**Official** Star Wars at DHS, Galactic Spectacular Dessert Party/Galactic Nights/Launch Bay/JT

[MickeyMinnieMom]

However, you just never know what Disney will do. I am also wondering if they dropped the SOTF moniker for WDW, because they plan to run the fireworks and dessert party for a while. It's really impossible to tell right now. I really hope they announce the end dates soon.

One can always hope... I will! :-D I'd love to catch fireworks and a dessert party in April!

 

[yulilin3]

I have been watching this forum with great excitement and sorrow ever since we planned our first SWW trip for May of 2016. I've learned a lot from reading all your great insights, experiences, and speculations...thanks for sharing! When SWW was officially canceled, I decided to move my trip to the end of January in hopes of SotF, and happily, it looks like it's going to be a decent alternative for my Star Wars crazed boys (including DH.) My question to all of you SWW veterans... I know it's not yet available, but we really would like to get in on the Fireworks dessert party. Any tips for making this happen, or is it just luck of the draw by being online the moment it's released? Also, how does this work with Fantasmic? From what I've read, it looks like they still do Fantasmic, but I am wondering if it's feasible to see Fantasmic and still do the fireworks dessert party. Or maybe this is uncharted territory if there are usually 2 Fantasmic showings in May/June but now only one since it's in January?

If the fireworks will in fact be every night then you have better chances to book, during SWW, when it was only on the weekends, most dates sold out in a matter of days so as long as you check the blog and this thread every day you should be fine to book

They do both F! and fireworks. When there are two F! is better to watch the fireworks and then go to the second F!. If you must watch the first then try and sit toward the top of the theater and toward the right and exit as fast as you can.
Not sure how it would work with one F! , I would think it would be fireworks then F!, remember that even the January haven't been set in stone yet, so as soon as the holiday hours update we should get the actual January calendar.

 

[lovethattink]

After a while I quit waiting, I would just show up and dance my way into a sexy spot in front of the stage. Mostly on Sunday nights after catching the amazing Obi-Wan and Beyond show. I would get my 22nd wind of the weekend and burned off all energy dancing to DJ Elliot. I just found the last Fireworks Pre-show from the last day of the event that I recorded. I edited it and set it to render and will be uploading it in a few weeks. Watching the part where James asked us to say the opening lines, hearing my SWW friends and I shout "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." I teared up. SWW was such an amazing event. Losing it is more tragic than the destruction of Alderaan. No amount of Vader cupcakes will ever make it better.
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It's very emotional to look at those pictures and know its no more.

 

[neitzelt]

Does anyone know if the new fireworks dessert party will be booked on MDE, or, will it be one of those you will actually have to call Disney to book like the former SWW FTF package?

 

[lovethattink]

Does anyone know if the new fireworks dessert party will be booked on MDE, or, will it be one of those you will actually have to call Disney to book like the former SWW FTF package?

In the past it was phone first until it got loaded into Disney's system. There's also been a past pattern of notification of events in Disney Parks Blog after booking actually started and many slots already booked by announcement time.

 

[ajjoplin1]

I call this being a responsible husband and a good parent
welcome to our SW family

Thank You! I love this thread, mostly because it's good to know I'm not the only geeky parent out there completely obsessing over Star Wars in WDW!

 

[ajjoplin1]

I'm intrigued by the idea of a SW-themed fireworks show, as well as a desesrt party! I would probably not afford to pay that kind of money for a dessert party but...Star Wars desert party!?!! Hmmmm, may need to reconsider....hope it's still going on in Sep '16

 

[ajjoplin1]

I call this being a responsible husband and a good parent

Yes, yulilin3....Star Wars MUST be a part of epic parenting! LOL. We had to make a rule in our house...no head shots during lightsaber battles! True story.

 

[yulilin3]

Happy Birthday to Mickey and Minnie Mouse

 

[isabellea]

What about the possibility of a SW breakfast at SciFi starting in Jamuary? Maybe their current breakfast trial during the holidays are a test run?!? Just a guess/hope for DH, haven't heard or read any rumors about that.

 

[yulilin3]

What about the possibility of a SW breakfast at SciFi starting in Jamuary? Maybe their current breakfast trial during the holidays are a test run?!? Just a guess/hope for DH, haven't heard or read any rumors about that.

someone on the inside was told that no SW breakfast will be offered at Sci Fi, again things can change

 

[Good Morning Dewdrop]

someone on the inside was told that no SW breakfast will be offered at Sci Fi, again things can change

that is just wrong on every level!

