Went yesterday afternoon/night enjoyed the land a lot better the second time. Lower expectations I think helped. It really is very detailed and looks like they spent a ton of money on it. They were doing guest surveys, and I overheard someone already giving them advice on the music. I did not at any point hear John Williams themes at entrance or in the land.
Smugglers run:
Also smugglers run was better the 3rd time. I was an engineer and it was great to just look around the cabin and enjoy the scenery. I was pilot first 2 Times and didn’t really love it. The screens look worse the closer you are so farther back the graphics aren’t as noticeably poor. Probably helped too I only waited 5 minutes in single rider. Also these crowds ar great for guest satisfaction, Indy, haunted, pirates, splash, thunder all walk ons!!! The park was a literal ghost town town yesterday nightish.
Couple observations my dad made:
-Not many people looked to be buying stuff. Cash registers had no lines but again this is just first hand observations of a small sample size
-music was a noticeable issue (easy fix)
- Dad wondered where Luke and yoga and c3PO are ( easy fix)
-didn’t know exactly where we were supposed to be “this sure looks great but maybe I’m not really a Star Wars Fan because I have no idea what this is” when we were strolling around the marketplace
-Harry Potter world he felt a lot more familiar and well done compared to this, but my dad liked the Star Wars land better at night. Daytime he was underwhelmed
My thoughts:
-the bones are pretty great for the land and Having music and adding original triology characters are easy fixes
-this will be a successful I’m sure I think it’s just weird crowd dynamics now
-imagineers did a great job and Star Wars is way harder to convert to a theme park, so it noticeably doesn’t feel that familiar
-had a blast yesterday on all the rides and the rest of Disneyland is in amazing shape. All effects working on Indy.