Disney cancels many summer Galactic Starcruiser voyages

[DLgal]

Plus it’s the skunk episodes 7-9.

Maybe if it was new hope people would overpay for it.

Yup. My husband would TOTALLY pony up for anything in the timeline from episodes 1-6. It's his biggest gripe with Star Wars land and this hotel. They have all these options and they pigeon holed everything into this new timeline, which let's be honest, sucks.

 

[KayMichigan]

I fully expect that at some point Batuu and GS will both be rethemed to classic SW, and they'll act like that was the plan all along.

 

[Cfabar1]

I fully expect that at some point Batuu and GS will both be rethemed to classic SW, and they'll act like that was the plan all along.

Already have the MF hanging around.

 

[gmi3804]

I just got an e-mail from DVC for a "members only" Starcruiser stay, for 30%off!

 

[Narcoossee11]

This is what I predicted.
Discounts for certain groups during the fall .
Let's Disney see what the right market price should be.

 

[Cfabar1]

I just got an e-mail from DVC for a "members only" Starcruiser stay, for 30%off!

Hopeful AP holders will get this discount too! But honestly, I think it would need to be 50%+ off for me to view it as worthwhile….

 

[soniam]

I just got an e-mail from DVC for a "members only" Starcruiser stay, for 30%off!

You have to pay with points, so, even with the discount, it’s not a good value. Points for things like these are kind of a rip off.

 

[Mle8308]

You have to pay with points, so, even with the discount, it’s not a good value. Points for things like these are kind of a rip off.

The DVC August cruise can be booked with points or cash for the discount, it’s one specific cruise.

 

[KayMichigan]

Already have the MF hanging around.

Yep. They'd have to modify the rides but it could be done and I think it will be at some point. I can't see Batuu still being themed to the sequels in twenty years or even ten years.

 

[New Mouse]

Yep. They'd have to modify the rides but it could be done and I think it will be at some point. I can't see Batuu still being themed to the sequels in twenty years or even ten years.

You underestimate how cheap Disney is.

 

[Kestryl]

For what it’s worth, we did the Starcruiser earlier this week and had a fabulous time. We’re glad we went before any changes are made. I think the magic would have been lost if it was “just” a hotel or “just” a dinner show.

 

[soniam]

For what it’s worth, we did the Starcruiser earlier this week and had a fabulous time. We’re glad we went before any changes are made. I think the magic would have been lost if it was “just” a hotel or “just” a dinner show.

Feel the same. We were in the 3/14 voyage. It was an amazing time! It’s not a hotel. Compared to other Disney hotels, the rooms are really small. Not enough activities outside of the experience to justify a hotel only. A CM friend will be doing it soon with their discount.

 

[DLgal]

Funny story. We went to Universal Studios Hollywood yesterday. My husband, the massive Star Wars nerd, who has never "seen a Harry Potter" (as he says) LOVED Hogsmeade. His mouth dropped open when we rounded the corner and he saw Hogwarts. He was mightily impressed. He finds Batuu so lame, as a comparison. It made him pretty sad that Disney "wasted the opportunity they had with Star Wars land."

While we were in the Hogs Head pub, he began talking to the guy in front of him in line and mentioned "I don't understand anything in this land, but it's pretty cool. I'm more of a Star Wars guy." Guy in line perks up and tells him he is the same way, and his family JUST got back from doing the Starcruiser. I asked him "so, was it worth it?" He literally said "Weeeeeellll, that was kind of the running joke...we could have probably gone to actual space for less."

But in the end, he said they really enjoyed it and would do it again, but that it was "a lot" and at the end of it, they were all mentally exhausted and felt their "cruise" had been a week long.

 

[KayMichigan]

I think Universal had a much easier time reproducing a Harry Potter environment, because it's limited to Hogwarts and its surroundings. If you want to reproduce a Star Wars place, what can your really do? Most of the planets are impossible to duplicate; they couldn't do Mos Eisley because that's on a desert planet, and let's face it, Mos Eisley was a depressing, dangerous dump. Star Wars doesn't have a single location where most of the action happens like Harry Potter does, there was nothing fun and interesting like Diagon Alley they could reproduce.

 

[DLgal]

I think Universal had a much easier time reproducing a Harry Potter environment, because it's limited to Hogwarts and its surroundings. If you want to reproduce a Star Wars place, what can your really do? Most of the planets are impossible to duplicate; they couldn't do Mos Eisley because that's on a desert planet, and let's face it, Mos Eisley was a depressing, dangerous dump. Star Wars doesn't have a single location where most of the action happens like Harry Potter does, there was nothing fun and interesting like Diagon Alley they could reproduce.

Tattooine would be the obvious choice. There are plenty of settings they could recreate. It wouldn't look much different from Batuu.

