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I’m only an hour into this person’s 4 hour(!) review/criticism of the Star Wars hotel and am baffled at how poorly this was handled.
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I saw someone below say “it’s a review of a hotel”. It’s so much more than that.
It’s a critical indictment of corporate greed, and the fleecing of family entertainment, and nerd culture, told in such minute and well research detail, it’s a 4 hour wonder. All of her stuff is like this.
She’s a little Forrest gnome with an Einstein brain who graces us with her content. I’m a big big Jenny Nicholson fan.
I didn’t know her at all before watching this, but this tour de force deserved a standing ovation.
I think the interesting thing about this video is that she is the perfect customer for the experience disney tried to set up. She loves themeparks, she loves dressing up as characters, she loves larping, she loves star wars. But no matter how much effort SHE put in to get her enjoyment out of it, it just didn’t work.
this video is really the best, most post modern star wars movie of them all. the epic of a ill equipped young true believer with hope beyond all hope taking a stand against a cold empire, causing incalculable damage and living to fight on.
I’ve watched the whole thing. It’s so close to something I’d really like, at least in concept. But the ball is dropped so hard in crucial areas :(
Interestingly there are some videos that show what it’s like when it does work and it’s amazing (though still probably not worth thousands of dollars). That makes it even more frustrating when it doesn’t. It’s been a while since I watched Jenny‘s video but I think she made a point of that near the end.
The hotel was so expensive in both development and upkeep that they had to have a high price and high capacity at the same time to still make a profit. In the end it was basically luck if the actors had time to interact with you and if they didn’t, you had to rely on the rather barebones automated stuff while still paying for the full experience.
Love me some Jenny.
This concept should’ve been a slam dunk, and they blew it.
It seems like they developed the entire thing in a silo without ever considering how people would actually want to spend their time on holiday. It sounds incredibly appealing on the surface, and aimed directly at my (and my partner’s) demographic, but they just screwed the pooch at every corner.
I watched that video when it came out, it’s a delight! I also feel so bad for Jenny about like…everything that happened. So bad! So expensive!
The constant “do stuff!!!”-push combined with the actual insane pricing of the experience, making it so that people feel the need to get all the worth they can from it, gave Jenny an anxiety attack, which she notes that she has never experienced before or since.
That’s fucking wild.
The insane pricing creating a miserable push to do all the things is basically the entire Disney experience for families. I used to work in one of the parks, and people were exhausted and burnt out trying to do everything, and my advice to people visiting the parks was always “don’t try to do everything, try to pick some of it and enjoy what you do”.
Disney was a creative and innovative company up until the 90s maybe… In the last 2 decades almost everything they are known for was either made before or bought and destroyed
I’m sure it’s very interesting, but ain’t nobody got time for that!
You should watch it. Jenny does a great job breaking down what they did right and wrong. And it turns out it was such a monumental project that you need four hours to talk about it fully.
Our attention spans are dropping precipitously, and it worries me.
Man it’s a 4 hour video. Of a review of a hotel. At no point in modern history was that the kind of thing that many people had the attention span to watch
I don’t give a shit whether people 3 decades ago would have watched this, since they had no way to do so. It does worry me that if you post a video longer than 30 seconds or write a response in paragraphs, the immediate response is “tldr?”.
I mean, it does have 10 Million views.
It was a complete resort experience, not just “a hotel.”
Still not the kind of thing the average person was ever going to watch a four hour video on, regardless of attention span.
this review video was written up in rolling stone, forbes, and the new york times, it’s been viewed 10 million times on youtube, your idea of the average person is painfully incorrect
Youtube averages 122 million users a day. 10 million views makes it far from something the average YouTube user has seen, let alone the average person.
Seriously people. Go outside. Call ya motha. Drink water. Do anything but watch a 4h hotel review.
Imagine doing whatever I want with my free time.
It’s an entertaining video. I watched it to have something in the background while doing chores.
4 hour hotel review.
An infinite world of music and audiobooks, and 4h hotel review.
Yeah, audiobooks are way longer than 4 hours normally
This “4h hotel review” is a full on story, like an audiobook but shorter
That was my first thought as well. I thought I’d try the first 10 minutes to get a sense of it.
Anyway, four hours later…
Just learned about her thanks! She is very passionate, clear and intelligent. Unfortunately this is a lesson most people learn about premium vacations and she made a 4 hour rant video about it. I’m not a star wars fan but I’m likely watching this whole thing.
Did you’se all really need a 4 hour video to tell you Disney and capitalism are bad?
While I don’t care for Disney entertainment much, I have friends that love everything about Disney. They go nearly every weekend and when you ask them about it they smile the entire time as they talk about it for the next hour. Why would I want to take that away from them?
That’s fucking sad all around.
Why not let people enjoy things if it gives them happiness?
(Not a fan myself, as a disclaimer)
It’s not just harmless little fun, Disney is one of the biggest companies in the world and is responsible for a lot of problems.
There’s more to life than bread and circuses.
