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

[crazylady]

We did the Star Wars Guided Tour on 4/2. Our group consisted of 2 big star wars fans (the dad's), 4 boys ages 7-13 and two indifferent mom's.

Overall, we didn't think it was worth it but some of our thoughts were:

• The ear buds they gave us were not quite the right shape or size or something. I would recommend bringing your own set
• It is great to be able to skip the lines but really the only lines we skipped were for Star Tours and the characters.
• We loved not having to do the early morning Rush for JTA
• The talking parts of the tour were boring for our kids. If not for the JTA sigh ups, I wouldn't recommend the tour for kids at all.
• There is alot of standing/walking/back tracking on the tour. The tour is just kind of unorganized. I don't know if it is normal or not but our group went to the Launch Bay 3 seperate times. It seems like you could reorganize things and cut an hour or even two off of the tour. Chairs somewhere along the way would have been much appreciated.
• We thought dinner was too close to the dessert party.
• But the dessert party was great. The staff was all really nice and the bartender had a heavy pour . The reserved seating for the fireworks was perfect.

Would I recommend the tour? Probably not unless it was a mega fan and even then I would have some reservations. You lose so much park time doing the tour, I would only recommend it to someone who has multiple HS days planned.

We would do the dessert party again for a special occasion.

 

[yulilin3]

@crazylady thanks for the review

 

[yulilin3]

News to me: the sw glow cubes are available at backlot express, you can buy them on their own no need to buy a drink.
Millennium Falcon, death star and xwing glow clip, each $4.29

 

[Luna81]

Uh oh. Now I'm worried about the tour with my six year old.

 

[yulilin3]

Asking around about Galactic nights, only things I've been able to find
People interested in doing JT should go to the sign up area as soon as they come in (5pm if possible) they will try and have the table set up for the gn event around 5.
Backlot express will be open until 11:30pm
Rock n roller coaster: cm cannot confirm or deny it'll be open with sw music, hint, hint, it'll be open with sw music
Same cm said that he was told only 9000 tickets were sold. If true that is amazing!

 

[Indecisive]

• We loved not having to do the early morning Rush for JTA
• The talking parts of the tour were boring for our kids. If not for the JTA sigh ups, I wouldn't recommend the tour for kids at all.
• But the dessert party was great. The staff was all really nice and the bartender had a heavy pour . The reserved seating for the fireworks was perfect.

This is all so helpful. Thank you! I currently have been trying to decide between the dessert party and the tour for my family, which includes a 10yo and a 7yo. The JTA and skip-the-line for characters would be great (especially, I assume, once BB8 starts having appearances), but it seems that the Tour overall might be kind of a drag for them. Such a conundrum!

 

[lchuck]

Does anyone have current advice/thoughts on the best way to sign up for JTA in the morning? Is there an advantage to an early H&V reservation? We were near the front of the line last year, but by the time we got through the signup process, we were still a long way back for all of the popular ride lines and I would like to avoid that this year if possible. Thanks for any advice!

 

[yulilin3]

This is all so helpful. Thank you! I currently have been trying to decide between the dessert party and the tour for my family, which includes a 10yo and a 7yo. The JTA and skip-the-line for characters would be great (especially, I assume, once BB8 starts having appearances), but it seems that the Tour overall might be kind of a drag for them. Such a conundrum!

BB8 opens next Friday, I bet his line will be the looney of the 3 at Launch bay. Maybe averaging 30 minutes steady throughout the day

 

[Amw1064]

BB8 opens next Friday, I bet his line will be the looney of the 3 at Launch bay. Maybe averaging 30 minutes steady throughout the day

Can't wait to meet BB8. Unfortunately we can't get there until the end of the month.

 

[iona]

So excited! Just booked the 4th of July dessert party!

Me too, which leads to a question - will they do anything different that day?

 

[PrincessArlena'sDad]

Does anyone have current advice/thoughts on the best way to sign up for JTA in the morning? Is there an advantage to an early H&V reservation? We were near the front of the line last year, but by the time we got through the signup process, we were still a long way back for all of the popular ride lines and I would like to avoid that this year if possible. Thanks for any advice!

We haven't done this yet but plan to in Aug. PPO AFT at H&V people can sign up for Jedi training at 8:00 before going ion to eat

 

[crazylady]

Uh oh. Now I'm worried about the tour with my six year old.

This is all so helpful. Thank you! I currently have been trying to decide between the dessert party and the tour for my family, which includes a 10yo and a 7yo. The JTA and skip-the-line for characters would be great (especially, I assume, once BB8 starts having appearances), but it seems that the Tour overall might be kind of a drag for them. Such a conundrum!

Your kids might be fine. Ours were fine but I just could tell they would have been been happier doing alot of other things (for alot less ). We did prep them ahead of time that we would be on someone else's schedule that day and they needed to be patient. As a little more info to compare to your kids, our kids have seen all of the movies and consider themselves fans but they're not diehard fans.

 

[ArielSRL]

Yes! Booked the dessert party for my wife & I on June 5th

My family of 4 will be at the party on the 5th as well.

 

[FastPasser]

[QUOTE="yulilin3, post: 57399009, member: 167146"
Same cm said that he was told only 9000 tickets were sold. If true that is amazing![/QUOTE]Sounds about right. IIRC the SW event for the Force Awakens debut was in that vicinity. That was a fun event and I expect Galactic Nights to be even better.

 

[ArielSRL]

Does anyone have current advice/thoughts on the best way to sign up for JTA in the morning? Is there an advantage to an early H&V reservation? We were near the front of the line last year, but by the time we got through the signup process, we were still a long way back for all of the popular ride lines and I would like to avoid that this year if possible. Thanks for any advice!

We are doing the PPO ADR at H&V at 8:15 and hoping to sign up before. But we don't plan on getting to anything around rope drop time. I'm planning to sign up for the first time slot at 9:40 requiring us to check in at 9:10, so we can do it at the coolest part of the day and get it done with.

If you wanted to get to rides before the lines start getting long, you would probably need to get the earliest ressie and rush through the meal.

 

[wmoon]

Your kids might be fine. Ours were fine but I just could tell they would have been been happier doing alot of other things (for alot less ). We did prep them ahead of time that we would be on someone else's schedule that day and they needed to be patient. As a little more info to compare to your kids, our kids have seen all of the movies and consider themselves fans but they're not diehard fans.

Thanks for your review and advice I will prep my 10 year old in advance. With regard to Jedi training how did that work with your kids getting slots? Did you need to do anything in advance or did they sign them up on arrival for the tour?

 

[yulilin3]

Me too, which leads to a question - will they do anything different that day?

July 4th last year they did SWaGS. They used to do July 4th fireworks but last year was the first time they didn't

[QUOTE="yulilin3, post: 57399009, member: 167146"
Same cm said that he was told only 9000 tickets were sold. If true that is amazing!

Sounds about right. IIRC the SW event for the Force Awakens debut was in that vicinity. That was a fun event and I expect Galactic Nights to be even better.[/QUOTE]
I am SO EXCITED!!!

 

[yulilin3]

Launch Bay doors for BB8 meet add greet

 

[FoxC63]

Regarding Jedi Training - Is Disney really stiff on the age thing? My son will be 14 at time of travel, he has ADHD/Autism.

 

[FastPasser]

Launch Bay doors for BB8 meet and greet

That should keep the little guy in there.