Jenny Nicholson’s granular critique of Disney’s Galactic Starcruiser experience reflects the fraught relationship between studios and fans right now.
Our girl made The New York Fucking Times, lol
Ha, I said the same thing to myself when I saw this.
Nicholson’s monologue, which runs longer than “Lawrence of Arabia,”
About a half hour longer than Killers of the Flower Moon but Jenny’s review is actually interesting.
“The great irony is that Nicholson herself produced what Disney couldn’t: a comprehensive, entrancing experience that held my attention.”
Usually with these very long videos (like the ones by hbomberguy) I watch them in multiple sittings across many days. However this one I did in two parts, captivating beginning to end
This is what I was talking about in another conversation we had, Disney gets old and stale so a new competitor arises.
the number of reviews on her video that were along the lines of: “I was just going to take a quick look … and four hours later …”
She adds chapters, I think not so you can skip ahead, but so you know good places for pee breaks.
I hadn’t seen any of her videos until this was posted a week ago, and I wasn’t expecting the costume changes. I was half watching and half gaming only to look up and “Oh! She’s in a stewardess outfit!”
Normally I struggle to hold my attention even for short videos, but I watched this from beginning to end, and that (to me at least) says something.
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She deserves the recognition. Have been binging her other youtube content as well. She is really good.
I am not going to watch a 4 hour YT video about a place I will never visit.
Can we get the cliff notes?
Jenny Nicholson is a longtime youtuber who got her start talking about movies and other pop culture stuff. Lately she’s shifted towards (very) long-form videos about theme parks.
Here, she talks about the myriad failings of a very expensive, though lackluster star-wars themed hotel/roleplay experience that Disney was running until recently. It’s more or less a play-by-play of everything from ordering the tickets through the entire trip, hence the length.
Long story short: it was a bad trip despite being very expensive.
Thank you for the summary!
It was a very expensive cruise ship experience in a building that didn’t go anywhere. The experience was underwhelming and people stopped going.
The hotel was very expensive but in many ways was a cheapened experience. There were lots of little details that were not thought through. The entire video serves as a criticism of some of Disney’s recent pricing strategies in general. In particular the fact that Disney is expensive and has been adding additional paid services beyond the price of the ticket that feel like they are required to maximize your efficiency.
It’s funny, I had never heard of her before I clicked on this video a few weeks ago. About 20 mins I noticed the length and was like, “I’m never going to watch four hours.” Then I did. And then I’ve been watching a lot of her other videos. She’s funny. And her ideas are really good. How no one has hired her to work for development after the kind of stuff she manages to spit out in a random YouTube video is actually a little surprising.
Jenny is great, watch the first half an hour.
That’s what I thought too, and then I got sucked in. I watched it a few weeks ago, I usually love her Star Wars stuff but this felt too long…nope.
Your loss
Not likely
No one will ever visit
Im not even into star wars but i watched the whole thing. The video sums up what the corporations are doing pretty well.
Link to the video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T0CpOYZZZW4
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