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

[Icecoldpenguin]

1. New scene? Big whoop.

2. New JTA? I'm not a kid, nor do I have any...so big whoop to that.

3. Launch Bay is going to be amazing? Perhaps. They said that about 7DMT.

4. Character meets? Vader and Chewie, but no Disney characters dressed up, no Rebel hangar, no Sci-Fi Disney meal, no meet and greets with the actors, no panel discussions...

5. Cool film saga thing? You mean I can sit and watch clips from the movie I've seen 100 times, and can watch for free at home?

5. I am POSITIVE there will be merch and food. That's more money in their pockets.

6. Fireworks...yay...and it's not okay with me if they are not around for my trip in May.

YMMV. #yeahI'mbitter

In the most loving way possible this cracked me up because I totally understand your feelings and my post is me being as happy as I can be and trying to fight off the sadness.

I went to SWW 3 or 4 times and I enjoyed it immensely. As many have said it was like a comic con or a star wars celebration in between other conventions. I was looking forward to taking my nephews. I also was just on a few podcasts talking about how much business SWW brings in for disney. There has to be a logical reason but I think this just goes hand in hand with how they are doing things right now. They really have scaled back on the special events and have made things less special feeling. So I totally get it.

The only thing that excites me about this is that it changes my plans for my trip to where I don't have to buy park hoppers so YAY saved money.

#wefeelyourpain

 

[RedM94]

To say the least, my son and I share your disappointin hearing SWW is cancelled. I had a BWV room booked with a back up plan of doing Universal Studios if it were cancelled. I received a special room discount code from them a couple of weeks ago and just would have gone at an earlier date.

As luck would have it, flight prices dropped for my flights yesterday and I booked them last night. Today the announcement came out to cancel. Flights are way to expensive to change, so I am not sure what I am going to do at this point.

Well, in the end we all knew this was a possibility.

 

[lovethattink]

I liken SWW to a huge family reunion. Seeing old friends and new friends with Star Wars as the commonality. We haven't missed a SWW since 2004.

As for the Launch Bay, I have big hopes for it. When I came out of the preview for The Good Dinosaur, I noticed the restrooms for the Launch Bay are closed too. The ENTIRE building is closed for refurbishment. I'm hoping every nook and cranny is used in some way. There was the art gallery, the lobby area with seating, the area where you watched the Mushu clip, the game areas, the M&G areas, the animation class area, and the restrooms. I can't wait to see what they've done there. I will be at DHS on Black Friday!! Hopefully, there is a soft opening?

 

[pangyal]

We bought totally non refundable plane tickets last month. I've been talking up SWW to my little guy non stop and hubby was super duper excited about it, as was I obviously. Now I have to break it to them after telling them that Disney confirmed it multiple times to people on this thread. WTH Disney, you have no experience dealing with kids so you don't know how to manage expectations, is that it? UGH!!!

 

[HopperFan]

OK, I swear that the page for Launch Bay said "Fastpass offered" when I looked earlier. But now it does not. So that was either fixed or they want to open the FP+ secretly.

It did and now it's gone. I think there was an inquiry made on the blog and the answer was FP+ was in reference to Star Tours only which is listed at the bottom of the page as part of the "Star Wars Experience". It was confusing.

 

[Tiggerette]

Thanks yulilin3 and all involved in sharing information. I'm grateful for all your time and many efforts.

I have the unfortunate task to alert our reunion group, who had been planning over a year for SWW. However, this news opens up new options such as a visit to Universal Studios, and/or the Pirates mini-golf for fun reunion activity. Now we have more options to keep our trip "magical" without the necessity to stay at the Mouse. We'll see how the reunion group wants to proceed.

Thanks again!

 

[Good Morning Dewdrop]

Disney - I will always love you - however, right now I feel like you are a puppy that just peed on my carpet.....

 

[slaveone]

Disney - I will always love you - however, right now I feel like you are a puppy that just peed on my carpet.....

More like we are the loyal puppies who just got kicked and can't understand why we were bad guys.

 

[LoKiHB]

It did say that, I saw it too.

Wow, surprise, they confirmed something then changed it without any notice. What made you think they would ever do something like that???

 

[DisMommyTX]

To say the least, my son and I share your disappointin hearing SWW is cancelled. I had a BWV room booked with a back up plan of doing Universal Studios if it were cancelled. I received a special room discount code from them a couple of weeks ago and just would have gone at an earlier date.

As luck would have it, flight prices dropped for my flights yesterday and I booked them last night. Today the announcement came out to cancel. Flights are way to expensive to change, so I am not sure what I am going to do at this point.

Well, in the end we all knew this was a possibility.

You can usually cancel within 24 hours, even nonrefundable flights. Call the airline directly, and tell them you booked the wrong dates. Most have a 24 hr 'oops' policy for online bookings.

