Current Events > Disney's Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge is a LARPing Experience

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The Rules

1. Absolutely positively no costumes. Not even the ones sold at the park. (Reminder that they sell a 6000 dollar stormtrooper outfit). They will allow you to wear a tunic, but you have to get approval ahead of time.
2. You can create droids in the droid depot, but they are not allowed to be used in the park.
3. No toy weapons in the park. No blasters, no thermal detonators, no staffs. You are allowed lightsabers only.
4. (Employee rule) Employees are allowed to make up their own lore and name on the spot, as long as they do not declare themselves related to iconic characters.
5. (until June 23rd) You're only allowed 4 hours in the park before you are escorted out by Stormtroopers.
6. Absolutely Positively NO LIGHTSABER DUELS
7. There is a time limit of 45 minutes at the Cantina.
8. Only two guests per ID are allowed inside the Cantina. Droid Depot and Lightsaber workshop.
9. 2 drink limit at Cantina.
10. You may not leave the Cantina with your drink (you're allowed to leave with drinks at California Adventure for reference)
11. You are only allowed to stay in the lightsaber workshop until the lesson is done.
12. No flash photography
13. No touching things behind fences
14. No Refunds
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D-Lo_BrownTown posted...

6. Absolutely Positively NO LIGHTSABER DUELS

Yo what the fuck!
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jeez.

it still seems pretty neat to see, but it sounds like they really need a while to work out the kinks
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And apparently like the whole lightsaber duel and costume thing is ridiculously enforced. Like you can pose with a lightsaber, but not in a "dueling" pose. Lightsabers can't touch at all.

Like, I get the idea of no dueling is a safety thing, but holy crap you can't even pose or touch tips as if you're dueling?
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The more I read, the more awful it sounds.

Everything sounds ridiculously overpriced for what it is, but on top of that it sounds like the whole LARP aspect only gets in the way because of the restrictions in place.

All of the signs are in a different language to promote you asking for directions. Everything is priced in "credits" (although from what I hear, it's a 1:1 ratio with US dollars but someone is still going to get confused), the employees will act like they don't understand what you're asking if you don't ask it in a Star Wars way.

It's the worst of everything. People who are into LARPing are not able to get immersed in it, yet everything is just strict enough that casual park goers are going to get annoyed.

Rule #1 is only for people 13 and up, and it's the same rule they have for the rest of the park. It's just not enforced as strictly anymore.
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Were_Wyrm posted...

Rule #1 is only for people 13 and up, and it's the same rule they have for the rest of the park. It's just not enforced as strictly anymore.

I've read that there are still rules for how "good" a child costume can be but I can't find out exactly what they are.

15. no fun allowed
16. or smiling
17. guests must participate in the hourly parades by standing still while saluting the flats, or they will be removed from the park
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What's up with the no costume rule? Don't want to mistake you for an employee?
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PoopPotato posted...

What's up with the no costume rule? Don't want to mistake you for an employee?

That's what I'm guessing

You know what would fix thos? Some sort of pin.

But that would destroy the "immersion"
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Wow sounds like communism
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@leafeon13n do you know anything about this?
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https://comicbook.com/starwars/2019/06/02/star-wars-galaxys-edge-cantina-selling-drinks-75-dollars/

The most expensive option is the beer flight, which gives you the option of trying every draft on tap for $75 on a souvenir board. It comes on a hardwood plank with decorative hollowed Rancor teeth, in which the beer samples are actually served. While it's a neat souvenir, the beers include a Sierra Nevada Tropical IPA, a New Belgium Red Ale, a Blue Point Lager, and a Ballast Point IPA.

imagine a simpleton spending $75 for a sample of 4 beers you can buy at any gas station because it comes with a plank of wood with a star wars picture on it
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Romulox28 posted...

https://comicbook.com/starwars/2019/06/02/star-wars-galaxys-edge-cantina-selling-drinks-75-dollars/

