Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, a real world experience set in a 100 room hotel designed to look like a spaceship

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• Ilari@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The key reason why this failed is that it was prohibitively expensive to run. They had to maintain a cast of professional actors, and even minor hotel staff had to maintain story and character.

  There’s a very small audience that’s willing to pay thousands of dollars for a Star Wars LARP, no matter how professionally it’s produced.

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  • JasSmith@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It was like $6000 for two nights for a family of four. We're talking some pretty basic rooms, too. Just stupidly expensive.

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    • Facelesscog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Christ, our local fantasy LARP only costs about $15 for a weekend, I believe. (Can’t go anymore for health reasons)

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  • dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Plus IIRC it opened during Covid. If I was going I’d need a few more years to make plans.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “I’m sorry there seems to have been a problem with your reservation and the command deck suite is unavailable. All we currently have is the garbage mashers on the detention level.”

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  • LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Get in there, you furry oafs. I don’t care what you smell.”

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• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This seemed like the most relevant community to post this in, I wasn’t sure what category this even fits into. It’s a very expensive AR game I guess?

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  • iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, very interesting and sounds like a really cool experience. I think tying it to the sequels was a meh choice and kinda pigeonholes some stuff to focus on their advertising, but the basic bones of it sound neat.

    I’m sure the real world issues of corporate and state politics/clashes had some hand in its shuttering as it looks like Disney is kinda slowly pulling out of Florida, but if the success of attractions like this and their other Star Wars interactive sites will fuel further projects like this, I’m down!

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    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It wasn’t tied to the sequels it was tied to the high republic, the main star wars park is set during the sequels.

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• perviouslyiner@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  People had much the same comments about Secret Cinema - yes there are legitimate things to criticise them for, but saying “it’s just a $100 cinema ticket” seemed a bit disingenuous to describe an evening of roleplay with actors in a decorated set.

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• zaemz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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