Galactic Starcruiser Closing Permanently In September!

[RivShore]

I wonder how much of business plan was made for this.
If that building cost 350 million dollar to build, the hotel only has 100 rooms, and let's say the average price people pay is $7,000 per stay, that is 12 million per year income. Deducting the operational costs... it would take decades to become profitable.

I think I said that earlier in this thread - I would love to see the slide deck that sold this thing to upper management - what creativity it must have taken to get the numbers to a reasonable place.

 

[jeremywolf81]

Something is up with her channel though, I mean she gets around 4m+ views on her videos but only has 1m in subscribers??? something there doesn't add up.

Other way around. Channels with tons of subscribers but only a few thousand views per video are suspect; having a lot more views than subscribers just means you made good content.

 

[FrannyFrogs]

I watched the entire video and her experience was extremely similar to mine and my DD. We went as a family of 4, but split up to let each kid pursue a different path, and my DH and DD15 had the time of their lives and made friends and lived their Star wars dreams and me and DD13 could not get a toehold into the storyline no matter what and just felt like we were doing laps around the star cruiser feeling useless, rejected, and sad ... Looking back, Jenny is totally right, the gameplay must have just glitched out for us but we didn't know that at the time. I even went up to the desk to ask, what are we not getting?? And the CM was like, oh, just keep looking around and listening and things will happen to you! ...but they really didn't. What a(n expensive) bummer. Anyway we were happy for our family members who are the big Star wars fans, at least!

 

[BusterBluth]

I haven't read through this entire thread but anyone remember the Void's Star Wars experience in Disney Springs? My family and I did that a few times and it was incredible. It seems like the shuttered Starcruiser could be repurposed into a VR attraction. Given its size, I bet you could have several different parties working their way through a VR Star Wars adventure simultaneously. Just knock down some walls between sets of guest quarters, and you've got quite a bit of space for a number of groups.

Didn't they use some kind of special window-less shuttles to take folks from Galaxy's Edge to the Starcruiser? They could be repurposed for the same thing, making the trip seamless for the guest.

Just an opinion but with high-end VR, you could have a 3rd attraction as part of Galaxy's Edge with a fraction of the cost of building a new dark ride. Plus, new content can be created at will, to keep things fresh, much faster than re-skinning or re-theming an existing ride.

 

[adamreisinger]

I haven't read through this entire thread but anyone remember the Void's Star Wars experience in Disney Springs? My family and I did that a few times and it was incredible. It seems like the shuttered Starcruiser could be repurposed into a VR attraction. Given its size, I bet you could have several different parties working their way through a VR Star Wars adventure simultaneously. Just knock down some walls between sets of guest quarters, and you've got quite a bit of space for a number of groups.

Didn't they use some kind of special window-less shuttles to take folks from Galaxy's Edge to the Starcruiser? They could be repurposed for the same thing, making the trip seamless for the guest.

Just an opinion but with high-end VR, you could have a 3rd attraction as part of Galaxy's Edge with a fraction of the cost of building a new dark ride. Plus, new content can be created at will, to keep things fresh, much faster than re-skinning or re-theming an existing ride.

The Void was one of the coolest experiences I've had at WDW (at least the Star Wars one... the Ralph Breaks the Internet one was just a warmed-over reskin). There were times when even though I knew I was standing on a 100% solid floor, I genuinely felt like I was on a rickety bridge over lava and had to walk carefully or risk falling in. It certainly helped that you got to carry an actual prop weapon and not just pretend to hold one in your hands with VR gloves. I'd be all in favor of turning the Galactic Starcruiser space into a massive Star Wars VR experience (maybe they could incorporate lightsaber battles).

 

[BrianL]

I haven't read through this entire thread but anyone remember the Void's Star Wars experience in Disney Springs? My family and I did that a few times and it was incredible. It seems like the shuttered Starcruiser could be repurposed into a VR attraction. Given its size, I bet you could have several different parties working their way through a VR Star Wars adventure simultaneously. Just knock down some walls between sets of guest quarters, and you've got quite a bit of space for a number of groups.

Didn't they use some kind of special window-less shuttles to take folks from Galaxy's Edge to the Starcruiser? They could be repurposed for the same thing, making the trip seamless for the guest.

Just an opinion but with high-end VR, you could have a 3rd attraction as part of Galaxy's Edge with a fraction of the cost of building a new dark ride. Plus, new content can be created at will, to keep things fresh, much faster than re-skinning or re-theming an existing ride.

I loved The Void - so much fun. Disney should totally go all-in on something like that. Set it up in the NBA building.

 

[BusterBluth]

Well, one of the points of this thread is wondering what will become of the starcruiser building. I think if it were put in Disney Springs, they'd be needing a vendor to lease and invest in the property.