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When I went to Disney World during spring, my wife put more planning into our trip than the Normandy landing. I don’t think we ever waited in line more than a few minutes. She did her research, and at one point we split up with our kids and she gave me step by step directions that went something like this: “Go to the right hand gate and wait with the masses. When the gate opens, stay to the right and don’t worry. At the fork, the slovenly horde will go left and cram their corpulent bodies into the Snow White ride. You will go right and have half the park to yourself for a while.” And she was right! I got on a coaster with my kid and we rode it six times without having to get out of the car before we got bored and went elsewhere. Planning can make the difference between a good day at Disney and a sweaty sun-baked hell-queue. Eat lunch early, do the busy stuff while others eat. Use FastPass strategically, and go on a less busy day. I’d still rather drink paint thinner than go back but drat if you’ll ever see that kind of joy on your kids’ faces again. Disney is very good at making you happy to give them all your money.
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George H.W. oval office posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj1d5QpzG-U This is so astonishingly cringe. $200 for some plasticky plumbing fixtures from Home Depot and high-school drama club level performances. Tiny kid me would eat it right up, but to see a room full of grown-rear end adults... Everything at Disney has this weird feel and subtext, it's like you're another head in a huge herd of dairy cows, except with teats full of money instead of milk. All they do is hook you up to machine after machine to suck more out.
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Jul 12, 2019 15:47
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I like how they made it feel like some lovely lightsaber assembly line, with half a dozen idiots at identical stations following the instructions of a supervisor. It really feels so magical. And why isn't the dude wearing, like, a Jedi robe or a resistance outfit or something recognizable? Angry Salami fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Jul 12, 2019 |
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Jul 12, 2019 16:07
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Because Disney didn't understand what they bought
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Jul 12, 2019 16:23
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AlternateAccount posted:This is so astonishingly cringe. $200 for some plasticky plumbing fixtures from Home Depot and high-school drama club level performances. Tiny kid me would eat it right up, but to see a room full of grown-rear end adults... For $200 I was expecting something, well, more. Until that cringy video, I was thinking they'd choose a particular hilt ranging from all the ones in the franchise, pick the color and any other minor customizations and get some sort of semi-personalized show of their saber getting crafted. I wasn't expecting 'here's your tray of parts you put together. It makes me wonder if many of the complaints of the sabers breaking isn't from defective lightsabers but more from trusting people to put the things together. I also was expecting them to give people something more durable to carry them around with instead of a plasticanvas bag which isn't that conducive to getting bounced around at a theme park.
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Jul 12, 2019 16:38
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I think its important to compare to the wand shop in Harry Potter which is both a show in its own right that is itself a moment from the setting as well as well as an utterly devious sales pitch to one unlucky parent in the crowd. This is Disney as theyve treated Star Wars so far, they think its all slop and all that matters is the pour fresh buckets in front of the fans.
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Jul 12, 2019 17:32
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s.i.r.e. posted:It's confusing as hell, they decided to create a whole part of the park not based of the locales of the OT, but the ST then it's based of some location we've never seen and probably won't ever see? Why would I want to go to that? It's an area that has nothing that's attached to anyone save for a couple ship that are parked outside that you can't enter. George H.W. oval office posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj1d5QpzG-U luv 2 go 2 theme parks and listen 2 lectures, lol
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Jul 12, 2019 18:22
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It's not even Robot David Tennant.
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Jul 12, 2019 18:28
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Angry Salami posted:I like how they made it feel like some lovely lightsaber assembly line, with half a dozen idiots at identical stations following the instructions of a supervisor. It really feels so magical. disney could have made jedi bullshit into a full on pseudo religion with monks and a retreat and everything instead all they could think of was $toys$
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Jul 12, 2019 19:08
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Ammanas posted:disney could have made jedi bullshit into a full on pseudo religion with monks and a retreat and everything instead all they could think of was $toys$ To briefly play Devil's Advocate, the Star Wars franchise has been a merchandising juggernaut when it comes to the toys.
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Jul 12, 2019 19:16
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Nothing says "sacred ancient weapon made by magical space wizards" like "clumsily built by awkward nerds in a space garage"
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Jul 12, 2019 19:32
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To borrow from the CD prequel chat school of analysis, it's actually a brilliant narrative strategy used to subtly underscore the folly, hollow ideology, and overall worthlessness of the Jedi
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Jul 12, 2019 19:35
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The old Kenner toys were the absolute best
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Jul 12, 2019 19:37
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To have the lightsaber building experience reduced to a shabby commercial exercise is already genius. But the decision to have the lightsabers be of shoddy construction and frequently break on top of that? A stroke of meta-narrative brilliance that could have only been a suggestion from lucas himself
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Jul 12, 2019 19:43
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No Mods No Masters posted:To have the lightsaber building experience reduced to a shabby commercial exercise is already genius. But the decision to have the lightsabers be of shoddy construction and frequently break on top of that? A stroke of meta-narrative brilliance that could have only been a suggestion from lucas himself No part of the Star Wars experience at any level can fail to be disappointing. Anything in the films, the marketing, the toys, the theme park, anything that's executed in a competent and satisfactory way would demonstrate the lack of same in all other aspects, and this house of cards would collapse.
