>Wait times this summer for the new Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run ride were expected to be over 2 hours long all summer, but in reality, the lines have been averaging half that or less,” an employee, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, tells FOX Business. "As a result, the company has been forced to cut our hours. The need for us to work simply isn't there.
>Employees are now working under 40 hours per week. “Our hours have been cut to as low as 30-35 hours some weeks, even though we have both worked for the park for years. It makes life challenging when your paychecks get cut unexpectedly" the same source explained. A worker can earn around $15 per hour. The reduced workweek means a paycheck, before taxes, could fall from $600 to $450.
>could have used OT setting so boomers, boomers with families and manchild would paid good shekels for it >nyah, soibois,SJWs, LGBTs and wahmen will ride our shit 10/10 idea Bob Iger
Chase Martin
I like when the same thread is reposted daily it's like time has stood still and I'm never getting older.
Thank you buttblasted star wars fan plz repost this again tomorrow too
Jack Bennett
its a flop, and they are forced to cut employees because the wait time was 1hr instead of 2?
Isaac Wilson
>this thread again What’s the fucking source >anonymous insider Fuck off
Benjamin Edwards
Disneyland thinks it's not only OK for lines for rides to take 2 hours, but they actually get mad when they aren't.
To help push the important social message that women can also be incompetent generals who make really stupid decisions and suck at leadership but they have pink hair so it's cool.
Noah Powell
Hubris I assume. Thought they couldn't possibly fail. I don't know why they thought doing this themed all around the panned sequel trilogy instead of the original trilogy that is universally loved was a good idea, but here we are
Austin Kelly
This is bullshit, they can all pick up shifts at other parts of the park, they're just too lazy to train for them.
Imagine living paycheck to paycheck in California making minimum wage. Then some guy offers you 6k for 3 hours of your time. I wouldn’t be surprised if one of these girls does it. There’s hotter girls who’s done porn for them.
Brody Wilson
And now, some of the 1,700 staff it takes to keep Galaxy's Edge running.
Nope -- that's the head count just for Galaxy's Edge. That's what Florida hired and one assumes California is the same.
Ian Collins
Why are they all niggers and women?
Jeremiah Murphy
>didn't include alien tit water fountains do they even understand their target demo?
Justin Thomas
> Among these new jobs are 1,700 operational roles, including leadership positions, entertainment performers, attractions engineers, and food and beverage and merchandise hosts and hostesses. Additional jobs resulted from the support of both small and large Florida-based companies, creating over 5,500 local trade, artisan and construction roles.
Zachary Ramirez
wait, people pay money to take pics with this "cast" ?
Empire's dead, bro. It's First Order wh...er human supremacist now.
Adam Sanchez
I think we can all agree at this point that the whole Disney-era Star Wars is as bad if not worse than the Prequel-era Star Wars and that Star Wars as a brand has been greatly damaged by Disney's botched handling of the franchise.
Now lets say I teleport you back to 2012 after Disney signed the deal and you've been put in charge of managing the franchise instead of Kathleen Kennedy. Who do you get to write Star Wars? Who do you get to direct Star Wars? What is your strategy for managing the franchise going forward?
The brand is so water down now, yea. I agree. Prequel era gave us the great games, decent cartoons and just all kinds of fantastical star wars art. Now its....nostalgia and bland
I'd do as for writer who gives a shit anyone can do that, Star Wars is elementary school level writing what's important is the general framework which Lucas already provided. Director I'd totally and unironically get Micheal Bay or James Wan because they are the right kind of stupid for this franchise.
Then I'd just emphasize the dumb shit fans want, huge space battles, over the top and well choreographed lightsaber fights, and storm troopers shooting laser beams at stuff but not actually hitting anything, ect.
Connor Lee
So where's the actual ride? Is there a ride? The only thing I've ever seen is that one MF set and nothing else.
Are you just supposed to walk around there for a little bit meeting some non-canon original characters that have no fucking relation to the movies?
Why not build some iconic set like the Death Star hangar or the Emperor's throne room or the cantina or anything from the movies and populate it with recognizable characters and so on.
