The key to getting fastpasses for flight of passage is to KEEP. REFRESHING. THE. APP.I went in late February to Disney World for the first time. We didn't realize you were able to get fast passes 30-60 days before, depending on if you were staying at a resort or not, until two weeks before our trip. We missed out on fast passes for Flights of Passage, so we decided to go to the park at opening. We did... and still waited for over two hours to get on the ride. Was totally worth it though. I'm still shook that you can feel the banshees breathing. Dat attention to detail...
The key to getting fastpasses for flight of passage is to KEEP. REFRESHING. THE. APP.
No joke! My friend and I came to Disney world for a week and and we're able to find FoP 3 times as we kept checking the and people kept canceling their fastpasses or changed to later times. It's definitely doable!
Well Disney has a free fast pass system and universal and Disney have been starting to implement virtual queues where you can walk around the park while you wait so there are improvementsI don't understand the appeal of these places. Theme parks are the only line of business where they don't try to improve wait times and force arbitrary lines for people to wait in. In a world where efficiency is dominant, why the fuck are we still waiting in 30 min and 1 hour lines?
The key to getting fastpasses for flight of passage is to KEEP. REFRESHING. THE. APP.
No joke! My friend and I came to Disney world for a week and and we're able to find FoP 3 times as we kept checking the and people kept canceling their fastpasses or changed to later times. It's definitely doable!
This so much. You can even easily get harder to get rides if you keep trying enough. That's how I got 2 fastpasses for Mine Train.The key to getting fastpasses for flight of passage is to KEEP. REFRESHING. THE. APP.
Star Wars appeal is really over shot by Disney, it's a big franchise with a large fandom but it's not the behemoth that Disney has tried to market it into.
SW is most certainly a behemoth.
Outside of Solo, every Disney SW film has made more than a billion dollars. Rise of Skywalker will make over a billion dollars.
It is currently the most lucrative film franchise with the exception of Marvel.
And SW merchandise is huge.
The entire industry is in a slump. Toy sales in general are in a bad place the last few years.
The entire industry is in a slump. Toy sales in general are in a bad place the last few years.
Kids just don't care about action figures anymore.
The anti-Star Wars youtube scene latched onto the Star Wars angle and repeated it enough people fell for it buts an actual industry wide problem.
Hasbro for example has the Marvel toys license and they are still failing:
No one is buying action figures anymore except for aging collectors. Marvel is on the top of the world and not even they can move action figures.
Yep. Because the only people buying action figures are the aging nostalgic collectors. They aren't marketed at kids anymore.I was looking at Transformers yesterday and I was blown away by the prices. What used to be 7 dollar figures 10 years ago were now 10, what used to be 10 are now 20, 20 are 30, 30 are 50. And they were relying so strongly on nostalgia in the choice of characters.
That's absurd, especially the lightsabre.This new land has ONE ride
$200 to build a light saber - which looks cheap and is a light show with Yodas voice.
$100 to build your own $30.00 droid.
$8 for "blue milk" that apparently tastes like crap
$12 for a "hot dog wrap" themed to Star Wars
What did they expect?????
not to mention if you're there for 8 hours you're stuck in a line for 6 of those hours, eating and walking to the next ride for another 90 minutes, and you get about 30-60 minutes of actual rides and experiences for the whole day. You're so much better off just going to the beach.I think part of it is that people are finally tired of the crazy inflated price/cost of going to a theme-park.
Yep. Tough shit Disney.not to mention if you're there for 8 hours you're stuck in a line for 6 of those hours, eating and walking to the next ride for another 90 minutes, and you get about 30-60 minutes of actual rides and experiences for the whole day. You're so much better off just going to the beach.
For me the epilogue trilogy has strongly diminished my enthusiasm for Star Wars too. The draw of sitting in a Millenium Falcon replica isn't nearly as strong as it once was.
You havent been to many real theme parks right?I don't understand the appeal of these places. Theme parks are the only line of business where they don't try to improve wait times and force arbitrary lines for people to wait in. In a world where efficiency is dominant, why the fuck are we still waiting in 30 min and 1 hour lines?
