Disney should create an experience which gives the option to become a Jedi at a Jedi Temple, a Sith at a Sith Temple, or a Bounty Hunter at a Bounty Hunter's Guild School. Each will give a totally new and unique experience that will for sure make fans of all ages (especially kids asking their parents) to go to the next experience, which is a completely new price, rooms, etc. Encompassing all eras of Star Wars is the way to go. Please be inclusive, Disney, and let all Star Wars fans enjoy and in turn you will never have to shut down a bad idea again.

Disney: Why can’t people afford our $5,000 a day stay at our mediocre scam of a hotel

This could've been such a big success had it been a prequel/originals themed hotel, with far better pricing.

This is not a loss for the fandom. Only a loss for Disney.

What's so mind-boggling to me is that as much as Disney markets themselves as such massive money-grubbing capitalists, they cut off 66% of their target market by using only sequel-trilogy-exclusive content themes for the hotel. On top of that, they blacklist people like Theory who can make content 1000x better than them with a handful of people and a notepad of ideas. And now it's going under. I couldn't have laughed any harder at this. Anyways, good luck speaking with your investors in your meetings on Monday.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Disney keeps doubling-down on stupid.

Imagine a prequel or original trilogy hotel. The possibilities are endless and would be epic. Absolutely a waste of money and ideas.

Dude, Disney is just so beyond disconnected from us.

The pricing is ridiculous we all know this and it’s the main reason for the shut down. But the people that did get to go regardless, most of the experience came from the cast members who worked there. Props to them for everything they did to make the starcrusier feel very alive and interactive. I almost had the opportunity to work on the starcrusier but i did pass on it, but I know friends who took the offers and it was one of their best job positions.

Just for context, I spent a little over $5,000 to backpack europe for 30 days visiting 8 countries. That price includes airfare and my hostels/hotels every night. Or i could have spent that money on a windowless hotel room that looks like the jail cell in Andor to cosplay in a generic space environment for 48 hours…

Disney should really just hire this man for designing fan experiences. He has more of an idea of what fans want than Disney ever will and it's been proven over and over again the past 5 plus years.

Three hotel towers (example) Tatooine, Endor, Deathstar. All with various price points depending on how luxurious your room is. Each tower fully themed of course but also having its own unique star wars attractions e.g. Endor has a huge forest jungle gym, Tatooine has the original bar with the original band (animatronic or live actors) Death Star has a massive high class restaurant where Vader and the emperor stride through intermittently. I am but a pleb, imagine what actual fully fledged Imagineers could come up with. A one eyed monkey could come up with a better concept than Disney's so called "award winning" effort. Pricing mostly everyone out of a popular franchise, especially when it's aimed at kids who will NEVER get to see it thanks to the rip off price is DISGUSTING. Good riddance Galactic failure.

The more they try to jam the sequel trilogy down our throats, the more I hate it. I am happy this failed. Disney deserves nothing until Kathleen is gone and they start pumping out REAL Star Wars content.

I love how Theory just came up with a better hotel experience in 5 minutes than Disney did for years

I’ve never heard of this but the fact that they made an incredibly expensive hotel (both to maintain for Disney and to stay at for customers) and immediately alienated the majority of the fandom and virtually all hardcore fans by making it sequel trilogy only means it was only doomed for failure.

They need to include multiple unique experiences for all age groups like a romantic getaway vacation based on Padme and Anakin's trip, a cantina hopping experience, the gambling planet from Last Jedi, etc.

Disney's hubris and insanity is beyond belief. How do these fools reach such heights of power?

Damn those 5 people who went there are probably very sad about this.

You could literally spend a week enjoying Disneyland for $5000, that price is ridiculous.

You gave a good message, with wonderful ideas. I do like the immersion aspect that they were trying to do. They could definitely make a laser tag battle where one side suits up as stormtroopers and the other rebels. Just being immersed in the galaxy of Star Wars.

We all knew this was going to happen sooner or later. I still think it's very strange that it never actually looked like a Star Wars attraction. Same goes for the park itself. Why on earth didn't they make Tatooine with the cantina and Jabba's palace etc... or Endor with an Ewok village.

It's way too expensive. I'm surprised it took this long for it to close down

To be accurate, Theory, the “voyage” costs around $1,200 per person per day, with family packages reaching closer to $6,000 for the two-day experience. Still a ridiculous rip off.

