Fan's EPIC Takedown of Disney Star Wars Hotel Earns Media Praise!  

yes, it was very good. and i was impressed with her depth of research (of the games tests, and other tests they ran before the hotel) and her ideas on how it COULD have been an over the top experience. However her spot on analysis of the business challenges, really should have killed this hotel before it even started. unless they just wanted a tax write off.

She's on my channel ignore list for her glowing review of The Last Jedi because that means we clearly have polar opposite tastes in entertainment, but I've heard people are endorsing this particular deep dive so good on her I guess!

I've never watched any of her videos before but that video was great. It's pretty rare for me to sit and watch an 'influencer' video for anywhere near that long but watching her pick apart the idea, marketing and experience apart the way she did was good stuff.

@@orbitalair2103 A company can only take a tax write off if it spends the money (though some accounting grey area exists). Then it just means a portion of revenue they don't pay taxes on. Essentially Disney spent hundreds of millions to build a LARP hotel. However, they can't count that as an expense because they got something of value out of it: a profit generating hotel. It wasn't until they shut it down could Disney write off some of the costs of building the LARP hotel, which saved them some money on taxes... but not nearly as much as they spent on the thing initially.

@@mattp6089she was tryna be different.. she saw rise of skywalker and she changed her tune

Literally… lmao

You lie. Everyone here knows you fans will eagerly buy whatever they place in front of you or else they wouldn't keep plopping these turds on your eager plates. The fact you're even here proves you're too far invested to shop responsibly when Star wars is concerned

They don't care..They don't want us watching...They're just making shows fir LGBTQ and young people.

We are but we will complain about it

@@alexneff I think what we have here is a mixture of casual fans mainly, who very much want to keep supporting Disney in the hopes they will turn things around for the starwars brand, and some loyal or possibly just mainly superfans who will always support and love off anything Disney makes with the *Star Wars* name on it. Most or pretty much all the passionate fans have now fell into a state of serious apathy toward "Disney Starwars". They're the ones that wont watch anything now, and definitely not buy up any spending their good, hard earned cash on. These fans just keep protesting how bad it all is, because they still love *Star Wars* itself and just want Disney to get the message that they need to fix up and start treating it properly, with respect; and just basically not interfere when they have good, talented Creatives like Jon Favreau who come in and actually try hard to make something awesome. Like we had for two seasons of the Mandalorian.

I think her best point was that this severely overpriced hotel didn't offer the service and quality of even a basic cheap hotel. Plus is never could have been profitable. And that is mind blowing. If you run the numbers, there is no way this project could have ever worked. It is too expensive to operate, too expensive to draw in guests, and too shallow of an experience to justify the price. Plus just a really poor hotel, and the experience barely worked.

Avengers campus here at California adventure feels like it went through the same thing. Like if a bunch of greedy Disney execs just said “it’s marvel just do it lazy and on the cheap because guests will come in droves to see it regardless of quality!”

