I’m about 1/4 of the way into her video and it is fascinating so far. I think the comparison she makes to the price and experience of a Disney cruise probably makes  the best point about this whole venture’s failure. Sure, the Star Wars hotel had to pay actors and other people to make the story happen, but it doesn’t…

The price is per room, with additional people costing a marginal amount more. So the more ways you split the cost by sharing the room with other people, the less it is per person. But it’s deceptive in that rooms started at around $4K, so any solo guests would be screwed. Even families seem like they’re getting a…

You don’t have to watch it all in one sitting.

Meanwhile, me shouting to my husband: “fuck yeah, babe, Jenny Nicholson put out a four hour video this time!”

Probably worth mentioning - almost no one I know who loves longform video essays on youtube just watches them like a movie. I cooked dinner, did dishes, did laundry, swept, and played three runs of Slay the…

Some of them are, but one important thing to remember is that there’s a pause button. You can put a pin in it and come back later, you don’t have to watch it all in one sitting. She could have put it out as 4 one hour long separate videos, but I’m always glad to see a long video from her. She is immensely…

If you like this, I recommend her videos on Bronycon and the Evermore theme park. She also was part of a series called Millennial Falcon on Screen Junkies which has good stuff in it.

*shrug* I know people who went and really loved it. It was admittedly expensive, but it sounded cool. 

The son is presumably also an ice hippo, so probably pretty wide

I just wanna punch that Goldberg kid. 

Jenny is a Star Wars nerd, a theme park nerd, and a theater nerd. She spent $6000 to go to this thing, and spent quite a bit of time defending things other naysayers have complained about.

How wide is your teenage son, exactly?

I love her videos! It was such a treat to get content again on YouTube instead of Patreon.

I loved the tidbit in there about how you can almost always spot a paid Disney influencer shill because Disney makes them awkwardly use the exact names for all the attractions and park. It’s not “Star Wars Land” at “Disney World”, it’s “Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge” at “Walt Disney World Resort in Florida”.

It obviously cost too damn much — and I’ve heard tell that it was still profitable running at 50% capacity, which (if true) means the prices were literally twice as high as they needed to be — but I’ve always thought it was such a telling flaw that they didn’t offer any sort of accomodations for single guests.

I’ve only been to DW once (1987, I was nine) but I’ve been to DL countless times, since I live in Los Angeles. I decided I was too cool for DL when I was in high school, but then relented in my college years; I had a Disney superfan friend who went all the time, so she convinced me to get an AP, and we would ditch…

Yeah, rug-pulling features you claimed would be included and putting them behind a paywall, that’s fucking awful. At this point I can’t see myself ever going to a Disney property again.

It’s certainly nothing new to have add-ons, but the idea of charging for every little thing and taking features that were advertised as being part of the ticketed experience and removing them to an entirely separate experience/facility to this extreme level is new.

As a 40 year old parent of two, I’ve noticed that there seems to be a market for young adults with a massive amount of expendable income, and I’m just sitting here wondering if I need to cancel my Netflix account to save $15 a month.

My theory has been that the hotel failed because its target customers — well off tech bros who love Star Wars — were disproportionately likely to find the in-person roleplaying elements to be deeply socially uncomfortable.

I balked at the four hour run time but I watched the video throughout the day on Sunday as I cleaned my house, and it really is worth sticking it out til the end.