If you're familiar with the Grey Wolf Lodge chain of hotels this is what I think Disney had originally planned for a Star Wars themed resort because if you have ever stayed at a Grey Wolf Lodge before with your family you'll notice that Grey Wolf Lodges have games activities and character breakfasts with the mascots of Grey Wolf Lodge and storytelling and movies for kids this is where I think Disney got the inspiration for the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser but took that hotel chain and made a Star Wars resort from that idea. But if you look at it hotel experiences based on shows were popular in the 90's. You might recall the Las Vegas Hilton did a similar thing based on Star Trek that had "voyages" on the Enterprise and you could meet and greet with Star Trek characters and you got a souvenir pin at the end of the "voyage" and it didn't cost as much as the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser. But what I think will happen is that with Aksoka becoming a hit and The Mandalorian Season 4 beginning in 2025 Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser will reopen and this time will also begin building a Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser in Disneyland in the future. But as you know Lucasfilm and Disney are two companies that when they release hit movies they realize how good the film is enough to begin marketing things like merchandise and themed rides. What could possibly be next? A resort based on Indiana Jones where you can spend the night in a temple and do Indiana Jones themed adventures? But I think Disney was trying to attract the new Star Wars fans and hoped that new fans of Star Wars would like this. But I think had it stayed open and survived Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser could've used improvement and like Jeremy Renner says "A little Rennervation"
Actually, it was an updated version, thankfully sans humanoid robots, of the sort of vacation featured in
Westworld (and we all know how well that turned out.) It was squarely aimed at the wealthiest 1% among SW fans, but it failed to live up to the comfort standards that people who are spending that much tend to expect of resort surroundings.
LARPS are beyond niche, and the more we become attached to our smartphones, the less they can satisfy, because participants will not want to give up their personal phones for the duration of a multi-day LARP, but they cannot fully properly immerse themselves in an alternate reality while they still have the phone's full functionality available. The only way an "outer space" LARP works is by fully blocking out the world around you and not letting you access the real world until the LARP has ended. Letting you walk right out of Batuu and have a cup of Joffreys at the Num-Num-Cookie stand doesn't support that model.
For some years now, there has been an exhibit at the Field Museum called
Underground Adventure, a walk-through experience that pretends to shrink visitors down to about 1/4 inches tall, and adjusts the set sizes after that point accordingly, letting you freely explore the world of plant roots and insect habitats, until you enter the "restoration chamber" that purports to take you back to normal size. I remember when it was new and drawing big crowds; visitors loved pretending to be so tiny -- for the 20 minutes or so it took to experience the whole thing, which was a lot closer to the time limit of the typical adult's patience for an immersive game of let's pretend. Now that it's no longer novel, only little kids really still love it, because they don't carry reality around in their pockets all day -- and because it only lasts 20 minutes.
it’s gone now since we’re lining up for Thanksgiving.