Yes that right, Disney keep focusing way too much on the short-attention span, normies. When what they should be doing is actually focusing on simply making GREAT STAR WARS; if you show real love, devotion and care for the brand; i.e. if as a Exec and Producer/Boss, you just simply hire all the right people, talented individuals who are very good at their job AND love *Star Wars*; then if you simply just step back, don't Interfere and just let those people work their magic, you're going to end up with something special like Mando Season 2 and that end Finale episode. It seems Disney were aiming purely for the rich, smug socialites and young clubbers types, who like to go to bars etc. That type only when they went about making their "Galactic Starcruiser". All the concept art shows this really. And those are not people who actually really love STAR WARS. What Disney keep getting wrong here is they don't see or follow this saying it goes - "If you build it they will come." This means basically if you take the time and care to actually craft some truly great STAR WARS. You havnt even got to specifically listen to us Fans, just *Listen* solely to the o.g. Creator who started it all. Invite George Lucas into your office and get advice from him, and the original teams of creative individuals he had around him. IF Disney were to do that and just take that honest approach they would have had huge success from this IP by now. But sadly, because Disney have this kind of indifferent attitude toward George, i mean he even said it in those interviews he did say - "they don't want me around" I mean that just says it all. And because Disney absolutely have this incredibly resentful and very spiteful attitude toward us Passionate fans; and i'm not talking about the casuals here. I mean the fans that know the Lore inside out, that have read most those oldskool EU books, that collect all the collector's merch, Hot Toys figures that would cost like $200-300, games, merch everything. It these types of fans that Disney have this very antagonistic attitude toward. TLJ was absolute proof of that and just pretty much every decision Disney have made with this brand since. Disney are like this toward us fans - "No, YOU people will like what WE GIVE YOU!! How dare you all not like how we made the Kenobi series! Infact, you're all a bunch of horrible, Racist people. Sure, we could have made a mini series about the Reva character, and made her a compelling, original character with her own story to tell; a insightful indepth look, into the life of a Inquisitor, snatched from their Order as a child, and brainwashed, corrupted to the darkside by the Emperor, trained by Vader, someone who never even cared for the Inquisitors. And Reva could be a sympathetic character who always harbored designs to take down Vader. But we're following wokeness here, because that's the way of things in Hollywood. This is about social engineering, and so we don't want you fans getting into actual, truly well written Black and Ethnic characters in the starwars universe. Because we need to keep everyone Divided, NOT come together ALL Loving a IP in unison. Look here, we are the HOLLYWOOD ELITE, WE Dictate what the rest of you Peasants can like. You people follow and serve us with your $$$$ WE don't serve You!! WE the Hollywood Elite tell everyone else what is Right and what is Wrong here. And we're NOT letting go of our power because that's all we have. We just want all you Older Fans gone, why don't you guy just F-off here! You're really screwing up our Fascist plans. We're trying Real hard to Brainwash and Condition the young minds, the 20 somethings and under into this ideology we keep pushing, and all you OLDER FANS keep standing in the way, Exposing us! Just go away and let us carry out our designs on the younger generations. We had them ALL at The Force Awakens way back in 2015, and you older fans just had to screw it all up for us didn't you! Well us Hollyweird Elite and at Disney, WE HATE YOU ALL!!!!!! erm not you kids and teenagers though, we love you plz, come and taste the Rainbow. WE just want you younguns to come in and be what WE want you to be, Genderless, lacking any INDIVIDUAL THOUGHT and just Robotic; yes that's it, with your heads all shaved to one side, and multicolored hair, and using your pronouns like well trained puppets." But really, that's Disney REAL Dark attitude and mentality, how they really see us Fans. This is why us passionate Fans have to stay strong and keep doing what we're doing. Keep being a spanner in the works for Disney; by not Financially supporting anything of their "Disney Starwars", but instead keep sharing our honest thoughts and OPINIONS. We don't need to even be crass or derogatory, no need to throw literally petty insults, but just keep winding Disney up and letting them dig themselve a deeper hole here. Just look how much they've alienated themselves from even the Mainstream now, it's awesome to see.

@@dayoldbread1696 Not unlike their films.

@@DBialy true 😂

Lmao no way. Fuck that entire company

Jenny Nicholson has 49 thousand paying patreon supporters, a month. she's the 7th largest patreon by active subscription. she could not care less whether that video was demonetized. Do the math.

The Emp-Iger strikes back

@@universalcollective427She also does a whole one-hour video every month for all her patreon users, regardless of level. Best value for two bucks a month on that platform, and that’s saying something.

@@universalcollective427 It's amazing that there is such a large community of "hate-Disney-at-all-costs" people who would actually pay to view more of this content. Accurate or otherwise.

lolol heres hoping

​@@jesterssketchbook sap part is even if she earns no money from ads she still earned more then Disney from basicly every SW project, cause they all lost money.

Lol no. Don’t be silly

That is not even a little true

Disney is now double the size but made less money last year than in 2009 when the bought Marvel (3 yrs before Lucasfilm). That's only $2.3B Net Rev on $89B Gross(!!). That is absolutely crazy. Their stock should be $15-20 not $100.

Still a better story than any of the slop Disney has vomited out. 😂

Wait, what is that from?

​@@HugoStiglitz88galaxy quest

AND FAILING MISERABLY

Typical. Rather than take it as free feedback they try and bury it.

They're facing Lawsuits left-right-center too, Disney have been filed lawsuits from quite a number of female employees over inequality of pay. Even recently it's came out that main lead star Amandla Stenberg got paid less than some of her co-stars, that squid games dude and Manny Jacinto I think. Also many other male stars from the previous shows, the late Ray Stevenson, Ewan McGreggor and Pedro Pascal all got paid much more than Stenberg did; along with the lawsuit from Gina Carano and that Female Executive Producer who settled with Lucasfilm out of court over her not being paid right for her work on the Acolyte last year; this is not a good look for Disney at all. Especially when they are the ones always banging on bout this "Female Empowerment" poltics.

I hate their woke censorship

Regarding the pay disparity, Amandla will probably lose. Of course she got paid less, no one knows who she is. The others mentioned have more experience and are a bigger draw for the audience. I swear, acting is the only job where you can come in with less experience, less accolades, but demand to be paid as much as the top people. It’s like a bench player wanting as much money as Lebron James.

