He set up a bounded sandbox for people to play in & enforced certain ground rules to ensure the integrity of his movies and of the brand itself.
Funny that. George Lucas main rule for others to write for Star Wars was not to write anything that would fuck up what happened in the OT, so that it doesn't get invalidated...
Then came Disney with the express objective to fuck as much with the OT as possible and invalidate it as quickly as possible.
Didn't I already show them? I think I remember posting their concept art somewhere after page 500 nearing the end of my GE info dump. They all have a BB-8 aesthetic with primary white and orange colors and devices resembling BB-8. I'd post it again but I really can't remember on page it was on and the search function sucks for me. I search for posts only by me and I'll get posts from everyone or no posts at all. Anyway, the rooms are divided into 3 classes, lower class, first class and captains cabins. First class resembles the concept art I posted before, I don't know what the captain cabins look like but both it and first class are even more stupidly expensive, and as for lower peasant class I do have a picture of the 3D model of the room.
This looks like a bunny cage, holy shit. There isn't even a second room for the bunk beds, it has all the luxury appeal of a tiny caravan trailer, but without any of the coziness.
Also, thanks for posting, if you posted them already, I must have either missed them or my brain is doing that thing again, where it deletes information it deems too stupid and insane to be real. It happened at least twice in this thread already, you know.
Plus, I find the idea of a bus-based 'transport' between the hotel and GE to be laughable. Unless that's an electric bus made by Tesla, how the fuck are you going to disguise the signature noise of a massive diesel engine? You can only soundproof a bus so much! Plus, since it's only EVER going between two places, why not just build an electric tramway or something that's less likely to break down halfway between the ship and space, which after evacuating the passengers ruins the illusion because SURPRISE! you're in a back area of Disney World in Florida.
That's what I don't get either. You could literally built it like a horizontal elevator and have that box go from Hotel to Park on a rail. You could have two such things alternating to increase the number of people that can travel with it per time unit. You could place it within a fake Shuttle that acts as the access point, but remains in place and the car drives off to an identical shuttle on the other side of the rail, so people have the illusion that they actually traveled from one place to the other in that shuttle.
Or - and this is now going absolutely wild! - you built a rail system, where the car can travel different routes and the car itself has actuators that shake and move the passenger compartment... and then you can have that ship drive along a of maybe 3 or 4 different rails, two which are rather smooth but with a few distinct curves here and there to make them feel different and maybe two that are rather shakey (one being shakey all the way and one being shakey only on the half of the track that is close to the park). And then you show different videos when the shuttle "launches", for instance, when there's bad weather irl, you send the ship on shakey path #2 and have a video where it actually starts in the rain, goes through the cloud layer and the shaking stops.
Essentially, turn the ride to its own little attraction. People pay a grand per room, make them actually feel like they got something in return...
But you can also just hotglue some crap to a regular bus and have them sleep in less comfort than a rundown coffin-hotel, that's fine too, I guess.
A good franchise is one that can be enjoyed by multiple generations or a family that chooses to watch it together. Disney rejects this idea and instead caters to those whose interests are so fleeting that they will abandon the franchise if and when Disney's SW content slows down or goes on any sort of hiatus.
See, good entertainment aims to be enjoyable for a wide variety of tastes - hell, even the cheap cash-in-shit tries this.
But a movie that enjoys kids with kid friendly stuff, the parents with some more sophisticaed wit and the teenagers with a few innuendos here and there, it's all good.
Disney instead decided to cater to the self-righteous, unbearably smug shitheads that ruin every thanksgiving with their faux-marxism and their soy-addiction that they never shut up about.
Force ghost leia and luke actually fucking fighting Palpatine!
It'll be a straight rip-off from Guardians of the Galaxy.
Palpatine will unleash his Sith Lightning against Rey, who will try to withstand the blast, then Leia, Luke, Han and whoever else Disney drags in front of the camera will manifest as Force Ghosts, they will put their hands on Rey's back to support her and then she'll have the strength to endure the attack.
Who am I kidding, the moment Luke and Han lay their hands on her back, she'll go "Oh no bitch you didn't, the force is female", sass-snap and thus shrug off the attack.
