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Oh god no Comcast is horrible. Is this literally just going to be like cable with scheduled programming you would need to record when it airs if you want to watch it later?
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Someone has created a new 4-hour long video about the Star Wars hotel disaster.
The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel
Highlights:
Highlights:
- The hotel didn't have a conventional fire escape, it had a 'fire closet' aka a consoomer pod that you're supposed to wait in until help arrives built in each room.
- Cramped rooms with poor lighting controls and apparently Disney was too cheap to include Disney + in the cost of your $6000 stay.
- They only let you into the park for several hours where your 'immersion' task is to run around and scan QR codes on an app that doesn't work half the time
- Rushed activities where scheduled that resembled a crappy dinner show with exciting fillers like bingo, card games, & group dancing.
- Most of the bigger events were simple button pushing or meaningless tasks that would be exciting for your 8 year old
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I think there was a time where a themed hotel that had unlimited access to exclusive media like Disney's back catalogue would've been amazing. Like a lord of the rings hotel where you could marathon the series in your room.
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Tinkerbell is going to be changed to a fat black non binary trans woman isn't she?
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I still think theres a market for that kinda experience. Issue is, Disney has gotten far to expensive, greedy and lost appeal for them to market to and get people to pay for it. I could definitely see a middle aged or boomer couple want some more culture like history, or media behind the scenes access but those people have long gone off to Europe on a Viking cruise or to destinations like Florida or southeast coast.
They're after millennial man-children whales and middle class families who will go into debt for a mediocre theme park because its Disney.
They're after millennial man-children whales and middle class families who will go into debt for a mediocre theme park because its Disney.
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So it was a literal fire hazard? Who approved of this?
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Are we sure the Star wars hotel wasn't conceptually a retirement home first?
Because all of this really feels more like a shitty retirement home rather than a fucking hotel.
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Perhaps Disney felt that trying to capture the entire lifecycle of its customers was a bit much.
Disney retirement homes sound very dystopian.
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I forgot Jenny had a troon "sister". Troon is even more fitting since he used to post on SomethingAwful. I would totally hotbox that death trap of a fire closet.
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you can pay extra on the way to the hotel for a brief stopover at the Delta 9 quadrant of the International Drive system
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Well, Celebration exists. So actual Disney retirement homes aren’t too farfetched in the long run, tbh
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It was by Darwinian design. If someone was prepared to pay that much for that little the gene pool was better served by their removal.
Once the healthcare costs of the resident exceeds 10% of the fees charged Mickey comes a calling with an offer of Canadian healthcare that can't be refused.
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iirc The Villages is/was working on a community on the northern border of the WDW property
that was precoof I think so I dunno if that's still in the works
a terminal posture
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The Villages are nowhere near WDW but are a totally insane beach-themed boomer playground. You also have Jimmy Buffet-themed 'Latitude Margaritaville' retirement communities so you can keep listening to 'Pencil Thin Mustache' and 'Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw' into your 70s and 80s until you gracelessly expire.
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yes, that's why this would be a new, separate property
iirc "Top Of The World" or "On Top Of The World" or something like that
presumably replacing the usual Villages pastime of "fucking" with "going to Disney World" since there's plenty of booze to go around at the parks so "drinking" is still on the table
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This review is extra funny because if you go through her previous reviews, she really liked the first two sequel movies (the last one not so much). So they couldn’t even get a person who was primed to be a possible perfect guest to like it.
Also the sheer chaotic-ness of booking shit was darkly hilarious.
“You can have a room”
“Cool, what kinds can I choose from, what’s the different costs?”
“You can have a room, take it or leave it”
Followed by the photo opportunity that then disappeared after paying the add-on and she only got a refund after bitching on Twitter.
Life is Hell...
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A lot of corporate greed/stupidity but for me the most insane thing about this that there were, what, less than 10 character performers in the hotel that had to entertain 500 people ranging from little kids to roleplaying turbonerds, walk around in full makeup, stay in character, memorize pages of lore and, according to rumors, they received basic Disney park performer salary?
The second most insane thing for me was a decision of setting it in prequel trilogy three years after Rise of Skywalker. At least Jenny was excited to see Kylo Ren, I guess.
The second most insane thing for me was a decision of setting it in prequel trilogy three years after Rise of Skywalker. At least Jenny was excited to see Kylo Ren, I guess.
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tbf that's a lot more than the dude pumping salsa onto nachos, but yeah iirc it's basically scale for stage work