- Aug 7, 2018
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As a consumer and Star Wars fanatic (also not a Disney Hater, just saying) there a few things that have turned me off from this land:
- Took them a tad too long to open imo. The HYPE for Star Wars was at its peak during The Force Awakens. Truly, I think Disney not opening this lands sooner, and around that time, has proven to hurt them. While Solo is not the judge for how all Star Wars films will do in the future, the money was down quite a bit for a Star Wars film. The Last Jedi realllyyyyyy did sour a lot of hardcore fans. Opening a new land based on the divisive new trilogy, with a new location no one is familiar with, is a MAJOR risk. The quality of the land isn't awful, of course, but imagine going to Tatooine!!! Missed opportunity there and Ive felt that from the start.
- Not opening Rise of The Resistance but thats already been discussed.
- Seems like a forced shopping mall thats well Star Wars themed. Someone has brought this up here before but its a really strong point. The shops at WWOHP work so well because they are real stores in the films. So they become an attraction in itself. Other than the way too small Cantina, these are all forced stores. Im not someone who personally is into shopping, so this couldn't be less appealing to me personally. Granted Im not everybody so I understand not EVERYTHING will appeal to me, but without opening Rise, this feels like a super well themed Star Wars shopping mall. So Im not sure how to feel about that. Again, the original location doesn't help here.
- Scaring away the public. Have we ever seen a company advertise to not come? Idk, id want overflow (reasonably) if I were Disney. Make as much $ as humanly possible and they played it safe. Don't ever expect that again from them lol.
Improvements can be made of course. But entertainment sounds desperately needed.
- Took them a tad too long to open imo. The HYPE for Star Wars was at its peak during The Force Awakens. Truly, I think Disney not opening this lands sooner, and around that time, has proven to hurt them. While Solo is not the judge for how all Star Wars films will do in the future, the money was down quite a bit for a Star Wars film. The Last Jedi realllyyyyyy did sour a lot of hardcore fans. Opening a new land based on the divisive new trilogy, with a new location no one is familiar with, is a MAJOR risk. The quality of the land isn't awful, of course, but imagine going to Tatooine!!! Missed opportunity there and Ive felt that from the start.
- Not opening Rise of The Resistance but thats already been discussed.
- Seems like a forced shopping mall thats well Star Wars themed. Someone has brought this up here before but its a really strong point. The shops at WWOHP work so well because they are real stores in the films. So they become an attraction in itself. Other than the way too small Cantina, these are all forced stores. Im not someone who personally is into shopping, so this couldn't be less appealing to me personally. Granted Im not everybody so I understand not EVERYTHING will appeal to me, but without opening Rise, this feels like a super well themed Star Wars shopping mall. So Im not sure how to feel about that. Again, the original location doesn't help here.
- Scaring away the public. Have we ever seen a company advertise to not come? Idk, id want overflow (reasonably) if I were Disney. Make as much $ as humanly possible and they played it safe. Don't ever expect that again from them lol.
Improvements can be made of course. But entertainment sounds desperately needed.