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@rbu2136

Ай бұрын

The dykalyte starship cruiser didn’t workout? What a shocker.

@rbu2136

Ай бұрын

Can you do a show if DEIsney did the original LOTR trilogy today. Show us what it would look like.

Until KK is gone nothing will change, and I refuse to support them until she's gone. Absolutely toxic to the brand and the fanbase.

@michaelvaldez5993

Ай бұрын

Unfortunately, the crap will still be around. The male feminist Dave Filoni will continue it...

@DonWan47

Ай бұрын

Literally nothing to do with KK lol. She’s ruined a lot but this ain’t on her.

@TheMikepatota

Ай бұрын

Think it goes higher than her. How high who knows but the fact she’s still around after all these failures and shows making fun of her… burn it all down

@lholocron

Ай бұрын

And imagine if we get someone worst than her....what a nightmare​@@michaelvaldez5993

@autisticlegionnaire3624

Ай бұрын

The rot goes deeper than KK. She's part of a wider system in decay. Disney needs to collapse at the very least.

Until Kathleen Kennedy, Dave Filloni, Leslye Headland, and Bob Iger are gone, Disney will suffer. Im sure im not alone when I say I refuse to let these people win

@NotMyRealName6

Ай бұрын

Don't forget Kevin Feige.

Disney, "Pay us $6000 to lock you in jail for the weekend." Normal people, "nah, we good, bro." Disney, "What went wrong?"

@DeflatingAtheism

Ай бұрын

Disney thought people vacationing from Saskatchewan would want to spend their summer vacations locked in a windowless warehouse!

@TheoJay615

Ай бұрын

Also Disney: "Cleary, the fans are racist."

What Jenny Nicholson showed the world is that there is no end to the depths of Disney's ineptitude and capacity for cringe. There will never be an end to Star Wars Hotel follow-up stories.

@DeflatingAtheism

Ай бұрын

It’s one of the biggest corporate miscalculations of all time. The Edsel and New Coke are nickel-and-dime fiascos in comparison. They’ll be teaching this in business textbooks for centuries to come.

Guaranteed she had her pronouns on her profiles and emails.

@captyonah1378

Ай бұрын

No doubt

@StickySyrupEverywhere

Ай бұрын

Prolly, but likely they had their fallperson in place from the start too.

Everything that real people think of as Star Wars is the Original Trilogy or in a stretch the Prequels. Disney Parks Star Wars fail because there is none of this in their parks. When he was 6 the first Halloween costume my son picked out himself was a Luke Skywalker X -Wing pilot. When he was 9 he bugged us to get him the Lego Death Star. He wasn't 40. Now he's sixteen and no longer cares about Star Wars. Congrats KK you made Star Wars irrelevant to teenage boys.

@42Mrgreenman

Ай бұрын

Ouch, I'm 40 now, so I saw the originals before I was ten but didn't get into SW until the Prequals...and looking back on all those old forums about how much Jar-Jar was a joke and how bad the writing was...but they at least knew their demographic, and I held on all the way through Clone Wars, Rebels started to lose me, then when Disney took over, disinterest took hold...

@patricklemire9278

Ай бұрын

@@42Mrgreenman I don’t think KK is unhappy about boys no longer having this mythos. I don’t think George is either really. There is an entire psychodynamic overlay going on. George is embittered going back to his divorce from Marcia . She edited the OT. She cheated on him. George literally erased Marcia from Star Wars by re-editing her Oscar winning work as The Special Editions. People liked Marcia’s versions better, Han Shot First. Without her he did the Prequels that were inferior to the OT. In the divorce the kids (us) sided with mom (Marcia). So George says F it and sells, turning it over to someone he has to know is an empty suit. More revenge. Then KK comes in and does her thing trying to prove Star Wars don’t need no man. People say the Prequels weren’t so bad (the are compared to the OT theatrical cuts, sorry Georgie ). It’s all one big George / KK tantrum cluster F.

Nothing like hiring someone with nothing but a degree and a track record of losing money for their last company 😂

The buck stops with Iger. He should have been held accountable.

Some bosses will fire employees for using too many pens, or exceeding the stationary quota. A few bucks over budget and they get reamed out. Imagine losing half a billion dollars and still expecting your executive bonus.

@DeflatingAtheism

Ай бұрын

She‘s already well past retirement age! She could be drinking a fruity drink by her pool right now and never have to worry about money again. It’s clear she’s sticking on strictly out of spite.

@42Mrgreenman

Ай бұрын

@@DeflatingAtheism Yeah, now she just gets to fuck up planning regular people's homes...

The promo video with Ann Morrow Johnson and Sean Giambrone was so cringey and ridiculous I couldnt stop watching it. It became a guilty pleasure.

