D23 EXPO 2019 Superthread - dates announced!

[StarSpeckledSky]

OMG yes. My DH would LOVE to be escorted out by a Stormtrooper. He'd stand in the middle of SWGE waving his wrist around just to be noticed and escorted. I seriously hope Disney isn't actually considering this, as it's going to be very counterproductive.

Honestly my dad probably would too....

 

[njchris]

I'm guessing they don't really escort you out but sorta have checkpoints you can't get past and they will tell you to head towards the exit.

 

[DLgal]

What is it about this ride that Disney can't get to work? I mean, obviously the mechanics are very technical, but it doesn't sound like anything that hasn't been accomplished in Indy or something like Forbidden Journey or some of the other more advanced dark ride coasters. Are there any rumors out there about this at all?

They can't get the trackless vehicles working reliably. Probably an issue with sensors and safety mechanisms. I have heard the ride cannot operate for more than about 10 minutes before triggering an e stop.

 

[wench]

Honestly my dad probably would too....

For prices, check out the dan-o channel on youtube.

 

[RedM94]

I am still trying to process all of the information coming from SWGE thus far. My son and I really want to experience Savi's workshop and the droid depot experiences. What if you go through the 20 minute experience at Savi¡s And decide it not worth the price of admission?

Is there a way to experience the final products before deciding to make a purchase?

 

[rteetz]

 

[rteetz]

More reviews

https://www.wdwmagic.com/attraction...-early-reviews-for-star-wars-galaxys-edge.htm

 

[midnight star]

The reviews of the ride sound very complicated to me. I know it's supposed to be interactive, but I like attractions that require little effort from me...hope I don't mess it up for whatever group I'm in when I ride it lol

 

[EmJ]

What are you referring to? The fact that it won't open til August? I think a bigger issue is permits for Anaheim and DOSH requirements. They opted to open early with only 1 ride as opposed to waiting 2 months to have both rides up.

Is it scheduled to open in August? Disney's official line is "later this year", but I've heard (rumored) not until 2020. I thought they just couldn't make it work, not that it was on schedule for an August opening, but I could be wrong.

 

[EmJ]

Uunlike the rides you mention (I think), RotR will be a trackless ride system with additional movements, so it's a bit of a technical marvel in the making.... I heard it was having a tough time transitioning from section to section, but honestly can't remember where I heard it.

Ah. Trackless vehicles. I can't even picture what that would look like, so kudos to whatever engineer is trying to make it go. I'm sure Disney is very frustrated.

 

[alvernon90]

Can someone who watched the DJ Rex review please post the main points of the review. Eight minutes of video to deliver 15 seconds worth of information is why the internet sucks today!

 

[EmJ]

I am still trying to process all of the information coming from SWGE thus far. My son and I really want to experience Savi's workshop and the droid depot experiences. What if you go through the 20 minute experience at Savi¡s And decide it not worth the price of admission?

Is there a way to experience the final products before deciding to make a purchase?

I cannot speak to this definitively, but there was a detailed report of the Savi's experience on Reddit, and the poster was very clear that you could not gain entry into Savi's unless you committed to purchasing the lightsaber. Once you were in, there was a whole ceremony surrounding the saber selection and build. DH will want to do it, but my son and I will sit it out because there is NO way we need $600 worth of custom built lightsabers laying around.

ETA: I don't know whether this is the same at Droid Depot. I've already promised the boy a red R2 unit, so if it comes to it, I'll take him to Droid Depot while DH goes to Savi's. I guess that just means we will have to make a second trip to swap experiences!

 

[StarSpeckledSky]

We probably won't be going to Savi's - really popular and expensive - but we might go to Droid Depot. Not for the experience though, for the other items (R2D2 interactive toy in particular). you can access droid depot and not make a custom droid, right?

Anyways I was really hoping for an Ewok or something in the creatures store....

 

[DLgal]

Ah. Trackless vehicles. I can't even picture what that would look like, so kudos to whatever engineer is trying to make it go. I'm sure Disney is very frustrated.

Disney outsourced the trackless technology for this ride. Now, it doesn't work right. Should have developed the tech in house.

