I recently took advantage of a minor savings deal on eBay and grabbed both the Coca Cola and Sprite Thermal Detonator bottles virtually at-cost, so now I have the full set (don't have the Arabesh Dasani water bottle but honestly, it's the same fucking bottle with fancy letters, who gives a shit?). They do make nice display pieces, but incidentally the Sprite bottle somehow had its top dislodged while in transit.
Turns out that all the Thermal Detonator bottles are amounts to just a ball shaped bottle, a
completely normal soda bottle cap, and the Thermal Detonator 'head' which isn't even glued onto the bottle cap, it's held on entirely by friction. I was able to fix the Sprite bottle top easily with some force but besides cost, it seems like the only reason they did it this haphazardly is so they could keep putting those MyCokeRewards codes on the bottle cap undersides.
Was their food not selling enough so they thought people didn't understand the nature of the food items rather than realizing that everything is overpriced as fuck?
Probably, though as I've probably said before, the main problem with Galaxy's Edge is that it obviously wasn't designed to open in 'phases'. The park is basically split into three sections: the Kylo Ren ride/Resistance side, the Millenium Falcon/Black Spire Outpost side, and the market slapped dead center between them. The idea, naturally, is that people going between rides will inevitably buy the shit you shove in their face because it's basically one big giant giftshop - we're talking Roller Coaster Tycoon logic, guests have raised happiness meters after a ride, then immediately afterward they're more likely to buy the overpriced crap nearest too them.
The issue, naturally, is that Rise of the Resistance, the
star attraction of this entire shit show, isn't running. Which means not only is the 'Resistance' side of GE
entirely fucking pointless beyond I think the one stall outside the entrance to Rise, but there's
no incentive for people to go into the Batuu marketplace unless they're coming up from the Critter Country entrance to get to the Falcon ride (using the Disneyland layout, don't know how it's set up in WDW). Coupled with the pathetic crowd levels the park has suffered since opening day in both installations, and GE is just a complete failure that isn't even living up to its design specs.
