The Galactic Starcruiser Is a Surprise Win for Disney

Just a quick video I've thrown together to express my thoughts on the new STAR WARS Galactic Starcruiser, covering the overall experience and providing my opinion. It's an ambitious project, but is it worth the price?

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[DavidLopez-nrwp]

Most of the reviews in summary: “yeah it’s an incredible experience, but definitely not worth $6000”

[morriswyrm]

Got to love that authentic Star Wars feel of everyone recording cellphone videos.

[ralfmaximus]

Everything about this seems simply exhausting. Miss an important plot development because you stopped to use the bathroom or were browsing the merch in the ship's store? Insane. FOMO is anxiety inducing! I miss the days when a Disney vacation was mostly unplanned, wandering around and simply encountering cool sights & experiences. Having every waking moment tied to a schedule is the opposite of fun.

[cgarciahfcu]

To be fair to your video, you did say it wasn't worth the price and that it may fail in a year. It took a little longer but you were right.

[Gads]

For that awkward lightsaber swap, they should have Kylo throw something at Rey to quickly dodge down and swap sabers out of view.

[hilaryh]

My husband is a huge Star Wars fan, and when I heard about this I thought it would be fun to go. When I heard the price, though, I thought it was a joke. There are so many more things I could do with $6k than blow it in 2 days.

[solcarlosofficial]

A Harry Potter experience sounds way more appealing to me. Imagine getting to eat at the great hall. Or take some potion classes!

[sbabz]

The price + the thought of having to be “on” for 2 days straight + being in a windowless building = a definite no go for me.

[solcarlosofficial]

Im disappointed that a lot of the things they said would be in galaxys edge got cancelled and instead got put into an experience not many people can afford. I wish at ogas cantina you saw more aliens.

[capt.morgan]

This experience as a whole all the customer service, emersion, vignettes, wondering droids, feeling like being in a Star Cruiser etc... is something you could have easily added to the parks. Adding value to the already increased prices. This is really just a montage of corporate greed. Updating those parks was long over due and in planning the futrue seems to have lacked real vision and heart. They need to hire, re-hire and incentivise and retain the PEOPLE that actually make going to Disney a wonderous place for everyone. BRING BACK THE MAGIC! “Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever.” - Walt Disney

[stargazing]

You have to admire the audacity of Disney to charge up to $6000 for a Star Wars hotel experience and then put a gift shop inside it. As much as people paid to be there, that shit better be free.

[thescopitonetapes]

As with a lot of new Disney projects (and especially Galaxy's Edge), the Star Cruiser just seems to lack ATMOSPHERE. Places where you could linger and really admire the theming and storytelling that's built into the environment. I keep seeing shots of that one outdoor-ish space within the Halcyon with all the rock work that looks vaguely like a Japanese garden – I'm not a super fan, but to me that feels the most "Star Wars" out of the whole experience, and it's a shame that it appears you only get to see that space briefly when you're on a mission. Even experiences like Sleep No More, which Disney clearly took inspiration from, encourage you to linger in rooms, pick up objects, rummage through drawers on your own, etc., instead of constantly running after the characters the the whole time. I see the appeal of the 24/7 roleplaying, but in order to really feel "immersive" and like you're getting your money's worth, they should really have a variety of pacing built into this experience. Would also help with the claustrophobia!

[STSGuitar]

Oh dude a Haunted Mansion themed experience would be absolutely awesome in every way. That would be an experience that I might could see myself actually buying. Have your rooms be “haunted” in certain ways, creepy butlers, the works. Maybe the rooms are laid out like they appear in the endless hallway scene. I assume this would probably be a smaller group of people than the Star Wars hotel. You eat dinner in the ballroom, on and on. My brain is going nuts with all of the possibilities for a Haunted Mansion Murder Mystery experience right now lol

[kevinbhieey]

The big problem here is: it isn't THAT expensive to run. It's Adventurers' Club + Disney Quest (Lite) + Escape Room + Stuff They Were Going to Do for FREE in Galaxy's Edge. Yes, there are a lot of actors, but the Adventurers' Club had 8 characters who worked from 8pm until close, so about 6 hours. This probably has two shifts and four times as many characters? Five? Six? Regardless, you could spend 6 hours at the Adventurers' Club for $20 and a few drinks. An Escape Room is, at most, like $100 per person. Disney Quest was like $45 for a full day. The entertainment portion could easily be covered if each guest paid $300. So where are the other thousands of dollars coming from?

Apologists are comparing it, money-wise, to a Disney Cruise, which conveniently leaves out the fact that this amount of money gets you a week on a Disney ship. This "cruise" should either cost half as much, or go twice as long. And that's where Disney failed. In their desperate attempt to gouge their most-loyal customers even more, they've made the pool of possible guests way too small to be sustainable. So, they'll have about a year before it stops selling out - if that long. Then they'll go the discount route. After that works for 2 or 3 months, then they'll start with the budget cuts. (Actually, I believe some budget cuts will happen soon. They needed to pull out all the stops for all the bloggers and the people who HAD to be there ASAP.) These will make people even angrier, so it won't be long until it becomes the Star Wars Hotel, which will take away all the fun stuff and "free" stuff and build a themed pool out back. This hotel will then feature the "Star Wars Dinner Extravaganza", which will be a separate ticket for all, just like the Luau or Hoop-de-Doo.

[Paul_Templer]

I know people want to remember their experience. But everyone constantly filming on their phones doesn't exactly enhance the immersiveness .

[Billymfp]

I feel like they could have invested more into the actual Star Wars galaxies edge. I was really disappointed with all the Star Wars stuff in Disney.

[nicolarivarossa]

Such a win that it closed after 1 year ahah

[basti]

While I don't think the experience looks bad per se, I still don't see anything extraordinary, nothing that would blew me away and nothing I wouldn't have expected. The price tag aside, it's still just too "regular" for a Disney top-tier attraction. I also asume the positive reactions are mainly driven by the fact that - after the terrible marketing - our expectations were at the bottom to begin with. The Starcruiser just still lacks any "WTF" moments - at least for me. (For example: Comparing it to the Secret Cinema Star Wars Experience several years ago, this just falls flat, considering what they COULD have done.)

[WilliamMightyRed]

I highly doubt this experience will only be $6k. Given Disney's approach to everything else, there will be inevitable pay upgrades, seasonal pricing, preferential experience upgrades, etc. I expect closer to $10k being the norm for this thing. Also, the free "influencer" stuff is rarely reflective of what the paying customer gets, usually with the paying customer getting less.

[desertlandscapecreations]

It's a Chucky Cheese expensive birthday party with a Battlestar Galactica atmosphere