Yeah, no kidding. I like the epilogues just fine, but even if you don't like them, thinking they're anywhere near as bad as the unwatchable prequels is straight up lunacy!I love that the epilogue trilogy is cited by some as diminishing enthusiasm for Star Wars when the prequels were far bigger pieces of shit, lol.
For $200 it should be a real lightsaber, not just a plastic tube with LEDs in it.
The 'blade' part isn't? I watched some vids and when it's turned off it still looks like there's a plastic tube on there. For $200 they should figure out some way to do a real light beam
Thought you were referring to the hilt. Don't know how you do an actual beam especially for $200 even if it were possible.The 'blade' part isn't? I watched some vids and when it's turned off it still looks like there's a plastic tube on there. For $200 they should figure out some way to do a real light beam
It's one ride and a bunch of gift shops. Why are there no shows or interesting experiences? Why aren't there crazy aliens and smugglers roaming the area? Why does the cantina have a DJ? Shouldn't it have a band (either live or animatronic)? There is like one "free" activity in the area, and everything else involves you buying either merch or food/drink. It's cool that they built a full-sized replica of the Millennium Falcon and Kylo's ship......but that's like a 1-minute photo op at best.
Maybe a series of mirrors or a laser and a fog emitter to make the beam visible? Idk I'm not an imagineerThought you were referring to the hilt. Don't know how you do an actual beam especially for $200 even if it were possible.
If they can have someone wandering around in a Chewbacca or Kylo costume, I don't see what makes it so unsafe to have some Twi'Leks, Rodians, Trandoshans, etc.All the cast members are dressed and play the part as residents of Batuu. You can't have cast members in costumes as aliens for health and safety reasons/constantly switching out and the makeup would just sweat right off in the California/Florida sun.
The films have long-standing tradition of exotic music perfomed live by strange aliens (Mos Eisley, Jabba's Palace). The films have no tradition of robot DJs who play pre-recorded tracks. Having an animatronic band that performs a brief show every 30-60 minutes (Chuck E. Cheese style) would be an exciting and interesting experience. Imagineers get to flew their muscles on creature design, scripting, and animatronics. Just re-cycling a robot from a ride that's 20 years old seems outright lazy by comparison. You could still have Rex play music in between the band's sets anyway.I don't see what the difference between an animatronic DJ and animatronic band would be. Rex is a great easter egg for fans of Star Tours.
I mean with Disneylands fastpass system I feel like Im hardly waiting in lines. Get fastpasses for big rides and hop in smaller stuff with 10 to 15 min waits while you wait on ur fastpass time. I just went and the longeat wait I had was 30 mins for Smugglers because there isnt a fastpass. The wait seemed to sit around 30-45 mins which isnt bad for a new ride.not to mention if you're there for 8 hours you're stuck in a line for 6 of those hours, eating and walking to the next ride for another 90 minutes, and you get about 30-60 minutes of actual rides and experiences for the whole day. You're so much better off just going to the beach.
For me the epilogue trilogy has strongly diminished my enthusiasm for Star Wars too. The draw of sitting in a Millenium Falcon replica isn't nearly as strong as it once was.
Yeah, I am sure Disney is losing sleep the dudes who can't handle Luke not being Goku or who get all worked up that Rey is "too powerful". The fandom is better off without anyone like that.
My wife keeps bugging me to decide on a date for our vacation to WDW. I told her I don't even want to book it until we know when the 2nd ride at our Galaxy's Edge is open. She works for a travel agency specializing in Disney and has heard we'll know when that is around the time Orlando GE opens up. She seems to think it's before the end of this year but I don't know.
That said, a lot of people saw how miserable WWOHP and Diagon Alley was when it opened and are probably trying to avoid that.
not to mention if you're there for 8 hours you're stuck in a line for 6 of those hours, eating and walking to the next ride for another 90 minutes, and you get about 30-60 minutes of actual rides and experiences for the whole day. You're so much better off just going to the beach.
For me the epilogue trilogy has strongly diminished my enthusiasm for Star Wars too. The draw of sitting in a Millenium Falcon replica isn't nearly as strong as it once was.
I think that Disney will ultimately regret theming this around the sequel trilogy since it just prevents them from using any of the most beloved characters, and it prevents them from using Jedi.