I wish I had seen this sooner.
As Florida braces for Dorian to make landfall, Disney World’s new Hollywood Studios attraction Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge faces a cancellation nightmare.
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There's a bunch of news about how lame Galaxy's Edge is. I did a breakdown of the park in May starting around page 500 of this thread if you're interested where I even talked about shit no one else online was covering.
@Kurosaki Ichigo also just posted some pics and info of his experience at the park in the Disney General and its still lukewarm.
That's pretty much what they did. I talked about this pages ago in that Disney brought back the worst elements and kept none of the good or decent ones, and the good ones they did bring back was only for the sake of butchering them, like Thrawn, Dash Rendar and also Han's backstory. And for some fucking reason they brought back Jaxxon and made him a major character in the Disney Wars IDW comics. And the Vong are still canon under Disney, they just renamed them the Grysk and took away the only interesting thing about them aside from their hellraiser looks and xenophobia, that being their war cult and their organic tech.
Man, it really says something when I am perfectly willing to say that I
liked the Solo film (I know why people hate it, but honestly I found it inoffensive enough...except for the weird thing with the robot thinking Lando is in love with her and then her death scene where she almost appears to be
right about the whole affair before he promptly merges her into the Falcon itself) and everything being described here sounds like California Adventure Mk.1 tier levels of shit.
It does remind me of why Star Tours, once my favorite ride in all of Disney, went from that to being something I want nothing to do with. The original was a fucking masterpiece - it was a SW set experience where absolutely
no attempt was made to make it seem like your little trip to Endor was going to end at all well, let alone with you alive. You had physical props galore like the luggage trays moving in and out, the naked America Sings geese robots bitching about everything under the sun, and the 'prep' monitors on the screens making it truly feel like you were at a spaceport or whatever. Then, the actual ride you had this plucky pilot (Who still had a 'remove before flight' tag no less!) who can't even get into space right without nearly crashing half a dozen times, flies past your destination, crashes through an ice meteor, blunders right into an active warzone against what I think was the Death Star III and of course this pilot risks his life
and the lives of everybody on his shuttle to take part in a bombing run...and then for one last parting shot, nearly gets you all killed
after you land by smashing into a loaded fuel tank. And then CP30 pops on as the ride prepares to cycle passengers like
absolutely nothing at all went wrong whatsoever. Oh, and as an added fun detail, if you looked at the motion simulator vehicle before you boarded, it was all nice and pristine...now, if you looked on the
other side when you disembarked, it looked
exactly like what you would expect it to look like after all the shit it (and you) went through. The only real problems I had with the ride were what the actual fuck were CP30 and R2D2 doing working for some space travel agency but I was willing to overlook it since obviously they needed
some recognizable characters to show up. Things like the bombing run were recognizable and yet could easily have happened again given the Death Star still had the same weak spot as before - everything else about the ride was quintessentially Star Wars
and yet was something inherently unique and not just retelling the film narrative again.
The current version is a bastardization of everything that made Star Tours great. Now it actually
does try to spin bullshit from the first moment about how great your experience is going to be, everything looks fucking plastic, the robots aren't bitching about reality, and now your pilot is actually competent
and can walk (and yet somehow is
less advanced than Rex, who now simultaneously sits broken and defective in the queue line
and is the DJ on Batuu?). The pre-boarding movie explaining why Ace is
not your pilot but is instead CP30 also is done in that cheap looking CGI which worked for the cartoon...but given it's taking place inside the shuttle
which exists in reality, it doesn't hold a candle to the old experience. And then there's the ride itself, where the gimmick now is the randomized journey...but all it is in the end is nothing more than flying through as many trademarked locations and throwing as many trademarked characters they can throw at you (quite litterally since I think a wookie gets plastered on the front of the ship at one point). And then the dumb end 'battle' at the end of TLJ which shouldn't even
be there given Star Tours 2 takes place in the
past whereas the Sand speeder 'battle' takes place well after the
original Star Tours could have ever happened. Oh, and finally, because
one of the people on the shuttle was a spy, you're
all now members of the resistance on the run from Vader...who's
dead depending on if you get the TLJ promotional bit or the landing on Batuu, both of which obviously happen long after the Empire is long gone. Like, I can forgive them replacing the lady in the pre-show, apparently they tried locating the original actress and failed (and the glitch to trigger the spanish safety instructions is clever enough), but the whole thing just feels corporate and soulless.
Pretty much how I'd describe Iger at this point, really. Every single goddamn thing now has to be tied to some major Disney IP instead of being original. Unless Disney can turn the sinking ship around, which I doubt at this point short of a MAJOR firing spree and some admitance of 'we fucked up' on their part (so yeah, not happening), I honestly have to wonder how long Galaxy's Edge is even going to remain open.
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I guess he's part of old Star Wars and Disney wants to nuke all that, though. 
