#Disney World

[esperderek]

I have to have a chuckle at the Screenrant article posted recently about the Galactic Starcruiser, which totally wasn't about Jenny Nicholson's video honest.

In part, because early in Nicholson's video, she talks about how unnatural it is to have your influencers speak in adcopy and copyright rather than the more colloquial nicknames, and how it makes the people speaking about the product seem very insincere and, well, paid off. Because normal humans don't speak that way, but advertising does.

What's the first two lines in this article?

"As a life-long fan of Star Wars, there was nothing quite as exciting as finding out that I would be working on the immersive Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser experience. Located at the Walt Disney World Resort, the Galactic Starcruiser opened on March 1, 2022, and welcomed passengers to board a two-day, two-night cruise through the stars, during which they could live out their own Star Wars adventure."

No one talks like this naturally. No one writes like this naturally.

This is supposed to be your passioned defense of the place you worked at, the people you worked with, and the memories you made along the way. C'mon! Why don't you open with a story, perhaps an anecdote about the best moment you had working there, or the devastation of the day you lost your dream job. We need to feel your humanity! But there's nothing of that here, to the point where you can just hear the TM behind Galactic Starcruiser.

The first half of this article continues in this vein, reading like a press release Disney marketing put out, just with past tense rather than present or future tense:

"Essentially, the Starcruiser experience was a 48-hour movie that passengers were actually a part of. It was all facilitated through the "datapad," which was accessed through the Play Disney Parks app."

"To facilitate the overarching immersive experience and storytelling, the Starcruiser built a jam-packed itinerary for each and every guest that would consist of a variety of important activities: the captain's toast at muster, a bridge training exercise, lightsaber training, and more. These types of events were essential to understanding what was happening, as they would give passengers the chance to interact with characters and build their story. This is why the Starcruiser could never be just a hotel; every part of it was designed for enthusiastic interaction."

Like, c'mon. I used to work in television. I've seen and used adcopy in my former job, and this is some serious adcopy. It honestly wouldn't shock me if the author dredged up some old adcopy they had lying around about the topic and just transferred it over, changing the tense. You're not here to sell us this product, because there is no product to sell. It's gone, it's been gone for a year, you don't have to sell us on IT. Speak about your experiences.

The next part is yet another topic that Jenny Nicholson pointed out, the bad faith excuses that influencers and advertisers made for the extreme price point:

"What many people don't know, however, is that the price included much more than just a room. The passengers' food, park tickets, recreation activities on board, non-alcoholic drinks, and more were all included - with merchandise being one of the few additional costs on board."

Which is absolute bad faith reasoning, especially when there are plenty of other vacation options that are ALSO all-inclusive, but are MUCH cheaper and offer MORE amenities than the Galactic Starcruiser did! Including Disney Cruises, owned by the same company! Seriously, you can go on a halfway decent sounding cruise or all-inclusive resort somewhere warm for, like, a week or two and spend far less than GSC cost.

Then the last part is essentially: "All the workers liked working there and the bad reviews afterwards make the workers who worked on it feel sad. :("

Which, like, companies have been hiding behind that reasoning for ages. Curiously, the author never offers....any reasons or stories. WHY did working on it impact you so much? What set it apart, what were the people like, what did you like about working there, why are you so passionate about it even a year later? There's nothing, just a generic sort of "We worked hard." and "We're sad it's gone." Why? How? What happened? The video you're obviously writing this in response to is filled with personal anecdotes and stories, it's the backbone of the video! Again, you need to give us something to show your humanity!

Especially when you consider that Nicholson repeatedly points out that the only highlight about her experience, the only thing that kept the damn thing going was the workers.

She had nothing but praise for them, and nothing but contempt for the higher ups who wasted and abused that enthusiasm, to the point where one of her last points was "Hey, Disney is basically exploiting labor."

