I feel like the people who complain the most about Genie+ have never used the system. If someone can read basic English, owns a decent phone, and has the ability to press a rectangular tab on the phone, they too can be successful at Genie+.
Or she could be in a parallel universe where New Orleans has mountains, drops, and talking animals.
Indeed. It's an amusement park ride, not a museum exhibit.
Yes, great idea. The call would have been really helpful and some better set up in terms of expectations. We downloaded the app and all that but, you're 100% right, that marketing... oooffff! Right now, I just miss the Cloud of Bespin drink lol.Disney did a really poor job of marketing Starcruiser and there were so many descriptions and assumptions about it that weren't really true. I didn't think it wasn't intense role playing at all. I'm an introvert and there's no way I could've done that. I also did Starcruiser twice and thought the Imagineers did a great job creating a story and experience where people could engage in different ways depending on their interest and personality.
Agree that they could've done more in the set-up... like someone from Starcruiser calls you two weeks before the voyage, but they could give more information besides making sure you downloaded and logged into the app.
I have a real philosophical problem with it. You pay Disney, they in turn let you cut in front of other paying guests. The party that is really being put out here isn't Disney, it's the guests in standby - and the standby lines are AWFUL now, far worse than they have ever been. The day before G+ went live we would have all been up in arms about the miscreant cutting the line, but you slip Disney a $20 and it's all good? Not to me it's not.
I don’t necessarily think the SW hotel was a bad idea, it was just terribly executed. Several bad decisions were made:
I think that opinions may vary here.
The cost was just too high, though. If you're not really into Star Wars, I just can't see how you'd justify the cost. Maybe it wasn't that bad if you had 4-5 people in your group, but I remember the cost for 2 people was something like $5k for a basic room. That's more than Disney charges for 7 nights on many of their Caribbean cruises.
Gotcha, thanks. I have seen 1-6 and the Mandalorian. My son on the other hand has watched absolutely everything and knows a ton about Star Wars.
But that's not necessarily a problem.
How else could they do it? (keeping you in a bubble, without making you wear a blindfold. lol)
It kind of is obvious. Enlarge the size of the rooms. Dramatically increase the number of rooms. Extensive landscaping for outdoor area and pool.
It would have been better to cancel it and wait for a few years after the pandemic. That financially damaged so many people that spending the amount Disney charged was daft. They should have used original characters you know from the profitable movies.
I'm Gen X and love both the OT and the ST, and there are plenty of us. I saw episodes 5 and 6 on opening night, and I watched episode 8 once a week for over a year. The people who don't like the sequels are just louder and more obnoxious and copy-paste each other like spambots. If Twitter had been around in 1980, there wouldn't have been a third movie. I know people who lived the sequels when they saw them, but came home and read so many bad-faith hot takes from internet edgelords that they decided they must not have really enjoyed them as much as they thought they had. It's the age-old propaganda effect; repeat something enough times, and no matter how true or false it is, people will start to believe it's a fact.