The force is female and ghaye.

The sheer fucking hubris :D

​@@rogopdp7c You forgot lame.

Do you think that maybe iger deliberately allowed kennedy to screw up so that he can end all of the woke stuff and say it was the shareholders who wanted it and not him?

So true, she's been around Greats for so long it's gone to her head. She's good producer but she meddles too much in the projects to fit her "vision". When Spielburg stops wanting to working with you, there is a problem.

This many years later and I still have no idea why "The Resistance" was not The Republic Navy in TFA. It's just so dumb.

Fans have it the exact opposite way.

That is just wrong. They have made so much content set around those eras

All the fake fans who keep propping this up too who because the originals came out before they were born dismiss it as worthless.

@@BlazingOwnager Because JJ Abrams was singlehandedly intent on erasing the prequels, which he hated, and repeating ANH beat for beat, name for name, blueprint for blueprint. And to think people somehow hate Rian Johnson and not him...

Jenny Nicholson has 49 thousand paying patreon supporters, a month. she's the 7th largest patreon by active subscription. she could not care less whether that video was demonetized. Do the math.

​@@universalcollective427but the point remains. Disney is being petty.

@@universalcollective427She probably does care because they are striking her work and that has its own pride and honor attached to it. Also, the money for that video is rightfully hers.

Seggsss!

and Leiah better be in the Slave girl out fit.

​@@corydrichmondit's modern Disney run by Kathleen Kennedy. It'll be Han Solo in the slave Leia outfit calling you transphobic for not liking the breakfast buffet...

or chewbacca

@@azorahigh3218 only wearing his medal

That's not true. Disney bought all the rights to LucasFilms and the Star Wars franchise -- paying Mr. Lucas $4 billion.

Only one problem there for Disney, those 3 talented individuals you just mentioned are all - "White Males" and going by what that Senior Disney VP said Disney doesnt hire the *White Males* in key positions for their big franchises anymore.

Thank you for saying what I've been thinking for years. Established science fiction/fantasy writers who basically built the Star Wars EU & gave us it's rich & unique tapestry. I agree with you 100%

Disney doesn't like to share with authors. They hate giving residuals to anyone. This is partially why they're trying to bury the OT and Prequel era Star Wars as best they can in the future. It's why the made Luke and Kenobi into weak leads, and buried Anakin's sword at the end of "Rise of Skywalker." It was really a "Death of Skywalker". It's why they're very anti-Jedi as well. Why they can't mention Yoda anymore. They don't want to share residuals with Lucas. The sooner they can move on from it the better in their eyes. THIS is why they got rid of the EU. They don't want to share with Timothy Zahn. James Luceno, etc. They want to own the work.

I'd also throw Michael Stackpole into that mix. The X-Wing series was a fantastic shot of the normal people in SW. Which could be a killer series and not have to worry about focusing on the older stars. We literally could have had this and it would have been a million times better than what we've gotten from the random Starbucks hires that Disney threw millions at simply because of their skin color or who they like to take to bed.

@@Vespyr_ Thank you for explaining so I didn't have to. Another small (stupid) example is C3P0 in the Last Jedi - they made one of his arms red in colour so they didn't have to pay any residuals to the previous creator(s), and thus could launch C3P0 as a separate new toy with 100% royalties going to KK + gang. This is similar or identical to why stuff in the new Star Trek (the Kelvin timeline, the weird Klingon look) is so bad, and is due to the 50% licensing rule between Paramount and CBS. Coincidentally enough the agreement has strict rules and agreements about toys too. TLDR greed wins in the end over lore, fans and content.

Well since they stopped being journalists, they need to piggyback off of real journalists

yes u are...

@@lilmovieperp3599 You can't make me fool

(Disney+) Network

Not really. Reliable sources show that Kennedy never made that call. It was Iger

I never heard if it until this video. Sounds super awesome!

IKR?! Schadenfreude is more fun than watching anything DEIsney has put out in the last 4 years.

You sound like a bad person

Ditto. It's sad that their stock is being held up by Wall Street. It's $100 but should $15-20 as they made less money last year than in 2009 when they started all this and bought Marvel, despite over doubling their size!