 

[StarSpeckledSky]

Hey guys! On May 21st, I was able to experience Star Wars Land Cast Member Previews and had an amazing time! I am not a Cast Member, but I had a mutual friend that was able to get me in.
Here is just a couple of the random things I noticed:

• Entertainment- All throughout the land was mini experiences with Storm Troopers, Kylo Ren, Chewbacca, and Rey. They were interacting with guests and walking throughout the land. I also noticed Storm Troopers on a roof of what seemed like a vehicle repair shop with land speeders and such to the left of the BTMR entrance.
• Cast Members- All the Cast Members seemed very enthusiastic to be there! The cast members were also deep into their characters saying phrases like "Time is Credits" and saying "Bright Suns" and "Rising Moons" to us. Apparently there is a whole wide variety of approved Star Wars looking hairstyles for the CM so they can really change their look. I never had trouble identifying who was a cast member and who was a regular guest.
• food and drinks- THEY ARE SOOOO EXPENSIVE. Blue/Green Milk is around $8 for about a 3/4th cup of slush. The Ronto Wrap from Ronto Roasters is very good but small for around $12.99. They really are pushing our budgets. Lines were around a 15-30 minute wait for Rontos Roasters and the Milk Stand. 20 Minute wait for Docking Bay 7. 5 Minute wait for Kat Saka's Kettle. Someone said the wait to get into the cantina was around an hour which is crazy.
• Restrooms- Yes they are themed with cool, unique looking sinks, and they are pretty large in space.
• Smuggler's Run- Overall, a pretty fun ride. The line starts to the left of the millennium falcon with three lines. One for Single Rider, one for Fastpass which isn't open, and another one for Standby. The Standby Line wrapped around the back of the millennium falcon and then into a building which housed many transport vehicles. The line continues to rise until you are on the second floor of the building which goes to a path wide large windows over looking the Millennium Falcon. After this, they then put us into a reshow room that was divided into two with the Hondo animatronic above you. Hondo was an amazing and fluid animatronic as they all say. Then the two groups split into different paths, each leading to another cast member who splits you into groups of six. They give you each a colored card with your listed job which can be either engineer, gunner, or pilot. They encourage trading of the cards. The waiting room is pretty small and usually very packed. They give your group a colored card and they allow you to look around until they call your group which usually always happened in a matter of 4-5 minutes. I did like how a CM showed me some of the Porg nests in the waiting room inside the milennium Falcon. You were then brought to a path that lead to the entrance of the cockpit, which has a cool video showing how each person was supposed to do their job. Overall the ride was fun and not as rough as Star Tours. The jobs were pretty self explanatory since you would just press or pull whatever lit up green. I was gunner once and engineer and I have to say that engineers get the short end of the stick because they are in the very back and they just have to basically press buttons when the team messes up. Also weird side note, I went single rider once and it was pretty confusing on where to go because once you go in, there were different paths that we can go to but no cast member or clear signs on where to go.I eventually found it, but I think that some people would find it very confusing. The wait went down as the reservation period went by and it was around 15 minutes near the 2.5 hour mark, but that amount skyrocketed when the next set of people entered the land due to a one hour overlap of reservation times.
• Black Spire Outfitters- The area in between the shops felt pretty wide open and I didn't feel at all congested, but this can all change when they lift the reservations. With each store being a stand alone store, I can imagine that it will get really crowded. Each shop is also pretty small and I don't think that they can fit more than 20 people in each shop.
• Droid Depot- I thought this area was pretty cool, the process of making a droid was pretty involved. I think the BB-8 was one of the only style of Droids that was available at the time. I liked how they had pieces of droids on a conveyor belt that you had to pick up and put in a basket in order to build it. They then send you to a building section where you build it yourself based on instructions that were given. You would mostly build it on your own, even screwing on some pieces with an automatic screwdriver. Their was also a button that you could press to get help from a cast member. When you are done building, you notify a cast member and they they do some pretty neat stuff activating it and telling you how to handle your droid. Then they put it in a Build A Bear Style box. It is pretty expensive at around $100 but it seemed like a fun experience. My friends did it and they were having a blast! The droid is really customizable and you can even change their personality with personality chips.
• ROTR area- It was pretty empty crowd wise since their was not a lot of things to do in this area
• They only had the Dasani themed water bottles during the CM previews.
• If you really want to make a lightsaber at Savi's Workshop, head there first. The line tends to get long even though it costs $200!!!!! My friends did it, but I don't think the lightsabers were worth the money.
• I'm not a huge Star Wars fan, but I managed to have a great time! I don't think you have to know all that much about Star Wars to get something out of this land.
• Also random but PLEASE CHECK OUT DOK ONDORS IF YOU WANT TO SEE COOL CREATURE ANIMATRONICS. THEY ARE SUPER COOL AND THROUGHOUT THE STORE. However their wasn't any clear signage and it was a bit hard to find out where this store is. It is across the way from Rontos Roasters, left of a really cool and giant statue.