I somewhat agree but you see, its very clear they truly dont know how to make Rise of Skywalker works, as we have seen very little of the actual movie in fact...the recent trailer was just shots of the older movies (as if like "hey guys, remember when you actually used to like Star Wars? Before we bought it? Good times...!") and just a few shots of the actual new movie (and dont throw me that garbage of "they dont want to spoil it" or else they wouldnt have shown "Dark Rey" )
It can't be stated enough:
Disney is trying to peddle this "Watch the great Skywalker Saga come to its end" angle, but they simultaneously try to not invalidate TLJ (which ruined Luke) and also they bring up Palpatine to pander to the old fans. But if Palpatine actually is alive in any capacity, be that as a ghost that possessed some dude, as a clone, as his own self that miraculously survived, it means that Luke, through and through, failed, all his life.
So essentially, IX is trying to sell us the legend of Luke, while going out of its way to obliterate it in any way.
And then the movie supposedly ends with Luke's story being broadcasted to inspire hope, but what part would do that?
When he failed to defeat the emperor (who just recently returned)? When he failed to create a lasting government, that would defend its citizens? When he failed to rebuilt the Jedi order? When he failed to train his nephew? When he contemplated murdering his nephew in his sleep? When he decided to run away and hide in the ass end of the universe? When he refused to help a direct call for help from his sister?
This movie, again like TLJ, just takes a huge dump on Luke and his achievements by taking away his last remaining and most important achievement: Destroying the Emperor for good.
Remember all these articles popping up a little while ago that pointed out that we simply can't know for sure whether Palpatine is dead or not? It was a reaction to the first teaser using the Palpatine laugh... but I'm a cynical bastard and I think Disney ordered these articles being written to soften up people for the inevitable move of desperation that breaks more than it repairs: Palpatine is still alive (And thus, Luke is a failure).
I don't even know what's worse, Ruin Johnson who aimed and fired when he assassinated Luke or if it's Jar Jar, who doesn't seem to think things through (since he's pretty much just stealing ideas and "the third movie in the trilogy has to have Palpatine getting killed in it goddamnit!") and then ends up shooting Luke's corpse, again, out of neglect.
Does nu-Lucasfilm really think this is enough to get old fans interested? Normalfags will think it looks weird and won't understand the context or origin, and old fans who knew about this won't care because Disney content sucks and its not even the same character, just more hollow member berries that don't mean anything, although its weird that they picked something as obscure as C-3PX to reference.
The core audience for Star Wars is now literally this:
Plus soy and self-righteous fury.
There's definitely something fishy going on with how Disney's been managing this shit and responding to people. All of a sudden I'm seeing way less hate articles and russian bot bs, and now Kennedy is talking about how she loves fans and negative feedback. They're clearly worried since just a year ago even JJ was hating on fans claiming that people were just intimidated by stronk wymen, now the guy's singing a completely different tune. Are they trying to butter up to fans with empty sugar-coated words that mean nothing in order to advertise a movie that was made with zero attempt to appeal to anyone other than themselves and their business partners?
Ghostbustettes did the same thing. Once Feig and Sony realized their aggressive marketing bullshit that tried to force every critic into silence by shaming them as manbabies did more harm than good, they made a few token efforts to paddle back. It was too late then, it is too late now.
Endor will be visited at some point and it reveals the names of several new characters from the show, so this is a pretty big leak for the Mandalorian.
Holy fucking shit, I didn't even think of it like this. The rather benign leak of toys has spoilered something major, hitherto unseen in the Disney Star Wars era, if the leaks are correct the way you said.
There's going to be actual characters in the show? Like, with personalities and goals and stuff? That idea is so crazy, it might acutally work!
Somewhat related, Disney's writing and especially the nu-EU books alway make me shudder when I read about them here.
There are people who can make a pretty decent livelihood with writing like this. Just think about it for a while. Feels revolting, doesn't it?
For me, the worst part is that these assholes actually win awards with this garbage.
That's the icing on the cake. Shitty writers writing shitty novels is one thing, but having a company shell out money to bestow these people with absolutely unearned awards is absolutely depressing.
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