The concept of vacation days is completely foreign and communist to them.
Leo Barnes
Yoy realkt are a retarded fucking faggot user, daisy was cast because she was just goid looking enough to attracted desperate zoomer faggots but not attractive enough to put off tge tumblr twat audience they wanted to gain. Park reys are more in line with the disney princess aesthetic because it fits the park and the photo ops.
Michael Morris
Yes
William Campbell
If had been around then and the decision was mine, I still would’ve went with Kennedy. It seemed like such a no-brainer given her history with Lucas and Spielberg kino. Who could’ve known she would turn out to be such a destructive force?
Joshua Reed
Disney pays weekly
Alexander Perez
>jabbas palace 4d show >the cantina band LIVE fuck man its not fair
Luis Young
> Freeform will go behind-the-scenes with a look at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, the new themed areas at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida and Disneyland Resort in Southern California. The network will air a two-hour special Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge – Adventure Awaits on Sunday, September 29 at 8 PM EDT, with Neil Patrick Harris as host and celebrity guests including Kaley Cuoco, Keegan-Michael Key, Jay Leno, Sarah Hyland, Miles Brown, and more.
> In the special, Harris meets up with Key for some laughs in Oga’s Cantina and takes a tour of Batuu. Hyland learns about the tensions between the First Order and the Resistance and creates her own droid at the Droid Depot. Leno explores Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, inside and out, and Cuoco takes a special sneak peek inside the upcoming attraction, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance.
James Anderson
I see it as karma for them axing the Great Movie Ride.
>it's a "yurocuck is ignorant about America despite his obsession" episode Bottom of the barrel jobs don't offer benefits but if you're not worthless and set your goals higher than Wal Mart or McDonalds it's easy to get a job with good benefits. I get 5 weeks of vacation time per year, plus we have another 2 weeks of company holidays. I earned that on my own, no government intervention required.
Colton Rogers
Based and GMR-pilled
David Turner
He's not in the picture, but it's cool hearing that one of the OG Tower of Terror bellhops is opening the land.
Logan Lopez
Universal studios wins again. Seethe more Disney shits
Easton King
>Disney worth more than it ever has in it's existence >Still losing money on those stupid kid's parks feelsgoodman
Carson Johnson
I was excited to see the Florida Reys but not anymore
Xavier Morris
bane?
Ryder Bailey
I fucking miss her...
Nathan White
saw one, she's about the same level as mini rey
Wyatt Brown
>The absolute state of Nu Wars
Zachary Bailey
Oh shi -- Galaxy's edge merchandise is already hitting the Florida Disney Outlet before they even open!
> the Great Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge T-shirt Dump of 2019. That’s right, seemingly thousands of these once-$34.99 shirts were now available for the low, low price of $9.99. The most generic looking shirt you could possibly make for a Billion dollar theme park land, these Galaxy’s Edge shirts were originally sold in the Launch Bay at DHS.
And The (((Mouse))) charging $6.99 for unlead gas.
To be fair given how expensive the shit is i would steal shit just out of principle
Andrew Cruz
but these people dont have families
Cameron Phillips
true
Camden Allen
Suprised Disney spent the money for alien prosthetics for an extra.
Josiah Nelson
Disney World’s version will dab on Disneyland’s version
Jackson Ramirez
>a faggot who stopped being a meme 5 years ago >Kaley "I need money because I snorted all the money I made from TBBT" Cuoco >Peele's jannetty >Some car dude with a big chin >some broad that looks like she's a stiff wind from death >who This will surely draw the dimes
Hi Welcome to Wal Mart
Alexander Evans
Who else went from hating the prequels to liking them? They have flaws and they're not at the level of the OT but they are so unique and full of creativity and soul.
I'm considering sneaking into the theaters just so I don't give Disney my money. Worst comes to worst I'll buy a ticket for a different film and walk into the Episode 9 screening after the trailers are over.
Josiah Butler
I have always liked the prequels more than the OT, my dear brainlet.
>Who else went from hating the prequels not all of us were worthless brainwashed faggots like you user.
