The vast majority of summer days for 2022 are still available if someone is interested in booking a trip aboard the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser. For Disney, this is one of those previously rare PR blunders where people can now see there’s a real problem. I say “previously” because you may have noticed Disney making significant missteps in the last couple of weeks.
There are a few things to note here. Yes, it would seem that Disney has sold out all dates in April, May, and June. I’ve always said that was sort of a given, but I’m also now not so sure they’re doing so. Ask yourself, is it in Disney’s interest to have open dates close to the present tense, or would they be better served closing the month out as we get too close? I honestly think they’d sacrifice thousands of dollars to prevent a negative round of press that could lead the average person to think this thing is a failure. Do I have any proof that they’re “closing” reservations with empty rooms or by filling those rooms with cast members or charitable organization families? No, not yet. But that is definitely something we’re looking at.
The fact that the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser continues to have most of the summer dates open for reservations is, frankly, quite shocking. We’re not moving towards the middle of April and July, August, September… they’re all fully available. At this point, you’d think that people would also be getting their winter reservations in so they don’t lose out on a premium Christmas gift for a Star Wars fanatic. Yeah, not so much:
So what’s going on here? Well, it has to be making the Disney+ folks sweat about how well Kenobi is going to do. And for reasons that are not so obvious, they really want Kenobi to win.
So let’s go over some of the variables that are likely stalling out reservations for this experience:
- Videos are out there and there are plenty of people who have seen those videos without being very impressed.
- The food has received mediocre and mixed reviews. Paying even more on top of the gargantuan base fee for specialty drinks probably isn’t going over all that well either.
- Star Wars may be on a downward popularity trend. The Book of Boba Fett was roundly defeated in ratings by various Netflix series with far lower budgets.
- The cost is just too high, period.
- The number of people who would be interested in a role-playing, escape room, video game, sequel trilogy mashup for two-days straight… that number has to be pretty low.
- Conservatives seem to be unhappy with Disney’s current direction.
- Moderates seem to want Disney to stop being on any political direction.
- Liberals seem unhappy with Disney’s prior direction and doubt their sincerity.
- On top of that, those that are strongly on the left side of politics also are now not so eager to go to Florida.
Again, as I’ve said a thousand times, I’m not interested in being political, but there are political angles to customers going to Disney World now that Disney has become strongly political. I spoke with a very sincere and honorable man today who told me he had waited years to take his grandchildren to Disney World when they were old enough; now he is staunchly opposed to doing so. I really think we’ve moved into a phase now where Disney has messed up badly enough that there could be a real effect on their bottom line. Remember, they had a stagnant increase in Disney+ subscription growth for half a year after the Gina Carano flub.
One of the things to watch is whether or not Disney shuts the Starcruiser down for a “refurbishment” in early 2023. I just don’t see how they can keep this thing up and running if they’re already struggling to fill reservations. It’s the opening year for crying out loud! And before you think I’m just being negative about the Starcruiser for the sake of being negative, I’ve already done an article where I go over how this can be fixed. It’s definitely fixable. That fix may come sooner rather than later if Disney can’t convince people to fill the hotel even in its first summer.
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Fixing Starcruiser requires a level of introspection that they’re incapable of. They’re so into Woke, diversity is the plot.
TimQ – “They’re so into Woke, diversity is the plot.” …I’m dying? Best line ever and so true!??
What refurbishment can Disney make anyway? It was mentioned in an earlier article that much of the design decisions were forced by safety concerns. Don’t think moving away from the sequels will make much difference too since ultimately this hotel is targeted for a niche among a niche audience rather than general Star Wars fans.
Based on Disney’s direction the past few weeks, Disney believes only the left is abandoning them.
I’m convinced Corporate America believes the left dominates financial decisions. While the astute observer would recognize the left and the right are non-consuming Twitter trolls. The Liberal/Moderate/Conservative is the vast majority, and this group has almost identical politics today.
It’s not so much that the corporate world thinks the left dominates financial decisions.
It’s that the corporate world has been infiltrated by people who are a part of other far left activist groups who are now driving corporate policy.
Disney’s reimagine tomorrow is deeply tied to the Walter Kaitz foundation as wdw pro exposed.
That is what we are up against. Small groups like that foundation who hold an abnormal amount of power and can make life very difficult for those in corporate America.
The way you win is exposing these organizations and their influence to America, and then corporate America feeling comfortable enough that they will survive the blowback from cutting people associated with them loose, even if those types of foundations have their people in media trashing the corporate structure for a while.
Remember, it’s all about stock prices. They fear cutting the far left loose because a crusade can be had which can cause the prices of stocks to lower.
I see everything happening around Disney, right now, and it’s gotten to the point where I just don’t care, anymore. Yes, I’m going to Disney World next week. That trip’s been in the plans for a year, the kids are excited to go, we have had our tickets purchased and reservations made for months. That’s in the bag and we’ll enjoy it as much as we can, but the politicization of everything has really turned everything Disney produces sour.
I grew up Disney and Star Wars. My favorite movie franchises are Star Wars and Indiana Jones. My favorite entertainment character is Indiana Jones – the franchise led me to a love for Archaeology and I ended up studying it in college. We try to head to Disney once every two years, because our family loves it. My parents have a condo in Kissimee, because they love Disney…
I say this, because we want nothing more than to be able to enjoy these properties that we grew up with, and it’s depressing that we cannot.
We’re up against some very nefarious and powerful forces. Disney is not the only corporation pushing this stuff… they’re just in the news, right now, being blasted from every direction, and rightfully so. While I want these companies to suffer for everything they’re doing, I have to remind myself that these forces are global and have a limitless supply of money… They’re hellbent on destroying the US from within, by dismantling our culture, corrupting our entertainment, and creating a divide. They’ve been successful at destroying us from within for over a decade, now… and it just continues.
The good people of this country and the world really need to wake up and pool together their resources to affect real change. Boycotting sounds great, but the people pushing these agendas do not care about the bottom line. That’s exactly how CNN is still a thing. It’s been a failing news organization for years, but they still carry on. The same can be said for The CW, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, etc. What’s a few hundred million dollars, in the grand scheme of things, when you have a pool of hundreds of billions, and with some of these families… trillions? CNN, the pushing of woke culture, etc. are investments. They may lose hundreds of millions, but it’s worth it to spread influence.
We need to do what these Marxists are doing… we need good people (not Right, not Left – just decent human beings) to infiltrate these companies and push a non-agenda agenda. Bring back good storytelling, remove woke, etc. That’s the only way we’ll affect any change, I fear, and that might not be a realistic goal, because these people hire their buddies and whoever else will push the agenda.
Perhaps the only way to really change things, now, is to just cede defeat on our beloved characters/franchises and recreate. That’s what The Daily Wire is doing… they’re producing non-woke movies (just normal movies without agendas) and moving toward DW Kids (non-woke/normal children’s programming). Might be our only option, if we want good storytelling. Pool our resources and create new things…
Sorry… got uber political and off on a tangent, there. Hard not to, these days. It’s depressing as hell out there.