Disney’s failed Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser gets a Springfield version in an upcoming episode of The Simpsons.
According to simpsons.fandom.com, Bart and Lisa will break into Krustyland’s shuttered Kosmic Kruiser Hotel, a spaceship-shaped immersive hotel bearing a resemblance to the short-lived Star Wars experience at Walt Disney World.
The new Simpsons episode “The Kosmic Kruiser” will air Sunday, November 8th on FOX with the episode description “Bart and Lisa break into Krustyland’s most notorious failed attraction, only to discover that it hasn’t been completely abandoned.”
The episode will also feature a guest voice appearance by Jenny Nicholson, who published a four-hour video documenting her own Galactic Starcruiser voyage. The video titled “The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel” garnered millions of views within days. The Walt Disney Company attempted to issue copyright claims against the video, briefly demonetizing it, before Disney allowed the dispute window to expire. The video has now reached over 17 million views.
Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser
Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser was an immersive “Star Wars” hotel experience, with guests assisting the Resistance or the First Order, visiting Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge and Disney’s Hollywood Studios, dining on themed food, and more. It featured show scenes and incorporated the Play Disney Parks app. In 2022, the experience won the TEA Thea Award for Outstanding Achievement in Brand Experience.
Despite being beloved by fans of both themed entertainment and “Star Wars” alike who were able to experience it for themselves, the hotel was troubled from the start — from budget cuts to prohibitively high prices at nearly $5,000 per cabin, mass cancellations from guests, and cancelled “cruises” due to low occupancy — all despite reported “high demand.” At one point, operations reached a lull where there were only enough passengers to fill just one dinner service. Three individuals close to the project previously reported that the experience “never made money” and had a lower occupancy on average than initially thought.
Ann Morrow Johnson, the lead creative behind the project, is no longer with Walt Disney Imagineering. She left to join former WDI president Bob Weis at Gensler, an architecture and design firm, in 2024.
Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser opened on March 1, 2022, and closed permanently on September 30, 2023. With the closure, Disney was able to claim a tax write-off of approximately $300 million.
Disney announced in January 2025 that the hotel would be turned into offices. Since then, we’ve seen several permits filed by FAM and Walt Disney Imagineering. In August, FAM extended a permit, contracting Balfour Beatty.
Read our look back at Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser.
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