Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser closing?

[nwjedidave]

BREAKING: Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser at Walt Disney World Resort will officially close this fall. Its final voyage will take place September 28-30. New reservations are currently paused until May 26.

This would be considered "entertainment" right?

Has anyone else heard this or knows anyone that works as a cast member?

 

[masterjedi322]

Disney World's costly Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser to close in late September

Disney World's Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser is closing and will make its final voyage this September after being open for only more than a year.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Indy Magnoli]

Surely, it's a matter of repacakging, rebranding or whatever... there's too much invested in the "cruiser" itself. This could just be wishful thinking talking here as I still was hoping to see it some day. Wait and see, I guess!

 

[Captain Dunsel]

Quick, someone find this guy and isolate him from hearing this news.

The buzzkill could be staggering and I don’t think he could take it.

 

[blewis17]

Quick, someone find this guy and isolate him from hearing this news.

The buzzkill would be staggering and I don’t think he could take it.

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[blewis17]

You know, I'm not sure how MUCH Disney sunk into this thing. It's a concrete slab 3 story building. There are a few elaborate set pieces inside, but I think Disney could close those off and make it a non-interactive "regular" hotel as well. Or just repurpose the entire building for VIPs and conferences.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

You know, I'm not sure how MUCH Disney sunk into this thing. It's a concrete slab 3 story building. There are a few elaborate set pieces inside, but I think Disney could close those off and make it a non-interactive "regular" hotel as well. Or just repurpose the entire building for VIPs and conferences.

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They could easily rebrand it as a Guardians of the Galaxy themed hotel with minimal effort..

 

[James Kenobi 1138]

 

[Prop Collector]

I can't imagine how a $5000 'hotel' that looks like the waiting area for a ride and features a lame dinner show possibly failed.

 

[teragon]

They definitely got too greedy with the price there.
Reminds me of the custom plates debacle here in Belgium. A custom license plate costs 1000€ here, expensive, but it worked well for the state. So well they decided to raise the price to 2000€. The drop in custom plates revenues was drastic. So now they brought it back down to the original price, and it sells like hot cakes again. But in this case they corrected the price point, not shut down the whole thing.

 

[Dr Jones Sr]

Yes get rid of the show, drastically drop the price, and just be a cool hotel.

 

[Psab keel]

Or they could, IDK, recreate one of the countless action sequences from Star Wars into an immersive experience instead of trying to dupe people into thinking Star Wars is nothing more than watching "alien" lounge singers and spending a night in dinner theater style luxury.

I find this whole closure/ revamp to be hilarious. It was only a matter of time before they had to redo things.

 

[tgtiw]

I'm honestly surprised it lasted 2 years, but it was easy for them to package this announcement along with the cancellation of the billion $ campus development.

 

[dascoyne]

The bluefaced captain is supposed to go down with her ship. What gives?

 

[dascoyne]

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At least the costumes would be affordable.

 

[Funky]

Boy, that was fast! Anyone could see that this wouldn't last most because of their greedy prices, but I gave it five years. Just two? Yeah, the new they f'd this up early.

 

[ScourgiousJinx]

I'm truly shocked

 

[BlandoCalrssian]

The problem is the Disney Corp has forgotten Walt’s original vision for the Parks.

 

[Riceball]

Yes get rid of the show, drastically drop the price, and just be a cool hotel.

They could, but it wouldn't be that easy to do, it depends on where the big common area where the Rey-Kylo showdown takes place. If it's connected to the check in area, they could probably make it a lobby area pretty easily. But if it's not connected to the front entrance, it would take a bit more remodeling then.

 

[Riceball]

Or they could, IDK, recreate one of the countless action sequences from Star Wars into an immersive experience instead of trying to dupe people into thinking Star Wars is nothing more than watching "alien" lounge singers and spending a night in dinner theater style luxury.

I find this whole closure/ revamp to be hilarious. It was only a matter of time before they had to redo things.

It's a little more than just a dinner theater experience. It's more like dinner theater that goes on for 3 "days" and 2 nights, outside of your meal, and involves (optional) direct audience participation, and virtual Easter egg hunts. But it's still way too expensive for what you get.