I love SWW and SW Celebrations...does that mean I am a geek? A PTR of a SW family.

[lovethattink]

Peter Mayhew should be able to get an autograph for, last celebration i was able to get Mark Hamill just from waiting in line though i waited for a day not many were waiting for him and ended up only waiting an hour....it was longer getting into his panel last time lol.

Oh, I hope so! Way to go on the Mark Hamill autograph.

Sorry to hijack your thread JMSkinner, I'm going to revive my Celebration VI thread. http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2735638

Back to the PTR!

 

[natebenma]

I can't believe your trips are getting so close!!! Hope everyone has a fantastic time at the SW Celebrations!!! Can't wait to see the pictures.

 

[jmskinner]

I had to do a search on the app to find the schedule? Isn't it launched from any
of the icons

Sorry I didn't respond, but I see from your TR you found it.

The full schedule is posted in the app now for the panels. So excited GF and I are going to celebration, dress up a few of the days shes doing something everyday most are Mara Jade, then after the con, we are getting annual passes to Disney to do after the con and during couple days after (though still debating it more adrenaline rides at universal and cheaper long run).

Also got my big autograph wants for my poster preordered so ill have hamill,fisher,McDiarmid,Baker to add to my Lucas and Ford and if have the money try and get a few more.

Last Celebration was amazing though only thing was so much to see and do but not enough time and some of the costumes were incredible loved seeing obscure people like Darth Bane and such.

I'm not a huge fan of Star Wars, but I tell you, I had such a great time at the last Celebration. Watching my son light up when he saw different characters was worth it for me. This time is going to be great since we will be there for 3 days and not just one.

The full schedule is still not showing on my phone. I still get the check back in the coming months.

Yes, huge difference in price between Disney's AP and Universal's.

Congrats on getting the autograph slots. I missed the sign ups, didn't realize you could preorder autographs, and when I found out I was a day late. Only autograph dh wants is Peter Mayhew. Think it will be possible to ticket for it at the convention?

Sounds like coldboxer04 answered the autograph question for ya. Hope you are able to get that autograph!

I can't believe your trips are getting so close!!! Hope everyone has a fantastic time at the SW Celebrations!!! Can't wait to see the pictures.

Thanks! I am super excited. All I can think about.

Oh, I hope so! Way to go on the Mark Hamill autograph.

Sorry to hijack your thread JMSkinner, I'm going to revive my Celebration VI thread. http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2735638

Back to the PTR!

I'll have to check out that thread. And no problem about hijacking my thread, I'm learning too.

 

[jmskinner]

So one of my friends has a PTR called "The everchanging PTR", I'm thinking of stealing her title for mine.

After looking at the Celebrations schedule, I knew we would want to spend all three days there, so when could we spend some time with Jacob and my parents. Called my Mom and came up with a new plan.

We will still arrive on the 18th, my folks will meet us. We can go to DTD and get the Photopass+ activated. (It came in the mail today...and I was worried it wouldn't get here by the 17th.) And also we can get their weekday passes and our military salute tickets activated. I'm thinking we might eat at House of Blues, haven't eaten there before.

We may check out the piano bar at POR. As many times as we have stayed there, we have never watched the entertainment.

I'm not sure what all Jonas and I will do Sunday, but we have an ADR for Biergarten and the Dessert Party that night.

Monday we can do whatever we want. But still have the Yachtsman Steakhouse ADR.

Tuesday instead of skipping a park, my folks are now going to join us with Jacob and spend the day in the parks. I was actually able to change our ADR at 50's Primetime from 3 to 5 people. I am hoping this is a good sign of the crowd levels since you usually can't get an ADR there this late. Might spend some time at Epcot this day too.

On Wednesday we will go to Legoland, but the folks won't be joining us.

That leaves Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for Celebrations. I still have an ADR at WCC for 8pm on Friday and we can go to MK afterwards so Jacob can do his favorites. Now I'm wondering if I should change the Kona ADR we have on Thursday at 8:30am. That puts us at Celebrations right at 10am, if we are lucky.

And I was excited to see my work schedule for next week. Only work Sunday and Thursday. Jacob has a physical therapy eval and his regular occupational therapy visit on Tuesday, and Wednesday he gets his braces. But it is still nice that I will have time to do laundry and pack. The only time we look forward to laundry and packing is WDW, right?

 

[jmskinner]

Jonas calls me this morning to tell me he checked the ticket office website at the Pentagon before heading over and you have to order the military salute tickets and Legoland Florida tickets, two weeks in advance.

So now we are hoping Andrews will have them, if not, we will be getting them at Shades of Green and if they are out, I will just pay the taxes on them and get them at WDW. But, if Andrews doesn't have the Legoland, it means we pay almost the full price at the gate, or drive our happy selves over to Tampa to go to MacDill to pick some up.

I sure do miss MacDill, they always had tickets when we needed them. Never thought there would be such an issue with tickets.

 

[lovethattink]

Oh no! Hope he can get them at "home" so you don't have to drive all over creation to get tickets.