Maybe Ann Morrow will design some 15 minute cities? The Starcruiser penitentiary is a great proof of concept.

@NewSquallor

Ай бұрын

perfectly soul crushing design

This whole saga has showed how much Disney and KK don't understand SW. They originally announced the Starcruiser as an immersive luxury resort for SW fans, but nothing about the finished product was what the fans were imagining. And the only "luxury" thing about it seems to be the price.

@MikeFarnhamGalaxysEdgeGroup

Ай бұрын

so you never went? I like how people who never went are experts.

Now if only they'd fire whoever was responsible for Tiana's Bayou Adventure.

@user-lm6kf9co7w

Ай бұрын

That was Bob Iger, so anybody that needs to be fired as him, but ain’t gonna happen

Anytime the credits say 'Executive Producer' you should know it was a straight up D.I.E. hire.

The starcruiser is just the gift that keeps on giving

there needs to be a Fry festival type documentary on this turd.

@caronstout354

Ай бұрын

And then 1 on the Disney and their continuing Star Wars series debacle...

What Disney is did is never over. You are thankfully doing your given job right.

Au revoir! Nice to see executives get fired for their incompetence. Finally.

Not making Star Wars for 40 year olds, but for the future. Kids don't have the money to buy Porches, but 40-50 year olds desperate to recapture their youth do. I'm reminded of that speech from Field of Dreams "They'll turn up your driveway, not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. "Of course, we won't mind if you look around," you'll say. "It's only twenty dollars per person." They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it. For it is money they have and peace they lack." There are trips I take this day because it reminds me of times I was with my mom, and trips my mother took us kids because it reminded her of her dad.

The Galactic Starcruiser will never die.

I forgot about that enormously long stream lol. I turned it on early during the Pirates game in Pittsburgh then shut it off. The game wrapped up, I drove home, ate and goofed off for an hour, then noticed it was still going 😂

It's astounding how badly they f'd this up. All we wanted was a simple resort like the BLT, but with cool Star Wars decor, the occasional character wandering around, and be near the Star Wars park. That's it. It really wasn't a big ask since they owned the franchise and everyone expected it. But NOOOOOO. They shit out the Starcruiser which was this $2k per night forced LARPing experience that NO ONE wanted. Just imagine if it had been done right with a kick ass pool and bar area done up in sci-fi fashion. Galaxy's Edge was such a fail as well. It was a such a snub at practically every fan who was 30+. You know... the ones with money to spend.

@StickySyrupEverywhere

Ай бұрын

Considering now and how this has played out, I wonder if Disney would buy SW today? Believe it that it's all tied back to the World Amends Committee of the Billionaire Boys club, and "forced behavior" social engineering they're playing at! Courtesy of Blackrock and Vanguard investment firms! It's all on verified video. Klaus actually said "... billions of useless people." His context did not make it better. Yeah they basically own Disney.

Anne Morrow Johnson right up there with Alissa Heinerscheid 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@floydfanboy2948

Ай бұрын

Diversity hires probably 😅

This is helpful, this disaster took place over years, when it came out it was mocked and obviously a failure, but DIS kept trying to make Fetch happen, then when they pulled the plug they quietly acknowledged it was an utter failure. They will follow the same playbook on Acolyte.

Yeah I'll remember the laughs at videos about the star wars hotel. Should have went with the all three trilogy themed setting changing them out every month or something.

rats deserting a sinking ship

All those people are probably NDA’d into eternity

What you just said about who they got to make the hotel is accurate to the producers of “The Acolyte” because they got a ton of people that did not know Star Wars and/or care about the franchise.

@ryann6919

Ай бұрын

The sackoshyte

Gentsler is the architecture firm that is responsible for the Disney Vacation Club Polynesian tower that absolutely fucked up that hotel.. in fact, Gentler is the primary design firm that is involved in dumbing down Disney design into a corporate amalgam of average aesthetic. Disney put her there. She wasn't fired.

@StickySyrupEverywhere

Ай бұрын

Oh boy! Woke architecture now! Yay! Another professional field devastated! Yay! Because 'woke' and 'professional' together form an oxymoron! There are no woke "professionals," because 'woke' is the antithesis of 'professional.' Oxymorons will fit right in at Disney!

@brianscotpatterson2101

Ай бұрын

You can also blame Gentsler for the new Communicore Hall that took 5 years to construct and immediately underwhelmed everyone.

Maybe she can imagineer cramped commercial buildings with no windows, just screens.

Can't help but think they had their fallperson in place from go. Wonder does her new place of work also sell "handcrafted" jewelry?

