Did online rebellion help doom Disney empire’s Star Wars hotel?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Disney’s Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser was one of the company’s most ambitious and immersive experiences. Part hotel, part live-action roleplay, it promised guests a chance to step into a galaxy far, far away.
But less than two years after opening, the luxury experience has permanently closed its doors in Orlando, Florida.
According to The Wrap, the former hotel will be transformed into a Walt Disney Imagineering office. The division is responsible for designing Disney’s creative projects, from theme parks to cruise ships.
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Most people don't have $4,000-$6,000 to LARP for two nights.
Wonder if Disney China is much cheaper and this should have been done there instead.
Nobody is willing to spend 6k for a hotel room. Only Disney could be so our of touch with reality
Disney ruined the Star Wars franchise with it's woke BS just like we knew they would.
I'm glad I've never seen a Star wars movie
Oh C'mon Man! Calling out BS when I see it. Even remote tribes in Africa know who Darth Vader is
@@SanAndreasWatchParty I'm sure that was before Disney took over
It's so glorious to see others recognize it and leaving star wars in the dust. The creators and actors have all doubled down on their trash ideology.
Disney making everyone apathetic about Star Wars doomed it.
Disney Corporate is so far disconnected from the average American it ridiculous, we’re talking different planet disconnected.
They’re to rich they live in a vain sick work with other Hollywood weirdos
FYI, the hotel was already closed when Jenny posted her video. She referenced the hotel closure in her video, and speculated what would happen to the property in the future.
Disney is dead to me.
Anyone who has worked in a hotel, I am one, KNEW that it was going to fail. LARP doesn't work, it dosen't even work at summer camp when you can get a few enthusiastic kids on stage to make a play for your parents just before they pick you up to come home. And they wanted to do this with every visitor every, single, day? Not. Happening.
Physically and mentally, the environment was toxic for anyone who just spent the day in their car listening to their kids bouncing off the walls or running around a theme park in the sun. A hotel is supposed to be a safe space, safe from noise, safe from lights, safe from distractions. It's where your bed is at.
Having alarms go off while your on the toilet so you can assemble into some freaky stage performance is not going to be the highlight of your day.
Edit: Also, the hotel cost 2 billion to build. Not millions, billions with a B. With cost overruns and actors they didn't even make a fraction of a profit.
At least they made dreams come true and the actors took experience with them for life.
And may be it was just the opposite of the trend to de-theme hotels and make them more average.
Just look at the Luxor Las Vegas (of another company) which got rid of many of the design elements and is now more like a normal hotel than a fascinating pyramid.
Disney putting out products no one wants and then blaming customers for not buying it; is the most entertaining thing they produce😂
Not necessarily a rebellion. They just stopped making good star wars movies and doomed their own franchise so who would want to go somewhere based on terrible movies
Disney went woke, now it’s going broke.
Disney's woes go much deeper than a Star Wars themed hotel.
No this hotel overpriced and not geared for fans….. $$$$$
Star Woke
Star Broke.
Alot of disgruntled star fans
What was wrong with this? Let me count the ways:
1. Absurdly expensive.
2. Based on a franchise that has been destroyed by Disney with new characters that appeal to a fairly small sector of fans.
3. Filled with the more recent unpopular characters rather than original popular characters.
Not only is Disney completely out of touch with the reality of people's lives, they no longer make original content that attracts a broad audience.
Kathleen Kennedy probably had more to do with it.
Disney going woke has Disney in the downward spiral its found itself in.
Go woke , go broke!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It's ironic that they're turning a failed "imagineering" effort into imagineering offices. I can only imagine coming to work every day knowing you're working in a building that failed so hard and your job is to make experiences that don't fail. They should've come up with a way to make this an experience for fans who are already at the park because the park is already too expensive for the joy you get out of it.
what does that even mean? like an office for tech workers? or an insurance sales office? Goofy AF imho....
@@davidwright873 Yes, it's an office for their "Imagineers"...A Disney Imagineer is like a mix between an artist, an engineer, and a storyteller. Their job is to dream up and build all the rides, shows, and experiences you see at Disney parks. I just thought it ironic that they would make a failed "imagineering" effort their office.
@@mjk9388 So it's for themselves basically....
@@davidwright873 exactly
The failure of the hotel wasn't Jenny Nicholson's fault. Disney enthusiasts and followers of Disney news knew from early on that the hotel was disappointing.
Everyone universally praised the cast members who worked in the attraction, and from all accounts, they all worked extremely hard to provide a good experience for the guests.
But despite the massive amounts of money that Disney claimed to have invested in the hotel, and the outrageous costs to stay there for two nights, most non-access media reports complained about too many cost cutting measures that hurt the experience.