Aiden Thomas
imagine faggots saying this about the ''phase one'' SW movies in about 10 years and realize how fucking stupid you are now
Kayden Thomas
I dun ged id.
Sebastian Carter
You're part of the problem. Why would you even want to watch this shit in the cinema?
Gabriel Ortiz
I didn't hate them. I found them inferior to the OT but I can say that about lots of other things I like.
Logan Edwards
Just wait until nintendo land opens up.
Jose Martin
based dying career central that explains jay's cameo on Americas got talent
Jose Richardson
>''phase one'' SW movies Kill yourself mcu nigger, the prequels were always great.
Jaxson Clark
Isn't Orlando's area a carbon copy of Anaheim's?
Gabriel Peterson
I was blinded by the fact that they didn't live up what I'd hoped they'd be and they used too much CGI which as a kid I always hated. But you learn as you get older.
>>Wait times this summer for the new Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run ride were expected to be over 2 hours long all summer, but in reality, the lines have been averaging half that or less
Wow, so the wait time is a fucking hour instead of two hours.
Lincoln Walker
Which one also got raped alongside Kevin Nash back in the summer of '92?
Jaxson Martin
>Black mario walking around talking about piping girls
Luke Price
link to the private instagram ass shots pls
Nicholas Allen
X qz me sweetie, but Rey is actually for Finn's cock
Benjamin Lewis
It's the only ride of the park Literally
Juan Carter
Do you think either of these people ever played kotor or do they have their favorite commando bro?
Dominic Harris
>whole Disney-era Star Wars is as bad if not worse than the Prequel-era Star Wars It's FAR worse. The prequel-era brought us KOTOR, Republic Commando, Jedi Outcast, loads of comics and EU material. I still remember the Clone Wars cartoon. The prequel 2000s time period was one of the best for Star Wars. Some of their best stuff came out then.
Lucas Thompson
It still boggles my fucking mind they decided to make it themed after an OC Donut Steele planet from an unreleased book when they were sitting on the entire Star Wars existing universe
Like...why the fuck would you NOT make it hoth or tatooine or literally anywhere else?
They were always shit, but I can appreciate them for their entertainment value. AotC is my ''favorite'' because it has the most dumb shit to laugh about, but it also has the best pacing out of them all, with decent highlights such as the asteroid pursuit scene and the finale.
dumbass
Jaxon Campbell
They'd likely not even have a clue as to what KOTOR means.
Christopher Ross
Who even designs that?
Thomas Turner
They should've moved Star Tours there.
Jaxon Gray
>Sarah Hyland Will they ask her about tampon string length
Caleb Butler
She actually seems like a good girl. It’s a shame she’s not in the movie.
Xavier Morales
The 'no sex' is only in the OP. Go and actually read the thread and you will see providers capable of laying down their requirements for NEETs. In the OP, they just want to promote something more of a partnership that may or may not be FWB included than just plain sex slave.
Brayden Reyes
>First is a classic Star Wars story and a love letter to the Star Wars they know and love >Next is an ambitious deconstruction of Star Wars with some of the deepest themes in all of Star Wars Sucks for them. They don't get to see what the sequels tried and failed to do.
It's so good their fuck-ups extended to their theme parks.
They can move past a bad movie or two. A Billion dollar theme park expansion is there forever. It can never be removed without another billion dollars. It's gonna be standing there in the horizon every single morning when the executives pull up to the office. A giant monument to what the fuck were we thinking
I think the fact that the park has literally 1 ride is a bigger issue. Banning annual pass users and having a theme "park" composed entirely of gift shops is a monumentally stupid idea that only a highly educated person could possibly think makes good business sense. The fact that they made it generic "Star Wars Planet™" is actually one of the smaller problems.
The idea they had was cross-promotional sales for upcoming Star Wars media, but yeah that's obviously in the same vein of stupidity as spending one BILLION dollars building a strip mall consisting entirely of Star Wars gift shops.
Depends, they could have done some interesting aesthetic things and had different areas of the park look like different areas from the popular films everybody actually enjoyed. Tatooine, Hoth, Endor, Degobah with other indoor areas for the death star, cloud city, etc.