They should have tried a moderately priced SW themed hotel first… a hotel that is branded like THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY … where you can stay the week and enjoy leisure … not be overwhelmed with schedule commitments to see dinner theatre …

Disney seeing the Star Cruiser sales: “Time to abandon ship” 😂

I remember when this hotel came out a bunch of content creators got invited and shilled the hell out of it trying to convince people that it was worth the money, what an absolute joke 😂

The fact that this isn’t sold out for the next 3 years tells you everything you need to know about it.

On another note: We went to Galaxy's Edge at Disney World this summer, and I have to say I was pretty bored walking around looking at stuff. It was sad to me, because I love Star Wars, and am an OG trilogy fan since 1977. They could have made this awesome and interesting. Meeting Chewie at Launch Bay and seeing the ship models was far more interesting to me than the Galaxy's Edge garbage. While the Resistance ride was loaded with uninteresting sequel trilogy stuff I had no interest in, the illusion of being transported off-world was very impressive. I enjoyed seeing the Millennium Falcon and riding Smuggler's Run. I got a big kick out of that. Sad story: I felt like Rey was only focusing on meeting with girls, and pretty much ignored any boys that wanted to meet her. My son was up next to talk to her and get a picture, she broke away from talking to a couple of girls, left my son hanging and walked to the other side of the section we were in to talk to a baby that wasn't in line to see her, and then she left. I felt bad for my son, and that really hurt me as a parent to know my son was ignored, but I flipped the script for my little guy and played it like he was protecting Rey from the First Order who was showing up shortly after. I guess the Force is Female at the parks.

I stayed there last June with my nieces. It wasn't really a hotel so much as it was like going on a cruise ship. We had a great time. They fed us. They entertained us with live music. They docked the ship and let us out to explore the mainland (Galaxy's Edge's Batuu). It should have been marketed as a cruise in the Star Wars universe, not as a hotel. We hardly spent any time in our room, which was small. It was just a place to sleep and shower. The biggest problem, as anyone and everyone will point out, was that it was based on the Disney sequels, which were demonstrably terrible. No Luke Skywalker. No Darth Vader. If they had themed this on the original trilogy it might have worked. There was an engineering room much like an escape room. They had a running storyline based on the First Order and, spoiler alert, Rey and Kylo Ren showed up. When I left I thought, "There's no way this will survive the test of time and I'm sure it will be gone in a few years unless they re-theme it." Long defunct Disney attractions take on a legendary status after they're gone, and I'm glad I got to experience this in all its glory and inevitable doom.

I really want to hear from cast members and actors who were apart of this and hear about their experiences. It's insanely expensive, but I also want to know what Disney's payroll looks like to make this all work.

Can we just appreciate how he sat here and gave this more thought and planning in a 17-minute video that Disney did with, for all intents and purposes LITERAL, unlimited power?

They should have made a hotel where each floor is a different planet with it’s own experience.

Oh no! Who could’ve seen this coming??

If Universal made a Hogwarts Hotel...THAT would kill.

The pricing is absolutely what killed this. Locking things down to the sequel's definitely hurt it as well but I feel like most fans regardless of their preferred trilogy would've checked it out at least once if it was at a reasonable price.

I think Disney's biggest mistake with this specific business venture was making the assumption that any demographic old enough to have that kind of money to burn would want to spend it on a sequel trilogy experience at all. Then they also assumed parents with money would just take their kids there when a cheaper Harry Potter experience is right next door to them. Like honestly, I'd really love to know who in their marketing team ever thought this would ever lift off the ground, it's priced at a 5 star hotel level experience while being a theme park for a child focused universe.

A Star Wars Kamino themed Hotel would have worked very well on a Cruise Ship, and may have justified a bigger price tag. However, 5k is beyond the pale, and nobody is going to pay that much for the ridiculous Cruiser/Hotel disney built with the sequel theme nobody wants, even if they can afford to stay there.

This is a 10 on the f-around and find out scale!!!! Love the irony and glad to see it happen! Sorry about those innocent caught in the collateral damage! But until there is major failure, they won’t correct it!

I definitely agree about the whole theme park. I think it should have been divided by time periods. The first land would be the prequels. With three different areas/planets. Naboo, Coresuant, and Camino. Then the Original trilogy, with Tatooine, Death Star, Hoth. Lastly the sequel trilogy or what ever they do next. I would also use the shows as a transfer between trilogies. You could have the Two separate experiences as an option. The rebels/light or the empire/dark. Here I would barrow from The old republic. With Jedi/Sith, solders/bounty hunter, and smuggler/agent. I also like what you said about the premium prices and suits, and the different themed hotels. Those are good ideas and should have been done from the beginning

I originally told my friend that the Hotel's "lightsaber training" should've been a dojo style 30-60 minute lesson on lightsaber training A "master" explaining the meaning of Lightsaber color, forms, and letting attendants to spar Edit: I meant 30-60 minute long lesson

If it were prequel trilogy it could have been a Jedi temple themed. 6000 dollars dollars is too much to ask for.

