If they slashed the price in half and gave you about $1,000 (retail value, not cost) goods with it, like uniforms, lightsabers, exclusive toys, etc... I think it would have made sense. That's the kind of price point where you think, wow that's expensive...but I'm wiling to splurge for a once in a lifetime experience. At $6k USD for a family and $5k for a couple, it's just absurd though.
The videos did not seem that interesting to me. I saw the typical Disney thing of a bunch of fat tourists with tucked-in golf shirts holding up their phones. That isn't an immersive experience. If you are charging someone their life savings for a total once-in-a-lifetime immersive experience, make it just that. Give them space identities, appropriate clothes, and make them use communication hubs.
The videos did not seem that interesting to me. I saw the typical Disney thing of a bunch of fat tourists with tucked-in golf shirts holding up their phones. That isn't an immersive experience. If you are charging someone their life savings for a total once-in-a-lifetime immersive experience, make it just that. Give them space identities, appropriate clothes, and make them use communication hubs.
This is supposedly a good video of the attraction:
Yeah, a few semi-professional actors in various degrees of quality costume acting out a few scenes and some LCD screens. The cheesy "in the audience" stage performance is very cringy.
I suppose it's a big step up from the Flinstones theming of Calloway Park, but definitely not immersive.
This is supposedly a good video of the attraction:
Yeah, a few semi-professional actors in various degrees of quality costume acting out a few scenes and some LCD screens. The cheesy "in the audience" stage performance is very cringy.
I suppose it's a big step up from the Flinstones theming of Calloway Park, but definitely not immersive.
Yeah...I'm not watching a half-hour of that.
If you want $6K for what...2 or 3 days? It better blow me away.
Otherwise the average cruise is a better bang for the buck.
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Not to beat a dead horse, but these SW TV shows have really hit the nail on the head of how to make great female characters. Ahsoka and Bo Katan are both great characters with great casting choices.
It's baffling that the actual SW movies couldn't figure that out. Instead giving us all powerful Rey, Space Wizard Leah, and no reason to be there Rose.
Can't wait for Ashoka, it's tough to even say which parts are most intriguing:
- Ahsoka/Anakin flashbacks and/or force ghost conversations
- World between worlds and how they use that without overdoing it
- LIVE ACTION THRAWN
- Timothy Zahn has been a consultant on the show
- Rebels crew in live action
- What has Ezra been up to in the Unknown Regions this whole time
Just finished re-reading the Heir to the Empire trilogy and now onto Hand of Thrawn trilogy, it's tough to picture how they are going to comparatively use this new group of characters as the protagonists for a similar story but I can't wait to see what they do with it.
This show in my opinion has the best chance of galvanizing the fanbase and introducing characters that can carry the franchise post-sequel trilogy once this story is played out. Ezra is a huge wild card for me, they gave him the orphan/hero's journey arc from the very beginning of Rebels, can't wait to see how they finally move his story forward.
Not to beat a dead horse, but these SW TV shows have really hit the nail on the head of how to make great female characters. Ahsoka and Bo Katan are both great characters with great casting choices.
It's baffling that the actual SW movies couldn't figure that out. Instead giving us all powerful Rey, Space Wizard Leah, and no reason to be there Rose.
You're writing this like the poorly planned and written female character and character arcs for them were the only things the sequels ####ed up...
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I almost hope they keep the Anakin/Ashoka flashbacks to a minimum. What more can they really add? I mean the bottom line is that she's going to be mourning that for the rest of her life, but what is her sense now with Anakin's return to the light side.
I really don't think they should use the World between worlds at all. Its too much of a cheat. Plus the entrance that we knew of was collapsed.
I'm really interested in seeing how Thrawn got away from Ezra and the journey from the unknown region. I would love to see him establishing the Hand of Thrawn and the pocket empire before taking over the real empire.
I expect that Ezra went on a spiritual journey in the unknown regions. (Part of me wants to see him come back as a somewhat mixed Dark/Light side persona.