It would probably be pretty popular. Nobody gives a shit about these new movies. They had a finite amount of time to replace the well beloved Hammil, Fischer, Ford ensemble with their own and have everyone fall in love with it. They have no succeeded largely because as a matter of course for all of their films they've moved to a model of driving a SJW political wedge between their fans, which is reflected in the low attendance to the park based off nu-Wars.
Brody Hughes
Here’s the real kicker, the park is only half finished now. They haven’t even begun building the themed hotel.
Jason Bennett
Instead of blowing 200+ hours on some shitty boomer games is there anywhere i could get a retrospective style rundown of these two?
Anthony Reyes
Kill yourself.
Brandon Cruz
Only so I can enjoy the inevitable shitposting storm on Yea Forums.
Benjamin Gonzalez
They made the Florida one conciously smaller mid construction. They also said they would reclaim some of the land
Henry Reed
And you wonder why no one takes you seriously.
Levi Foster
Star Wars itself is a valuable IP with lots of different worlds. Tatooine, Hoth, Endor's Forest Moon, the Death Star, etc. The OT alone has lots of iconic locations they can do for lots of money.
Juan Taylor
Just imagine, they had all that space in Orlando to a proper full sized Star Wars Land, and it's just forced into MGM Hollywood studios, a fucking replica of the one in Anaheim. Why? You could have made an entire theme park based entirely on Star Wars, the resort still has enough land left for that.
Benjamin Brooks
Rey never interacts with a child ONCE in the entire Sequel series.
Themed hotel would actually make them a fuckload of money if they had a lick of sense and gave the fanbase the ability to LIVE in star wars.
However, the creative staff is full of nu-wars dipshits so it's gonna be more blue haired black chicks running around asking your kids if they dun seen any white guys with guns
Because their creative staff dont actually like the thing they are in charge of.
William Rogers
All I can think is stupid office politics. Maybe Disney is like Microsoft and every interaction between different departments boils down to "fuck you, pay me." so the park would actually have to pay a licensing fee to use Tatooine or whatever.
Parker Sanchez
Not to mention, the park takes cash to run, so it has to continually make money. What happens when everyone who gave a shit about dropping $200 on a piece of shit (guaranteed to break once you leave the park, no refunds) lightsaber or droid? What happens when people move on from Star Wars because it's a dying franchise?
William Peterson
They went casting in California instead of England. LA is full to the brim of wannabe actresses and models.
Jordan Foster
Disney has desperately been trying to replicate the success of Harry Potter World ever since it came out and has utterly failed at every step of the way. They dont release rides as rides anymore. Everything is a fucking land now with its own big area where everything is cohesive and even the bathroom is themed to it.
Toy story land, avatar land, pixar point, cars land, now star shiitter land.
Problem is Uni understood why people liked harry potter and gave them that experience. Women and book fans wanted to shop in the stores at hogsmead and walk through the castle and ride a broom and buy a wand and Harry Potter World enabled all of those things. SHOPPING was a huge component to harry potter. Harry shops for school supplies in a special wizard shopping area. He ate in a special magic restaurant. And universal allowed fans to physically live that out.
STAR WARS AND TOY STORY AND AVATAR WERE NEVER ABOUT SHOPPING AND THE THINGS THAT THEY WERE ABOUT, DISNEY HAS COMPLETELY DROPPED THE FUCKING BALL AS FAR AS REPLICATING
>What happens when people move on from Star Wars because it's a dying franchise? This is ridiculously sad to me. Star Wars was THE brand. THE movie series everyone knew. The movie with more references to than virtually any other movie. How the hell do you fuck up this hard?
Connor Young
The actual model has fucking Ellie of all things included. If she's in, he's in. Don't be a faggot.
This is so stupid. Years from now you'll probably be thinking the same shit about the Rian Johnson trilogy. You know the prequels are garbage. BUT because there is a newer FRESHER garbage your brain is willing to forgive the smell of the old one because it's a smell you're not accustomed to.
tl;dr prequels are shit. Your taste is accustomed to shit.
