Yeah they're still building it. Sounds stupid to me, and coming from the same writers that made Star Wars land and I know it will suck
What I know so far:
1 billion dollar investment
rumored cost is 3k for three days a person, 7,5k for a family
theme is the sequel era, same time as Star Wars land
it will be connected to the theme park via some immersive elevator "shuttle"
it's not really a hotel it's more like a "role-playing immersive cruise ship experience", every staff at the hotel will role-play basically
there are no windows in the hotel just screens of space
rumor is people won't be allowed to walk in or out at any time because it's a "cruise ship"
people will be expected to role play when the first order invades the ship
rumor is people will be woken up in the middle of the night and invited to go on missions
They've removed the 'Jedi Academy' show from the parks proper - because no doubt they want to stick it into this guaranteed fire hazard of a windowless building (and if the AC breaks down, then it's HEAT STROKE CITY, BABY!).
I especially like the idea of trapping people inside this stupid thing, forcing them to role play, and waking people up in the middle of the night (because that can't go wrong
at all).
See, some time ago, I was watching somebody do a video of their experience at an Alton Towers hotel where they kind of did the same shit. Except it was, y'know, a themed halloween experience. With signed waivers. And the staff
explicitly said when the haunts were coming (every two hours through the night) and really, getting woken up in the middle of the night was what you signed up to do, it wasn't a mandatory part of some
other experience.
Honestly, I forget when they started building that stupid thing, but they should have stopped long ago.
Disney can't even get NORMAL hotel rooms sold, the Rivera Resort is doing so badly that they're offering multi-night deals just to fill the thing (it was supposed to be filled with people going to Galaxy's Edge, LOL).
Oh, and then the Skyliner is basically a gigantic monumental disaster in its own right. Disney is
never going to live that 'mechanical difficulty' down for at least a decade, if only because the local emergency response services are going to make
damn sure the mouse doesn't cut corners like COMPLETELY FAIL TO HAVE ANY PLAN TO DEAL WITH THE RIDE STOPPING WITH PEOPLE TRAPPED IN THE AIR.
You just have to look at all this wasted money on infrastructure that isn't going to return on investment in the slightest and ask if it was really worth skipping replacing the ass-old Monorails because everybody LOVES the monorails and they've needed new ones for what, two fucking decades now?
According to JJ, TROS will be as risky as TLJ than safe as TFA.
Here's good news for anyone hoping "The Rise of Skywalker" is more "Last Jedi" than "Force Awakens."
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Oh, no no no no, TFA was safe because Star Wars was still pretty popular, if in a 'sleeping giant' kind of way, and the fact the film wasn't a COMPLETE garbage fire only helped its case.
More importantly, it
wasn't coming immediately on the heels of two extremely polarizing films. I honestly don't see RoS being anything more than a sacrificial play at this point just so Disney doesn't look even weaker by admitting they fucked up and wasted a lot of money on shit you have to pay stupidly high prices for anyway - stuff people didn't ask for.
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