It should just be nicely themed rooms in a hotel. Cantina type bar/grill. Making it an interactive role play experience isolates a huge chunk of the fans that are not extroverted. It definitely should be OT and Prequel themed as well. Have activities for kids, but don't make it a mystery theater type of thing.

I moved to my new farm the week this opened… And I find it hilarious that it took longer for me to unpack everything, than the hotel survived.😂🤦‍♀️

Congratulations, you've just won the award for "Last one to the party". This is old news now, but thank you for playing.🎉

Become a Sith on Mustafar (or on the Death Star), a Jedi on Coruscant (or on Dagobah w/ Yoda), a Mandalorian on Mandalore (maybe you could even duel to win the Darksaber). Other possible things: - You could jump in Luke's X-Wing and try to destroy the Death Star - Pod racing on Tatooine - Hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise

This is one of the most unshocking news I've heard 1:30 "ridiculous theme, ridiculous price" perfectly put

What we wish Disney would do: 1. Jedi Temple Experience (Not one of the random temples, do Coruscant) 2. Sith Temple Experience (Star Wars version of a haunted house) 3. Galactic Senate Experience (Become a Senator in the Senate Chamber) 4. Rebel Alliance Base Experience (Yavin or Hoth) 5. Star Destroyer or Death Star Experience (Darth Vader's Executor) 6. Bounty Hunters Guild Experience (Navarro or something on Mandalore) Create a hotel incorporating those 6 themes at realistic prices and it will generate insane amounts of cash and fandom hype. You don't have to build 'entire' structures, although that would be cool, but just elements to create the environment and proper atmosphere. Everyone would want to do it. Hotel problem solved.

It was $5k total for a week at WDW for my honeymoon. That included airfare, food, lodging, tickets to all the parks and money for souvenirs…better off going that route.

Disney's entire plan after buying Star Wars was to make Star Wars their own by remake it with the Sequel Trilogy. That is why the theme parks are based on the Sequel Trilogy because they don't care about the prequels or the originals.

5000$ per night???? For that money I’m expecting a real lightsaber

Your words remind me of the promo videos for 'Star Tours' that played while you were waiting in line. They actually advertised skiing trips on Hoth, desert treks on Tatooine, & nature retreats on Endor. Disney already laid the groundwork for how they could tackle doing a Star Wars themed vacation package over 40 years ago (at least in terms of the approach of basing it on multiple classic locations from the movies), and they just ignored it!

I'd like a quasar lazar type holiday where you can stay in a rebel ship themed hotel then during day 1- fight your way to the star destroyer or death star ultimately, and stay in hotel areas themed like those areas. Like a choose your adventure RPG themed holiday but with lazer tag guns

You hit the nail on the head. If it was OT or Prequels, I would pay that price. But let the dream go Theory... Sadly they will never accept that focusing on the sequels was even a factor.

This was my experience too. We didn’t stay at the Star Wars hotel, but we went to the outpost. Pay walls everywhere, essence of Star Wars that just doesn’t feel organized or well planned. They just cranked out a sequel trilogy park to crank it out.

"Some blue shrimp."... "Ok, so they just made some shrimp blue." 😂😂😂

It was never going to succeed unfortunately with a price tag like that. With that same amount spent on the weekend you can stay at a better hotel at Disney for a week plus going to the parks every day. It just wasn't worth it and honestly surprised it stayed open this long.

With how expensive they made it, I knew it was only a matter of time

"Life's greatest teacher failure is."-Yoda

I think there is also something to be said about creating an experience that isn't all about making tons of money upfront but instead focuses on developing new customers. What will make you more money long-term, creating a highly exclusive experience that only a select few can partake in or something priced to be more affordable? Sure, you may not make as much from the hotel, but over time you're creating lasting memories for fans and those who will be the next generation of fans who will go on to buy merchandise, share with their kids, etc.

What was so difficult? Make a hotel, design and craft star wars decor. Stormtroopers statues, imp officer staff dress. Main foyer for arrivals looks like space port. Off foyer are Transition rooms, mini cinema/ride which 'transitions' you to your planet of choice (brief flight experience) - Kasshyk, Kamino, Star Destroyer/Imp Station, Coruscant. Room themes. Have another Transition when leaving hotel and outside can be mixture of environments, Tatooine, Kashyk etc. Transition rooms could double as Cinema or communal TV rooms when not being used. The only 'excess expense' in all of this is Transition rooms, which is why I suggest making them multi-use and prevent it pricing it out of the vast majority of your audience. There was nothing in the hotel which justified the price tag. Felt like they were trying to pay for the investment in first year.