>George and Mark: Fuck this, fuck Disney >Harrison: I didn't care before and I don't care now >Billy Dee: I'm getting a paycheck :)
Carson Parker
Imagine what?
Levi White
...and that's a good thing!
Xavier Watson
I'd say the OT are stronger movies and have more mass appeal but there's more going on behind the scenes in the prequels, like the war and political stuff, the worldbuilding was good, and that drew me into them.
Revenge of the Sith is probably my favorite, followed by a New Hope, those are my favorites for both trilogies.
There won't be any fanboys left next by next decade. They were handed a fucking handed a license to print money and they took it and all the decades of goodwill built up by fanboys and threw it in their faces for an invisible audience.
The Harry Potter Land at Universal is actually well done and was made to have a balance between fun, well thought out rides and the stores featured in the books/movies. They even put a working Hogwarts Express train in it to take people around in.
Hagrid's Motorcycle is regularly getting 6+ hour lines. The place is actually fun to go to with stuff worth doing. Meanwhile the low-budget Smuggler's Run ride at Galaxy's Edge is lucky to have a 30 minute line, and it's literally the only ride in the entire park.
Hunter Hill
Star Wars could have easily survived a bad movie (it has already survived several). The problem was not the bad movie, the problem was viciously attacking anyone who dared criticize it.
Robert Walker
I've never hated them, but I don't really like them either. Saw them in the theaters a couple of times - except for the last one. One time of that was enough.
TLJ, on the other hand, was so terrible, that even as a casual fan I can't like it. It's basically just a big 'fuck you' to everyone. And while I hate it that Marvel plays it safe with their MCU, even that is better than just pissing off your fans for no apparent reason.
The boomer CEOs think they can capture lightning in a bottle. That if they did the same thing in 1977 they would get toy sales and a massive cult following all over again. They were wrong.
Connor Williams
I'm not up to date on the sw land, so they replaced the future world area instead? Does that mean the buzz lightyear ride is gone?
Thomas Cook
Putting way too much faith in KK after that strategy worked with Marvel, I assume.
Lucas Richardson
>yo massa i suck you down like a fried chicken drumsticks >yo massa yu got some'a them drumsticks? Yfw you do
Leo Nguyen
Her being a spy really does sum up everything about the Resistance quite nicely. Has no one ever played along with her little act then pointed out the absurdity of her wearing a fucking Rebel crest on her bright orange jacket?
Andrew Lee
Without going into an autistic amount if detail, I would take Lucas and Ardent's (sp?) original story idea have it directed as a cohesive trilogy by Kathryn Bigelow. Would have someone cuter and more charismatic as Kira (Rey's) precursor, no idea who tho, I'd have Laura Vandervoort for that Darth Talon villain based Lucas wanted (and thee would be Kira/Talon yuri) and bring in Bankingcrash Cumputerhack as Thrawn. Aside from that, I'd let Bigelow and Lucas work out all details.
Fucking how? Current Edge is fucking tiny with one ride and a handful of shops.
Parker Smith
One thing I recall is seeing a lot more kids excited about the prequels than they are about the newest movies; the only people who seem really into Disneywars are people like that guy who cried over the trailer for the next one. Am I just not looking hard enough? Are kids actually enjoying this? If they aren't it'd certainly help explain why toy sales have been so unbelievably bad.
Connor Moore
Because Kansas looks best in motion than in still shots but there hasn’t been any new videos of her because no one wants to go to galaxy’s edge.
Levi Brown
>Rian Johnson >he thinks Jar Jar Abrams and Kennedy didn't ruin it
Julian Taylor
Thier similes and optimism: GONE.
Joseph Sanders
>browse jewtube >see a guy with rumor reason why the mouse is killing OT characters because any OT stuff that profits, Lucas gets a percentage of it If this shit is true, based Lucas for outjewing the mouse
Isaiah Campbell
>w-what does this mean for the minimum wage casts? Cutie gets replaced by Discount Rey
waaa i went from double minimum wage to double minimum wage
Liam Walker
What JJ did was salvageable. Can't fix Rians mess without retconning the whole thing.