Hahaha!! Me too! I can't get enough.

sad

The only way to make a truly great Starwars Sequel Trilogy, is either to work purely off of George Lucas's own treatments, or to basically do Exactly what Rian Johnson did to the *Lore*, take his whole tactic of "Subverting Everything" and as you're writing your own story, you basically make sure to SUBVERT EVERY SINGLE DETAIL, of JJ's and Rian's ideas from their sequel movies. E.g. where JJ stupidly decided to make a "Resistance" another underdog band of the heroes, going up against another "Empire" that somehow reformed itself as the First Order. Instead you do the opposite to that and make the *New Republic* a massive, technological military that built itself up from the "Galactic Rebellion". Another easy e.g. here is where Rian stupidly made Luke a coward, hermit who hid away while Snoke was out there and left his sister and friends at risk of the FO. Instead you "subvert" Rian's cynical idea, and make Luke a WISE, JEDI MASTER, who TRAINS his students; Not just Rey but Finn also, and builds them up to be ready to help him and his friends take on the "bad guys". E.g. no.3 Instead of the dumb, lazy incompetent "First Order" *Subvert* that by coming up with a whole NEW THREAT to the Galaxy. Also can I just say Rey suddenly turning the tables back on and outright defeating Kylo Ren in the first movie out the gate really destroyed any stakes, because it completely scuppered Kylo as being anykind of "threatening villain." TROS just simply added to the problems that were already there previously, like Luke being a coward and Snoke getting killed off. Sidious being brought back also made it where there was no stakes at all, because if his physical body can be destroyed, but then all that keeps happening is his Blue Aura/Mist just comes out, and finds refuge in some other place out in the Galaxy, specifically within a cloned body; where are the stakes for such a villain there?? That basically means that Palaptine is immortal then. Rey only has to show a moment of weakness at any one, single point and she's open for Sidious' blue mist/aura to inhabit her body and conscious. Rian and JJ are simply both as dumb as eachother.

That’s why they sat her behind a beam too.

Well, it was Hasbro that had payed top dollars for the licensing, which came out and said that the toy sales had tanked so much that they had basically overpayed for the license, which is why I guess there haven't really been all that many/much toys produced in these later years, as that contract has been up for renewal as far as I remember.

I think Nerdrotic awhile ago on the SW section of the park said, Disney would have to pay George Lucas if his stuff was used. They could stiff him on royalties if they used their IP. No idea if that was true. Your supposition also makes total sense.

@@dlewis9760 That's a theory. It has not been proven

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't in Iger who suggested the sequels? The Imagineers gave a few pitches for possible Star Wars lands, and then Iger said he wanted it to be themed to the new films for a tie in? I remember hearing about how he eagerly set up a call where JJ read them the plot of TFA through the phone

@@dlewis9760 I heard something about that a few years ago too, about how George would get royalties or something, but i'm not like business knowledgeable. Thing is thinking bout it, how does that even make sense when George sold his IP and whole Company to Disney? I do think there has been somekind of spite gone on regards Iger and Disney overall, because Bob Iger had led George to believe through the Contract they signed, Iger would be abliged to use George's stories, and Lucas was of the belief that Iger would make films from his *Treatments* of episodes 7/8/9 and "Adapt" movies from the many stories he had of the *Expanded Universe*. What's stupid here about how Disney handled all of this is when they acquired the *Star Wars* brand, they had a video-games producer/developer in George's - "LucasArts" and LA made some truly awesome and very creative starwars games back in the day. All Disney really had to do was simply honor George by Faithfully adapting his treatments into solid sequel trilogy movies, with really good scripts/dialogue. If such movies were faithful to George's story ideas, EVERYONE would have loved them, us fans, the normies, critics and George. Disney would have simply been able to literally print $$$$$ by this point. Then all they had to do was make their "starwars theme park" based off of the memorable locations from the PT and OT Films; and at a later point, just add more attractions which would be from new and original places from the adapted Lucas sequels movies they made. With such successful Films that most everyone loved, this would then fuel their theme parks, also it would create a cascade affect, where Disney could then use the "LucasArts" division to make tons of video-games based off of their movies, as well as such things as BF series, "Fallen Order" etc. This would also drive tons of Merch and Toy sales for Disney. The EU books, all Disney had to do was not cancel them, but allow authors to come in and write more stories set in the *EU Lore*, and Disney would only have to announce that the "Expanded Universe" will be considered a secondary Canon, like A-Canon for their movies, tv shows etc. And all the EU stuff would be catagorized as - B-Canon; that way they would still have all the oldskool fans onboard.

