Donald Hayes

@DisneyParks @Disneyland Fixed.

The Force will be with you, always.💫 Join your favorite Rebels or pledge allegiance to the Empire starting April 29, 2026 at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at @Disneyland.

@KeenanPeachy Brutal review, and absolutely on-target. 🎯

I was at Disney when the Land launched. In fact, I personally wrote a lot of the copy for the Star Wars Land rides and the Star Wars hotel in the marketing materials and for the website. When I say there was crushing disappointment, almost a feeling of betrayal that the whole thing was on the new IP and not the original IP, I am not exaggerating. Disney made the decision to invest this money in order to support the new trilogy, which they thought would erase the old one in the minds of fans. The level of hubris around this is one for the business industry history books. Bob Chapek, who was head of Parks at the time (since fired in disgrace), was in charge of greenlighting all creative in Star Wars Land. He killed things like a lifesize Bantha ride where guests would ride around the land on top of a Bantha. He killed the live show at the cantina. And most importantly, he gave the land its own lame subplot where you had to use your phone to scan kiosks and get some code messages deciphered so you were "part of the Resistance," but it had no payoff. Then reality struck: they made a trilogy that destroyed the OG characters. They elevated an insufferably annoying mary sue girl boss, added a pathetic loser son of Han, a divorced Leia and Han, a disillusioned and bitter Luke, and then killed Luke, Han, and Leia. Result: JJ Abrams' career was finished as a filmmaker. Rian Johnson was wrecked. Kathleen Kennedy is finally out as head of Lucas. Chapek out. Disney movies are garbage. The greatest entertainment IP ever created was lit on fire to appease the egos of the geniuses who bought it and thought they could outdo the original genius. And now it's too late. No one cares that Darth will be walking around again to John Williams score. The new Leia face character looks like Brenda from HR. By the way, Tomorrowland already HAD Stormtrooper) (the original ones, not the new fat ones_, Jedis, and Darth in a wonderful live show for years. My kids all took part in light saber battles against Darth Vader many times. It was hilarious and thrilling. Killed in favor of the new slop. Absolutely over.

@DisneyParks @Disneyland On the planet Temu.

@aakashgupta Has this cast member (or the one who cosplays Han in their other spot) ever seen the movies? Neither is a good representation of the characters. Wouldn’t pay to see anything like this. Feels like cheap cruise ship entertainment.

Disney spent $1 billion in 2019 building a Star Wars theme park where you were not allowed to meet Luke, Leia, Han, or Darth Vader. Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland was set on Batuu, a backwater planet in a narrow window between The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker. By that timeline Luke was dead. Han was dead. Vader had died 30 years earlier. Leia was alive but had no canonical reason to show up at an outer rim smuggler outpost. Imagineer Scott Trowbridge spelled out the design rule in 2022. Characters on Batuu would stay locked to their specific era. No visitors from other Star Wars timelines. The immersion was the entire point. In practice guests flew to Anaheim for Star Wars and walked through a $1 billion set to meet Vi Moradi and Dok-Ondar. The locals of Black Spire Outpost. The parallel failure was Galactic Starcruiser. $5,000 for two nights in the same sequel-era window. No Luke, no Vader, no Han, no Leia. Disney wrote down $250 million to close it 18 months after opening. On April 29, Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland abandons the rule. Darth Vader will roam Batuu hunting Luke. Leia and Han will appear at the Millennium Falcon. Kylo Ren is being pulled from the land and relocated to Tomorrowland. The ambient Batuu music gets replaced with the John Williams score. Disney spent seven years defending the design principle. Then Galactic Starcruiser closed with a $250 million write-down. Luke Skywalker showed up for one limited event last year and got swarmed by guests. The rule quietly got dropped. Avengers Campus figured this out on day one. You put Captain America in the Avengers land.

@HarrisonFordLA I feel like this is the set-up to an all-time “your mama” joke.

May the 4th is coming up soon…

@Mappy6984 Legend has it they’re still standing around him, doing nothing, to this day. We need to pave Pennsylvania and start over.

Dudes like 7 ft tall

@ChrisMartin1961 It will feel like a long time, but in about 10 years, nearly 4 million boomers will be dying each year. Happening at a faster rate is probably the single most productive thing boomers could do as a cohort.

I’m seeing, yet again, this surge of hatred for the Boomer generation. I’m a late season Boomer, born in 1961; I’ve worked for nearly 50 years, have been in the same profession for 37 years, I’ve routinely worked 45-60 hours a week. I don’t get why we are so vilified.

@ronsterd89 I think this all the time at Walmart and Kroger.

I was at Walmart earlier and I swear those employees with the big Spark shopping carts that go around picking items for online orders are constantly in the way. One of them had their cart parked sideways across the aisle while they were scanning items, and everyone else had to literally squeeze by just to get through. It amazes me how some people can have zero awareness of the customers around them. The store is already crowded and instead of moving their cart to the side, they just leave it wherever they feel like. At some point that stops being ‘doing your job’ and just turns into bad customer service. Honestly I’m probably going to say something to the front desk next time because if your job is to shop for orders, you should at least do it efficiently and not block entire aisles for everyone else. Am I the only one who notices this or does it drive anyone else crazy too? 🤔

@MountainDew Diabeetus

Mountain Dew and _______ go together the best.

All these Burger CEO’s doing their performative “me, too” customer cosplay. Snore. Give me the confidently incorrect guy who doesn’t know Texas, toast, kolaches (don’t come at me with “Klobásník”) or the magic that is Shipley Donuts. 🍩

@RODEOHOUSTON @lizzo 🧃🧃🧃

Mirror, mirror on the wall... who's the luckiest of them all? Comment 🧃 for a chance to win @lizzo tickets

@pterrys Hey there, Patrick! Would love to join you for this! My son is a student at UT Austin, and we often hit up the Barton Springs location. Let me know!🔻🍔

Eat lunch with Patrick Terry, literally! Comment below if you and a couple of friends would like to enjoy a meal at your favorite P. Terry’s stand, his treat. We’ll be in touch with 10 guests by March 16.

@Wendys @PopCrave Man, any of y'all ever been to @Smashburger? Like, ever? You would stop all this performative nonsense.

@PopCrave This is what it looks like when you don’t have to pretend to like your “product”

Wendy’s US President posts new video amid burger battle with McDonald’s & Burger King.

@chucktodd Gotta be comp eye surgery.

What is Trump going to offer the candidate who doesn’t get his yellow rose in TX SEN. Paxton won’t drop out simply to unify the party. So what’s the offer? What’s Paxton’s price? Does he even have one? Ambassadorship? Piece of his meme coin business? Dep AG? DHS? Does he solve his Noem problem at same time?

@Popeyes By all that is holy, HELP YOUR STORE 2036 (1101 N. Shepherd in Houston). Heritage location, but…YIKES. 20-minute wait for food, then got order completely wrong. Soda fountain has been broken FOR MONTHS. Store team, including manager, had no idea who the franchisee was!

@WilliamShatner Pretty good, Mr. Bill. I saw this up for sale on eBay for $750. Good deal, or let it go?

How was everyone’s day?

@CountryFirstRep I think about this, too. I’m not 100% sure it would prevent it, but I’d be damned sure to take the risk!

I bet, at this point, even a majority of Democrats would take a Romney win in 2012 if it guaranteed no rise of Trump. Would you?

@barrforsenate Andy “Low” Barr 🤣

Do you know what DEI really stands for? Dumb, Evil, Indoctrination. I’m fighting side by side with President Donald J. Trump to end DEI nonsense for good.

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