The most expensive option is the beer flight, which gives you the option of trying every draft on tap for $75 on a souvenir board. It comes on a hardwood plank with decorative hollowed Rancor teeth, in which the beer samples are actually served. While it's a neat souvenir, the beers include a Sierra Nevada Tropical IPA, a New Belgium Red Ale, a Blue Point Lager, and a Ballast Point IPA.

imagine a simpleton spending $75 for a sample of 4 beers you can buy at any gas station because it comes with a plank of wood with a star wars picture on it

lmao, this all sounds like a rip off
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Romulox28 posted...

https://comicbook.com/starwars/2019/06/02/star-wars-galaxys-edge-cantina-selling-drinks-75-dollars/

The most expensive option is the beer flight, which gives you the option of trying every draft on tap for $75 on a souvenir board. It comes on a hardwood plank with decorative hollowed Rancor teeth, in which the beer samples are actually served. While it's a neat souvenir, the beers include a Sierra Nevada Tropical IPA, a New Belgium Red Ale, a Blue Point Lager, and a Ballast Point IPA.

imagine a simpleton spending $75 for a sample of 4 beers you can buy at any gas station because it comes with a plank of wood with a star wars picture on it

Disney is on drugs.
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Romulox28 posted...

https://comicbook.com/starwars/2019/06/02/star-wars-galaxys-edge-cantina-selling-drinks-75-dollars/

The most expensive option is the beer flight, which gives you the option of trying every draft on tap for $75 on a souvenir board. It comes on a hardwood plank with decorative hollowed Rancor teeth, in which the beer samples are actually served. While it's a neat souvenir, the beers include a Sierra Nevada Tropical IPA, a New Belgium Red Ale, a Blue Point Lager, and a Ballast Point IPA.

imagine a simpleton spending $75 for a sample of 4 beers you can buy at any gas station because it comes with a plank of wood with a star wars picture on it

Spending 200 dollars for a cheap lightsaber for "the experience" when you could pay that to saberforge for a saber 3 times as good but you don't have a mediocre actor explaining how to screw a flashlight together

The whole thing seems designed around normies who buy nothing but funko
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NeonOctopus posted...

Romulox28 posted...

https://comicbook.com/starwars/2019/06/02/star-wars-galaxys-edge-cantina-selling-drinks-75-dollars/

The most expensive option is the beer flight, which gives you the option of trying every draft on tap for $75 on a souvenir board. It comes on a hardwood plank with decorative hollowed Rancor teeth, in which the beer samples are actually served. While it's a neat souvenir, the beers include a Sierra Nevada Tropical IPA, a New Belgium Red Ale, a Blue Point Lager, and a Ballast Point IPA.

imagine a simpleton spending $75 for a sample of 4 beers you can buy at any gas station because it comes with a plank of wood with a star wars picture on it

lmao, this all sounds like a rip off

Literally everything bought at theme parks is a rip off? Want some water? $10. And that everywhere, not just Disney.
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this is exactly what i'd expect from Disney World skinned with Star Wars and it's precisely why i have zero interest in ever going. Disney will charge park goers a fee to breathe air once they figure out how.
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The whole park sounds like a microtransactions scheme in real life.

Come build a lightsaber. *wait in line 3 hours* *Screws 3 things together* Wasnt that a great experience? You can keep it for only 200 dollars!

Want to experience building a droid? "Wait two hours* *stick a gyro in a ball then slap a head on top* Only 99 dollars to keep it!

What's that? You want a yellow or white lightsaber? You only gotta pay an extra 20 dollars each in the shop if you want those colors!
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15. You cant call kids "younglings"
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Disney: " We created this stupid new theme park and you can't have fun in it!!"

SW fans are so sad
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spudger posted...

Disney: " We created this stupid new theme park and you can't have fun in it!!"

SW fans are so sad

It just seems not well thought out. This thing shouldn't have been so Larp heavy to the point that you have to say Star Wars things and there are no signs and you cant even wear or play with the merchandise.
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why would you LARP an not be able to wear costumes

thats part of LARPing-immersion
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spudger posted...

why would you LARP an not be able to wear costumes

thats part of LARPing-immersion

It feels like someone designed the park for themselves and was worried some asshole customer might ruin their time so they banned the visitors from wearing anything resembling star wars.

