Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off

Vault Boy said:
Any word on whether or not there was some money laundering going on when Galaxy's Edge was being made?

Really, I'm drawing a blank on how these parks were $4 billion endeavors otherwise.
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It's possible but there's nothing official or in the rumor mill going on to even suggest laundering outside of obvious shitposting.

As for the 2.8 billion (and rising) budget (which after the most recent fiascos is probably closing in on 4 billion) I only know for absolute certain that each park cost 1.4 billion to make, totaling to 2.8 billion and that the animatronics were very expensive and I've posted their prices here before (can't remember though, but I think each animatronic cost less than 80mil?) but even the worth of the animatronics is nothing compared to billions. I also know that the majority of the budget went into the Kylo Ren rides in both parks, but I don't know the exact amount, although I remember reading somewhere that maybe it was over 300 million (and rising) and for comparison, the Cars/Radiator Springs ride cost around 200mil and is the most expensive ride in the world. The budget of the Smuggler's Run ride is unknown to me but its probably nowhere near as expensive as the Kylo Ren ride which is essentially a miniature park of its own whilst Smuggler's Run is an over-glorified arcade game with Star Tours elements. As for the SW hotel, I don't know if the budget for GE falls into that, but judging from all the supposed features, it may be Disney's most expensive hotel ever.

In the end, I wouldn't be surprised if Iger or some other execs were the ones hoarding cash since it was they who decided to cut back on park features like aliens, actors and rooftop performances.

Anyway, on to some more news. Jon Favreau has said that he wants to pitch his own Holiday Special to Disney+... Which either means a woke remake of the original (which was hinted at in the Certain Point of View novel) or a modern version with Rey, Finn and Poe celebrating Life Day with Chewbacca while Kylo Ren has a Grinch moment... Have I not suffered enough? Also people in the Netherlands who got a taste of Disney+ are upset because the Ewok movies aren't on Disney+ and have started making petitions and hashtags...

Also, just in case no one remembers, I mentioned a while back that the main character of the Mandalorian show could actually be one of Cuck Wendig's shitty OCs, specifically Cobb Vanth (link below).
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Cobb Vanth

Cobb Vanth was a human male that lived around the time of the Battle of Endor. Once a slave, he rose to become a sheriff of Freetown on the planet Tatooine after acquiring a set of Mandalorian armor from Jawas in 4 ABY. The following year, Vanth enlisted the services of Jabba's former animal...
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Which comes as no surprise since Favreau is a fucking Wendig supporter. But regardless, the reason I bring this up is because Entertainment Weekly has published an article going into detail about the characters of the Mandalorian. Among the confirmed things is that the MC's identity won't be revealed throughout the show and he will always be wearing his helmet. Also IG-11 is actually a comic relief droid with the mind of a toddler who is allowed to use guns. The article eventually veers off into bragging about the First Order and how the show is actually about their origin... Just fuck off already with that.
 
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XYZpdq said:
Dang, I recall WDWMagic being pretty heavy into huffing the pixie dust back when I regularly checked them out for WDW stuff. Is there an existing fanbase the mouse hasn't alienated with New Wars?
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GeneralFriendliness said:
That's what I find most bizarre. They've managed to alienate so many. Even some of their most diehard followers and even ones who admit they still love Disney aren't holding back, especially in regards to how they managed this park. Its like Disney is trying to sink itself.
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Not to worry now; there are still many exceptional individuals among the previously referenced theme park enthusiasts.

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The lack of planning still blows my mind. This had the potential to be a decent trilogy if they had bothered to write out a couple pages of treatment for the overall arc ahead of time.

TFA wouldn't have even had to be changed that much. Drop Snoke and replace him with Thrawn, have Ben be a rabid dog/useful idiot on his leash, and drop some hints around the Emperor's force poltiergeist or Sith demons beyond the outer rim or whatever (a phantom menace if you will). Then we could have a logical progression of Ben being redeemed and the Imperial leftovers teaming up with the Republic to defeat a greater threat. That would have been fine.

IX is going to be such a clusterfuck.
 
