Don’t have time to watch the 4-hour YouTube video? Here’s the most important info. There’s a hierarchy to the world of Star Wars storytelling. At the top are the , the base-level stories most accessible to fans.
Next, you have : novels, comics, and podcasts (also cool, but not strictly necessary to understand the greater story). And sitting at the very bottom is the most exclusive level of Star Wars canon: the worldbuilding only accessible in the Disney Parks. Today, this is mostly limited to the Galaxy’s Edge areas in Disneyland and Disney World where fans can explore the unruly planet Batuu during the era of the Star Wars sequels.
But in 2022, Disney expanded this tier of storytelling with Galactic Starcruiser, an interactive and fully immersive hotel where fans could live out their Star Wars fantasies — for a jaw-dropping price. 18 months after it opened, Galactic Starcruiser shut its doors for good. So what went wrong? In a four-hour video that instantly went viral, YouTuber Jenny Nicholson dives deep into Disney’s biggest Star Wars blunder, exposing that the problem was far worse than a hefty price tag.
Nicholson is known to her fans as a fervent fan of both Star Wars and theme parks. So it’s no surprise that she goes deep on this topic, breaking down every element of her two-night (the only length of stay offered) adventure “aboard” the hotel-cum-41-hour-RPG. The so-called “immersive experience” was supposed to place the viewer on the , a storied s.