 

[TISHLOVESDISNEY]

I sure hope they make an "official" announcement soon. I cannot keep up. One minute I read the fireworks are weekends only, then I read everyday,,, exhausting! I am hoping for Thursday fireworks!

 

[Iowamomof4]

I'm hoping (but trying to keep my hopes in check) that all the new Star Wars things become an everyday, year-round occurrence. We're planning Sept '16 for our next trip and it would be fun to see the fireworks still happening. In many ways, it sounds like the fireworks are really the only thing that may or may not be different between Feb and Sept. Am I missing anything else? Maybe some food offerings, I guess. But the Chewie and Vader M&G's will still be happening, the new sequence at Star Tours will still be there (though by September they might have put it in the general rotation), and many/most of the other new stuff seems like a temporarily permanent change in the park (until closer to the opening of Star Wars Land).

 

[yulilin3]

I'm hoping (but trying to keep my hopes in check) that all the new Star Wars things become an everyday, year-round occurrence. We're planning Sept '16 for our next trip and it would be fun to see the fireworks still happening. In many ways, it sounds like the fireworks are really the only thing that may or may not be different between Feb and Sept. Am I missing anything else? Maybe some food offerings, I guess. But the Chewie and Vader M&G's will still be happening, the new sequence at Star Tours will still be there (though by September they might have put it in the general rotation), and many/most of the other new stuff seems like a temporarily permanent change in the park (until closer to the opening of Star Wars Land).

the fireworks being an all year thing will be hard because the area where they are launched from (backstage areas on the old backlot tour) will become part of Toy Storyland and construction should start next year, unless they find another spot to launch from that would still be safe for the guests
All the rest should remain, Launch Bay, Force Awakens sequence on ST, Jedi Training and the movie clips thing.

 

[eeyoreandtink]

So just to be clear, No one has heard anything as yet about dates for the dessert party or when booking will start, correct? Do we think we will need to call, or will they do like Club Villain and it will just suddenly pop up on the website?

 

[soniam]

So just to be clear, No one has heard anything as yet about dates for the dessert party or when booking will start, correct? Do we think we will need to call, or will they do like Club Villain and it will just suddenly pop up on the website?

No dates yet. It's hard to say if it will be released on the phone first and then online. Everything else has always followed that. I think Club Villain was different in that respect. Just keep checking back here and the parks blog.

 

[Aerorea]

Ugh, this is getting so confusing! I swear it seems like Disney can't make up their minds between dates, names (SotF or no SotF?), and when the fireworks will be.

We have a trip tentatively planned for 1/7-10 (based on the original leaked SotF start date of 1/8). So, now they've changed it to a Tuesday? That's a little random, but ok. I can't spare more than 2 days off work anyway, so I'm not changing the dates on our reservation. We're going in mid-December and the opening night party. I'm seriously debating whether or not to bother going in January. I'm just not impressed, I guess and to be honest, I'm rather put off by the way Disney has mishandled (now there's an understatement) this whole thing. At this point, I think the only reason we'll still go is so DH can test whether or not he can handle the 7-8 hr drive and to get some use out of the APs we've bought.

Has there been any new info about the opening night event?

 

[yulilin3]

Ugh, this is getting so confusing! I swear it seems like Disney can't make up their minds between dates, names (SotF or no SotF?), and when the fireworks will be.

We have a trip tentatively planned for 1/7-10 (based on the original leaked SotF start date of 1/8). So, now they've changed it to a Tuesday? That's a little random, but ok. I can't spare more than 2 days off work anyway, so I'm not changing the dates on our reservation. We're going in mid-December and the opening night party. I'm seriously debating whether or not to bother going in January. I'm just not impressed, I guess and to be honest, I'm rather put off by the way Disney has mishandled (now there's an understatement) this whole thing. At this point, I think the only reason we'll still go is so DH can test whether or not he can handle the 7-8 hr drive and to get some use out of the APs we've bought.

Has there been any new info about the opening night event?

no new information on that event.

 

[eastendlights]

In the past it was phone first until it got loaded into Disney's system. There's also been a past pattern of notification of events in Disney Parks Blog after booking actually started and many slots already booked by announcement time.

So this would mean the IPO could book it for me, is that correct? We are staying CL and I would put in a request now if that is true. Not that I would stop looking here, but just in case they had first notice which I would then post here.