The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel — Jenny Nicholson
The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel — Jenny Nicholson
Yes, this is a 4 hour long review of a hotel that's already closed.
So worth the time. She had an aweful 2-days 2-nights for thousands of dollars, and did it so you and I didn't have to lose that money to learn the hard way.
I love that she contextualizes all of this against the backdrop of Disney corporate cowardice and shortsightedness. Also, bless the friggin cast members!
I watched the first few minutes just to see what it was about, and then 4 hours had passed.
lol I had never even heard of her before yesterday, clicked on that video because I’m a sucker for deep dive video essays that are probably unnecessary about weird topics. I didn’t see it was a 4hr video until I was like 20 min in and now I haven’t stopped watching her stuff. Love finding a new YouTuber to watch endless hours of their back catalogues.
I'm not a huge Star Wars, Disney, Hotel, Vacation, or fan of this person, and I still watched all 4 hours of this. Really good break down. She's also very quirky and charismatic.
what makes it so much worse is that Disney has the history, Disney has the knowledge, Disney has the engineering, Disney has the know-how and so little of that was on display here – I cannot see any way that Disney fans, Star Wars fans, or theme park fans wouldn’t be absolutely livid after experiencing that …
That’s exactly the conclusion she comes to late in the video: it’s that they cashed in on their deep supply of goodwill with their fans and betrayed them for higher margins. And then wrote the whole thing off by shutting it down suddenly right at the end of the quarter. We are living in a time of animal-backed-into-a-corner, hostile capitalism. The bubble on this system that was literally designed to pop, seems to be popping. So the capitalists are gathering up everything they can, faster and faster. Capitalism as a concept is inherently flawed. You can’t have infinite growth in a finite system. As has been pointed out innumerable times: that’s how cancer works. Not a sound financial system. But here we are, in what is essentially the “going out of business” mad dash by these leeches to grab as much as they can. Our water supply, our natural resources, the climate, the system of capitalism itself are all on the outs. And people feel that. And we’re getting angrier and angrier. This won’t end well, and it seems to be ending faster and faster. They know that. What they plan on doing with all that money after the collapse is unclear. But they’re winning. And that’s all they can conceive of.
Edit: lol I literally forgot as I went on writing that, that I was meant to be talking about Disney. But that’s pretty much what’s happening. They’re in the “squeeze harder” phase, where they’re ostensibly done growing and innovating, now they’re just going to squeeze everything they can out of the people that give them money. It’s about cost cutting, more extreme exploitation of their workers and customers, and essentially going for broke on what’s already there.
Thank you for posting I am definitely going to spend 4 hours on this. ☺
If this is your cup of tea as well you might enjoy her 4 hour review of a theme park that didn't make it either.
Evermore makes me so sad. All that potential and a dream that just wasn't. It's planned theming was much more my speed too.
She has a great followup to the evermore video on her Pateron that I highly recommend just getting a month for.
It's a crazy experience of her telling this story. I've watched 3 of the 4 hours so far and might do the rest today. You can tell the desperation in her voice on day one, when you can see the boring games and faction quests didn't work, or her role playing was simply ignored, but some things are even worse, like the used emergency measures in place, in case of fire or the really bad app or extra paying for drinks on a $6000 trip. Nightmarish.
(not even complimentary Disney+ on the in-room TV)
Okay that is actually crazy
She points out that paying for drinks is the norm for all Disney cruises. The food is free and infinite though.
Jenny is one of the best YouTubers around, love everything she makes. Highly recommend, if this is your first time watching her videos, to go back and watch the rest. She makes longform content on a huge variety of stuff and she's very thorough with her videos.
Jenny is one of those absolute top tier video creators
I haven’t taken the time to sit down and watch this video yet, 4 hours! But I love Jenny’s content and am excited to see it.
Still hoping she will cover the official closing of Evermore
Great video and YouTuber. Thanks for recommending her!
Can I get the 4 min tl;dr:?
Disney opened an incredibly expensive Star Wars "hotel experience", charging $5k plus for two nights. Jenny Nicholson visited (paying full price) and documented the experience, plus background on how and why the hotel was made, some research into what was going on behind-the-scenes, and the spectrum of fan reactions to the experience. The hotel closed down permanently while she was editing the video, and she also goes into why that happened and some larger trends at Disney surrounding the closure.
No
Jenny's videos are awesome. This has been in my Watch Later since she released it.. I need to get around to watching it.
Might be easier to start it if you commit to only watching a few chapters at a time. I just finished it after breaking it up into three different viewings and I had a great time.
Jenny's a national treasure
She's just mad about the lack of Reylo content.
Glad to see jenny back on YouTube =) thought shed stay in nebula/patreon forever after the hate she was getting
I don't think Jenny is on Nebula. She's got a patreon where she releases smaller videos every month, but to my knowledge she's never "left" YouTube - she just takes a long time to create and edit these videos so she can only release them pretty infrequently. She's got a comment pinned on this video saying about as much.
Are you thinking of Lindsay Ellis? She's still Nebula (and maybe patreon) exclusive.
Oh yeah maybe I got a bit mixed up there, thanks!
Can anyone tell me who she reminds them of? There is something about her face and the way she talks/moves her mouth that really reminds me of someone.
emily blunt?
No I don’t see that. My initial thought was Esther Povitsky—and I definitely see that. But even after that revelation, the more I watch the more I’m still feeling like that answer is incomplete.