D23 EXPO 2019 Superthread - dates announced!

[Skyegirl1999]

We had a bit of nasty experience near the Falcon. Stormtroopers were patrolling and a kid had his lightsaber swinging it round. He tried to get a photo with the stormtrooper and swung the lightsaber. The stormtrooper had to bend back and lost his footing a little bit. The CM with them yelled at him to not play with that as it wasn’t a toy. The stormtroopers quickly moved away and the CM completely forgot she was on stage and blatantly started talking to the one who had nearly fell before going backstage. Wasn’t good to see from any side.

The kid was around 13 so should have known better and the parents were just stood off to a side laughing. I wasn’t going to share at first but since you said you had a CM yell as well!

I mean, we’ve had overwhelmingly awesome CM experiences in SWGE, and I pretry much always give CMs the benefit of the doubt - maybe the one who ran over to us had watched someone trip and was stressed about it? Who knows?

But it was a negative enough moment (that freaked out my kid a bit) that I definitely wanted to warn others so they don’t make the same mistake.

 

[ateam79828592]

My favorite item from GE is this gift card available only at the Droid Depot. You have to load with $100. It is heavy metal and has a scannable barcode on the back so it can be used throughout Disney.

 

[ateam79828592]

One other note on merchandise inside of GE. If they are out of something you are looking for, keep checking back as possible during your time. They do restock frequently but if you ask about an item they will say either they are sold out or they are waiting on a shipment (i.e. unlike shops outside GE they aren’t pulling from stock in the back on request).

 

[Markolodeon]

I’d just walk in and get your wristbands sometime before 8. It took us literally two minutes at 7:20. The 11:00 crowd can check in at 9, so they’ll start lining up and I wouldn’t want to deal with that.

Great tip, thank you!

 

[dozeman]

My time is tomorrow 11-3. This morning I received an email from Disney asking me if I would like to add guests up to six total for the reservation. Added two more by phone

 

[CaliforniaGirl09]

I booked through a third party (saved almost $100) for our last minute trip tomorrow night at DH and had to call to get our reservation time. Psyched to get 8 am to noon Friday morning. Hope the crowd #’s stay low!

 

[midnight star]

Reportedly people are receiving emails that they can add guests to their reservations! I’m guessing because the crowds are so low!

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Just got off the phone with the SWGE hotline:
To be clear on the email about adding a guest, this only applies to people who registered solo. So no luck to anyone who registered with 2+ guests already.

I was able to add my aunt a few weeks ago when they were allowing you to add just one person. It was just me originally on the reservation. I also received the updated email and QR code with her name. I wonder though, for those who needed to add more, but were only allowed to add one, how this would work for them? Since technically now their reservation is for 2 people.

 

[Tink1987]

My favorite item from GE is this gift card available only at the Droid Depot. You have to load with $100. It is heavy metal and has a scannable barcode on the back so it can be used throughout Disney.

We were gutted we missed out on these, they were sold out by our 2nd reservation.

 

[DieGo2SHAE]

So I just got the email about adding people to my 1-person reservation. I actually managed to make a second reservation for the same day and was planning on just using that one and letting the 1-person reservation go unused.

To anyone that made multiple reservations, were you able to use them? Or do they scan your ticket/AP to limit you to one visit per day the way they limit AP buttons at the Halloween parties?

Also, on an unrelated question, can we leave and re-enter the land during a reservation period?

 

[Lesley Wake]

So I just got the email about adding people to my 1-person reservation. I actually managed to make a second reservation for the same day and was planning on just using that one and letting the 1-person reservation go unused.

To anyone that made multiple reservations, were you able to use them? Or do they scan your ticket/AP to limit you to one visit per day the way they limit AP buttons at the Halloween parties?

Also, on an unrelated question, can we leave and re-enter the land during a reservation period?

You can definitely have multiple reservations. The rules are only one reservation per Disney account, but you can be a guest on different reservations. The CMs and Disney know this and have no problem with it.

You cannot leave and re-enter the land during a reservation.

 

[ateam79828592]

We were gutted we missed out on these, they were sold out by our 2nd reservation.

We got ours yesterday (6/4). What we found is that “sold out” means “we aren’t putting more out now” which I understand kinda...but is disappointing when you can’t go back a different day. But we had some luck checking back at the same store later during our time. I didn’t find my hoodie, but my husband found his red light saber crystal.

 

[cinnaminny]

Excuse me if this has been discussed earlier but I have a question.

I have a Wednesday or a Thursday that I might choose to start our day with SWGE. If we go on Wednesday we will wait in line and rope drop it. If we go on a Thursday we would skip out on our EMH and just head over to SWGE to line up (is that even allowed?). Which is probably the better choice?

 

[maichan]

My favorite item from GE is this gift card available only at the Droid Depot. You have to load with $100. It is heavy metal and has a scannable barcode on the back so it can be used throughout Disney.

They are really cool, but just be wary of using them "off-planet". I ran into issues trying to use my Batuuan Spira at the Red Rose Tavern because they didn't have a gun to scan it and the pad on the credit card terminal where you typically would place a giftcard does not seem to work with these.

 

[ateam79828592]

My husband and I each bought this keychain yesterday during our 8a time in GE. When I got back to the room and took them out of our back, they were BOTH broken with the center piece having detached. We took them to guest services in DCA (as that was the park we were in for the evening). They ended up sending us over to meet a manager at the Thunder Mtn entrance to GE and escorting us back into GE long enough to check do a quick shopping trip to select a replacement keychain. It was time consuming hassle, but ended up being nice as they had restocked the hoodie I had rechecked for all morning in my size and the manager let me purchase that while processing the keychain exchange.

 

[ateam79828592]

They are really cool, but just be wary of using them "off-planet". I ran into issues trying to use my Batuuan Spira at the Red Rose Tavern because they didn't have a gun to scan it and the pad on the credit card terminal where you typically would place a giftcard does not seem to work with these.

You can also transfer the balance to/from this card and other Disney gift cards via the Disney gift card website.

 

[scorpio69]

Just pm’ed you

 

[njchris]

Does anyone think the 8pm-12am slot is better since you don't have a new crowd coming in and can ride SR up until the end? (is that the case?). What about for the cantina? Any differences because of that time slot?

 

[socaldisneylover]

Does anyone think the 8pm-12am slot is better since you don't have a new crowd coming in and can ride SR up until the end? (is that the case?). What about for the cantina? Any differences because of that time slot?

FWIW, the view of Fireworks from GE sounds pretty amazing, since you're very close to where they launch from. Only the 8-Midnight group has that opportunity.

 

[dina444444]

FWIW, the view of Fireworks from GE sounds pretty amazing, since you're very close to where they launch from. Only the 8-Midnight group has that opportunity.

So does the 5-9 group. They don’t kick you out when the clock strikes 9

 

[dawnball]

That's interesting. Our time is next week, and we already have 6, but might swap a person if the opportunity presents.

I'm guessing there won't be much notice, though.