@@officialmonarchmusic It's really just all about treating the IP, George the o.g. Creator and the Fans with respect and Disney would have stood to make a sh*t pot full of money from Starwars by now. The fact Disney never did this, but went about it all backwards, and were way too focused on making everything THEIR OWN VERSION OF. Like e.g. they cancel the long running and successful "Clone Wars" animated series, just to replace it with something that's their own brand original series, but using the same animated style as George's CW. Which was called - "Rebels". They shut down LA dev, when all that needed was maybe just a slight restructuring and it would have still made Disney $$$$. But no, instead they shut it down and License out the "Starwars" IP to other, big, greedy companies like EA. They disrespect the "Legacy Characters", when really as soon as their first hired writer - "Michael Arndt" couldn't find a way to bring in iconic "Luke Skywalker" and not have him completely overshadow the new, original characters. They should have hired a really talented writer/director like Joseph Kosinski, who knows how to respect source material, and balance Legacy Characters with new generational characters. Instead Disney doesn't know or care to do this, they're so motivated by "Profit" like Sharks to blood, they just rush in. Bob Iger was only interested in making his money back from acquiring "Lucasfilm" ASAP, that he came up with the strategy to make a new starwars movie every year. But making something as important as a - *Sequel Trilogy* to the hugely beloved, even sacred - ORIGINAL TRILOGY, is something that has to take time, that they simply can't rush into, but needs to be PLANNED and carefully Crafted. But no, Iger didn't think like this, he and Kennedy just thought of the genius idea to draw back oldskool fans with loads of Nostalgia, making a "SAFE" first movie out the gate that would rely heavily on just copying, and rehashing most of the classic ANH movie. Then once they had the fans where they wanted them, and JJ had created this snowball affect of "Speculation" off of his "Mystery Boxes", Disney would have the absolute genius plan to pull the rug right from under those very same fans they had worked up into such a excited hype and expectation; by making a massively DIVISIVE and SUBVERTING second, Middle movie in Rian's TLJ. And Disney's attitude and idea at that point was, they have the backing of the metoo movement, and so IF any Fan so much as criticizes their TLJ movie, that fan will be branded a "ist & phobe" by the mainstream media, and heavily attacked and shouted, shamed into liking it by the huge, angry "Intersectional Feminist Crowd". For a company to take such a position and approach as that toward a franchise and it's long-term, loyal Fanbase, that shows not just absolute stupidity and even arrogance, but it shows that company had a "Agenda" in mind right from the very start.

They made a hotel that first off looks spotlessly CLEAN, which ofcourse if you're staying in anykind of "themed Hotel" you're gonna want it to be, but that just went against the main aesthetic of what *Star Wars* has always been, the - "used future" where things look incredibly technological, with lights on buttons, etc but it's all got a fairly run down look to it; like it's been in service for ages. I just think overall the hotel idea itself was a bad one. Especially what they had, a starcruiser where every room has to have fake windows, to simulate being in "space", which means computer screens running like 24/7, along with all the amenities, the bar, lougne etc constantly, daily, that's simply gotta cost a small fortune to run daily in energy bills. Not to mention a family or friends, literally saying in a room with no real windows; so again extra costs for the air-con too. All that drove the prices up immensely. Anyone with common sense would know that whole idea just would not work, but hey this is "Disney" they live in their own bubble, and so obviously actually believed this attraction would draw in a whole slew of Celebs, and "Rich People" from the valley and wherever else; but again, that all comes from *Star Wars* actually being hella COOL and *Popular* and their Sequels simply were not lol. What would have worked better would have been to just make the starcruiser a actual like attraction that the audience can take part in, or atleast more like their stage shows, and the audience just sit and kind of watch this whole feature theme, play sort of thing play out between the "Resistance & FO" attacking this big, starcruiser they're on. Something like that could have worked quite well and have the show last anywhere from say 1 hour to 1:30 mins maybe.

The hotel was a brand new build just behind the batuu lot. They had to put it that close for the immersion of the “shuttle pod” box trucks that transported you from the hotel to the park.

Also in part due to Kennedy's ego, but you arent wrong.

Nerdrotic did a video on that at the time.

@@Bastion83precisely! She was flat out told that nobody will pay the price of a cruise to see Rey and Kylo duel while you eat hospital food. She was still angry cause nobody cared for the sequels, and wanted it her way. Despicable woman.

It's a good movie . Don't go overboard.

That's been greatly exaggerated. She's mostly just super incompetent

Her contract is done in 2024.

@@timothybernardi68 I’ve been hearing that for years…

@@ericp1139 You've been hearing foe years that her contract is done in 2024?

@@timothybernardi68 every year I hear her contract it done, but she always gets extended.

you must lead a charmed life lol

Because there is a tiny group of shareholders that hold the majority. They are the one's setting the agenda, even against Iger's wishes. There are diving the company into oblivion and there nothing anyone can do at this point.

Expected bs when the theme parks charge adult rates for kids 10 years up.

It's also "not fair"