in the pouring rain - twice - for virtual credits that buy you nothing, even "in game".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0CpOYZZZW4&t=1s

If you decided to not spend thousands and thousands of dollars for a two night stay at the Disneyland Star Wars Hotel, then you can view the experience that youtuber Jenny Nicholson had. The hotel has since closed, and yes, the video is very long four hours, but it is a concise, surgical, brutal take-down of how Disney failed on their most expensive experience, ever. Disney repeatedly over-promised and under performed on the vast majority features.

Regardless of what Disney said, it wasn't like being in an 'immersive two day Broadway show'.

There weren't animatronic droids and many "aliens" to interact with. Just one alien and other people in blue makeup. There may have been an R2D2 rolling at some point.

The interaction with the cast was mostly menu driven texting, although they would talk to you in person somewhat.

The video "games" were really simplicistic, that you probably wouldn't play with even on your phone. One of the "tasks" she was given as part of a "game" was to scan non-movable crates in Galaxy's Edge, in the pouring rain. This included some that were so low to the ground, that she got down on her knees with an umbrella that would close on her head. Then it turned out that she scanned them using the "wrong" part of the app, and "needed" to do it again to move the hotel story forward - but which ultimately gained her nothing.

Sometimes the "story" just "stopped" and left you hanging without knowing where to go or what to do.

The interiors while pretty, weren't overwhelming with really no special effects except tiny video screens and some piped in sounds. For being "in space" in a universe where magic/the Force exists, it seemed very underwhelming.

If you really, really, really are interested in Star Wars or Disney or want to see a young lady methodically but politely decimate a multibillion dollar company who tries to manipulate and guilt their customers in an effort to extract as money as possible, it is interesting. Her 20 minute conclusion was brutal, showing how Disney actually is rewarded by cynically causing people to pay extra to skip lines, so they are rewarded for making the lines at rides be as long as possible.

She obviously could do with some editing of the four hour long behemoth, but she wanted to give the complete experience.