• I loved how all of the CM referred to the Millennium Falcon as a hunk of junk, and even the photo pass photographers asked why we wanted to take a picture next to a piece of junk
• If you want to do the Lightsaber making experience, I would head there first as waits could skyrocket with it being a very small experience. Every time I walked in this area there was around 30 people waiting in a waiting courtyard they had.
• I found two bathrooms so far but there may be more. One is near Black Spire Outfitters and another one is near the Milk Stand. I noticed that there are also family bathrooms.
• A cast member told me there was two consistencies of the Blue/Green milk, with the slushy version being sold in the Milk Stand and a liquid non slushy version sold in Docking Bay 7. I'm not sure if this is true, can anybody confirm?
• There is a cool robot in Rontos Roasters where the Pod Racer is cooking the meat. There is also different star wars creatures being cooked on a rotisserie which is a little bit morbid but cool I guess.
• Dok- Ondar's has many animatronic creatures, in glass containers. My favorite ones are the slimy creatures in water which move and breath. There was also what I think was a baby Sarlacc, but you can see it's body and its intestines moving underground.
• I found that there was spaces for shade and room for trees to grow, but I could see the land being very hot in there
• In the vehicle repair shop with land speeders and such to the left of the BTMR entrance, there was a radio that had someone speaking from it and also music playing.

I was wondering if, from this experience, you had any tips for an order to visit attractions in SWGE? From your post I gained that you should wait to about the middle of your reservation for Falcon? Of course I understand that this may change when SWGE actually opens

 

[Skyegirl1999]

Is it scheduled to open in August? Disney's official line is "later this year", but I've heard (rumored) not until 2020. I thought they just couldn't make it work, not that it was on schedule for an August opening, but I could be wrong.

I've read August from a few non-official sources - like there's a parenting magazine here in OC that reported that it's opening in August, and I think maybe the AAA magazine said the same thing? That's not official from Disney and could easily be a misunderstanding, old information, or even confusion with the WDW SWGE opening, though...

 

[kpd6901]

Disney Parks just announced a new SWGE crowd control measure for June: Soarin' is back over California. I am kidding of course, but we were not planning on riding it, since it is identical to WDW. Well, I guess we need to ride it now. https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...ted-time/?CMP=SOC-DPFY19Q3wo0523190529190001C

 

[kpd6901]

It also has like legit laser blast effects and potentially a Tower of Terror drop sequence as well, all with trackless vehicles. Definitely the most ambitious ride technology they have attempted.

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

I am still trying to process all of the information coming from SWGE thus far. My son and I really want to experience Savi's workshop and the droid depot experiences. What if you go through the 20 minute experience at Savi¡s And decide it not worth the price of admission?

Is there a way to experience the final products before deciding to make a purchase?

DD said not at this time. Unless you see someone who has one already.

 

[wench]

Disney Parks just announced a new SWGE crowd control measure for June: Soarin' is back over California. I am kidding of course, but we were not planning on riding it, since it is identical to WDW. Well, I guess we need to ride it now. https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...ted-time/?CMP=SOC-DPFY19Q3wo0523190529190001C

You may have been kidding, but you’re spot on. This will help draw people to DCA & help pacify those that can’t get into to DL. I’m not a fan of Soarin’ myself, but I love that DLR does this kind of thing.