Star Wars Named BIGGEST FLOP Ever by Unlikely Source! Did Sequel Trilogy DESTROY the Starcruiser?

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]The Star Wars sequel trilogy was a disaster. Is a disaster. There's no doubt about it. But what if we told you that now it's being declared as the reason for the biggest theme park flop in the history of theme parks? No, we're not joking. And that's not coming from anybody like us. It's not coming from a Star Wars hater. No, it's coming from theme park aicionados who say the Galactic Star Cruiser is the biggest blunder ever for Disney.

[00:00:34]It's a great day. It's a groovy day. And thank you folks for coming our way today. We're diving deep into a story that involves Ray, Kylo, and even somehow Blue Shrimp. Get ready. We'll dip into the latest news. You click the like button and here we go. Ladies and gentlemen, we got some news and let's go to it right now. The biggest theme park flop ever. Well, that's what they're calling it. And what is it that they're saying? Well, take a look, folks, at what we have for you right now out of Two Blue Loop. Okay. Well, that's a new one. But this is a uh this is a website that looks specifically at all the stuff that should be fun, travel, and all that sort of thing. You can see up there museums, theme parks, water parks, zoos, aquariums, and they're not political.

[00:01:15]They're not partisan. Right. They have no vested interest in the game. But what if I told you >> what a neat word that is.

[00:01:23]>> Yeah. But what if I told you >> entertainment? Okay, >> they have figured out that the sequel trilogy is a bust. Star Wars sequel trilogy. How in the world would this place? Oh, is it 20 blue loop? I don't know. It's just Blue Loop. Whatever, folks. Even they even the websites that don't cover this stuff, they know it's true. Why? Well, this article says the eight biggest theme park flops in the US. Ambition, miscalculation, and the high cost of getting it wrong. Well, on the list from Lance Hart, we've got MGM, Grand Adventure Theme Park, which oh boy, >> that was a mistake.

[00:01:53]>> I was there.

[00:01:54]>> We've got Schlitterbond in Kansas City.

[00:01:56]Yeah, big mistake. No doubt about it.

[00:01:58]We've got Evermore Park in Pleasant Grove, Utah. And so, heard of it.

[00:02:02]>> The list, folks, goes on. You can see them in Jazzland. You betcha. The world of Sid.

[00:02:07]>> Yeah.

[00:02:07]>> Hard Rock Party. And oh, the Hard Rock Party. Boy, what a what an expense to go completely belly up. And if we go down Wild West World, but if we go all the way down, the number one theme park flop of all time according to Blue Loop is the Star Wars Galactic Star Cruiser in Orlando, Florida. Folks, let's let's see what they say. And I missed that blue skin captain, don't you? Let's It was Kathleen Kennedy standin, of course. It says, "The closure of the Star Wars Galactic Star Cruiser after just 18 short months remains one of the most significant and expensive failures in Disney's modern history. While the experience itself received high marks from most participants, aka the influencers. You know how it works. The business model collapsed under the weight of its own ambition. Now, that's not really the case. We'll we'll explain. There were several major factors that led to the sci-fi faux cruise experience not succeeding as Disney had hoped. But perhaps most obvious was the staggering cost. A standard twoight voyage for a family of four typically started around $6,000.

[00:03:04]Now, that probably would have worked though at Star Wars heyday. The problem was the heyday had passed. It says this cutting flaw was one that even most of Disney's most loyal fans were unable to overlook. Once the diehard wealthy fans and influencers had visited the starship over the first year, attendance died down and the attraction no longer had a sustainable queue of customers able to justify the expense. The numbers required to keep the starship running compared to the actual guest capacity didn't work out in the end. The starship was designed to operate more like a giant immersive theater production rather than the hotel that it was. As a result, it required a massive cast of actors as well as basic crew members to maintain the living story atmosphere running 24/7. Meanwhile, the Starship had only about 100 actual guest cabins, while real world cruise ships today often have between 1,000 and 3,000 cabins, which limited how much revenue could be generated per voyage while still requiring a very high fixed cost to operate as designed. Well, folks, we can figure this out. If it started at $6,000 and there's 100 guest cabins, 6,000 * 100 is 600,000. $600,000 in two days ain't bad, eh? In the end, Disney chose to close the Galactic Star Cruiser and use it as a tax write-off to claim accelerated depreciation benefits, which were reported as worth upwards of $250 to $300 million. And they converted, of course, into a bunker for the failed Imagineers to go live there. In short, it became far more profitable for Disney to shut it down for good and take the tax write-off now rather than wait and let it slowly dwindle away. I would argue it had already dwindled. Lauren, I want to go to you first on this one though because they're ignoring the most important fact here. Or perhaps they just don't know because again, this is not necessarily their area of expertise.