Much like Jenny, I'm also not condemning anyone who had a good time working there. Good! If you were having a good time at work, that's great. If you have good memories about the people, awesome. But I'll note two things:

a) That doesn't meant you weren't being exploited, and

b) That doesn't mean you have to be a useful idiot for the corporation you worked for afterwards.

I'm not conspiracy brained enough to go "Oh, Disney TOTALLY forced this article into being.", because a cursory examination of the author's prior works and such suggests a lifelong passion for Star Wars, she did work at the hotel, and she's a Star Wars Editor (whatever THAT means in this day and age) for Screen Rant. Apparently one of the heads of Screen Rant says that Disney had no hand in it either.

Though, I can see why people would think that way. It READS like a press release, not something a normal human being would write about an experience they feel passionate about.

[lifewithchronicpain]

Based on this post

I decided to be kind and add an answer between once or twice and annually.

Bonus question, how many of you as kids started to figure out the wealthy kids based on all your classmates who went to Disney every year and you never went once? I think I figured it out by 8.

[admirerofmeat2398]

We love a man in Pooh bear PJ’s on this blog!

[theforswornelite]

The new Jenny Nicholson video dropped

And she's had enough

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Me and my mum were at Disney World and everyone was running around looking panicked and we were like, “Huh I wonder what that’s about,” and it turned out that Slender Man was there, terrorising the public. 

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[coastercrushes]

First pass on my Epcot Monorail wife! She passes through and says hi to all of her pavilion friends♥️🌈🚝

[adventurelandia]

Pana Vue souvenir slides from Walt Disney World's Pirates of the Caribbean

[poppetsisters]

Me and my girlfriend are watching Jenny Nicholson's video on the Galactic Starcruiser and I had an amazing idea that I'm so mad I didn't say it when it was still up and running: "Someone should have brought film equipment into the hotel, went into the private bedroom and filmed Star Wars themed porn. The sets already built to Disney standards. It would be the most authentic-looking Star Wars porn ever made.” YOU COULD WRITE IT OFF ON YOUR TAXES AS A JOB EXPENSE.

[song-of-baldy-ron]

The most wild part of the Jenny Nicholson video on the Star Wars hotel is that the team seemed so worried about immersion that their solution to real emergencies was "wait in this fireproof closet until someone saves you" but they didn't choose to make any expense to make the rest of it actually immersive

like at that price point I'm willing to take seeing a clearly marked "emergency exit" sign if I had a game/app that functioned, cast that were properly trained/ prepared to interact with me, and actual scenery that responded to my choices but god forbid I find my room is connected to the outside world!

[simply-ivanka]

'May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace'

so says Rachel Zegler, Snow White in the latest Disney cinematic remake. She goes on to say:

'There is a deep sickness in this country... shown in the sheer amount of people who showed up for this man who threatens our democracy.  

'It is terrifying the number of people who stand behind what this man preaches.'

Zegler described the support for Trump as a 'foolish subscription to a false sense of security, masculinity, intelligence, patriotism and humanity.'

She then took aim at billionaire Elon Musk, who became one of Trump's most outspoken - and generous - donors throughout his campain.

'Get off of Elon's app,' she told her followers. 'I don't use that app for a reason. He helped get that man elected and you're giving him business.'

Her comments have now gone viral on Musk's social media app, X, as offended Trump voters vow to boycott the movie.

[mbscribbles]

Just finished this beautiful Rapunzel commission! Im so proud and satisfied with how it turned out 🍃👸🦎🌹🌸🌷🌻🌼

[kawaiibabeshop]

🌷 Kawaii Shop 🌷

Use code "TUMBLR" for a discount

[fluffielox]

he had it coming,,, he only had himself to blame 🪓

[hapinesbuterfiy]

୨୧ ﹒ rafe cameron taking you to disney world ! ⊹ ׂ

"m' not doing any of that annoying disney pda couple shit. take your picture and walk we have a fast pass for space mountain in 5 minutes."