 

[KayMichigan]

Tattooine would be the obvious choice. There are plenty of settings they could recreate. It wouldn't look much different from Batuu.

While Tatooine is probably one of the best known locations from the movies, it's also a desert planet, as in no vegetation. They'd have to remove all the trees and plants and dump tons of sand and rocks over everything. And I can't think of any venue on Tatooine that anybody would want to visit. It was a barren, desolate wasteland of a planet, bleak and boring. Luke couldn't wait to get off of it. Mos Eisley was a notorious hellhole.

Batuu is Mos Eisley without the decay and crime. A nicer place perhaps but it wasn't in any of the movies, unlike Harry Potter's locations, so visitors don't feel immersed ih the SW films like they do at Universal's Harry Potter areas.

Now, the interior seating area of the Millenium Falcon is great but you can't access it unless you go on Smuggler's Run, and even then you can only stay in the general area that's seen in the movies for a few minutes before they put you on the ride.

 

[BrianL]

While Tatooine is probably one of the best known locations from the movies, it's also a desert planet, as in no vegetation. They'd have to remove all the trees and plants and dump tons of sand and rocks over everything. And I can't think of any venue on Tatooine that anybody would want to visit. It was a barren, desolate wasteland of a planet, bleak and boring. Luke couldn't wait to get off of it. Mos Eisley was a notorious hellhole.

Batuu is Mos Eisley without the decay and crime. A nicer place perhaps but it wasn't in any of the movies, unlike Harry Potter's locations, so visitors don't feel immersed ih the SW films like they do at Universal's Harry Potter areas.

Now, the interior seating area of the Millenium Falcon is great but you can't access it unless you go on Smuggler's Run, and even then you can only stay in the general area that's seen in the movies for a few minutes before they put you on the ride.

This is why it shouldn't be "set" anywhere or anywhen. It should be Star Wars Land, because, you know, it's a theme park. Slap an X-Wing/TIE fighter spinner in the middle and just don't worry about the timeline.

 

[DLgal]

This is why it shouldn't be "set" anywhere or anywhen. It should be Star Wars Land, because, you know, it's a theme park. Slap an X-Wing/TIE fighter spinner in the middle and just don't worry about the timeline.

Yes! Who's to say a land has to be just one location? It can be several. Have a little forest area for the Ewoks and the Chewbaccas. Have a few key locations from Tattoine like Mos Eisley Cantina, Luke's house (pre burning down, obviously), and Jabba's Palace. Have a Jabba's skiff play area for kids. Add some star tours style flight simulators. They could simply have the same Millenium Falcon attraction and add some Chewbacca and Han Solo animatronics and change up the mission to recreate famous flight scenes from all the movies. Have one long immersive dark ride that shows the timeline of the story from episodes 1-6. Have meet and greets with ALL the characters. Have the Droids all roaming around. People would eat it up.

 

[BrianL]

Yes! Who's to say a land has to be just one location? It can be several. Have a little forest area for the Ewoks and the Chewbaccas. Have a few key locations from Tattoine like Mos Eisley Cantina, Luke's house (pre burning down, obviously), and Jabba's Palace. Have a Jabba's skiff play area for kids. Add some star tours style flight simulators. They could simply have the same Millenium Falcon attraction and add some Chewbacca and Han Solo animatronics and change up the mission to recreate famous flight scenes from all the movies. Have one long immersive dark ride that shows the timeline of the story from episodes 1-6. Have meet and greets with ALL the characters. Have the Droids all roaming around. People would eat it up.

Yeah, in some ways the focus on immersion has been a bad thing for theme parks. It takes things too far and too seriously. Of course, the target audience was Star Wars fans (or Harry Potter, or Avatar), not theme park fans. As someone who is both, I can appreciate the extraordinary work that goes into these types of lands, but also feel it can take away from it a bit too. I mean, not having ambient music is a big miss to me - play those Star Wars themes! I don't care if the actual inhabitants of the Star Wars universe wouldn't hear them! Don't get me wrong, I like SWGE plenty - I can have fun there for sure - but it seems like it is also so heavily constrained by just having to be so immersive.

 

[DLgal]

Yeah, in some ways the focus on immersion has been a bad thing for theme parks. It takes things too far and too seriously. Of course, the target audience was Star Wars fans (or Harry Potter, or Avatar), not theme park fans. As someone who is both, I can appreciate the extraordinary work that goes into these types of lands, but also feel it can take away from it a bit too. I mean, not having ambient music is a big miss to me - play those Star Wars themes! I don't care if the actual inhabitants of the Star Wars universe wouldn't hear them! Don't get me wrong, I like SWGE plenty - I can have fun there for sure - but it seems like it is also so heavily constrained by just having to be so immersive.

Carsland is a perfect example of how to do it right. I don't know why they went this "create your own story on a brand new planet" nonsense. They had a winning formula already.