Jenny Nicholson is one of the most popular Star Wars/theme park influencers on youtube, if the app isn’t working for her, then I wouldn’t have any confidence it would work for me. But even if it worked perfectly, what their selling just isn’t worth the price for most people, I get there’s people that it is worth it…

It’s entirely possible for people to become exhausted, sick, or just tired of large crowds and need to get away from things for a bit. Curation and committing to the bit is great, but there’s nothing unreasonable about providing amenities for people who need a break for whatever reason.

A friend of mine and her husband went and enjoyed it, but their main criticism was the imbalance between the guests themselves. They were excited for the roleplaying aspects and developed personas and came with outfits ready to commit, and there were others that did, too, but then a lot of people there were just…

Watched the video yesterday - the problem wasn’t necessarily the immersive roleplaying experience because it wasn’t very immersive. The role playing probably turned lots of people off but for those that actually wanted it to be immersive, it fell short. Jenny tried to make it immersive but the staff mostly shrugged…

Nah girl, you're right, my tone here was meant to be more teasing and less shitty and I think I lost track on that almost instantly, sorry.

The poor Imagineers originally designed Galaxy’s Edge to have a full-service restaurant with themed entertainment. It didn’t make the cut.

I encourage watching the entire video, or at least the last ~hour where she directly addresses things like cutting corners and being cheap. TL;DW she’s a theme park enthusiast and compares the experience to other experiences, including at Disney’s parks, and to me she made a very compelling argument why the experience…

I’m genuinely happy you had a good time, truly. But I don’t understand your rush to defend this thing.

Well, billionaires lunatics, sure. But Disney is a company that is absolutely terrified/draconian about protecting its reputation, so having a couple hundred people die in a hotel fire is the kind of bad PR they would definitely take steps to avoid.

glad you had fun but i’m just gonna go ahead and take you both equally seriously and it all comes out in the wash. thing doesn’t exist anymore either way.

Yep, the video did delve into the marketing failure. Jenny had to do a little digging, too, because Disney scrubbed much of the marketing materials from their platforms. She either mentioned that in the video or elsewhere on social media.

The video won’t explain why the marketing was bad.

The question of whether it would have been better for her to go “off-universe” for IT help seems rational, but at that price point I would probably find myself FOMOing about losing time in the experience. I’m thinking here about moviegoers who only complain about a presentation issue after the movie is over (and after…

Boeing Aerospace, British Petroleum, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Company thank you for reminding everyone that corporations would NEVER cut corners on safety!

Hey, no argument. Marketing was so spectacularly bad I honestly hope people lost their jobs over it. When I heard the initial concept, I thought, “Hell, yeah, this sounds awesome!”

But... there were emergency exits. Before you boarded there was actually a legit safety video, including how a real emergency would alert differently than one that was part of the story. There were signs at the end of every hall as well as marked doors and stairwells. Every passenger room had an emergency exit on the…

I wanna be snarky but, minus the LARPing elements, the hotel sounds like something I would’ve dreamed of and loved to go to as a kid. I haven’t watched the video yet so I can’t speak to where Disney cut corners, but I suspect that child me wouldn’t have cared. If the hotel had been priced at least somewhat affordably…

I’ve often thought it was a little weird that Disney didn’t give you free Disney+ at all their resorts.  At least with this one, you could make the argument that people weren’t going to spend a lot of time in their rooms, but it seems like a no brainer for them to give people a free trial with frequent opportunities…

This is frustratingly every Disney property. Stayed at Aulani a litte while back (absolutely worth it IMO), and you could do a limited "trial" of Disney+. Even Marriott has MAX in every room free for your stay; why Disney doesn't automatically have the streaming service IT OWNS in every on property room is just…

One of the many highlights: the hotel rooms, for a thousands of dollars per day experience, did not provide fully-paid Disney+ access.