 

[Abbey1]

Is there a possibility that they would do a dessert party for the fireworks during the SotF? Or a Star Wars character meal or something? Is it possible they have some surprises they haven't announced yet for the SotF, or is what they've announced most likely all there will be?

 

[DisDadDVC]

To say the least, my son and I share your disappointin hearing SWW is cancelled. I had a BWV room booked with a back up plan of doing Universal Studios if it were cancelled. I received a special room discount code from them a couple of weeks ago and just would have gone at an earlier date.

As luck would have it, flight prices dropped for my flights yesterday and I booked them last night. Today the announcement came out to cancel. Flights are way to expensive to change, so I am not sure what I am going to do at this point.

Well, in the end we all knew this was a possibility.

All airlines allow free cancellation within 24 hrs.

 

[LATJLP]

I don't expect the SW December offerings will change the overall DHS experience much, if at all.

Except the line for Star Tours might be pretty long for a while, with the promise that all of the Tours will be the new version....for a couple months.

We just arrived today, and luckily will be here early December.....I already have 3 FP to Star Tours in early December, so at least there is that......I hope.

I guess it's time to go cancel the hotel and airfare (thank you, again, Southwest for letting me reschedule this without costing me anything!). Hmmm, I wonder if spring in New York is nice.....or.......

 

[aprincessatlast]

I am so glad we went when we did. It really was a fun experience for our first "nerd" convention as we called it. It did just seem to have an air about it that I don't think can be duplicated. All the characters walking around and interacting. All the fan boys dressed up was so much fun to see. I am also disappointed with the rumors that there will no longer be star wars mickey type merchandise as that is what my kids always got for souvenirs on our trips. No doubt they canceled it as they were tired of offering something without an up charge party ticket attached to an event like SWW. All it takes is seeing a charge of $100 for a villains meet and greet dance party to see that.

 

[Gianfootography]

I liken SWW to a huge family reunion. Seeing old friends and new friends with Star Wars as the commonality. We haven't missed a SWW since 2004.

As for the Launch Bay, I have big hopes for it. When I came out of the preview for The Good Dinosaur, I noticed the restrooms for the Launch Bay are closed too. The ENTIRE building is closed for refurbishment. I'm hoping every nook and cranny is used in some way. There was the art gallery, the lobby area with seating, the area where you watched the Mushu clip, the game areas, the M&G areas, the animation class area, and the restrooms. I can't wait to see what they've done there. I will be at DHS on Black Friday!! Hopefully, there is a soft opening?

I just FP+ Star Tours for that day (Black Friday) just to be safe (and on the 1st). It took a few tries to get FP options that were not Frozen Sing-a-long. I wish there was an option in the app to remove rides I have no intentions of ever doing. I was planning on being at MK (Black Friday) for a Star Wars Podcast meet up, guess I'll be park hopping it to DHS too.

 

[MrInfinity]

Did I mention, how awesome it is now that our trip is two weeks out, that I can't switch around my dining reservations for Disney Jr Play & Dine so we can switch our park days so my son- who is completely devastated, can at least see the crappy replacement because- surprise, there are no available reservations 2 weeks out...

Fantastic!

Ok, Second rant over...

If you think it's a crappy replacement, why do you want to change your days? We changed ours cuz it sounds cool. The timing fell into our lap for having a December trip! It's not a SWW, but it wasn't there at all a few days ago and it sounds like they've added a few SW things to check out at HS that weren't there before.

Why does Launch Bay have to be a wonder? It's an interim stop gap to create some SW hype at HS while they do construction. We don't know what sort of May-The-4th party they'll have when this construction nears completion.

 

[mom2rb]

My little brother is getting married in Destin, in June. Being the amazing aunt that I am, I decided to tell my nephew all about SWW. With the plan of flying to Disney a week before the wedding and getting a rental car to drive to Destin the day of the rehearsal dinner. I upgraded my family's tickets for our December trip to APs. I called every day to get a 2 bedroom at BCV right at the 7 month mark. My nephew is 13 and my boys our 17, my nephew was so excited about getting to go with his cousins by themselves and wait in line to see their favorites. I know that I will still make sure that it is a great trip, airfare is bought and we still have to be in Florida. I am just sad to tell all the boys.

 

[agavegirl1]

Since SWW was the only way I could convince DH to get off his "every four years" schedule, I guess I'll be back in 2018.

 

[mmmears]

Why would there be FP+ for Launch Bay? I thought it was just an area for photo ops, a chance to buy lots of stuff, and a meet & greet? I'm curious since it will be open during our trip and I wasn't planning on using a FP for it, but now I'm wondering if we need to rethink our plans?

 

[1supermomsmd]

I'm unclear whether the Darth Vader and Chewie "meets" are your traditional character meet and greets, or something else. Does anyone have a sense of this? Thank you in advance for any further insight!