I'm not a Dr, engineer, or lawyer, or even that big of a star wars fan, but I've been watching videos on it and the cringe is real.
You guys know anyone who went?
No but I watched the Jenny video and I'm really impressed with how pathetic and poorly executed it was
I really liked the part where she talks about how it was a lot of the stuff they marketed the star wars land as having originally but for a premium.
Thankfully not. The Jenny Nicholson vid is unironically the best thing to have come out of it
I mean you can watch it across multiple sessions. It's entertaining enough that it's worth it
There were some parts i had to just skip. The part where she's claiming it was mostly normal "middle class" people, not bougie nerds with cash to blow, going to this thing had me rolling my eyes.
A bit of out of touch. But she's a huge youtuber so I guess it's to be expected
Yeah .. i guess maybe if you consider something like a Dr or attorney to be middle class?
Other than parts like that it was a really well made video essay.
Middle class doesn't actually mean anything though. Everyone who doesn't have holes in their walls and doesn't own a yacht thinks they're middle class.
I mean in contemporary American society there's a pretty broad concept of what it means, but i knew someone would here was going to give me flak for using that term eventually.
So just pretend it's someone who's pulling in 40k to 95k household income in the US
The high powered Dr or attorney is not what most people think when they think middle class in contemporary America. Someone like Vaush with his Beverly hills wealthy father is not middle class.
And please just enjoy making fun of the crappy star wars attraction.
I didn't realize before starting the video that she'd actually been there, so definitely watching this whole thing.
$3k a night and I guarantee the hotel workers and most of the cast were paid shit. I wonder if they paid the captain, cause that had to be the toughest gig of her life
Hanging around a bunch of bougie star wars obsessed nerds? Yeah probably pretty shit.
Look I'm not saying that everyone that went to this was some rich fuck, but the clear audience target for this thing was the upper middle class and above with comfortable 6 figure incomes.
I'm sure some people that were more modest in means scraped the funds together to try and create memories with their kids for a once in a lifetime thing.
However once again, that's not the average attendee of this piece of shit.
My aunt works for a Disney subsidiary and got 2 free tix for they're soft launch so she took my mom. It was 3 days and the whole package. Neither of them are particularly into star wars but did love the experience, probably mostly because of the free part.
They did thoroughly enjoy the experience though, they made a BB8 for one of my nieces and both made their own light sabers which she loves to pull out on special occasions, like making the neighborhood kids jealous. It looked fun but definitely not 3k a night fun.
I'm personally not a fan of Disney era star wars, and not because I think it's "woke" or any dumb reactionary reason like that.
I just honestly think the writing and plot of all three movies was crap and cringe.
So I wouldn't go even if I was pulling 200k a year and had expendable income.
I'm confused why this is your response to my comment. The whole point was that two older ladies that could give a fuck about star wars enjoyed a free 3 night stay at a supposedly 5 star resort with some extra BS included.
I'm glad you two family members enjoyed it?
Would I myself go for free? Yeah, just to eat free food.
I guess my overarching point was that it didn't even look like 500 bucks a night fun to me. But if I got free tickets? Yeah, I'd probably go
I'm sorry guy, it still looked like cringe dog shit to me. I can't change that lol.
Not people I know, but the A More Civilized Age podcast went since the thing was closing and their show's business had some money saved up already. They did a Patreon episode on it, but you should be able to snag it on Kemono.
Neil Patrick Harris was there with his family when they went, so definitely something for absurdly rich people.
Yes. Knew this Canadian woman from Alberta with a husband who was loaded. They flew out to Disney every year and stayed there on one of their trips.
i used to live and work in the area and knew this guy who was your proto-typical disney adult. i got off social media several years ago, but i do remember seeing his posts when he and his partner would get whatever latest pay-to-get-exclusive-treat thing was.
the last thing i remember seeing from him was like how they got these wrist bands in the mail that let them skip ahead of any line and it was an upgrade for some kind of annual pass type of deal, so they could go every weekend and get food discounts. if you've never been, disney food markup is bananatown. like i bet a burger, fries, and drink at some kind of fast-casual place in the park is like >$35, so even if it's 50% off (i doubt it), you are still getting housed.
anyway, i could imagine him doing this if his professional-work situation had made some big strides, promotion/compensation wise and he/his partner did it in lieu of a big anniversary gift or something. but i could also see him saying, "no that's stupid", because it really does seem uniquely egregious. i mean, for one day of that, you could get two weekend nights in a swank room with a view at like the Four Seasons in lower manhattan and have $600 leftover in spending money.
but i guess, if you're staying in the Four Seasons you're less likely to have some guy pretending to be Ry-boh Klobjar from Planet Reeroo tell you that you're a real Starwars.
I went when I was a kid and was made to understand it was like... a once in a lifetime thing? Other than its been years
One of my relatives works at the fancy bar in galaxies edge and knew it was gonna be a POS before it launched. Not that I had that sort of cash anyway, but he told everyone to stay away.
Galaxy's Edge also just kind of sucks. Its such a big area of the park and its all set dressing without much to actually interact with.
I remember seeing something that the whole area of the park is designed to get you in and out. Like, they intentionally didn't put benches and stuff that might cause people to relax for a minute.
Not personally but a family friend mentioned a coworker took their spoiled grand kids to it.
Yeah everyone on reddit that was talking about how they went seemed to work in some sort of bougie upper middle class profession or were even more loaded than that.
These people are upper management at ATT and make close to 200k a year, the grand kids in question apparently look down on people who don't wear high end brands, one of this person's other coworkers apparently flies out of state to get her mani/pedi.
Yes this is the exact kind of bougie I'm talking about. I went to school with this exact flavor of bougie.
That's like the demographic of people they were targeting with this thing
In a similar vein, I have a friend who's a die hard star wars fan (him and his family paid to go to the star wars land the hotel was adjacent to when it opened) and even he was mocking it.
I still for the life of me can't understand why they chose to make it a LARP and not just a hotel, like knowing Star Wars nerds you'd expect a normal themed hotel to make bank. Turning it into a LARP that cost thousands and relied on both random families and the most dedicated of nerds to function seems like a baffling decision, no wonder it failed
LARPs and "immersive experiences" are in right now I guess and marketing guys always go with the latest buzz words for their presentations to their shareholders. The next Disney waste of money will probably involve AI lol.
I once did a weekend long larp and it didn't cost me $6k, but also it had well-written plot lines that incorporated players and everything functioned right so it was something very different.