Would you believe our first visit to Legoland cost us each $5. We went with our homeschooling group, and it was a preview type thing for field trips. Each month closer to the new year, they charged more. Now it's off the charts for as small as this park is.

 

[jmskinner]

Oh no! Hope he can get them at "home" so you don't have to drive all over creation to get tickets.

Would you believe our first visit to Legoland cost us each $5. We went with our homeschooling group, and it was a preview type thing for field trips. Each month closer to the new year, they charged more. Now it's off the charts for as small as this park is.

Me too. Jonas was more worried about dealing with traffic than the driving.

Wow!!! Very cool that you were able to go so inexpensively. Much better than the $160 I had to pay for Jacob to go to Busch Gardens with the band.

So Legoland is really small? Jonas originally wanted to drive to Tampa to look at our house there on this day, so it may work out. Might get us some Zaxby's too. Oh I wish Jacob liked Zaxby's. Now I'm hungry.

 

[thumperjr9]

Good luck with the ticket issue. Too bad you can't get them at the Pentagon. It would sound so cool and important to say; "I've got to run over to pick up my theme park tickets at the PENTAGON"! Can we put in a order for discounted tickets for Universal? Seriously though we are paying a ton for tickets this trip and if we do make it to Celebrations I'll be picking up extra hours at work when we get back.

So what's Zaxby's....a good eatery? We will be flying in and out of Tampa this trip, is this a place we might want to grab dinner before our flight home?

 

[jmskinner]

Good luck with the ticket issue. Too bad you can't get them at the Pentagon. It would sound so cool and important to say; "I've got to run over to pick up my theme park tickets at the PENTAGON"! Can we put in a order for discounted tickets for Universal? Seriously though we are paying a ton for tickets this trip and if we do make it to Celebrations I'll be picking up extra hours at work when we get back.

So what's Zaxby's....a good eatery? We will be flying in and out of Tampa this trip, is this a place we might want to grab dinner before our flight home?

I'll admit, it does sound funny. Afraid you are like us, too late to place that order.

Zaxby's is a chicken and wings place. Love the wings, but the dipping sauce for the chicken tenders is the best. The only one I know of is in Brandon, FL. Inbetween Tampa and Orlando. Probably too out of the way for you, but if you want to try let me know.

 

[jmskinner]

Yes, the drama is over in we know we will be making a trip to MacDill to get the Legoland tickets. So frustrating.

Called Andrews this morning and they also require two weeks to special order. Wouldn't be so frustrating but looked on their pricing sheet online and other parks are noted as having to do this, but not Legoland. That is what is making me so mad and frustrated.

Called MacDill and they do have them, but the lady was nice enough to say to drive over when we get there to make sure, just in case they do run out because they usually have more in two days. Don't think we will do that. We will get up Wednesday morning, drive over to our house and then call the ticket office to see if they have them. If not, guess we will just eat it or hope we see coupons along the way. It will all work out eventually.

 

[lovethattink]

Yes, the drama is over in we know we will be making a trip to MacDill to get the Legoland tickets. So frustrating.

Called Andrews this morning and they also require two weeks to special order. Wouldn't be so frustrating but looked on their pricing sheet online and other parks are noted as having to do this, but not Legoland. That is what is making me so mad and frustrated.

Called MacDill and they do have them, but the lady was nice enough to say to drive over when we get there to make sure, just in case they do run out because they usually have more in two days. Don't think we will do that. We will get up Wednesday morning, drive over to our house and then call the ticket office to see if they have them. If not, guess we will just eat it or hope we see coupons along the way. It will all work out eventually.

So sorry you have to run all over creation to get your tickets.

 

[jmskinner]

So sorry you have to run all over creation to get your tickets.

Actually, it may work out really well. There are two boys in our old neighborhood that Jacob really misses and hoped to see while we are there. I contacted their mother and now it looks like we will head straight for Tampa, drop him off at their house and Granny and Gramps will pick him up there. I'm not telling Jacob and hope to surprise him.

I just realized his old case manager at school wants to see him too. Wonder if we can meet her somewhere too. That may be pushing it with Jonas though.

We will head over and get the tickets before or after we drop him off just depending on what time we get into town.

Finally got the boys to decide on the panels they want to attend. Several overlap so we will see what happens, but here they are:

Star Wars Collectibles Update
Building a Styrene Droid with the R2-D2 Builders (these two overlap )
Star Wars Origami
Star Wars Lego (imagine that)
The Clone Wars Season Five Premiere Red Carpet and Premiere
Weapons & Armor, the Mandalorian Way (Another overlap, unless we leave the Premiere early, I know this one will be skipped)
Making LEGO Animated Movies (Hmmm, WCC ADR at 8pm and this ends at 7, we might make it)
Using Mindstorms to Animate Your Lego Creations
The Clone Wars with Dave Filoni & Joel Aron (Another overlap)
History of Lego Sets (Are you surprised. )
Rebel Legion: Jedi Detachment
The New Star Tours: The Adventures Continue (I was surprised Jonas wanted to do the Disney ones)
Tom Angleberger: The Strange Case of Origami Yoda (An overlap with Star Tours.)

