re: Disney tacitly admits it made a multi-billion dollar mistake with 'Star Wars' land

No. There isn't. You might want to go back and read your own link. Here's the important portion for you:

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Featuring Favorite Star Wars Characters

Your adventure may take you face-to-face with First Order villain Kylo Ren, menacing bounty hunter Boba Fett, ace pilot Poe Dameron, Princess Leia or Jedi Master Yoda—plus many more.

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Hold on tight as urgent transmissions from Ahsoka Tano, Cassian Andor, the Mandalorian and Grogu may soon be part of your next Starspeeder flight.

Embark on an exciting Star Wars adventure featuring characters and locations from some of your favorite Disney+ series. With these additions, you’ll have the opportunity to experience one of more than 250 storyline variations, including a visit to the planet Seatos from Ahsoka. Because the many story twists are random, you never know where you’ll go or who you may encounter along the way!

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If you are lucky, you MIGHT get some original trilogy content on Star Tours. However, this is extremely unlikely because the scenes you get are "random" and Disney Star Wars is much more likely to promote Disney Star Wars instead of OT Star Wars.

ETA: The Star Tours you remember died with the sequel trilogy. They've been desecrating its corpse ever since.

C3P0 is still the "guide," or was the last time we went, but they included him in the sequel trilogy, so they didn't really have to change that part. To that end, the line is still close to the original experience.

To guarantee you see OT stuff on the actual ride, you have to either get really lucky or ride it multiple times. We usually don't have time to ride it more than once so we get what we get and move on. Usually we get disappointment and nausea (only Disney ride that does this to me).

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The article doesn’t mention the $2500 a night Star Wars hotel that no one went to. Disney lost their arse off on that.

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The cringe promo video for the hotel that Disney inexplicably made, reviewed, and was like “oh yeah, this is gonna sell it” is among the worst things to ever come out of the parks division.

I don’t put any stock into a thing Fox News has to say about pretty much anything but they’re totally spot on about this; Kennedy sucks and destroyed what used to be a tentpole franchise

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The article doesn’t mention the $2500 a night Star Wars hotel that no one went to. Disney lost their arse off on that.

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The editorial isn't interested in financial analysis. It's the typical beating of a dead Kennedy. Makes sense, as that's what the people here eat up. Won't stop, can't stop, it seems.

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to invest this money in order to support the new trilogy, which they thought would erase the old one in the minds of fans.

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You think Star Wars is the only one trying to erase the traditional feeling, storytelling, characters, world and ideas?

Outside of maybe Maverick, most other remakes and sequels from 70s to 90s stuff is strictly to "reinvent" it to subvert expectations and to destroy the originals.

Add all of the Narnia, Marvel, etc.

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Not only were they not used as a template, Kennedy quite literally threw them in the trash and started from scratch. Do we know what the template was supposed to be?

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Honestly the template in force awakens seemed fine.


It was clearly rian Johnson who screwed everything up.



I wonder what the series could have been with JJ Abrams controlling the whole thing.

The last Jedi sucked but it clearly was screwed over by what came immediately before it

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Honestly the template in force awakens seemed fine.

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I had my issues with it being a remake of A New Hope but I would agree in a vacuum it was a decent start. It made fans excited and set up a lot of questions for the fan base moving forward. I was definitely invested in Rey's journey and was looking forward to seeing Finn and Poe as well.

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It was clearly rian Johnson who screwed everything up.

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Rian Johnson was merely a symptom of an overarching disease called Kathleen Kennedy. She is the one who ultimately told J.J. Abrams to focus on a brand new set of characters with little regard to the OG characters. I may be misremembering but I believe Abrams went through several drafts but had to abandon them because the story kept gravitating toward Luke (which should tell you something as a creative). Instead he solved this problem by beginning the final draft with the line: "Luke Skywalker is missing..."

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Then reality struck: they made a trilogy that destroyed the OG characters. They elevated an insufferably annoying mary sue girl boss, added a pathetic loser son of Han, a divorced Leia and Han, a disillusioned and bitter Luke, and then killed Luke, Han, and Leia.

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Simple and to the point as to what went wrong.

Galaxy's Edge should've always been Galactic Civil War era.

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The level of hubris around this is one for the business industry history books.

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This

This

So fricking this!!!!!

Saw original Star Wars 13 times in the theater during first run (was in the theater for almost 2 years).

Loved it. The characters. The world's. Everything.

Was fired up for the prequels. But for JarJar and miticlorians, Phantom Menace would have been a borderline great movie. Overall, not a good as the original, but not a complete disaster either.

Force Awakens was an entertaining, albeit fairly unoriginal film, but as the author said, it set things up and built interest. Rogue One came next and was a great film - perfectly setting up the original trilogy (little did we know there would be a prequel [Andor] that was one if the best series ever).

Then TLJ. The frick... seriously, what the frick? I was infuriated leaving the theater. It was as if TPTB decided to nuke the whole fricking franchise - and Solo (which is not a bad film) absolutely suffered the consequences. Rise of Skywalker was a hot mess that in trying to course correct, just made things worse.

When Kennedy's epitaph is written, history will not be kind.