Bro why do the beds look like the prison beds from Andor 💀

That’s what happens when you charge $6000…

I just went last week, solo on a week long cruise to the Caribbean for $1800!!!! $5,000 per couple, for 2 days is just nuts.

6:21 You had me at "Maybe Anakin comes in..." lmaooo

Imagine how much money they “could” make if they had only expanded universe continuity and you had to fought off a Sith boarding party as a group event.

For $5000 per night, you should be able to pick which trilogy you want your custom experience based on... THAT would be "the most inclusive experience possible." And yeah, I know this idea is a logistical impossibility... But so is the entire business model for a Star Wars hotel charging $5000 per night so...

Imagine having like a theme for your suite. You can choose any era. There’s a wall sized screen as a “window” and for whatever temperature you have the thermostat set to, it’ll go to a corresponding planet (I.e. prequel trilogy goes to Mygeeto if it’s cold, Felucia if it’s hot) and you can set it to randomly select a hot/cold planet from that era. As the fan kicks on, the screen shows you taking off and jumping to hyperspace. Maybe it lands you near a battle and you hear some ambient battle sounds in the background, or just the sounds of the local fauna.

your kid voice is hilarious. and that clip with anakin and the younglings...just too funny.

The simple fact that they have decided to close, instead of lowering the price, indicates the only interest of disney in this disaster

Some people love the prequel trilogy and some people don't. Some people love the sequel trilogy and most, sorry, some people don't. What unites everyone is the original trilogy. If Disney chose to make this about Bespin during the events of the Empire Strikes Back they would make all of the money.

Though I haven't been, they did apparently have a rebel side and a empire side that would change the quests you do, and there is a hologram of Yoda on the rebel missions at one point. Also it's $5,000 for 2 nights BUT it's still way too expensive for what wasn't a proper Star Wars themed hotel and definitely in the wrong trilogy area

The temple/guild is great idea. Especially if cosplay/roleplay comes in and a costume shop sells everything Star Wars related needed. Very important: props in every price category/quality. From $20 china costume to $2000 Mandalorian armor which includes visiting the disneyland-tailor team backstage to get it right.

Sequel themed! 🤣"Good...I can feel your anger."

Whoever thought of 5k a night should be fired, shamed, and banned from ever making a business decision again.

So that Vader immortal VR experience was called the void at Disney Springs Orlando and in downtown Disney, California. I was working for the company and was contracted through Disney from when it opened, and when it closed. I was a service technician there and worked on everything behind the scenes, how the operation works, and everything else in between. I have so many crazy stories about this cannon story that can no longer be experienced, and how easy it can be done in real life.

Hang in there brother. You are voicing the concerns for a lot of fans in this frustrating time in the fandom and it's appreciated.

They really shouldn't have charged a kidney for it

Another victory against the evil Disney!

Why not make a Mos Eisley style Inn with a restaurant themed like the cantina? Complete with an in-costume band playing all the jams from the movies? This way you don’t have to stick with this idea of locking people in a box with no way out. It allows people to visit other parts of the park as well as staying at the inn.

Ya know there was a play center before that was constructed as a small town filled with tiny buildings for kids to go to and pretend to hold a job of various trades to run a little community. Could do something like that for an area that can let you take on the various roles you mentioned(Jedi/sith temples, a guild, recruiting centers to be a rebel or imperial, etc) could even have a legit cantina with an animatronic band playing every now and then. UPDATE: it’s Kidzania

Along with these good ideas, can we also say any outdoor experience takes place on a subtropical planet with only a single star? Makes being outside in Florida more immersive.

The Prequels are my favorite era of Star Wars

Ironically, I'm reminded of booster terrick's star destroyer turned casino resort and smuggling den by your description.

I was planning on going. However, when Disney released their pricing, I decided against it. Ridiculous.

They should have made a huge hotel with different wings. Like one a Star Wars wing and another, a Disney princess wing.

