strategizing was part of the fun. ROTR is the most technologically impressive attraction I've ever experienced. I definitely think it was worth it.
 
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Ron said:
I'm sure it was fun but that sounds like way more headache than it's worth to go on a ride.
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I've watched a few of the YouTube videos of people waiting to get their passes. I would never do it. Makes me glad I let my annual pass go.
 
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I just got back Sunday night and I will tell you that the land is themed beautifully. Also seeing the Falcon up close like that made me as giddy as a school girl. Smugglers run was fun. To be honest thought I just felt it was Star Tours on steroids. I went through the single rider line and waited about 20 minutes while my wife and kids rode the Saucers in Toy Story land. Then because of an unfortunate run in with a very rude cast member they let me go back and go through the fast pass line so I did get to ride it twice back to back. In my book it is fun. I wouldn't wait 2 hours for it. Even if my daughter and I both wanted to go on it I would say just do single rider line.
 
PantheraGem said:
Weird. Iger stepping down, immediately.
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This non-brushfire has been having to be put out all over the internet. He's been saying for years he's tired of being the CEO, he said last year that he was going to be stepping down within a year or two. He was originally going to remain as CEO until 2021, but has instead decided to step down from that position now to spend the next year easing his successor into the job, while staying on as Executive Chairman.

It's not sudden. He hasn't been ousted the way Eisner was. He's not leaving Disney, or even the executive echelon. He's going to be focusing more on creative content, the way he always preferred.
 
It’s impossible for me not to bring up The Wizarding World of Harry Potter when discussing Galaxys Edge. Being in THE places will always be better to more fans than made up “canon” locations. Being in Diagon Alley will always be better than Batuu.
 
It should've just been Tatooine from the beginning. I understand the strategy of "thinking ahead" but the problem with that is how can you be sure fans will love the newer content? However you DO know they already love the OT and simply from a business perspective that's what you should give them. Eh, give them ten years or so and they'll re-skin Galaxy's Edge to be Tatooine.

"'We really should think about do we wanna build a Tatooine and build what all the 50-somethings remember what Star Wars is, or do we want to build something else, which is going to appeal to all the upcoming generations who are gonna know the new stories?’"

She really thinks it's only the 50-somethings that love the original trilogy? Or that they're "remembering what Star Wars is"? WHAT ELSE IS IT IF IT ISN'T THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY?!

Here we have a place called Disneyland that has 100 year old cartoon characters walking around and the kids still love them but KK thinks that the Star Wars OT is irrelevant in such a place? And this person is the stewardess of Lucasfilm?
 
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Ron said:
Here we have a place called Disneyland that has 100 year old cartoon characters walking around and the kids still love them but KK thinks that the Star Wars OT is irrelevant in such a place? And this person is the stewardess of Lucasfilm?
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That's a really good point. I mean they just sunk a ton of money into the new Mickey and Minnie ride, as well as the Tron coaster.
 
Ron said:
It should've just been Tatooine from the beginning. I understand the strategy of "thinking ahead" but the problem with that is how can you be sure fans will love the newer content? However you DO know they already love the OT and simply from a business perspective that's what you should give them. Eh, give them ten years or so and they'll re-skin Galaxy's Edge to be Tatooine.

"'We really should think about do we wanna build a Tatooine and build what all the 50-somethings remember what Star Wars is, or do we want to build something else, which is going to appeal to all the upcoming generations who are gonna know the new stories?’"

She really thinks it's only the 50-somethings that love the original trilogy? Or that they're "remembering what Star Wars is"? WHAT ELSE IS IT IF IT ISN'T THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY?!

Here we have a place called Disneyland that has 100 year old cartoon characters walking around and the kids still love them but KK thinks that the Star Wars OT is irrelevant in such a place? And this person is the stewardess of Lucasfilm?
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She also claimed they have nothing like comics, books, graphic novels, video games to draw inspiration from.... so with each film, they have to start from scratch.
 
The idea of excluding the OT AND the PT from a Star Wars themed park segment was an unbelievably stupid move. It IMO is comparable to setting up a theme park around a franchise that has not been older than three to five years.

The franchise is so large and rich with content, why not build THREE segments that interconnect? Make-believe time travel through the various eras? Wouldnt it be great to leave an area and enter another one that has a completely different theme, offering different experiences and rides?
Oh wait! That is exactly what Disneylands all over the world offer!!! Is there anything in the park that connects to the OT and the PT? Anything that actually acknowledges a Star Wars before the PT? Or are we looking at hidden legal problems, i.e. George Lucas not selling away the rights to build theme parks based on OT and PT?
 
PantheraGem said:
That's a really good point. I mean they just sunk a ton of money into the new Mickey and Minnie ride, as well as the Tron coaster.
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Regarding a ride, wouldn´t it be awesome to have a ride similar to Pirates of the Caribbean or Phantom Manor/Haunted Mansion that lets you relive the entire Skywalker-Saga? Real sets and sofisticated animatronics and models and projections and miniatures and immersive experience included? An evolution of the old rides?
 
DaddyfromNaboo said:
Regarding a ride, wouldn´t it be awesome to have a ride similar to Pirates of the Caribbean or Phantom Manor/Haunted Mansion that lets you relive the entire Skywalker-Saga? Real sets and sofisticated animatronics and models and projections and miniatures and immersive experience included? An evolution of the old rides?
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20 years ago I used to fantasize that George would open his own amusement park that would be housed inside of a scaled star destroyer or something. There would be rides and such like you speak of. Some kind of Lucasland.
 
Wasn't there some deal with Lucas that any original pre-Disney SW content Disney uses he gets a cut of, with on going residuals. So if true I imagine an entire Mos Eisley theme park would be quite a headache best avoided if possible.
 
I believe that's an unsubstantiated rumor. However, that doesn't mean there's not truth to it. That contract must read like rocket science.
 
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