Disney Parks chairman Josh D'Amaro comments on Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser closure

May 22, 2023 in "Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser"

Posted: Monday May 22, 2023 9:51am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

As part of today's JP Morgan Global Technology, Media & Communications Conference, Disney Parks Chairman Josh D'Amaro addressed the recent announcement that Disney will close the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser later this year.

Josh said, "It didn't perform exactly like we wanted it to perform. Despite the fact it was a never before seen experience and raised the bar, we thought it was time to sunset this in September."

According to D'Amaro, Disney will accelerate depreciation on the Starcruiser hotel by $150 million in both Q3 and Q4 2023.

Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser overview

The final voyage for Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser will take place September 28-30, 2023, and has already sold out. Disney is contacting guests booked on the cancelled Starcruiser voyages and says it hopes to relocate Cast Members to other roles at Walt Disney World.

Carrying a lofty price tag of around $5200 for the two-day, two-night experience, Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser launched on March 1 2022. After stronger-than-expected initial sales, Starcruiser bookings quickly stalled, forcing Disney to look to save costs and boost reservations.

Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser overview

Most recently, Disney began canceling voyages in the summer that had very few bookings, moving guests to other dates with a 50% discount for the inconvenience. Disney also offered various discounts, including Annual Passholder and Disney Vacation Club deals.

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larryzAug 30, 2024

We should probably change the title to "Mostly Off-Topic Movie Discussion In A Failcruiser Thread."

zombiebbqAug 30, 2024

only 19 more years to go until they use the building again! /s

ScreamfaceAug 30, 2024

The planned ending for TFA was to see how strong Luke has grown in the force from the OT by levitating giant boulders behind him. Until the next writer decided to go another way.

Fido ChuckwagonAug 30, 2024

Can we change the thread title to “Galactic Failcruiser” in honor of this one year anniversary?

easyrowrdwAug 29, 2024

Maybe so. But the latter (minus the sea monster, probably) is what Lucas apparently planned too. We weren't getting the former with either Lucas or Disney, which was what I was trying to say in the beginning.

Mike SAug 29, 2024

Going off looking for answers to help him right his wrongs vs. going off to give up and die. Yeah, I know which I’d be more interested in.

ScreamfaceAug 29, 2024

Luke being a recluse meditating, growing stronger in the force is a much cooler idea than him milking sea monsters titties and abandoning the force.

easyrowrdwAug 28, 2024

You know, that's kind of what I assumed was happening with Rey. I'm not deep into Star Wars but it seemed to me that the Force was kind of willing things to happen. I wonder if they would've gone with that if they hadn't brought JJ back for 9. I agree with your overall point. What you highlighted at the end was definitely disappointing for me. The "right back where we started" retread of TFA was a letdown. It felt so lacking creatively.

asianwayAug 28, 2024

They need to let it cool off for a year

FigmentJediAug 27, 2024

It's all about the context of what broke him. Between all the stuff with "The Whills living inside everyone's Midichlorians are essentially manipulating fate across the galaxy" thing in the microbiotic world, the whole "Darth Maul's hot Twi'lek apprentice Talon literally seduced the Kylo Ren equivalent to the dark side" thing, and the talk of Luke having had more support in setting him his new order before things went wrong, it's not like George's version was going to be as much of a hard "Nothing was accomplished at all in the 30 year gap between trilogies" reset as what Disney ended up going with.

easyrowrdwAug 27, 2024

Those settings look cool, but it doesn't show or say anything about the character. The complaints weren't about his habitat. Yes, Disney executed it. But they were following Lucas's idea for Luke. Maybe it would've been executed better or received differently if Lucas had been in charge? Given how the prequels were executed and received, I doubt it.