Visitors also didn't like the time period the experience was set in. The hotel was set in the Disney Star Wars era, rather than in the era of the original movies, which had the largest fan base, or in the prequel era, which had a large following of millennial fans. So for a lot of potential patrons, the hotel wasn't the "right" Star Wars for them.
Jenny Nicholson's exhaustively detailed report was released after the hotel had already started cutting back on "departure" dates. The extremely high cost, an experience that did not live up to most patrons expectations, Disney going cheap on too many significant elements, coupled with low repeatability (little incentive to revisit the experience after doing it once), doomed the hotel to failure.
Many Disney pundits reported disaffection with the experience before Jenny Nicholson. She just put the final nail in the coffin.
P.S. If you have never seen a video from Jenny Nicholson, go visit her channel! Her particular brand of deep dive reporting is surprisingly fun to watch and informative.
Hey Disney, why can't you just give us a star wars themed hotel, no lapping, no shows. Just a bar and restaurant inside with a souvenir shop like the other hotels.
If you want to them out the rooms, make them look like they were lived in on an old ship..not something a senator from coroscant travels in.
I’m pretty sure consumers rebelled against $5000 2-day prison stay.
What killed it was the price ! 4 K for two. You can take a nice vacation overseas for that .
Maybe building a hotel based on the least popular peice of a dying IP was a bad idea.
6 grand for a star wars experience that has nothing to do with the kind of start wars people like.
Disney ruined Star Wars
You can’t spell Disney without the letters W.O.K.E.
Hope so!!
To answer the question, no. Disney made choices, and fans made theirs.
Thank the “Maker” for going on StarTours a million times before…
Why does the internet community always get blamed for major corporations' horrible decisions and failures? Who wants to waste $6k on a dead franchise for 2 days when you can go to Europe or some other, actually-amazing adventure?
Or, or, hear me out… nobody was going to waste money on a overpriced “luxury” hotel
Go woke go broke
I totally wanted to go, but it came down to “my little fantasy trip” vs. my wifes paying off the car. Note she crashed 4 months later……life☹️
No it's not who can afford 5k to spend a night in a hotel? It was way too expensive
😂 5k can get you a month elsewhere if you ration it.
There are so many other options for your dollars that offer way more value. Disney's overpriced themselves out of the market.
that can't be the reason...You're way off base with that thought!!
It was way too expensive.
Disney blew it with the outrageous costs. Fan boys always complain about movie scripts and story lines produced by mainstream studios. It always comes down to money.
It was a soulless execution of Starwars and a money grab by Disney which treated guest like cattle.
No one cares about Kathleen Kennedy and her version of Star Wars.
Disney going after the reviewer instead of addressing the issues pointed out. Typical Disney. Brilliant. This is why DIS stock is worth exactly as much as it was 10 years ago. They should change their ticker symbol to WOKE.
No the hotel costed way too much for a night in it and what was in it was very boring, very lame, and very bad.
Someone got paid by Disney
If it was great the comments of some online nerds would not amaze a difference. But it wasn’t.
To be honest, jar jar binks destroyed the series...
99.9% of the people have no idea who that TH-camr is
I hate Disney and won’t spend any money with them
If you’re not a Star Wars fan, it’s just going to be insulting. “It’s for the boys🙄” put the paycheck might be good
Crappy movies and TV shows destroyed Star wars
It was a grossly overpriced waste of time.
Greed probably doomed it.
Oh that's perfect. Use the space for those who failed to live out the Star Wars franchise, LOL. That's like rubbing a wound with alcohol and salt...plus do it daily 😂 DEI and WOKE 🎉
Not very straight news... common sense wouid say a $4800 price tag for two night killed it.
Wow! No hype I love it. Thank you
whada rip.....lol
Yep, apparently putting a pink wig on it and, making it gay, wasn't a winning strategy.
It was garbage an made by people who had no clue what star wars looked like. Ofc it failed.
You reference Jenny's video and then make a video title like that? Shame on you.
Overpriced DEI hotel.
2 nites 4800 for 2.
I'm nearly 50 and don't have kids. I would have loved to see it.
why?
@@davidwright873, more dollars than sense.
@davidwright873 It looks really cool. It's Disney. I grew up with Star wars.
@@johnd.5601 Were you 12 and standing in line in the late 70s waiting to get inside to see Star Wars? no? then you didn't actually grow up with Star Wars....It grew with you....
Woke joke.
Disney is a woke company
If you’re not a Star Wars fan, it’s just going to be insulting. “It’s for the boys🙄” put the paycheck might be good