For two days and two nights, I will step aboard an immersive galactic starcruiser experience and live MY star wars story.References and clip sources: https:/...
  • SSJ2Marx@hexbear.netEnglish
    63·
    6 months ago

    the commercial was so bad the sold out first few weeks became un-sold-out

    lol

    a second commercial came out that was so bad even more people cancelled their reservations

    lmao

    edit: $6000 for a two person room cereal2

  • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    44·
    6 months ago

    Jenny Nicholson say “Capitalism” challenge: failed

    It’s still a decent video, if only to see just how badly Disney flubbed every aspect of this.

    • Owl [he/him]@hexbear.netMEnglish
      22·
      6 months ago

      I don’t think capitalism is a good explanation for what went wrong here. She’s constantly comparing it to better products, mostly by the same company, all produced under capitalism. Whatever catastrophic mismanagement caused this will still be available under most flavors of communism.

      • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        24·
        6 months ago

        Yes, but those better products were produced earlier, and Disney needs to see constant growth due to capitalism. The last 20-40 minutes make this clear. They’ve started nickel-and-diming for everything in the parks (inc fast pass etc), started designing to have longer lines because those turn out to be more profitable, etc. The same is true for her example of the hotel (and Galaxy’s Edge) compared to older attractions/parks: the “new and cool immersive features” are less interesting and cheaper to implement than a free cell-phone ad campaign tie-in from 2006.

  • nasezero [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    37·
    6 months ago

    Kinda wild how she just glosses over the emergency exit “panic rooms” that require a staff member to unlock the “exit” side! So if there was a fire, guests would just have to hope that the door was fire and smoke proof, and that staff would let them out of their literal metal cage in a timely manner. That seems absolutely wild, I can’t imagine how it was legal. (Well, I guess it is Florida)

    • NuraShiny [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      21·
      6 months ago

      Disney employees are highly trained and only receive the highest of minimum wage, so they will happily die to save tourists trapped in a fake spaceship.

    • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      21·
      6 months ago

      She does basically say that in the event of a fire she expects everyone would just die, but yeah she’s a disney adult enabled to do whatever she wants thanks to fan funding so I guess “imminent risk of death” is not a deal breaker.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    19·
    6 months ago

    tl;dw - Could I get a summary?

    Or I’ll have to wait for The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel [fan edit]. The original is 4:05:38 which is a wee bit too long for me.

    • half_giraffe [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      25·
      6 months ago

      TL;DW: It was a complete catastrophe which unsurprisingly lead to its abrupt shut down. The promise for the hotel was a two day event of “interactive storytelling” and escape-room-esque activities in a luxury environment; instead, the interactivity never seemed to work, the activities were boring even to children (when they were functional), and a tiny room with bunk beds certainly didn’t justify the $6,000+ price tag.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    6 months ago

    the failure of the “interactive storytelling” accommodation experience doesn’t bode well for the “Storyliving” Disney planned community projects. which, if you think the star wars hotel thing was a fucked concept chasing Disney Adult weirdos, strap in.

    imagine a Celebration-style Disney-managed Home Owner’s Association run by Disney, but with the magic of make believe. imagine the Star Wars Hotel, but with the lyrics from Hotel California scratching at your mind because you can check out anytime, but you can never leave.

  • cosecantphi [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    The vibe I get from this monstrosity of a hotel is that Disney tried to open a Star Wars Westworld proof of concept of sorts, except instead of building human passing robots and sentient AI to torture, they are populating the place with real people working as actors, endlessly micromanaged for a shit wage.