Official Star Wars Weekends 2013 Tips and Tricks

[Iron Man]

We surrender, we surrender....

Yulilin was right, pick your battles. After getting Warwick Davis's autograph my boyfriend and I decided that we will get up tomorrow like two normal Disney patrons... after all we got three hot autographs...
If we happen to luck out with Jim Cummings we might wait but we wanna see the parade and some of the shows, all we have seen is Hoopla so far (not to diminish that). We haven't seen any of the others so that's our goal tomorrow, lots of shows.

my name is Mark, I am a huge Warwick Davis fan, just wondering what time I should get to the park for his FP. It's not every day you get to meet a huge little celebrity. no offense to warwick

 

[The Sunrise Student]

We saw that show, you were great!

I wondered if somebody on here was on stage...

Thanks, I couldn't help myself.... Getting to sit up close and interact with Warwick Davis... Oh yes, PLEASE! The mic chat was priceless, I am 6' 1 ;-)

 

[The Sunrise Student]

Not good... Crowd wise.

I guess it's a good thing we got to see a lot of the shows we wanted today!

I was thinking the same thing.... We are going to EPCOT this morning to finish off the few things my boyfriend hasn't seen then we will be over at DHS after late lunch in France. Going to try to catch obi-wan show tonight...

 

[The Sunrise Student]

We are going tomorrow. How were the lines today for getting on Star Tours and Toy Story? (or how soon do we need to get fast passes before they sell out...or are people there mostly for the special events).
New to the thread, any tips appreciated.

FP are free, and but you can have a time limit between each. I would RUN to Toy Story grab a fast pass and head straight over to Star Tours first thing at rope drop. Without crowds FP for TS run out by 1 pm and even that's pushing it.

 

[lovethattink]

my name is Mark, I am a huge Warwick Davis fan, just wondering what time I should get to the park for his FP. It's not every day you get to meet a huge little celebrity. no offense to warwick

My husband got in line just after 4am for his fp yesterday and got a 10:20am fp time

 

[lovethattink]

My husband got in line just after 4am for his fp yesterday and got a 10:20am fp time

Just got this text from dh

All 3 past bag check. By 2ray park line filled. Warwick by 4. Jim by 5. Jim u could still get now because 3 sessions.

 

[yulilin3]

Good morning...today I'm taking my Brother in Law, my sister (not a fan) and my nephew 5, and niece 2 for their first SWW. So I'll be doing a lot of holding spots and taking care of the kids.
My plan is to grab a spot for parade while my sister and the kids go to Disney Jr., watch the parade, go yo Behind the Force, if kids get restless take them out and maybe go to Honey I Shrunk the Kids playground...eat lunch, while my BIL and DS are at Stars of the Saga go catch Beuty and the Beast (my sisters favorite show), starts looking how Hoopla is filling up in front of the AIE screen . Send my BIL and Sister to Obi Wan and Beyond while my kids and I entertain the little ones around AIE.
Today I'm wearing the red Her Universe shirt with the chinese characters and my Jedi Mickey cap. My daughter has the Rogue Squadron Shirt and jeans

 

[Zooshoveller]

Glad you had a great day! Not to be a pest with the same repeated line of questioning, but was the 1:30 PMC Clone Wars based?

Thanks so much!

Yes but kids had a blast anyways!

 

[mlsst124]

Yes but kids had a blast anyways!

About how many kids are taken for each show?

 

[The Sunrise Student]

Met Sunrise and LoveThatTink yesterday. Nice to have met both of you guys. And it was cool meeting LTT's son. He's awesome. He even gave me a present. I will truly treasure that and the whole weekend for a long long time. Today's march was fantastic - too short, but fantastic. I would love to see any photos or video that anyone has of today's parade.

Thanks in advance,

Ash

It was good to meet you too!

My boyfriend got tons of good pictures of the parade (and last weekends too) I will be posting a web album link to all the pucs once we get home.

 

[kdnmom]

Yes but kids had a blast anyways!

About how many kids are taken for each show?

Thanks, Zooshoveller! I'll try to get them in to the 4:30 show then.

I think they take a dozen or so (maybe a few more) per show. If you have kids that want to do it, go immediately at park opening to the front of the Sounds Dangerous building to sign them up.

 

[yulilin3]

It is PACKED. not kidding, if you don't have to come today go to another park. If this is the only day you can come expect huge crowds, be patient and just enjoy the general madness

 

[Alimarie12]

We enjoyed our first SWW

Here's a quick picture of us with Mickey Luke & Minnie Lea

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We even spotted Kenny the Pirate at the front of that line

 

[jagfanjosh3252]

Got here at 830. Did TSMM (line said 45, was done in 20) saw Darth Maul, and Jango. Got my spot for the parade right on the curb in the shade. Gonna eat lunch after the. See Vader and ride TSMM with my FP. See the Warwick Davis show. Then do the Heroes.

 

[pgende80]

Where are the disney SW characters located at? Are they all in the same area? When the best time to go to Darth mall to shop will be there fri june 7th! Rancor is in the mall right?

 

[bjakmom]

Got here at 730. DGrD9 signed up for 4 pm PMC. Met Mickey/Minnie, Chewy, Anakin, Capt Rex, C3PO. Shopped ate lunch. Now we r just killing time waiting for the challenge. Did all SWW shows already so finding places to chill- this park is PACkED!!! Hoping I can bribe DGrD to skip Hoopla again tonight- going to be mobbed!
First few hours lines are great even on the busiest of days.

 

[ajh88]

It is PACKED. not kidding, if you don't have to come today go to another park. If this is the only day you can come expect huge crowds, be patient and just enjoy the general madness

I totally agree. More crowded today than I have ever seen. Shoulder to shoulder at Star Tours. Waited 20 minutes to get a frozen lemonade! Still having fun but the going is S-L-O-W!

 

[CentralFloridian99]

So Warwick's FPs run out fast. I can only imagine how long Tim's will be.

 

[RunnerMomO]

Warwick's show was must see! Great fun with audience participation! Loved it!

 

[fallen_angel727]

Here now..sitting behind Farefax. While its exceptionally busy, we are finding it quite manageable. Got here at about 7:45 did rn'r, ToT, star tours 2x, muppets, lunch and just got FPs for ToT again. We saw darth goofy, stormtrooper donald, chewy, darth vader and some stormtroopers...plus shopping at darths mall. So all in all a very managable crowd if you have a plan.

On a side note. I was under the impression dogs weren't allowed in the park except service dogs. 3 times now we've seen a women in a 2 child stroller sitting with a yorkie in some type of bag being pushed by someone...i thought the dog was a service dog but there was no id on it...just its collar...odd