Thrawn in the trilogy books was a completely different Thrawn for me. He was very cool and detached and didn't get emotional at anything. The Thrawn in Rebels was more of a vicious killer with a velvet glove type. I almost preferred him. I also think the Thrawn in the books was a lot trickier (some of the stuff he pulled to turn people against each other in the books was brilliant). The Thrawn in Rebels was a pretty brute force strategists, he wasn't subtle at all.
Watching the piece with Sabine going up against the Orange bladed girl. I almost want to see Sabine get the crap kicked out of her and trying all those Mando tricks and failing. One of the best scenes in Rebels was her training with Kanaan.
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I think at least one interaction with Ahsoka/Anakin to put that relationship to rest is important for Ahsoka's arc. Seeing Anakin one last time as a force ghost would put a nice bow on their friendship and everything that happened in Clone Wars and Rebels, for me at least.
There's also been a rumor floated around about seeing Ahsoka in Obi-Wan's place on Mustafar fighting Anakin, not sure how they could pull that off or why they would want to. But from the trailers that we've seen it's pretty clear that the World between Worlds will be a part of the show, to what extent.. who knows. I also hope they don't lean too heavily on that and maybe we see it's final destruction early on.
Thrawn in the books is far and away my favourite version of Thrawn, the ascendency trilogy shows him as the protagonist fighting to protect his home world and that being the reason for his ruthlessness is super intriguing. I think the rebels version was great, but I hope they give him a lot more complexity in the show to line up with Zahn's version of the character.
Ezra coming back from the Unknown regions with extra darkside abilities would be so cool, he's been over there without his lightsaber for years so he must have needed to adapt somehow..
I almost hope they keep the Anakin/Ashoka flashbacks to a minimum. What more can they really add? I mean the bottom line is that she's going to be mourning that for the rest of her life, but what is her sense now with Anakin's return to the light side.
I really don't think they should use the World between worlds at all. Its too much of a cheat. Plus the entrance that we knew of was collapsed.
I'm really interested in seeing how Thrawn got away from Ezra and the journey from the unknown region. I would love to see him establishing the Hand of Thrawn and the pocket empire before taking over the real empire.
I expect that Ezra went on a spiritual journey in the unknown regions. (Part of me wants to see him come back as a somewhat mixed Dark/Light side persona.
Thrawn in the trilogy books was a completely different Thrawn for me. He was very cool and detached and didn't get emotional at anything. The Thrawn in Rebels was more of a vicious killer with a velvet glove type. I almost preferred him. I also think the Thrawn in the books was a lot trickier (some of the stuff he pulled to turn people against each other in the books was brilliant). The Thrawn in Rebels was a pretty brute force strategists, he wasn't subtle at all.
Watching the piece with Sabine going up against the Orange bladed girl. I almost want to see Sabine get the crap kicked out of her and trying all those Mando tricks and failing. One of the best scenes in Rebels was her training with Kanaan.
have you read any of the new canon thrawn books?
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I read the first couple, they were decent, but to be honest, I stopped reading the new EU stuff, most of the books were terrible.
I read the one where they showed Thrawn working with Anakin and Vader, and the writer literally went into Vader's head when he was under attack and the force telling him to dodge left and right and spin (because that's a good move), and it was so cringy that at the end of the book I stopped.
Right now, I just finished re reading the Legacy of the Force series where Jacen Solo becomes Darth Caedus, and it was everything that they should have done with Kylo Ren.
I'm re-reading the Fate of the Jedi series which was the last book series of the Legends EU, and is decent.
I remember reading the Aftermath series of books, that took place between ROTJ and FA, and it was just not a good reading experience.
Its more for me then the last two movies that kind of killed my major Star Wars fandom, though the Disney series have bought me back to an extent. It was the books under the Disney EU.
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Very well-made trailer, I like the idea of an open world smuggler/scoundrel character, but like most others I wish we could of seen some gameplay and learned about what kind of character customization and storylines are available.
Not a lightsaber in sight also, between this trailer, Mando, and Andor, it's as though they're treating the IP like fans are fatigued of jedi stuff? I don't know, I'm not. But there must be a reason for it. Ahsoka will be heavily skewed towards Jedi business so there's that at least.