A Bounty Hunter's guild would be cool. They could participate in minigames/arcade games in the suite and earn enough "Credits" to get upgrades for their experience such as a free desert or the kids could purchase "beskar" for their "armor". And maybe the suite experience could end with their bounty hunter career "retiring" and if they were ever to return their leftover credits could be maintained etc, incentivising the diehard disney goers to make repeat trips to get the "full experience"

Good! I mean if I was to take my family on vacation with a $6,000 budget (which is how much it costs for hotel Star Wars) then I 100% would not go to some hotel mascaraing as Star Wars with plastic artwork. I’d go to Hawaii or Europe, or Australia. Somewhere where it’d be memorable. It was the price that killed them.

When they said star wars resort, I was hoping they would opt for a range of accomodations. Imagine 4 different areas with distinct themes. One is maybe an imperial base that looks exactly like you'd expect, one is like a bunch of individual villas themed like Tattooine-style homes and such, another themed like the Jedi Temple with the lightsaber emblem in polished metal everywhere intended as a middle of the road option, and maybe like a central tower or building themed as a luxurious Coruscant hotel or even Canto Bight resort and casino.

disregarding the gargantuan cost of staying at the hotel, you could not possibly, and by possibly i mean; by every single calculation in all scientific reality known to man, create a fully immersive SW experience, by having one section of the guests go all in on (absurdly expensive/out of stock) costumes, immersion, and general geekery, while the other section was dripping with Disney merchandise (on hotel grounds) and pampered A++ hotel mentality, ready with their smartphones to capture every scripted moment in this funtime romp fanfare.

They shot themselves in the foot with that one 100%

Jedi/Sith temple is the EASIEST thing to make. There are already blueprints for it and it could even be Nickelodeon styled obstacles like hidden temple. Instead of being original, they went safe (again) but Star Wars is not safe. It’s groundbreaking and always has been.

They should've done themed destinations around the world. A Mos Eisely cantina/casino in Vegas. Cruise ships themed after the cruisers from ALL three eras. Like the top decks themed after Naboo. Rear section is Imperial while foreward is CIS or Rebel. IDK, its so obvious they really didn't care about SW fans. This was almost too easy to plan and yet the drop the ball....

The thing that ruined this the most was the price. 98% of people can’t afford a $4,000+ two night hotel stay and those who can won’t be going multiple times. That $4,000+ can be spent so many better ways. It’s a gigantic waste of time and money.

I think the concept is super awesome, I’d love to live there. I’ve always wanted to have a Star Wars themed house/room, BUT yikes… the price is just far too much. For 5K I could literally just buy the stuff I need to build a Star Wars themed room that looks like similar to that lol.

Awe, I’m sad. No more Star Wars Galactic Prison Stays

The price point is crazy I agree with that. The scope for repeat visits is also zero given it’s just one story in one time period. Star Wars in 2023 is still quite niche for the mass appeal this needed. That said I have not heard of a single person who has done this who hasn’t said it was an absolute brilliant experience. Rather than criticising from a far i would challenge you to go try it before it closes to get a personal experience of it. I would be surprised if you came out of it still thinking the experience “sucks” once you’ve done that.

I am ready for them to go under and be forced to sell off the IP.

The weird thing is I mentioned this for an assignment for my Uni course. The assignment was to make a presentation about Disneyland (one of the sub-categories was theme parks), so I decided to do it about Galaxies Edge and mentioned the Galactic Starcruiser and how expensive it and how it's not really a hotel but.... an experience. I just find it odd that I talked about it only for it to be set to be closed a few days after I completed that assignment. As for the Galactic Starcruiser on it own.... I feel they messed up with it, too much money, especially for those outside of the US, like myself, and the era I feel doesn't really suit it as I'm presuming it's set between TLJ and TRoS and I just don't think that's a great time to set it as there seemed to be a lot of conflict in that time. Where as I believe it might have been better to set it either during the Clone Wars (sure, there was a war going on, but people seemed pretty chill about it) or the Reign of the Empire? That way, they could keep their little mini adventures where a Rebel Spy is sneaking around avoiding Stormtroopers. I don't know. The overall idea doesn't appeal to me, but I definitely think they could have done better.

Went to Legoland in California many years ago. They had good package deals for the parks with buffet breakfast. The suites were different themes. They had multiple activities throughout the evening. One of the really neat things was a “scavenger” hunt to figure out the combination to a safe in the room that had a small Lego kit in it. I do not know what the Disney package included. The passes for the park are quite expensive per person per day. This would obviously be a factor of the price. What is the cost for a few nights at other Disney resorts? What is included in the package?

I feel like it simply could’ve been a Star Wars- themed hotel with cool stuff in it, characters, and a cantina restaurant priced like the other Disney resorts and they would’ve made a killing. And maybe if you stay there you get early or late night access to galaxys edge