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Jul 12, 2019 19:54
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There’s a video of someone slamming the poo poo out to them and it took the biggest hit to snap the blade off. The actual lightsaber was fine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FUc02In2r8
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Jul 12, 2019 19:55
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I assume that lightsabers breaking is explained in the EU.
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Every time a lightsaber breaks in the park pablo has to invent an ex post facto justification for it
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Jul 12, 2019 20:05
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According to wookieepedia the events in the park are set between TLJ and TROS so I assume after december they will tear the whole thing down anyway
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Jul 12, 2019 20:33
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Ingmar terdman posted:According to wookieepedia the events in the park are set between TLJ and TROS so I assume after december they will tear the whole thing down anyway Is it interesting how they put so much into the park being partially taken over by the First Order. If the First Order is taken down in TROS, will they change that aspect? Will it always just be this weird time capsule from between TLJ and TROS? Or will the First Order survive TROS?
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Jul 12, 2019 20:47
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Ingmar terdman posted:According to wookieepedia the events in the park are set between TLJ and TROS so I assume after december they will tear the whole thing down anyway Disney will finally have enough money to build their own Death Star and wipe out the Earth.
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Jul 12, 2019 21:13
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YaketySass posted:Disney will finally have enough money to build their own Death Star and wipe out the Earth. Pretty low ROI in blowing up the earth. Almost as low as the Lion King remake.
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Jul 12, 2019 21:34
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High Lord Elbow posted:Pretty low ROI in blowing up the earth. but the experience
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Jul 12, 2019 21:38
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So the Death Star is some hotel now with a monorail?
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Jul 12, 2019 21:43
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Harry Potter land is permanently stuck during the last movie with the gringots ride, and also sometime before that with the Hogwarts ride. I’d be cool if they alternated between the series. You can have a day when Vader and storm troopers show up, or a day where Darth Maul shows up. Just to change it up a little.
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Jul 12, 2019 22:11
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Apparently when you do the lightsaber thing theres some special random black lightsaber crystals that they only put out a certain number of each hour/day so you're supposed to feel special or whatever when you find a rare black one but turns out nerds are just going around shining flashlights into all the containers until they find the rare ones and ebaying them.
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Jul 12, 2019 22:14
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CelticPredator posted:Harry Potter land is permanently stuck during the last movie with the gringots ride, and also sometime before that with the Hogwarts ride. Had they gone Tatooine/Jakku, they could have done that. They didn't, so lol.
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Jul 12, 2019 22:14
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I’m glad they didn’t. It makes those who are so Salty over a movie so much more saltier lol.
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Jul 12, 2019 22:28
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The line through the old star tours sounds better than this whole place.
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banned from Starbucks posted:Apparently when you do the lightsaber thing theres some special random black lightsaber crystals that they only put out a certain number of each hour/day so you're supposed to feel special or whatever when you find a rare black one but turns out nerds are just going around shining flashlights into all the containers until they find the rare ones and ebaying them. Good.
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I looked up the video and the rare black crystal doesn’t actually change the color or sound of the blade it’s literally just a cosmetic thing that you never see once you put the saber together.
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CelticPredator posted:I’m glad they didn’t. It makes those who are so You're glad they didn't do the thing that would enable them to do the exact thing you suggested?
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thrawn527 posted:Is it interesting how they put so much into the park being partially taken over by the First Order. If the First Order is taken down in TROS, will they change that aspect? Will it always just be this weird time capsule from between TLJ and TROS? Or will the First Order survive TROS? Seems possible to swap some things out to make a "new season". And it feels very star wars to say "look fans, slight cosmetic changes, come buy it" but this would have worked better between 7 and 8 and 8 and 9. I doubt they are going to pivot toward the Mando show. But I think think bottom line is "gently caress you, we know you're going to pose in front of the new x-wing even if it's not the one you grew up with". But do they even have guys walking around as Vader etc? Even they wouldn't be dumb enough to just expect Kylo to be the big draw forever.
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Jul 13, 2019 00:17
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Hell, even Kylo would rather pose with Vader than himself.
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The characters walking around so far include Rey, Chewbacca, Kylo, stormtroopers and First Order officers. That’s pretty much it, I believe.
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Don't they also have some blue-haired lady who is a Resistance agent that the park visitors are supposed to care about, too?
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Jul 13, 2019 00:28
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Can't remember if Trevorrow's consolation prize got mentioned in here or one of the other threads https://www.slashfilm.com/colin-trevorrow-galaxys-edge/
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If that’s true, which I don’t doubt, nobody on YouTube seems to have bothered to record her, or talk about her in any way. Lol. Is Aurra Sing still alive? I like her. Put her in Star Wars land. E: I see the blue haired lady. She’s the lead character in a stunt show that they’ll do in the land now and then. Kart Barfunkel fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Jul 13, 2019 |
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Bogus Adventure posted:Don't they also have some blue-haired lady who is a Resistance agent that the park visitors are supposed to care about, too? Yeah, she was apparently created for the park and not a single person gives a poo poo. lol
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s.i.r.e. posted:Yeah, she was apparently created for the park and not a single person gives a poo poo. lol lmao
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