Great ideas! I wrote off the Disney Star Wars cruiser almost as soon as they said they were building it… and announced the price. Offering a tiered Star Wars universe experience at multiple price points- including “affordable”, TYVM- might have saved them.
I still desperately want to go, but the price has definitely been a huge hurdle! I'd have gone, like, immediately if it had been priced more like regular Disney hotels. And the basic "cruise" premise just isn't going to appeal to as many people. *I* may want to spend 60 hours fully immersed and in-character, but I suspect I am not representative of society at large. 😅
> And this is, honestly, an easy worldbuilding fix. Slap some signs up in the spaceport warning that “this sector of space is currently experiencing temporal instability; we apologize for any inconvenience or displacement”.
There's already something in the Star Wars universe that can fill in here. The World Between Worlds was one of the sillier aspects of the Rebels cartoon and has been quietly ignored by other parts of the franchise, but it's technically part of the Disney canon and does exactly what you're after.
I was entirely forgetting about that! Oh, totally. It could even be incorporated in a subtle way so that, like, it didn't need explaining for those who didn't know about it, but it could be a little easter egg for those who do.
I think this is especially great because it makes it so people who aren't big fans can go too without feeling too much out of their depth, so if only one member of the family or of the friend group is really into it, they don't have to go alone or have to really convince their friends to accompany them
I agree! Like, I love immersion, but definitely not everyone gets into it to the same extent. So that puts a natural damper on how many people you can convince to give you money. Do I wish fully immersive places could thrive for those who delight in them? Yes. But... ::shrugs in capitalism::
Great ideas! I wrote off the Disney Star Wars cruiser almost as soon as they said they were building it… and announced the price. Offering a tiered Star Wars universe experience at multiple price points- including “affordable”, TYVM- might have saved them.
I still desperately want to go, but the price has definitely been a huge hurdle! I'd have gone, like, immediately if it had been priced more like regular Disney hotels. And the basic "cruise" premise just isn't going to appeal to as many people. *I* may want to spend 60 hours fully immersed and in-character, but I suspect I am not representative of society at large. 😅
This sounds amazing. I've never been to any Disney property, but this would get me there.
I am, for my sins, a bit of a Disney Adult, I confess. 😅
> And this is, honestly, an easy worldbuilding fix. Slap some signs up in the spaceport warning that “this sector of space is currently experiencing temporal instability; we apologize for any inconvenience or displacement”.
There's already something in the Star Wars universe that can fill in here. The World Between Worlds was one of the sillier aspects of the Rebels cartoon and has been quietly ignored by other parts of the franchise, but it's technically part of the Disney canon and does exactly what you're after.
I was entirely forgetting about that! Oh, totally. It could even be incorporated in a subtle way so that, like, it didn't need explaining for those who didn't know about it, but it could be a little easter egg for those who do.
I think this is especially great because it makes it so people who aren't big fans can go too without feeling too much out of their depth, so if only one member of the family or of the friend group is really into it, they don't have to go alone or have to really convince their friends to accompany them
I agree! Like, I love immersion, but definitely not everyone gets into it to the same extent. So that puts a natural damper on how many people you can convince to give you money. Do I wish fully immersive places could thrive for those who delight in them? Yes. But... ::shrugs in capitalism::