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GeneralFriendliness said:
Literally nothing. You can get away with it as long as you don't make your article come off as obvious trolling. For example, you can write an article about Jobi the Town Drunk who hangs out at Oga's cantina every week and yells obscenities at passing Gungans, but you can't write an article about Jobi the nudist furry who likes to take a shit in the middle of town and pukes rainbows. I should go into more detail about this... Wookieepedia's GE project is run mostly by two users who are actually park employees themselves but they're activity has declined a little bit since both parks officially opened. Despite this, they're aided by a third user who I've spoken about in length before in this thread... Lewisr. Lewisr, based on behavior, posts, links and activity I've posted before, is quite possibly a Lucasfilm employee himself and seems to have ties to Pablo Hidalgo. Lewisr never sleeps and only takes breaks from editing 3 to 4 hours a day (usually less) which I assume he uses either for sleep, fapping or that he's actually a Lucasfilm account run by multiple interns who switch places every day. Lewisr watches all articles like an autistic hawk (along with a HUGE Disneyfag called DarthRuiz30 who isn't as active and is just an obsessive new fan) so any little edit you make will not go unnoticed. So you have to be careful with what kind of bullshit you add if you plan to do it. Otherwise DarthRuiz or Lewisr will remove them. So when adding bullshit, be subtle and also add a believable or faked reference.
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So what happens if you impersonate an actual park employee and write about their misadventures? Do they get a talking to by their boss the next day about their Wookieepedia shitposting?
UnKillFill said:
Even the "good" movies were clunky and formulaic at best. It speaks volumes that by far the best bits of star wars were never the movies. Even more so now that it's being written by social justards, but even back in the day, the games and books were always waaaay better than the films.
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I think Star Wars is like Lord of the Rings in the sense that it was ALWAYS the universe it showed and especially hinted at that was the best part of it. Like LotR, the material (Tolkien's books, Lucas's OT) isn't the best at times although in some aspects they excel, but in the sense that it's a gateway into something huge, both are well-deserving of their acclaim. Now yes, Tolkien put a lot more of his worldbuilding into the books than Lucas did in the films, but there's a huge and addictive sense of mystique about the Star Wars galaxy which is just dripping from every scene in the OT which the EU helps in so many ways to enhance or even fulfill at times.
 
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Since I was late to the review fest for the series, let's go on:

A New Hope = 5/5: My personal favorite out of the lot, because it can stand on its own by design and the others can't. Also one of the first movies I remember watching. Great editing, introduces us to great characters, and has some of my favorite parts in the trilogy (the trench run especially).

Empire Strikes Back = 5/5: My very close second, mainly because it's here that the story focuses more on the characters the big fight for the galaxy. Also has the best part in Star Wars in the form of Luke training with Yoda as well as Han and Leia finding themselves in that asteroid.

Return of the Jedi = 4/5: This movie has a problem of basically being two movies, maybe even three. I loved the Jabba sequence at the beginning, and the ending is very poignant. But the middle is weak enough to ding it since it's mostly just shot in a Redwood forest. Never film in a mostly forest unless you know what you're doing.

Phantom Menace = 2/5: What could have been interesting to see (the Old Republic before the Empire) is badly done by poor acting and lines from most actors, which makes watching actually hard. There is no set protagonist, and it's a sloppy mess at the end. Despite this, there were moments I liked. The Pod Racing as a whole was not bad, and Ewan as Obi Wan were bright spots. Also Maul looked cool.

Attack of the Clones = 1/5: A sloppy as fuck nightmare of a movie that bounces between plots in an unfocused mess, all while having one of the shittiest romance on film. Easily the worst of the PT, even if ideas in it could be saved. Also has you not give a shit about stakes, as your armies don't die, they multiply.

Revenge of the Sith = 2.5/5: A meh movie that is mostly saved by Palpatine and the fact that it was noticablyt more tightly written than its previous films. I cannot give this movie too much more than this, because I still remember the comedically long and dumb fight at the end that would've been more tragic if Anakin was written better. It also still suffers the same problems, it's just that they were less in this movie.

The Force Awakens = Pre TLJ: 3/5, Post TLJ: 2/5: Mediocre reboot of ANH, but I was suckered in at the time because it mimicked those beats. The pacing of the movie is too quick, you do not really develop the new crew beyond Rey, and Rey does become more obviously a sue the longer you watch (the mind trick moment I did not like and made me realize it). Also relied way too much on the sequels explaining the open portions of the film because JJ prefers the plot to drive the story, not the characters.

Rogue One = 2/5: I didn't like this film when it came out, but hilariously it's now the best out of the lot. I think that you can't remember the characters beyond Jinn and K2-SO since the rest are bland as balls. I think the movie jumped too much between worlds with little pay off since it felt like it was missing scenes. I also think that this story relied too hard on nostalgia to back up its weak plot. It should have been something less involved with the main plot.

Solo = 1.5/5: The guy playing Han can't act worth a damn and just blinks or smirks. The fembot is embarrassing and manages to actually rape the Falcon, which escaped the PT unscathed. The plot is clunky as shit, and the stakes are low since the only deaths will come from the new people. You can tell that this was a shitshow production.

