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

[yulilin3]

Oh god, I just got approval for a January trip to wdw last night. We weren't going to go again so soon but we got $1000 flight vouchers because we got in a day late last may. We were going to go later in the year but we just recently found out my wife is pregnant with our third child and is due May 1. Not a good date to hit SWW. so we decided sooner would be better.

Now I find out about this season of the force business. I feel like this is going to be one of those things Disney drops the announcement ball on. Trickling out information that everyone has to dig for. Oh the joys of planning a disney vacation.

Congrats on baby #3. Disney sure keeps everyone on their toes

 

[CJK]

WDW News Today is reporting that Season of the Force is replacing Star Wars Weekends. Here's a quote from an article they posted on Facebook a few minutes ago:

"The event will replace Star Wars Weekends in 2016. There is still no word if Star Wars Weekends will ever return".

What do you think? Do they have some inside knowledge or is it speculation?

 

[jtowntoflorida]

WDW News Today is reporting that Season of the Force is replacing Star Wars Weekends. Here's a quote from an article they posted on Facebook a few minutes ago:

"The event will replace Star Wars Weekends in 2016. There is still no word if Star Wars Weekends will ever return".

What do you think? Do they have some inside knowledge or is it speculation?

Personally, I think this thread is the source of information for many a Disney blogger.

 

[Sammyjo199]

WDW News Today is reporting that Season of the Force is replacing Star Wars Weekends. Here's a quote from an article they posted on Facebook a few minutes ago:

"The event will replace Star Wars Weekends in 2016. There is still no word if Star Wars Weekends will ever return".

What do you think? Do they have some inside knowledge or is it speculation?

I had a feeling this might actually be happening. It will be interesting to see what other news outlets pick this story up. I wouldn't be surprised for Disney to throw this information out there on the same day the discounts for that time period are open to the general public to cause a bit of a distraction.

 

[Iowamomof4]

WDW News Today is reporting that Season of the Force is replacing Star Wars Weekends. Here's a quote from an article they posted on Facebook a few minutes ago:

"The event will replace Star Wars Weekends in 2016. There is still no word if Star Wars Weekends will ever return".

What do you think? Do they have some inside knowledge or is it speculation?

If this is true, I'd expect a lot of rooms would suddenly open up for mid-May through mid-June.

 

[likesdisney]

Made a reservation for a few days over a weekend at end of February. Plus a dinner reservation to include Fantasmic on the Saturday (Brown Derby), and Sci Fi for dinner on Sunday. So hope I've made a good choice for which weekend I chose.

 

[Skywise]

WDW News Today link:
http://wdwnt.com/blog/2015/09/dates...ason-of-the-force-event-at-walt-disney-world/

March 20 seems very... early... to end the event. Especially with May 4 festivities that I'd think they'd want to at least celebrate. Either SWW is still going to happen or they're going to seriously start tearing up the park around April.

Edited to add:
frac-frac-frackity-frac-frac-frac... I don't think I can recharge the travel budget in time...

And why the 8th? It's not like the fireworks would interfere with the osborne lights and the NYE fireworks will be done on the first... Why not start the fireworks with the rest of the movie kick off around the 20th?

 

[LoKiHB]

I don't buy it. why would a blog announce this news instead of Disney?

At this point people have already booked for SWW, the backlash would (will) be huge if they cancel SWW and replace it with a fireworks show and some merchandise.

 

[yulilin3]

Called this morning and after getting extremely frustrated with the first agent (she seriously not even wanted to check on the computer when I asked her about SWW, she just said, yeah it's happening) she transferred me to DHS guest relations (I don't expect them to know anymore than we do) but he said that nothing had been told to them about SWW and when I told him that SotF dates were in the AP site he said that was the first he's heard of dates for that...

 

[LoKiHB]

Do you take that as a good or bad sign?

 

[yulilin3]

Do you take that as a good or bad sign?

I still take it as good, if they can't see anything then nothing has been announced to them. As I said they are rumors going both ways, the particular site that was posted has given a couple of other stories saying the same thing but many take it just as an effort for people to click on their site.
So until Disney announces we really don't know....plus there's that whole thing with the site still saying Summer 2016.

 

[AThrillingChase]

Wasn't WDWNT the only outlet reporting SWW was cancelled awhile back when rumors started? And everyone just quoted them? It just seems if that is true, SOMEONE would have also heard.

Another thing I notice, is disney people sometimes overlook SW. It isn't what they think of disney, so it is an afterthough. So I take their news with a grain of salt after seeing such late posts about SW events (some not even correct!)

 

[yulilin3]

Wasn't WDWNT the only outlet reporting SWW was cancelled awhile back when rumors started? And everyone just quoted them? It just seems if that is true, SOMEONE would have also heard.

Another thing I notice, is disney people sometimes overlook SW. It isn't what they think of disney, so it is an afterthough. So I take their news with a grain of salt after seeing such late posts about SW events (some not even correct!)

yes, to be honest the only outside site that I trust is WDWMagic

 

[LoKiHB]

I agree. At this point I would think they would have removed it already. That being said, they just announced SotF, so they may just quietly remove it in the next few days. I think if the website lasts trough the week, we can all relax.

Or maybe, Disney could just ANNOUNCE SWW so we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief!!!

 

[yulilin3]

I KNOW that it's a pain not knowing and this particular site posting these type of rumors is not helping anyone:
1.- If it's true we won't really know until Disney officially announces it
2.- If it's false it's just plain mean of them to post that
Every year there are rumors of SWW not coming back, this year with the added construction and Season of the Force looming over it, it's worse. And I understand it's super difficult to wait but there's really nothing else we can do...I would just say, keep emailing Disney, it's the only way you will get someone to call you and then bombard them with questions and facts like, the official site says Summer 2016 and then even if they don't have an answer they will know that people are counting on the site to be right

 

[Tati_12]

http://wdwnt.com/blog/2015/09/dates...ason-of-the-force-event-at-walt-disney-world/

Does anyone know if there is any truth to this post?? It's saying SWW are going away!!

 

[LATJLP]

Deleted. sorry, didn't realize it was already posted.

 

[yulilin3]

@LATJLP that information was posted here and I updated the first page on Saturday.

 

[cvjpirate]

Just my thinking, looking at when Seasons of the Force ends is March 20th. We were thinking SWW would start May 13th and run for 5 weeks. The web site still says SWW is coming summer 2016. I see this as a good sign that they are still having SWW. Maybe I am just the glass is always full kind of person.


Fixed sorry was in hurry to go home for the day when I posted this.

 

[yulilin3]

Just my thinking, looking at when Seasons of the Force ends is May 20th. We were thinking SWW would start March 13th and run for 5 weeks. The web site still says SWW is coming summer 2016. I see this as a good sign that they are still having SWW. Maybe I am just the glass is always full kind of person.

I agree with you.
PS...switch the months in your post