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krawdad · 6 months ago

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I'm amazed that Disney spent all this time and money developing this conversation chain system, then mapping that to hand gestures and teaching this sign language to cast members, ultimately to get stormtroopers to be able to verbally interact with disneyland guests. When like. You could just put a mic in the helmet. You could have a voice actor off in a room somewhere watching from a monitor like some kind of turtle talk with meatspace stormtrooper. Then also they just sort of dumped it all after covid anyway.

#theres cool stuff you could do with that system #but it also seems really cumbersome to use instead of the previous 'some guy off to the side is triggering the voice stuff on an ipad' thing #which seems like separating the physical acting and improv soundboard operator skillsets like that works best #instead of making one poor confused sweaty teenager do all of it with kind of conspicuous hand gestures #there's a lot to say about Disney's poor execution of star wars land stuff I'm sure #but as far as im concerned they fucked up not having goofy original puppet aliens and robots yelling at tourists from windows or whatever #how hard would it be to put your tiniest character performer in a gonk droid and just have them clomp around #I do not have like a religious attachment to star wars #but like oh my god they sunk all this money into those chicken droids when you could just be putting people in robot costumes #there is so much potential for entertainment value and they like. intentionally sidestepped all of it #people like star wars because of its stilted one sided conversations with a voice actor i recognize right #i don't know much about modern star wars but i know 40% of the mandalorion is a goofy puppet creature that people adore

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