Oh, heh. I guess, especially since it's come up here a lot, I would be curious about the thought process that led them to base the land on the new trilogy instead of something else, if there were any other plans that were tossed in favor of this one, etc.
The all important one, what kind of attendance increase did they expect to see?
Yea I was not sure about the music. I could not tell what they were playing from the videos I watched and we are not going to Oga’s until February, but that is good to hear.
Yes, this. No one was questioning the comparison between HP and SWGE before approximately May 31, 2019. SWGE was widely accepted as being Disney's "answer" to HP, which would relegate HP (and Universal Studios) back to second tier status. It was only after that didn't happen that suddenly comparing the two is inapt and unfair. I still think this comes down to hindsight bias. I think SW and HP, as fan-driven intellectual properties, were assumed to be more similar than we can now see they are.
Absolutely.
Ask Kathleen Kennedy how she envisions Batuu/BSO evolving to become more of a fan favorite.
I understand, of course, that theme parks will be compared, but TEA compares annually. The difference is that there are comparisons being drawn before SWGE has even been open for more than a few months and isn't even complete. Give it a year or three and the comparison will be more apples-to-apples. I mean, I think everyone knows that if you simply look at the numbers, Disney blows every other theme park out of the water.
Simply, this isn't what you said before. In your prior post. Earlier, you said comparing HP to SWGE is unfair because each was favored by different generational age groups.
I know the Story Group was involved in the development of Galaxy's Edge, and they're basically responsible for the "story" of Batuu as it evolves through other media.
I always knew that building a Star Wars land would come with greater challenges compared to Harry Potter.
I believe the droid mat is relatively new - like a week or so ago it appeared
A guests of Batuu Experience Team would be perfect!
It's right beside where the storm troopers go on the roof, across from Droid Depot and Rontos.
Yes! And you know what's aggravating? People saying that Dorian was not even an event. That is true, it didn't amount to much but it did make a lot of people cancel their vacations. So while it didn't affect us while we were there, the possibility of it did cause many people to postpone trips. I imagine that was a decent amount of money and a significant loss to earnings. Anytime a large amount of money is spent on building something new I would expect the initial financials would have shown closer to a break-even scenario and it did not. I don't see that as a "failure"
I thought the earnings report was very good for Disney. I’m sure there was some champagne in the board room! The report did note that attendance fell again in DL (I couldn’t find the info on WDW), and that the higher earnings were due to higher ticket prices, higher prices on food and merchandise, and greater customer spending. I guess all those $200 lightsabers did their job! Disney might have found the magic spot on the bell curve where prices got high enough to reduce demand, while still increasing profits. I’m very interested to see how things go after ROTR, but the report bodes well for Disney’s investment in SWGE.