I feel bad for Adam Goldberg, he probably thought he was making something really cool and exciting and then his commercial gets pulled in record time.

These executives always move on to f up another company. They all hire each other.

I would have loved to been in the room when disney was discussing moving forward with this. The insane discussion that would have been and to see the little minds think it was a good idea. I would have been rolling on the floor and crying with laughter.

She will be back when the casuals forget about the Pr disease that was this SW hotel. They do every single time.

Jay on 2x speed, is normal speed.

This whole time I should she was ALSO a sitcom character.

So, was she a scapegoat and TOLD to go? Or was she overridden on what SHOULD have happened and, after watching it go down the toilet, left?

Disney must have a bad dental plan.

Jay, excellent short video. Per Jenny's et al. video, the premise of a SW immersive experience hotel was inherently flawed - the market for it just didn't exist. Galactic Star Cruiser was just a small part of a large shared delusion cherished by KK and Iger's inner circle.

I took my kids to that atrocity. As a parent, you never try to actively disappoint your children, but needless to say, they were extremely let down.

@TheHeroRises

Ай бұрын

I did too! My girls were so excited. They’ve been exposed to SW their whole lives. Started when I showed them ep. 3 when they were 5. These kids seriously love it. Then we went to GE and the Cruiser. They hated it. They kept telling me this doesn’t feel like Star Wars. Just a big Star Wars store. They nailed it.

@thatperformer3879

Ай бұрын

Bro, I hope you’re loaded. Don’t tell me you actually spent 6k or more on this crap? 🙈

@jeremypage3370

Ай бұрын

@@thatperformer3879 sure did. But the good news is, they were so let down, I haven't had to spend a dime on SW shit since then.

@TheHeroRises

Ай бұрын

It depends how many “extras” you want to add to the experience- but it was seriously an orchestrated money vacuum. And some of the experiences were lame as hell or broken. The “light saber training” was down and the bridge experience wasn’t working properly.

Disney’s ineptitude totally makes sense to people who have worked in creative industries. When shit sucks, it’s almost always because execs inserted themselves into the design decisions, even though they have far worse design instincts than their designers. It’s the same for movies, TV, and video games.

Every time Disney lose millions of dollars, they run back to Blackrock and bang on the door. "Sir! I want some more!"

At least she got an award for her outstanding achievement before the hotel closed 🙄

Is this the same blonde that was in that cringe promo video?

@markavey75

Ай бұрын

Yep, in that video with Sean Giambrone famously saying, "Oh my gosh!!!" 🤣

The Force Is Strong With DRUNK3PO!! 😎

still insane how bad this really was. her getting back into urban planning makes sense one the aesthetic of the SC hotel. Get Jay to 100K!!!

The concept would have been a hit Pre-Disney Ownership. Many fans would have loved the idea of staying in a hotel that looked like a cruiser from the Star Wars universe. The Architecture inside feeling like the inside of a ship from Return of the Jedi. Seeing people dressed like they came right out of the films serving food and little romba sweepers that looked like droids in the hallways. Especially if you looked out of your room's window and saw what looked like a space port on Dantooine. Have some animatronics pushing cargo shipments on tracks just to make it feel real. But it was probably overpriced and many Star Wars fans have felt alienated from a franchise they loved as children.

She just moved to Gensler effectively doing the same type of work.

The Jenny Nicholson video was a revelation because she experienced it. She wanted it to be amazing but it wasn't. For $5-6K it CANNOT be just OK. It needed to be phenomenal. Trying to play into a storyline and it failing is unacceptable. She mentions other guests having the same problem and the front desk just saying "oh, sorry. What storyline do you want to be placed into?" Bye, bye immersion. That just doesn't cut it. It's amazing they didn't have actual troubleshooting performers ready for these situations considering again, the enormous cost to stay there. Not to mention going with sequel theming rather than better Star Wars. Imagine Universal choosing to not build Hogwarts and Diagon Alley and instead going with the less-popular offshoot of the franchise and building a 1920s New York and visitors chasing fantastic beasts. Would that still be around now?

The best stories from Disney are all going on behind the scenes.

Failing upwards. It's a wonder they didn't groom her to be the next CEO of Dismalley.

The real Galactic Starcruiser is the friends we made along the way.

Thank you drunk and as I say, if they made it bigger and did it properly, they would’ve been bringing in a lot of money but it is what it is and it’s just very sad

I’d like to wish this dumbbell all the best in her future endeavours. Honest.

Could've been a roaring success if they'd made it A.) affordable. B.) Less reliant on actors basically performing a scheduled play.

How was nobody fired?

I'm waiting for when they realize that 'making Star Wars for the future' doesn't involve the sequels. KK needs to go. She's so clueless at this point.

