Alright... here we go. But before that, if you just got here and want to know more about the park, the coverage starts at page 500 and feel free to share what I've posted. Also a bit unrelated but
a former vice-pres of Disney got arrested for pedoshit and Claudia Gray (one of Holdo's creators and the writer of the Leia x Holdo books) who originally shilled the poll/survey to prove that SW criticism was based on sexism and bigotry disavowed the thing after severe backlash and blamed her assistant for it. Anyway, on with the thing.
Oga's Cantina is the only cantina at the park and serves both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. Its partially based on Chalmun's Cantina from ANH but with mixed with elements from the cantina from TFA. Its been criticized mainly for the taste of its drinks and prices. Below are pictures of the cantina in promo material.
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The cantina is notable for going through the most amount of "public" redesigns of any other restaurant in the park. The first design was one entirely based on a Rogue One aesthetic. The second went more for a TFA look, inspired mainly by yellow Yoda's castle cantina. The third one went with something more reminiscent of SWTOR with a more twi'lek focus. The fourth one however went for a "traditional" ANH look with elements of the new, and it was this design that would be used with some alterations. One thing all three had in common and based on promo commentary was that it would be chock full of aliens to "simulate the feeling of going into the cantina for the first time", with the first two versions going with sequel aliens and a few pre-Disney aliens, while the third and fourth ones went with only pre-Disney aliens. Eventually they went with the fourth choice after realizing they needed another familiar sight in this park that wasn't just the Falcon. There's some rumor going around that the unused cantina designs will be used for the SW hotel instead but this hasn't been confirmed officially yet. In the end, the cantina would end up having no aliens (except one but its more of a tiny statue). Anyway here is what the Cantina looks like now:
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The interior went through many redesigns, but the only thing that's remained the same in concept since day one is the exterior:
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Like I've said, the interior is based on the one from ANH but with some yellow yoda influences. The most recognizable thing are the drink dispensing flame tubes aka the IG-88 heads. The cantina is a small circular room with several burrow areas to sit in, and there's not really anything to do except buy drinks and listen to some really bad techno music (which I will get to in a moment). Note that you only have about 40 minutes to eat and drink, at which point an employee will escort you out.
The owner of this Cantina is an old alien woman named Oga who is a "Bluetopian", but this is not an actual species in either Disney canon or pre-Disney canon so there's no info on it or what she looks like, but I'm guessing she's blue. As I've said before, there are no aliens in this cantina and as such, like most of the other aliens at the park, she doesn't exist, but her pre-recorded voice will rarely be heard through an intercom asking her employees to fix the DJ droid whenever he breaks down (which happens every hour or so) or tell customers to enjoy themselves. According to park employees, she owns not just the cantina but the entire town (although one employee mentions that she owns the planet Batuu), and she's a "generous and strong" old woman but who is "very dangerous" and who owns and runs everything in the park/outpost, making her the "queen" of Black Spire Outpost. Also according to the employees she was once a powerful gang leader and pirate on par with Jabba the Hutt. As I've said before, the old toydarian lesbian from the toy store is in love with her, but the feelings aren't mutual apparently although she does have some sort of relationship with the pirate alien guy Hondo. She is also a member of the #Resistance and uses all her profits to fund Leia's Resistance. She also detests bigots and "unlike most Cantina owners, she gladly welcomes droids", but despite this claim, there's a droid scanner at the entrance of the cantina much like in ANH. But none of this really matters since she doesn't exist outside of a pre-recorded voice.
The main attraction of the cantina is the animatronic DJ. The DJ is RX, now known as DJ R3X, who used to be the pilot droid on the original version of the Star Tours ride. He serves as the cantina's "band" and his collection of songs are all shitty techno pop songs like "She was the droid I was looking for!", however the only decent track he does play is a techno remix of "Mad About Me" aka the first cantina song by Figrin D'an, which he plays after every time he breaks down. Every hour or so, R3X "breaks down" for about 20 seconds, then the employees grab a plastic hammer and start banging one of their drink dispensers while pushing a button. After banging it for about 10 seconds, the droid comes back on and plays "Mad About Me".
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Aside from music, the DJ droid also tells a large assortment of very bad jokes and puns based on quotes from the movies.
You can sit around, drink and take selfies but that's about it. There's nothing really interactive here or any costumed aliens to pal around with. You can ask employees questions about Oga to tell you the stuff I just told you but they won't stick around long. Another problem is that only two people per ID are allowed in the cantina at a time, so if you came with a group of friends, the rest will have to wait outside (unless all of you paid for your own IDs), and even then you're only allowed in for about 40 minutes. There's also a 2 drink limit per customer and you're not allowed to leave with your cup or drink. There's also a lot multicolored lights about.