[00:04:40]Lauren, the real problem here is Disney refused to give fans what they wanted.

[00:04:45]Fans wanted the original trilogy characters or maybe even the prequels.

[00:04:48]They do not want the sequels and basing a hotel around Ry and Kylo Ren, not a win for Disney. How much of a factor was that in your mind?

[00:04:58]>> Tremendous. They made a Star Wars land that was not Star Wars, that did not appear cinematically in Star Wars in any of the movies or shows at all. Batu only existed in a novel and was created in that novel as a tie-in to the park. You have to base the park materials on the material, not vice versa, to try and get buy in. And that's before you even consider authenticity to the Star Wars universe in the first place. I don't know if you've noticed, but all of the Starcraft and architectural features in the Star Wars universe are notoriously not OSHA approved. And you you cannot make your hotel look like that because you're going to have injuries and all kinds of problems. It comes down to something as simple as hallways on Corellian Corvettes are curved and have sort of a gutter on the outside edge of the walkway, which if you're a wheel if you're somebody in a wheelchair, that's going to cause serious problems. So, they can't even make it look like Star Wars and be authentic to the universe because there are safety concerns.

[00:06:05]>> And you can see here how awful some of the things were. This is Josh tomorrow pretending that he enjoys playing this game which involves a light beam and then you moving your lightsaber to it.

[00:06:16]And Josh, you got to give him credit here. I mean, he's he's pretending. I mean, I would have just put one hand out if I'd been asked to do this. They would have hated my guts, but I always do this. I'm I'm I'm that guy. I have just held it one hand and stuck it out in front of the light beam. Like, really? I mean, my cat has more fun with the laser beam than this. But this is they went to great expense to make this thing. It is now being declared the biggest theme park flop of all time by theme park outlets. Lou, all they had to do was just change it. As as hokey as this is, all they had to do was change it. Have Luke Leahan and they could have kept this thing going on for 5 years. In fact, it may have been at capacity >> if they had if they had just said give the fans what they want.

[00:06:56]>> What they should have done is not a hotel. They should have done a Star Wars with the original cast. branded uh version of the adventurers club. It should have been a nightclub. It should have been a three-hour experience and done and it would have been fine. But you coop people up for two days.

[00:07:17]uh they may think if if the people who designed this do nothing but go to Renfares and laring things swell but the rest of the world all that plus I still want to go to Magic Kingdom and I still want to go to Epcot and I still want to still want to still want and maybe the cruise before or after before you know it you're talking about a real commitment not just of a lot of money but a lot of time that people don't have so it was misguided from the beginning >> yeah and I'll say this too. You know, the original plans, we believe, were for this hotel to be integrated into the land. Uh, and then to be cheap, they made it so that they couldn't do that anymore cuz they wanted to clone the two lands. By the way, we see uh Steven out there, greatest YouTube thumbnail artist in the world, and we mean it. Couldn't do what we do without Steven. Uh, they they wanted to have the cheapest possible solution. So, what did they do?

[00:08:12]They cloned the Disneyland and Disney World versions. That meant that a hotel could not be part of a cloned version because then it wouldn't be cloned. And so they offset it and then they would haul people in from the hotel with a with a U-Haul essentially, right? With a box.

[00:08:25]>> Box truck. Right.

[00:08:26]>> Right. They would haul the literally, folks. I mean, we're telling the truth about this. And by it not being integrated into land, it turned into a bunker. So now, whereas people were supposed to be in this thing and then they could freely go out into the land.

[00:08:39]And man, that would have been cool, right? Now they were locked into a windowless, you know, outer space laring experience based on Ray and Kylo. And boy, did this ever fail.

[00:08:51]>> And of course, when in doubt, paint the food blue.

[00:08:54]>> Yeah, with with the shrimp.

[00:08:57]>> Natt, do you miss the blue shrimp? Did you ever want to get the blue shrimp?

[00:08:59]You wanted the blue shrimp, right?

