Current Events > Disney is opening a Star Wars Hotel in Orlando where each guest gets a storyline

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https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/15/disney-is-opening-an-immersive-star-wars-hotel-where-each-guest-gets-a-storyline/

Details are still super light, but Disney just dropped this bombshell in the middle of its D23 expo down in Los Angeles.

Here’s what we know so far:

- All of the employees (or ‘cast members’, in Disney Park lingo) will be in costume and in character
- Each guest will get a storyline, which Disney specifically says will “touch every single minute of your day”
- It’s meant to take place on a space ship; ‘windows’ will only show space.

In other words, it’s… like… Westworld (or, you know, as close as anyone can get) plus Star Wars, minus all the sexy and/or murdery stuff.

The potential here is incredible. I’d be excited about this even if it was just some haphazard third party throwing together a Star Wars-themed weekend. But with the might of an army of Disney Imagineers and Lucasfilm’s own stamp of approval on it? Oh man, oh man, oh man.

Sadly for us Californians, Disney has only mentioned this as coming to Florida’s Walt Disney World thus far. BRB, buying plane tickets to Orlando.

This looks pretty damn cool.
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Damn, I want to go
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neat. i don't want to go back to orlando for a long time though. went a few years ago. it was fun, but there is so much of even just the US that i haven't been to yet. never mind international travel.
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Sounds interesting. It'll probably be really expensive though
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The idea of the windows only showing space is really cool
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I read about this a couple months back, pretty crazy stuff and Orlando isn't that far for me
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itachi15243 posted...

Damn, I want to go

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I wonder how long it'll be before they drop the storyline thing after guests realize they're all being fed the same crap?
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Good luck getting lame ass adults to play along
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Vacations are stressful enough without me yelling at my 4 year old for breaking character.

Great Wolf Lodge does this on a small scale. The kids get a magic wand and run around the hotel completing a quest by tapping their wand on Hotspots throughout the building.
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Smashingpmkns posted...

Good luck getting lame ass adults to play along

Why would you stay there if you didn't want to play along? I highly doubt it's going to be affordable
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What if I want to sleep at a hotel instead of acting out a story every single minute of my day?
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Then don't book a room at the hotel that's selling itself on this?

Seems pretty simple tbh.

But I mean

Why make it a hotel if there's no sleeping?
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mattnd2007 posted...

neat. i don't want to go back to orlando for a long time though. went a few years ago. it was fun, but there is so much of even just the US that i haven't been to yet. never mind international travel.

I'm with you here. Might be nice to do in like 5-10 years if I have kids that'll appreciate that stuff
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this is just a plot in order to make more victims for florida man
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DevsBro posted...

Why make it a hotel if there's no sleeping?

pretty sure they'd let you sleep...
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