Official Star Wars Half Marathon Weekend - The Dark Side 2017

So as soon as I saw this blog post (https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...-death-star-during-special-after-hours-event/) about SSE getting a death star projection all I could think is maybe if we are really lucky they can start using the projection for the race weekend! Wishing on all the death stars tonight! ;)

We were really hoping they'd do that at this year's SWDS! Maybe you guys will be the lucky ones to get it at next year's. Better late than never I guess.
 
So as soon as I saw this blog post (https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...-death-star-during-special-after-hours-event/) about SSE getting a death star projection all I could think is maybe if we are really lucky they can start using the projection for the race weekend! Wishing on all the death stars tonight! ;)
Same exact thought here! So they'll have the tech, hopefully they'll use it again! :)

We were really hoping they'd do that at this year's SWDS! Maybe you guys will be the lucky ones to get it at next year's. Better late than never I guess.
I was so disappointed when it wasn't this year after we'd all convinced ourselves on the boards that it would happen!
 

They should turn Spaceship Earth into the Death Star for the Dark Side race this year. It makes far too much sense not to. Which is of course why I am not even expecting to see Spaceship Earth as the Death Star during the races.
 
With princess medals getting announced today, how much longer for us to get news of Dark Side? We're hesitant to sign up until we know what they look like. Really hoping for the Jabba the Hut 10K for irony. :)
 
With princess medals getting announced today, how much longer for us to get news of Dark Side? We're hesitant to sign up until we know what they look like. Really hoping for the Jabba the Hut 10K for irony. :)
I'm almost expecting them to be unveiled around the time of Star Wars the Light Side in January.
 
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They should turn Spaceship Earth into the Death Star for the Dark Side race this year. It makes far too much sense not to. Which is of course why I am not even expecting to see Spaceship Earth as the Death Star during the races.
So reverse psychology here, think it won't & maybe it will!

With princess medals getting announced today, how much longer for us to get news of Dark Side? We're hesitant to sign up until we know what they look like. Really hoping for the Jabba the Hut 10K for irony. :)
Oh Jabba the Hutt 10k sounds awesome! That's a great idea!
 
The Challenge medals for Light Side are super disappointing - felt like a major downgrade. We originally only intended to do the 10K but seeing the half medal with Han/Leia made us sign up for the half too. We're essentially doing the challenge without the challenge medal - which is fine by me since it's ugly.

As for this race... my dream for medals:
- Jabba the Hutt 10K
- Boba Fett Half Marathon
- Han Solo in Carbonite challenge medal

But who knows what it'll end up being. We're for sure in for the half so we can earn our Kessel Run, but depending on the 10K medal we will make it the challenge. Not having the races being sold out is a blessing at the moment :D
 
With 2017 being the 40th anniversary of Star Wars, I hope the medals will be heavily themed to A New Hope. I don't care that they used C-3PO for the challenge medal. I just feel like they did a really underwhelming and very poorly detailed job with it. I'd like to think it will look better in person, but I'm not getting my hopes up. I just hope they don't follow suit with the Dark Side medals.
 
The Challenge medals for Light Side are super disappointing - felt like a major downgrade. We originally only intended to do the 10K but seeing the half medal with Han/Leia made us sign up for the half too. We're essentially doing the challenge without the challenge medal - which is fine by me since it's ugly.

As for this race... my dream for medals:
- Jabba the Hutt 10K
- Boba Fett Half Marathon
- Han Solo in Carbonite challenge medal

But who knows what it'll end up being. We're for sure in for the half so we can earn our Kessel Run, but depending on the 10K medal we will make it the challenge. Not having the races being sold out is a blessing at the moment :D
These sound awesome! I'm just doing the 5k this time so no clue what that would be, I think Boba Fett is (unfortunately?) now too popular in an underground way to "just" be the 5k medal. But I can (new) hope!
 
A thought on the potential for a Death Star Spaceship Earth... the effect requires a dark sky. And the 10K and half start down by the MK... by the time most of us get to EP, the sun will be up, so no Death Star projection. The 5K, IDK - it was dark at the start, but the sun came up before I got into EP. So IF they do it, I fear only the fastest runners will see it. :(
 
A thought on the potential for a Death Star Spaceship Earth... the effect requires a dark sky. And the 10K and half start down by the MK... by the time most of us get to EP, the sun will be up, so no Death Star projection. The 5K, IDK - it was dark at the start, but the sun came up before I got into EP. So IF they do it, I fear only the fastest runners will see it. :(
I can't like your post because that makes me sad but I think your right.
 
A thought on the potential for a Death Star Spaceship Earth... the effect requires a dark sky. And the 10K and half start down by the MK... by the time most of us get to EP, the sun will be up, so no Death Star projection. The 5K, IDK - it was dark at the start, but the sun came up before I got into EP. So IF they do it, I fear only the fastest runners will see it. :(

Did they say they were changing the course this year? Cause if they are the same or similar to last year all the races start outside Epcot and will still be dark when we start.
 








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