Justin Reed
I was a teenager back then, and don't really know or recall how kids took the prequels. I mean, it was obvious that they were the target audience, but even back then I was thinking that it was a mistake.
However, more lately (these past 5-10 years) I have noticed that kids actually DO recognize Star Wars, and I think it's because of the Clone Wars series and Lego games.
This is gonna get buried or ignored but Disneyworld really shows its age when you go now. They haven't updated the parks responsibly and the ones they have updated they've done poorly (Avatar is a chore to get through). There's gonna be a circlejerk about how SW killed the parks but it's been a long time coming.
William Hall
>Alienate the majority of Star Wars fans with SJW shit movies >Surprised people don't want to go "experience" this bullshit in person
Leo Parker
>invalidating most of OT by reducing the galaxy to another rebels vs empire >mystery boxes he had no intention to open >extremely lacking characters with almost 0 character development I say it'd be better to burn it down and start over.
Luke Gonzalez
I ask for story pitches and what sort of movies my applicants want to direct, then whittle my options down from there because I want them to pour their souls into this. At the same time I'm not going to let any random untested moron do whatever the fuck he wants with this franchise. Once we have the first movie's story nailed down and a rough outline of where we want this trilogy to go, we bring in talented authors and start filling in the yawning gap between the OT and the ST. We keep a production bible alongside a very streamlined, digestible version for future directors. We 're also very upfront that there will probably be retcons to the nuEU material out of necessity going forward.
Carson Brown
It would have been great had they stuck with the original immersive RP idea and let you bring your own damn costumes.
Jason Lewis
billy dee already blew his new money on that fancy cane
Chase Parker
>those fucking shorts A gayer reprise of 70s mens fashion is something I never wanted to see.
Lincoln Ward
I still hate them because radioactive shit doesn't make regular shit any less disgusting.
Jordan Brown
There's quite a few stores though - so many chances to buy bland t-shirts!
>packed audience at Spider-Man last night >Episode 9 trailer comes on >people start sighing loudly >its the only trailer anyone reacts to >some guy with a heavy accent says “more like Rise of the Shitwalker” >people laugh quietly >Lando appears >black guy in his 40’s gets annoyed, and leaves while shouting > “Oh hell naw you ain’t ruining Lando further” >someone in lower levels throws a full jumbo size popcorn at the screen >people erupt in laughter >Sheev laughter comes > “Oh for fuck sake” from someone behind me >an older guy and his wife next to me and my girlfriend >his wife says to him >”Honey didnt you like those movies?” >he says to his wife >"That was a long time ago”
Joshua Hall
Imagine being so inept that you tank a multi-billion dollar franchise that everyone in the world already was familiar with and loved.
>videogameschronicle.com/news/jedi-fallen-order-writer-didnt-like-last-jedis-execution/ >“I thought that portrayal of Luke Skywalker was very weak,” he told VGC. “I thought they gave him a scapegoat role that wasn’t merited and didn’t fit with his character, in my opinion. >“I like the fact that they were playing around with it, but at the same time I didn’t like the execution and I thought it could have been handled a lot better or differently.” >He added: “I also thought it was a case of comedy goes too far, side characters and massive detour plots were rapidly introduced… I liked what they were trying to do, I just didn’t like how it was executed.” Help me Chris Avellone, you're my only hope.
You do nothing else with it, besides finally send out blu rays of the original theatrical versions, and continue on projects that got canceled in this timeline. It’s a genuine shame that a trilogy that was a middle finger to Hollywood corporatism became just that with 4 billion dollars
my mother doesnt know shit about star wars nor does she care but asked me recently why in the new movies all the shit looks like in the old stuff because it wasnt like that in the prequels
>be without child >be 35 and go to Disneyland and act like child >mom rightfully complains about man children >Disney company says “don’t be mean to our mone-I mean-customers”
Angel Sanchez
The prequel soundtrack got me to pursue interest in piano and horn. Sadly stopped doing those due to feeling down and out nowadays, but I want to go back
Isaiah Hernandez
>>mom rightfully complains about man children if you are referring to the recent article that mother just was a cunt who felt entitled that she shouldnt have to wait in line for shit just because her little gremlin might be upset
Michael Ramirez
What kind of retard would wait 2 fucking hours in a queue to ride anything?