In the middle of all of this, we have a lot of shopping to do, looking at characters, droids, helmets and all the other fun stuff they have going on. There is laser tag, droid races, and something about shooting a clonetrooper. Wish school didn't start the following Monday, we would be staying for all 4 days. Why must I be a good parent.

 

[lovethattink]

We hope to do oragami and the red carpet too!

 

[tigerbelly]

I have been so busy planning our 2 days at Disney that I haven't even thought of what we want to do with our 2 days at CVI!! Those sound great though I bet we'll do some of that too. It helps to be a VIP there....My hubby is a droid builder and he has printed all the promotional materials for the droid room so we're in with the "geek crew."

Sounds like you have a VERY full trip planned!! Goodluck getting it all together!

 

[jmskinner]

We hope to do oragami and the red carpet too!

I'll keep an eye out for ya.

I have been so busy planning our 2 days at Disney that I haven't even thought of what we want to do with our 2 days at CVI!! Those sound great though I bet we'll do some of that too. It helps to be a VIP there....My hubby is a droid builder and he has printed all the promotional materials for the droid room so we're in with the "geek crew."

Sounds like you have a VERY full trip planned!! Goodluck getting it all together!

Thanks, we will get it done. Wow, I have a VIP following my PTR. Ok, all my followers are VIP's, but you are a Celebrations VIP. When Jonas saw all the droids at the last Celebration, he wanted one. I wouldn't mind, but the Mustang, comic books, and his table top games. At some point he has to spend time with the family.

 

[jmskinner]

Ok, going with red for this one because I am mad. Someone got ahold of my Disney Visa account and tried to charge $500 at Microsoft. Thankfully Chase denied the charge and notified me, but seriously, this close to our trip.

Speaking with the representative last night we should have a new card Thursday. She got me confused because I asked if it could be overnighted and she said it was too late to have it the next day, but they are overnighting it. I wonder if she thought it was Tuesday, because by the time I got done speaking with her, I thought it was Tuesday.

Just makes me mad because getting Jacob's braces put on Wednesday and that amounts to some Disney dollars for the October trip.

These criminals don't seem to know that you don't mess with Disney dollars.

 

[jmskinner]

I think I forgot to mention that I got our Photopass+ in the mail last week. I was so worried about getting it in time, and here it was a week early.

 

[thumperjr9]

Wow, someone stealing your CC#......that stinks! Well at least it sounds like you got things worked out. Maybe the dentist will let you come back in and pay after you get your card or just bill you. Talk about bill, I got an interesting one yesterday for our Homeowner's ins. (actually a cancellation notice). The thing is we pay it through our mortgage. So I spent over an hour on the phone going back and forth between the bank and the ins. co. The bank says they paid it, the ins. says they didnt recieve it. Then I had to leave for work before I could resolve it. So I'll be back on the phone today. Sorry I got a little.... but we shouldn't have to deal with these headaches while trying to get ready for our trips.

I was checking out the panels for Celebrations. My DS would love; Making Lego Animated Movies!! Actually he would enjoy all the Lego panels....wish they were all on the same day!

 

[jmskinner]

Wow, someone stealing your CC#......that stinks! Well at least it sounds like you got things worked out. Maybe the dentist will let you come back in and pay after you get your card or just bill you. Talk about bill, I got an interesting one yesterday for our Homeowner's ins. (actually a cancellation notice). The thing is we pay it through our mortgage. So I spent over an hour on the phone going back and forth between the bank and the ins. co. The bank says they paid it, the ins. says they didnt recieve it. Then I had to leave for work before I could resolve it. So I'll be back on the phone today. Sorry I got a little.... but we shouldn't have to deal with these headaches while trying to get ready for our trips.

I was checking out the panels for Celebrations. My DS would love; Making Lego Animated Movies!! Actually he would enjoy all the Lego panels....wish they were all on the same day!

I'm hoping the card will be here early tomorrow morning and it won't be an issue. A little scary using my other bank card today, haven't used it in a long time.

Sorry you are having issues with your insurance. I use to be an insurance agent. I've had many calls with issues like yours. Hope they resolve it soon.

I wish many of the panels were held more than once. So much we want to do, but they all overlap.

 

[tigerbelly]

Thanks, we will get it done. Wow, I have a VIP following my PTR. Ok, all my followers are VIP's, but you are a Celebrations VIP. When Jonas saw all the droids at the last Celebration, he wanted one. I wouldn't mind, but the Mustang, comic books, and his table top games. At some point he has to spend time with the family.

Haha! Well, I must say that is is a pretty awesome hobby, but can be time consuming. My husband has been involved since the very beginning of the group 12 years ago! He has built 2 droids so far. The first one was sold for the down payment on our house so it is a worthwhile venture. But any new builders are not allowed to sell their droids, technically....

Anyway- how annoying that someone tried to use your Disney card. At such an inopportune time too!

We have been SO busy making 150 t-shirts for the droid builders....I've still managed to get everything packed already. I am an over planner by nature. I am afraid I will have major letdown after all this is over!