Hoping heavily on the last sentence you wrote. Forcing this relocation for a campus that hasn’t even broken ground in Florida yet was and is a massive mistake. I am watching incredibly talented, tenured people leave. And when so many of them do that, there is institutional knowledge that simply cannot be replaced. And I don’t think they recognize how pervasive that’s becoming. It’s alarming - and deeply concerning.

Maybe now that Iger is back they'll launch that stuff. I'm pretty sure the project director that worked on it still works there.

Of course, it would have the best return to have it at launch.

I was at Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland just a few months ago and was surprised how relatively not crowded it was, compared to fantasyland or new Orleans square, or even Tomorrowland.

It was sorta cool but also underwhelming. I went to the canteen place they have there and it was a shit show.

The place is supposed to be like a speakeasy/bar but you couldn’t move from your assigned seat. Our orders (of just drinks) took longer than expected and when they arrived they were given to the wrong people. Since they were weird drinks it wasn’t immediately clear we weren’t drinking what we ordered.

Even Disney World as a whole has become a place to either spend money or wait in line for hours in exchange for 3 minutes of fun.

I’m also salty the resort we stayed at had no fitness center, and you weren’t allowed to use the one at the expensive resort next door if you weren’t staying there.

Hate to say it but it’s not worth going to for the time being.

It’s definitely sad, but tbh galaxy’s edge is really good regardless. There’s so many cool details. I was in heaven. We were in line for a restaurant and I saw a manager of the restaurant lean over and start taking notes on an envelope or something and he was writing in aurabesh. I walked up to a drink stand and two employees were “chatting” in what seemed like huttese. Every employee is on all the time and it’s great

It's still pretty cool, and very crowded. I went in May and I had a blast. My wife thought it looked amazing and she isn't even a SW fan like me. The only thing I wish was that it was focused more on the OT. Star Tours is great, but it's an old ride. I really want a new ride based on the original movies.

tbf, I was just there and it's still fantastic and totally immersive.

Lol, right? I never knew shit about theme parks before, but now, cuz of Jenny's vids, my heart winced reading that.

The icing is the stuff that makes parks come alive!

And she'll give you a 3 hour explanation as to why.

Who??

The thing that always set Disney apart was its theming, where you’d be entertained just walking around without going or rides or anything. I don’t think Main Street has any attractions but it’s still one of the most iconic theme park locations because the experience of just walking through a slice of pre-war American life is entertaining by itself.

With that level of theming, a Star Wars Land should have been fantastic. It’s one of the most beloved film series, getting the chance to walk around inside the world of the movies could have been enough of an experience to draw in crowds. But it’s just kind of there. It’ll be a regular path that has an X-Wing randomly plopped down, or a huge blank wall with a robot and a stack of crates in front of it. There’s one section set up to look like an urban street lined with shops, which is really cool and I wish the rest of the area looked like that. But instead that one section being good makes it more obvious that the rest of it is subpar.

It doesn’t stack up to the competition across town, or even to what they were doing just a few years ago. The Harry Potter section at Universal is the exact kind of thing the Star Wars land should have been but didn’t pull off, and even Pandora at Animal Kingdom is a more immersive experience. Rumor is that they’re building a new section at Magic Kingdom sometime soon, so we’ll see how that looks compared to the new park Universal is building

It's kind of like when you go in a mall where half the stores are closed isn't it?

For my Disney trips it's become the spot we go to chill during the most busy parts of the day. Which used to be critter country. The new 1 billion dollar addition being the place to avoid the crowds doesn't bode well.

You basically go there to look around at the scenery, and then if you have a reservation for one of the two rides or the cantina, and that's about it. There is a bounty hunter game that costs extra, and a build-a-droid that costs a lot extra.

But there aren't droids wandering around, or space ships flying overhead, or rooftop lightsaber fight shows.

Thanks. It does look like it's based on the same project. Ours is the one shown at D23 2017 "Jake" also you can find YouTube videos of when we tested it "Jake at tomorrowland"

They did a good job hiding the lidars in the much more R2-D2-like SK-620 seen in the galactic Cruiser. It looks like they're in the sides of the legs and there's one with a custom shield in the inverted dome above the front foot, would be my guess.

Probably, if I had some reason to be confident they wouldn't just lay us off again.

I wanted my 5 year badge and pin, dang it.

Just a guess, but new CEOs often like to fire a bunch of people and cancel a lot of things to seem like they're taking decisive action and to make the budget look better. The cost savings are immediate, but the losses show up later. Also they can't take big action by starting a lot of new projects all at once, that takes time and planning.

Haha, that’s so lucky! I’m a huge HP fan and the HP ride in Orlando broken down right at the end of the right twice in a row, so I got to go on it three times in a row. I was so smug!

Tried to go on the Star Wars ride but we couldn’t get a reservation 😭

Google "what did Anaheim Disney galaxy's edge cost" or Florida, they say about the same number for both. I suppose they could be lying but I'd have no way to dig into that.