But it's probably just to stop some guy dressed up like Chewie from sneaking a kid away and raping them while their parents weight in line at the cantina for 2 hours to get a subpar buzz
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I'd pay 10 bucks for some blue milk at the cantina, but thats it. 75 bucks for a flight of beer? Get out of here. I'm buying a keg and having a party at the hotel for that.
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D-Lo_BrownTown posted...

But it's probably just to stop some guy dressed up like Chewie from sneaking a kid away and raping them while their parents weight in line at the cantina for 2 hours to get a subpar buzz

gotta love disneyland
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D-Lo_BrownTown posted...

6. Absolutely Positively NO LIGHTSABER DUELS

Deal breaker right there tbh
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Jenny Nicholson deliberately defies Rule #1 by putting on the Jedi robes she bought there once she's in the park. Sends out pics and everything.
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ledbowman posted...

Jenny Nicholson deliberately defies Rule #1 by putting on the Jedi robes she bought there once she's in the park. Sends out pics and everything.

She gets away with it due to her status
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there's probably an illegal underground jedi fight club that goes on after park hours
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SSJGrimReaper posted...

there's probably an illegal underground jedi fight club that goes on after park hours

So, what are the rules for Jedi Fight Club, besides not talking about it?
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darkbuster posted...

SSJGrimReaper posted...

there's probably an illegal underground jedi fight club that goes on after park hours

So, what are the rules for Jedi Fight Club, besides not talking about it?

I'd tell you if I was allowed to talk about it
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SSJGrimReaper posted...

there's probably an illegal underground jedi fight club that goes on after park hours

That sounds sick. I'm surprised no one in the extended universe has ever thought of that
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When disney greed runs rampant and they clearly show they want to extort the customer, really sad but not at all surprising.
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IfGodCouldDie posted...

@leafeon13n do you know anything about this?

Most of the rules are to prevent Disney from getting sued and have been standard and enforced at the park for years, including selling shit you can't take out and use.

You cant take alcohol out of the cantina because the liquor license only extends there, Disneyland Park has always been dry, if you need alcohol to enjoy Disneyland you probably have a problem.

California Adventure has alcohol because the park sucked.

The land is fantastic, the CMs are all hugely in character, there is a huge attention to detail and the rollout has been the absolute best crowd management job Disney or likely anyone has done for something like this. The whole Millennium Falcon attraction is immensely satisfying and its capacity and load time are something both coasts sorely needed.

4 hours is enough to do 3 of the 4 major things in the land. There have always been things in Disneyland you are unlikely to do in a full day. They could have let everyone in the land for all day and let chaos reign but their crowd management here made the land fill lively but not overstuffed.

Anyone complaining about the limited time has money to spend on both a park ticket or pass$110+, a droid($100), a lightsaber($200), and drinks(I'm going to say $35 minimum here).

Anyone that can afford all that fucking shit can afford to come back another day.

I give it a year and a half before they say screw it let them wear costumes and add a acre that will be designated a battle area for lightsaber fuels and they will make the blasters be laser tag stuff and have a laser tag area

Dat money yo
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Oh and i guess i should mention i was there opening day at 8am and the whole experience was fucking amazing.

I was at Pandora in animal kingdom today and it was amateur hour of theme park lands. Galaxy's Edge is something no one has ever experienced before and the vast majority of people are going to absolutely love it.

TheOlJollyRoger posted...

I give it a year and a half before they say screw it let them wear costumes and add a acre that will be designated a battle area for lightsaber fuels and they will make the blasters be laser tag stuff and have a laser tag area

Dat money yo

I really doubt it for sabers and blasters.

Disney is going hard on this no toy guns rule. And the whole lightsaber thing leads them way too open to lawsuits.

TheOlJollyRoger posted...

I give it a year and a half before they say screw it let them wear costumes and add a acre that will be designated a battle area for lightsaber fuels and they will make the blasters be laser tag stuff and have a laser tag area

Dat money yo

Buzz Lightyear bubble guns were one of the best selling items and they just abruptly took them off the shelves one day. They wont cave on that one.