The Last Jedi = 0.5/5: This is easily the worst movie that was made and called Star Wars. It pisses on the old works blatantly, shows a clear lack of appreciation or understanding of the tone and setting, and actually manages to make a shittier romance than Padme and Anakin's was. Also Rian Johnson is a cunt and I will never watch anything he makes, given I've not seen Looper or Bricks. I'd go into more detail, but just watch the super huge MauLer breakdown that's three parts long, his explanations do the most justice for this turd.

And it's hilarious; Disney's big hope in having GE work was if they don't skimp on the Resistance ride, which would involve unique technology and unique spectacles that would get their dwindling die hards hyped, since a lot of them are even finding the increased prices to be too fucking mutch. Instead, they're going to cut down the budget and thus utterly ruin the ride's main chops and thus why you might go on it.

A couple of years before Universal builds a park about their size that includes a Nintendo world... which I know for a fact kids would lose their shit over, with it only missing Fortnite in the line-up for maximum kid losing mind potential.

The current staff are pennywise, but pound foolish to a T.
 
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Just wanna come in to say GE is a huge mistake and they fucked it up so bad that there is really nothing that could fix it since they went in way too deep.

Even if the Resistance ride is as amazing as they want it to be it doesn't excuse the rest of the lackluster bullshit they clogged the park up.

If they wanted to make an immersive theme park experience they should've just worked with the people that made Evermore Park. But their idea of immersive is a glorified strip mall.
 
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Apathy is Death...
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Disney shill said:
HOW👏COULD👏THIS👏HAPPEN?!👏
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Seriously, I👏 hate👏people👏 who👏 type👏 like👏 this👏
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In worse news, it looks like time travel may be back on the menu...

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Suddenly, the Resistance is back in business. But how? And what's up with the vintage starfighters?
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'Rise of Skywalker' leaks may confirm World Between Worlds and time travel

Is the "World Between Worlds" from 'Rebels' making its big screen debut?
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Supposedly some Avengers-tier "ALL UNITE" crossover shit... They claim Rey having the ability to naturally time travel is hinted at in TFA when she travels back to the first genocide by the Knights of Ren who can clearly see her and reach out to her, which may imply that if that shit was a vision, then JJ could retcon it into being some spacetime anus nonsense.
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Inverse said:
Time travel exists in the real-deal canon Star Wars universe. That’s a fact. And if time travel allows Palpatine to come back then maybe Leia can exploit the same system to get her fleet back in good shape. After all, they don’t make spaceships like they used to.
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>it exists! it really does!
>real-deal canon
Why are people suddenly acting like Disney forming their own canon suddenly means that SW is now somehow a real place that somehow exists instead of just another corporate media whore whose canon will get retconned as soon as its convenient? Are modern fandoms really that disconnected from reality?
PeeveTheSheev said:
Not to worry now; there are still many exceptional individuals among the previously referenced theme park enthusiasts.

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Well... I guess they are... Humanity is a lost cause.
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Anyway... I got a shit ton of spoilers and info that I will be posting as soon as more posts show up in the thread since I don't want this page to be just one big TL;DR word salad by me.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
Would Amazon really have the money to buy Disney?



Now wait a minute, wasn't there a line about him piloting some ship and killing "Womp rats" with it?
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Yes there was. And not just that, but in the films, old canon even in Disney's shitty canon books they point out that Luke had to struggle to learn everything he did and that his piloting experience comes from his Skyhopper. Tards like Mr. Garcia (a fucking TV producer and novelist) and his twitter drones are only looking for any validation to defend Rian and Disney by any means while using broken arguments we've heard dozens of times before from drones like them.

Anyway, here's spoiler #1.
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The orange X-Wing which I talked about in the IX leaks I posted before... Its official. Apparently its Poe's X-Wing but recolored, strangely the one at Galaxy's Edge is still black and orange rather than orange and white. Now I need to retrace my steps and remember which leak first mentioned the orange X-Wing. The one that does is probably right about other shit I should re-post so we know what bullshit to expect.
 
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And he sucks ass at #2 and 3 at first and even then he has to develop those skills over several years while Rey does it perfectly over the course of at most a week. But the excessive clapping already gave him away as a complete brainlet anyway.
Dom Cruise said:
Now wait a minute, wasn't there a line about him piloting some ship and killing "Womp rats" with it?
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Yeah, he had a T-16 which apparently has very similar flight controls to an X-Wing so he already had plenty of applicable flight experience. Now the specifics of that can be dismissed as EU wankery if you insist on going by what's only seen in the movies but even then it's still mentioned and Rey still comes off as a complete sue since none of her amazing skills are hinted at and the wanky EU explanations for them are a joke (force downloads and convenient flight simulators).
 
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