[00:09:01]>> Funnily enough, this is something I think I will never be asked, but I really do like to eat blue food. I know how bad blue dye is, but uh not not in shrimp form, candy form, but I did find it insane that they were proposing to people to pay that much money to go sit inside a box and they had to play like be involved in the whole theatrics of it. So, if anybody didn't want to or if somebody was dragged by someone else to go do that, initially they wouldn't like the experience. But then how many people out there in the world have that much money but also want to have that experience of being trapped for two days inside of a box where they're forcing you to pretend and play pretend if you're not into it. So it was I think it was a terrible mistaken idea from the start. And if they saw that they couldn't move forward with an actual hotel where people could come and go as they please instead of being hauled around in a box truck uh then pivot and do something else. But they that's what they haven't been able to do. And they they just want to run with the ideas that they have because they like them, but they don't consider what the actual fans and the people that are going to pay the money really do want. And they don't consider the legacy of the IP that they're using to do that either. Well, the other basic problem with it to me from the very very beginning, if this is supposed to be really a truly deluxe space cruiser where only the elite of the universe with lots of money go, which is what you have to have on planet Earth to go there. Boy, those are crappy little rooms, you know? I mean, it's it it should have been at least the Four Seasons inside for that kind of money and for that kind of image and the storytelling, but instead it was like, well, we are the elite and the wonderful and we have all the money in the world and we're going to go camp out in a plastic box.

[00:10:50]>> We're going to throw you in a box with no windows.

[00:10:52]>> And I just got to say, guys, I mean, the the execution here is just not I mean, the blue shrimp, I mean, I don't know what that looks like, but and I think it's a cool idea to have blue shrimp. I mean, that that could have worked, but the lighting is just it looks like you're eating some sort of alien Play-Doh with, you know, terrible claws.

[00:11:09]>> It looks worse than that.

[00:11:10]>> You've got Beetlejuice on the right side. Yeah, it does look worse than that.

[00:11:13]>> Unicorn crap is what it looks like. Uh, but anyway, and not that I've ever seen the unicorn crap, mind you, but if I had, that probably would be close.

[00:11:22]>> Let me tell you, these pictures are not they're not helpful nor pleasant >> because of the claws. No, because they're macaus. what what they should have done. I maybe they maybe there was nothing they could do to fix it. But the the tails being the different color is just it's upsetting. It's disconcerting.

[00:11:40]But if the tails were blue, too, I think it actually looks worse somehow.

[00:11:43]>> Well, but you got to see them red because otherwise if they're gray, they never got cooked.

[00:11:47]>> It looks like it looks like something that's removed in a surgery where you really need a removal of something. I mean, I don't know. It's so awful. I just can't. Again, as someone that likes blue food, you never do colored blue food, like random colors in in salty food. You always want to do it with candy or with >> Don't make the meat raspberry and all that sort of thing.

[00:12:08]>> You already I mean, if anybody remembers green and purple ketchup, then >> Well, purple and the pink milk, don't we? In the in the land.

[00:12:16]>> I can do the the blue milk could well, if it was actually made out of milk, you know, it's so easy. Vanilla in the milk and then, you know, color it blue with blue spirulina. Boom, you got blue milk.

[00:12:25]Reminds me of of those remember those straws they used to have that you you got chocolate milk by sucking milk through a straw and had kind of a piece of felt saturated in in chocolate stuff or strawberry stuff. You don't remember those?

[00:12:38]>> I I can't tell you >> I can't right now or Lou I just every time there's a new picture that I keep looking at I go >> boy that's a bad angle. Maybe there's not a good angle. It's just it looks like little tiny blue brains with arms on them. It's so awful.

[00:12:54]It fits better in Ind if if they did an Indiana Jones hotel and they opened the monkey brains and instead it was blue shrimp. You know that that could work.

[00:13:02]>> They they keep making the mistake with the color blue. They're doing the same thing with the uh uh the the Mandalorian and Grou hamburger that they got with the blue onions. It's like >> it's not bad.

[00:13:14]>> Yeah. When I heard about it, it's like, okay, I could see them coloring it that.

[00:13:16]And then I saw a picture of the actual burger and it's like, oh no, no, I I don't want to eat that. that everything in my evolutionarily designed brain says this is going to cause you problems.

[00:13:28]>> I'm looking to see if I can get a picture of it real quick. That will be hard.

[00:13:32]>> And is it going to turn your tongue did it turn your tongue blue?

[00:13:35]>> Um I wouldn't think so on these because they were they were soaked in in blue spirulina, which I think it won't dye your your tongue after that. And and it's not a it's not an artificial food coloring. Let me see if I can get this pork sandwich. Mandalorian Disney. Let's see if it'll pull up. N wait. Don't make salty food blue.

[00:13:53]>> No, do not.

[00:13:54]>> Don't.

[00:13:55]>> Don't make your salt food blue.

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