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The final concept initially promised old school aliens and that was even mentioned by the imagineer director but that didn't happen. One thing of note though is that promo material right up until this April said that the cantine would be home to an alien bounty hunter called Harkos who would harass people with the lowest scores in the Falcon ride. I talked about him before about how this sounded like a bad idea, but it turns out that Disney never went through with the concept as Harkos has not appeared anywhere in this park, instead he's only mentioned by the employees as a dangerous bounty hunter who is a "regular" at the bar, but actually isn't. No idea why they removed him, but I guess it wasn't profitable to have an alien who doesn't sell you anything and harasses your customers.
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So yeah, only thing left of this guy is his lore as told by employees and that he's a
kajainsa nikto (one of the many reptile men in ROTJ serving Jabba). Because of this, there's only one real alien in the cantina which is a worrt (its the sole alien statue I mentioned before) that sits in a tank on top of the bar and does nothing.
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Also this worrt uses its hideous design from TFA rather than the one from ROTJ.
Not really much else to say except for the items on the menu, but I guess the bar could come off as nostalgic to a degree but without those familiar elements or the alien aspect, along with how restricted you are while in there, its not really a pleasant place to be, with its real worth being selfie material for bragging rights on instagram.
Now on with the menus. Like with the sabacc cards, these are cut into a weird shape.
Here are the drink menus. Spoiler alert: all except two taste like shit and those that don't are generic store-bought liquors in fancy cups.
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And here is the food menu with generic drinks:
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The two food items are sold in other parts of the park.
To start off, here's the least popular and most disappointing non-alcoholic drink, the Blue Bantha.
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Its the same blue soy m;lk sold in other parts of the park but melted and most reviews claim it tastes like a gross mixture of watermelon and almonds. The cookie on top is a vanilla-butter sugar cookie with a nut layer which some say looks like shit on a cracker but still tastes far better than the shitty tard cum. Its the most bought but also the drink left unfinished the most. The only interesting thing to say about this thing is its name, which comes from a pre-Disney 1993 roleplaying guide, with Blue Banthas being a rare and dangerous breed of white-furred banthas with blue horns, enhanced sensory abilities and keen memory. The drink costs 14 dollars.
This is the least popular alcoholic drink. The Bloody Rancor.
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Its an incredibly spicy bloody mary made with store-bought vodka. On top it is a tiny "rancor bone" which is made of meringue, however it does little to improve the flavor of the drink. Obviously you all know what a Rancor is. It costs 17 dollars.
Next is the non-alcoholic Cliff Dweller that is the only one of two drinks that have been well received in this shop.
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Its a "healthy and organic" drink mix made with orange, lemon, coconut, ginger ale, hibiscus and pomegranate juice. It comes served in a plastic cup made to look like a wooden PORG. On the bottom of the cup it says its a 1st Edition Galaxy's Edge mug. The name Cliff Dweller comes from Filoni's Rebels cartoon which were a group dirt dwelling Rebels. It costs 32 dollars with cup.
This is the only other drink aside from Cliff Dweller that has been very well received. Its called the Spiran Caf.
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Its only served during the mornings. Its an alcoholic drink made with organic hippie coffee mixed with rum and shredded orange bits. People say its the only truly delicious and original thing in the cantina. Caf is the Star Wars name for coffee in both old-canon and nu-canon, and Spira is a tropical planet from a 1994 SW RPG in pre-Disney canon which is much like the Spira from Final Fantasy X, except it came out 7 bloody years before FFX and any similarity may be due to that Squaresoft used to be made up of a bunch of fucking SW nerds. In another bit of trivia, Blitzball in FFX was created because Yoshinori Kitase wanted to make his own sport like Lucas did with Podracers in Ep I. And Kyle Katarn once said he wanted to vacation here with Jan Ors in the 2002 video game Jedi Knights II which was released a year after FFX's release. It costs 16 dollars.
Next is the most expensive drink(s). The Rancor Beer Flight costing 75 dollars with cups and holder.
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The cup holder is plastic and the cups are some kind of porcelain which the employees claim are made of real rancor teeth, and if that's the case then they must have really shitty teeth then. This order lets you sample four irl beers with no alien names, Sierra Nevada Tropical IPA, a New Belgium Red Ale, a Blue Point Lager, and a Ballast Point IPA.
I'll post the rest of the drinks in a bit.