Jeremiah Howard
ay yo teevee, can anyone link those videos of the guy who goes around filming all the Discount Star Wars toys. Forgot the channel.
Ryan Phillips
Its not like they notice they are all on their phones like drones
Hunter King
no sorry
Landon Stewart
worldclassbullshitters
Josiah Gray
Wait, I thought guests weren't allowed to dress up in costumes
Christian Taylor
Where is my Metroid section
Brandon Reyes
THANKS RIAN JOHNSON
Wyatt Rodriguez
I'd go there to explore her attractions in depth
Jose Walker
Rain Johnson chose to bury the turd that was handed to him by JJ rather than try to salvage it >thus killing the franchise Much like Homelander deciding to let the plane crash rather than try something to save it
My father is a total movie schlock, who likes just about anything, and even he went on a fucking tirade of rage after TLJ
Ayden Diaz
can anyone confirm? whether the decision to not use OT characters was Disneys decision or a George Lucas prerequisite for the sale that OT characters not be used in marketing
Owen Roberts
they left tons of room for expansion but I don't have the map image saved even so Zelda and Pokemon are probably coming first, but I think a Metroid section is plausible
>worldclassbullshitters Them and Geeks+Gamers really got their start from all the Star Wars bashing and ridicule... and I'm quite surprised they are still going so strong.
Ethan Brown
>have a theme park based on video games >wait until later to build in the obligatory sci-fi section
Brody Stewart
Yes, kids were excited about the Prequel movies during their release time. I remember having to take my friends' kid sisters along with us to see them and the sheer volume of children at the theater. They even had a little cart, where you could buy merch, set up. I don't remember seeing that for any other movie, kid oriented or not. I was also ending High School around when RotS was coming out and I don't recall anyone protesting its release or existence either, so older teens were fine with them too. The last 2 Star Wars movies I saw in theaters were TFA and RO, were both filled with people about my age and the only kids were a small smattering of them with their parents.
Elijah Watson
More like Rian added his own diarrhea geyser and rolled around in the slurry while declaring it good.
Brayden Stewart
The fact of the matter is that Metroid was never a big name, even in the US. It's unfortunate but it's the truth.
Oliver Robinson
>Now lets say I teleport you back to 2012 after Disney signed the deal No, fuck that. Send me back to talk George out of it beforehand.
Robert Myers
This makes absolutely no sense that Avellone would say that as he writes the most political games out there
Jaxon Parker
gib Park Rey insta
John Ortiz
That probably only applies to people who are old enough to be mistaken for employees.
Jeremiah Ward
Did EricButts go yet, due to his “supporters” rallying behind him just to feel good about themselves?
Star Fox is probably a much bigger "Sci-Fi" franchise than Metroid anyway. Which is weird because there hasn't been a good Starfox game since the fucking N64.
Juan Jones
The guy who cried at the ep9 trailer
Jonathan Roberts
i cried at the ep9 trailer
Brody Gutierrez
His games have political ideas in them yes, but you are often just exploring the ideas and not being exposed to pure propaganda. Oftentimes there are several conflicting political ideas that you can chose from. See the difference?
James Gonzalez
>“When I was working on KoTOR 2, getting into the Star Wars universe was very rocky because I didn’t like Star Wars and I didn’t like the fact that we were doing a Star Wars project. I was like, ‘I left Black Isle for this?’ >Hates Star Wars >Somehow makes the best Star Wars story in franchise history How?
why dont you read the next fucking sentence idiot >“But then after a few weeks of researching, watching the movies again, I rediscovered my nine-year-old self and was really excited.”