Lol. My office is in the same building as Gensler.

I heard they reused the hotel as the set for the acolyte. They even retained the hotel actors as well

i feel sorry for Gensler clients, who now have to worry that she will work on their buildings. I also feel bad for Mr. Johnson, who married Morrow on the assumption that she would be a big Disney boss. Now he is stuck with her.

They did everything to try and protect her

must be the only Disney executive in the last 15 years not to fail upwards

You’d expect the design elements to match what we see on screen.. somewhere. The Halcyon is a Corellian made ship..Most Star Wars fans are familiar with CEC designs. The Falcon, the Star Destroyers, I’m guessing The Ghost. I can just tell! But naw.. this Star Cruiser was not that. It was cool in it’s own way tho. Maybe CEC had a different design language for Chandrilan aristocracy or luxury liners in general. I wish it could live on however. Even as an existing set piece for Star Wars movies or a different price point accomodation without “the frills”.. why not?

Won't a tell all book be limited because of possible NDAs?

I'm worried about her little boy in that promo video.

No wonder u gotta close the hotel when after such terribel shows no fans are left ;D

probably golden parachute to something else she can screw up.

So now that she has deliberately sabotaged the franchise, she conveniently makes an exit. Mission complete. ♀️♀️♀️👈🏽 ruin everything.

Are you talking about the galactic turd really well that’s how things happen when you don’t do them right during the start. I just hope that when she left she walked past the building and it reminded her of her ultimate failure. Well, what are you say?

I don't want her doing urban planning it'll be just as bad as the Galactic Starcruiser or Lennar mass produced housing.

The failure of the Galactic Starcruiser and Galaxy's Edge is Kathleen Kennedy's doing. Both projects were still in the design phase and were originally intended to incorporate the Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. Kathleen Kennedy called halt to that and directed the desgns be based on the sequel trilogy. You know, the less than stellar Rey movies that fell well short of expectations and tanked the sale of Star Wars merchandise. I suspect that the Disney board ultimately made the call, and I'm betting they took this approach so they wouldn't have to pay very much in royalties to George Lucas, but it came back to bite them in the end.

Never stop bro! Gina got big case coming up soon hope your there to cover it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The total losses are definitely beyond that 400mil

She wasn't fired. Maybe another scapegoat to blame instead of Kathleen.

"It's just a job" - Zam Wesell

She should have just stuck to what she was good at, and Star Wars isn't it. She made the right decision to move on.

It's not this woman's fault. She was given a job, and I'm sure she had all sorts of instructions to follow.

She didn't leave, she was terminated.

I genuinely believe that the starcruiser could have been great, but I believe that higher ups were somewhat stingy when building it and greedy when pricing the experience.

After the embarrassment that was Disney’s Star Wars? I personally think Kathleen Kennedy should leave as well. Lol

How do these people continue to fail upwards/laterally?

Bro, it’s Gensler with a G. Good video. It’s kinda hilarious that she went from Disney to Gensler… but Gensler is arguably a bigger positive for her career than even peak Disney. I want to believe that even people like her tried their best under Iger, KK, and the other troves of loyalists. Ann Morrow looked like she was really tryin to believe in her project, but knew it was… crap. I have had her very look… dead inside but trying to put a face on. (Don’t worry about me y’all, that time is FAR in the past) It will be cool to see what she does with Gensler. Maybe some of the original ideas she had will bleed through her new work. She is an architect first (Yale). I highly doubt what we saw is her maximum creative output. Hope she’s doing okay, her name struck me as built for being an Imagineer (thought it was fake at first), during her career transition. Edit: Looking at renders she posted of this project I think is confirmation that her and her teams’ creative potential were massively undercut.

You should pass your stories of the hotel to Mr.Balllen and The Why Files! True horror stories!

Disaster Disney is more entertaining than Disney itself.

How was she not fired🤷‍♂️

Thank you!

Jay. How about a DrunkR2D2 for the Acolyte disaster?

Poor thing! I recognize that lady from the promotional thing they did. I don’t however feel bad for the “luggage smuggling” bullshit cow woman! 😡

Sound like she’s perfect for urban planning.

Amazing that Miss Johnson got the sack but KK is still there and is absolutely responsible for not only the Star cruiser failure but also hundreds of millions more losses.

I bet she got a golden parachute.

the only thing the star crusiser hotel is f or aprtments for their employees

It's the most generic looking sci Fi dreck imaginable.

Ugh don't want ugly concrete slab buildings from her urban planning.

0:20 a doody 😂

Jays destiny will forever be tied to the galactic starcruiser

Well I hope she does better there, then she did at Disney.

She’ll get on at Bud Light…no worries