I don't understand the point of these reputation scanners. Do they really think that it's what kids want?
It looks as if the long-promised reputation system promised for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge is
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So the bullshit scanners finally arrived. If you recall I mentioned that one of the supposed promises of the park was to keep track of your reputation which would be used to increase your "immersion" by making it so meet&greets like nu-troopers and nu-rebels at the park would talk to you differently based on your reputation as well as giving you discounts based on the level of your reputation. But if you had incredibly low reputation characters would treat you like shit and if you have low reputation and have the worst score on the shitty falcon ride, a nikto bounty hunter will start harassing you at the cantina (which I said before sounds like a really bad idea that while neat could result in some
exceptional drama if they have your actors treat certain spergs the wrong way). Yeah, this will certainly go over well if they still plan to make it work like that... Just tear this shit down and use a familiar location Disney and make it actually fun ffs.
Pretentious is exactly the word, just insane.
However while California's may be a bust, it remains to be seen for Florida's, what's your prediction on the popularity of that one? (I know they're the same, but the location might make a difference)
I can see it having a big opening day much like this park but if their Kylo Ren ride is open the first day, that might actually keep people somewhat more interested since the Falcon ride is no longer the only fucking ride. If not, the Florida park might end up being worse once people realize the outrageous prices, the shitty $200 lightsabers that break with even the slightest smack (seriously just buy an ultrasaber instead, at least that's worth the money and your handle won't fall to pieces), the fact that the park isn't actually part of any known location in SW and most importantly, that aside from Dok Ondar and the pirate dude, there are no real familiar aliens at this park or any interesting meet&greets. Sure, Rey's meet&greet is nice and all but the fact is kids and most adults aren't clamoring to meet with her or the nu-troopers. And only teen girls and middle aged spinsters (the Twilight demographic) are interested in Kylo Ren.
But on a side note, I can't wait for Wookieepedia to add Florida Man to their fucking site in the inevitable disaster.
Also this video I saw put a lot of things into perspective for me that I hadn't realized before.
Since GE opened, Disney raised their prices even more with even tighter security measures following it which might've turned the more economically inclined away, which is why not just GE, but even Disneyland is not as full as it was before GE. Disney is apparently reporting record-breaking low numbers which is leading to the possibility of discounts, Disney begging people to come back on their sites and using the Pete's dragon parade to attract people to Galaxy's Edge. If they have that dragon go through their SW land that sure as fuck will kill their shitty immersion gimmick. I can't wait to see nu-Wookieepedia try to incorporate Pete's dragon to their site. Anyway yeah, looks like employees are getting the boot or shorter hours because of this idiotic and arrogant blunder and there are employees popping up on Twitter talking about their shit getting fucked by the mouse. I guess we can expect that Tell All book sooner than expected.
