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Thanks! Been following along since the lead-up to Volcano Bay opening and never left, haha.Welcome :thumbsup: to posting on IU. Nice review.
Thanks! Been following along since the lead-up to Volcano Bay opening and never left, haha.Welcome :thumbsup: to posting on IU. Nice review.
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WHAT?!?!
Pandora’s food was likely curated by a top WDW chef whereas I see SW:GE food being curated by a DL chef. That could be where the difference comes from.The food and beverage are not getting great reviews (outside of speciality cocktails). Crazy to me. Pandora had some amazing food.
Consider also they raised the discounted ticket prices quite a lot. In may there were 5 day base tickets for $218 or so on undercover tourist. The same ticket is $314 and wont get you into star wars. I don't see how anyone would want to pay that much more for essentially no reason over either planning to go when tickets were cheaper waiting till they can get into SWL.Was at Disney all day yesterday just to get a feel for crowd control. I thought it was going to be slammed but lines were all short wait times and navigating was a breeze. Seems like GE opening spooked a lot of people. Also most AP are blacked out. I’ll be going on Thursday to see The land. The more videos I see the more impressed I am with the execution. Looking forward to shape my own view once I experience it. Food wise theme parks are hit or miss for me because I am vegetarian. This means limited options but I will see what they do have to offer. Hopefully summer won’t be so miserable when they “open” the land to everyone.
Pandora’s food was likely curated by a top WDW chef whereas I see SW:GE food being curated by a DL chef. That could be where the difference comes from.
Was at Disney all day yesterday just to get a feel for crowd control. I thought it was going to be slammed but lines were all short wait times and navigating was a breeze. Seems like GE opening spooked a lot of people. Also most AP are blacked out. I’ll be going on Thursday to see The land. The more videos I see the more impressed I am with the execution. Looking forward to shape my own view once I experience it. Food wise theme parks are hit or miss for me because I am vegetarian. This means limited options but I will see what they do have to offer. Hopefully summer won’t be so miserable when they “open” the land to everyone.
Yea. This is amazing!
Yea. This is amazing!
This land was built for entertainment!
Themed immersion at its finest. This is on another level.
I don't think those characters would fit in the land since the canon for this land is after Last Jedi. Vader is dead and Darth Maul is presumed to be dead now? (He was revived in comics/Clone wars, but this was 60+ years before so idk).
Mice Chat has a nice article on how empty both Disneyland & DCA were from Weds. through Sunday. Most of the major attractions were walk ons and they noted the park is really nice with it's lack of strollers clogging the streets. So, it kind of appears this reservation period will be the perfect time to visit both parks, especially if you don't have a reservation to GESWL. They said crowds resemble those of 20 or more years ago when the parks were more comfortable to visit than with the present day maddening crowds.
Oh it is going to suck anytime after June 23 and especially when RoTR opens. I am just grateful I can spend the next few weeks enjoying Disneyland while I can. I kept pinching myself last Saturday. I thought it was a dream.I think they scared away a lot of guests with unreasonable projections. I'm going to see how this weekend does, June 23, and when Rise of the Resistance opens. I could totally see this being the eye of the storm before the real crowds hit.
Really hoping their Marvel land has things like this also.
The Ollivander wizards are 'excellent'. And I'm sure they've paid for their actor's wages many times over with increased wand sales resulting from those really entertaining theatrics. Plus guests leave with a really good feeling that's hard to replicate in a retail environment.Having watched a few of the Savi's workshop videos (build your own lightsaber) the one thing that I think they should do is hire an actor to lead the workshop. The guy in the videos I've seen seem like standard CMs going off of a script whereas I think they could deepen the immersion of the experience if you have an old/seasoned actor to just give much more weight to the performance.
Similar to the actors used in the wand choosing ceremony at Olivanders would give it that final little OOMPH to completely sell the experience.