Matthew Phillips
Because He didn’t kill his wife... and JJ didn’t care
Kayden Thompson
Billy’s smiling, but on the inside, he’s remembering all those children who cried about him betraying Han, as he was just living his day
Aiden Fisher
>Hates Star Wars Where's this from? The quote I found was >Chris Avellone: Actually, none of us had the chance to play KOTOR before working on KOTOR2 – all we knew about the game was what we’d seen on the net, everything else about the game was a mystery. This meant when it came to the story and narrative, there was a lot of guessing where the 2nd game should go because we had no idea what the first one was about. We actually had to pitch a story without knowing what the 1st game was about, and this led to some rapid revisions once we did play the game because our “well, let’s guess” version differed greatly from KOTOR1 (and not in a good way). >I wasn’t initially excited to work on a Star Wars game. This is because while I had been a Star Wars fan in my youth, I’d lost touch with it as I got older, and it wasn’t as appealing as it had been when I was much younger and went to see Episode IV ten times (not counting how much I watched it on TV after that). That said, part of a developer’s job is to plough ahead and find the passion for the work, so I dug into Star Wars, movies, books, comics… and within a week or two, I found I had changed my mind and had some ideas percolating on some stories to tell in that universe. >>“Getting back into it was very, very smooth,” said Avellone “When I was working on KoTOR 2, getting into the Star Wars universe was very rocky because I didn’t like Star Wars and I didn’t like the fact that we were doing a Star Wars project. I was like, ‘I left Black Isle for this?’ But then after a few weeks of researching, watching the movies again, I rediscovered my nine-year-old self and was really excited.” He initially disliked but then loved it early into production.
Luis Hughes
So does this mean I should go to Disneyland? Fuck if the lines there are short, it should be great.
Joshua Hill
for a minute there I thought this was timtracker
Jason Jones
B-but, RLM said that everyone despised the prequels at the time of their release!
Noah Jones
SO THIS IS THE POWER OF FEMINISM!?
Thomas Bell
Can we make a new thread? I want to vent more on this manner
Landon Price
This has to be a shop? Guys.....?
Landon Hall
I always thought it was funny when about 5 or 6 years after Ep III came out I started seeing all the vitriol and hate for those movies, and later discovered the Plinkett reviews. I knew professional critics didn't care for them, but my local general public never seemed to put them in a bad light, except for Jar Jar, Lloyd and Christensen. Maybe it was just the area I lived it.
Lots of reasons why Avellone succeeded where Johnson failed.
Jeremiah Barnes
I still can't believe people take those reviews seriously. I find the prequels to be very flawed, so I have nothing inherently against criticism of the prequels. So when you have trash of that caliber, calling practical effects CGI and other blatant wrong criticisms, it just baffles me how shit you can make a multi-hour review.
Julian Garcia
When Chris Avellone finally got to play the first installment of the game, he thought it was awesome and realized topping it would be difficult: >Chris Avellone: The moment I hit the planet Manaan and I was walking around in the sea-floor I almost threw the controller at the TV because the game was getting so fucking awesome. And then when the storyline played out... (whistles) Incredible kudos to those guys - I thought it was a great story, I thought the team had assembled all the right beats for what made a Star Wars game, and they made me love Star Wars again. [...] (recalling his thoughts at the time) "Wow, I'm screwed!" (laughs) "It's a rough act to follow! Like, I'm going to Garfunkle this up."
Jaxson Campbell
>The moment I hit the planet Manaan and I was walking around in the sea-floor I almost threw the controller at the TV because the game was getting so fucking awesome youtu.be/KlbobtUw-1o?t=250
Liam Carter
TLJ only purpose was to shit not create. Kotor 2 added so much to the lore of old republic that you can't fucking talk about Kotor 1 lore and story without mentioning it, which might be a reason why only Kotor 2 threads manage to survive while Kotor 1 die 50 posts in. In Kotor 2 characters from previous game are done justice, more so than in original, are treated like heroes and those that return have satisfying development and more complex personality. Story is written by people who actually liked and knew SW and EU. Characters are likeable or interesting or both and story and lore is intriguing.
Kotor 2 deals with ptsd, force philosophy, conflict between jedi and sith, politics, Mandalorian culture and philosophy, Jedi hypocrisy and Sith stupidity, state of the Galaxy after war, foreshadowing bigger threat, asking questions about past events and looking for answers etc
TLJ just shits on everything without purpose and without meaning for no reason. It brings nothing.
