Official Star Wars Weekends 2014 Tips and Tricks

[yulilin3]

Yulilin,

I was able to get the fast pass buy selecting the "Select or Replace" option rathe than the "change" option. This is taking a lot more planning than the last three years did. LOL

Thank you to everyone for their posts and tips!

Yay
posted at the same tme, glad it worked out

 

[yulilin3]

I'm posting a daily reminder from now until this thread is closed

The Dis closes it's thread when they reach 250 pages, we are as of today, at this moment at 233.
As soon as we hit 250 I'm opening another thread
Official Star Wars Weekends Tips and Trick 2014 Part II
so if you come into this one and can't post anything it's because it was closed

 

[RedM94]

Now I am trying to bump around my dinning reservations around to match new FP+ selections. How much of a grace period is there for being late for a dinning reservation? On average, how long are the shows? If I remember correctly, some were longer than the others.

 

[yulilin3]

Now I am trying to bump around my dinning reservations around to match new FP+ selections. How much of a grace period is there for being late for a dinning reservation? On average, how long are the shows? If I remember correctly, some were longer than the others.

Stars of the Saga is around 45 min. all the other shows are 30 min. I think you can be about 15 min. late for a dinning Ressie

 

[pnc76]

Hey Kenny the Pirate, do they not have Palooza during Star Wars weekends?
Wanted to check as I hear it is the only Place my little Snowy can meet the
Queen....


Thanks....

 

[Phelpsie70]

Has anyone else found that they are unable to get FP for the shows for either of the first two weekends? This will be our fifth year so I have no problem lining up as we have in the past but I was curious whether the shows just booked up already. I'm guessing they limited numbers and we didn't look until today. Thanks!

 

[RedM94]

Stars of the Saga is around 45 min. all the other shows are 30 min. I think you can be about 15 min. late for a dinning Ressie

Awesome!! Thank you once again for your help!!!

 

[jagfanjosh3252]

I might have open spots for the Star Wars dinner on 5/24 at 5:05 and breakfast on 5/25 at 8:05. Both have a possible 3 spots open. If your interested, PM me. I just want to out out there, this is a possible thing. My friends might have to cancel but wanted to ask ahead of time.

 

[Itinkso]

Hey Kenny the Pirate, do they not have Palooza during Star Wars weekends? Wanted to check as I hear it is the only Place my little Snowy can meet the Queen.... Thanks....

No Palooza during SWW because the SW characters roam the Streets of America.

 

[39CINDERELLA]

any word on Mark Hamill show yet? FP?

 

[yulilin3]

Has anyone else found that they are unable to get FP for the shows for either of the first two weekends? This will be our fifth year so I have no problem lining up as we have in the past but I was curious whether the shows just booked up already. I'm guessing they limited numbers and we didn't look until today. Thanks!

I believe all the shows are still available. If you already have something booked in Tier 1 you need to start over by pressing "select or replace" rather than "change experience"

any word on Mark Hamill show yet? FP?

No word, still unsure if he'll do a completely separate show or if he will be in Stars of the Saga

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

I think I've finally got my SWW schedule squared away

We are going that very first Friday.

We'll get in line for Peter Mayhew around 5, having walked over from the Beach Club.

Enter the park when it opens.

Head straight for Chewbacca.

Darth Maul.

Try for R2MK if time willing, if not go check in for Feel the Force and get our parade seats.

11:30 parade.

Run around and meet characters, we really want to meet as many as we can.

Get food from somewhere.

1:45 Behind the Force

Characters.

We have FP+ for Stars of the Saga, we'll probably head over around 2:45

Find more characters/shop at Darth Mall.

TT FP+ 530-630 if we have time.

Hollywood and Vine character meal 6:35

More characters if time.

Go to the fireworks dessert party.



We originally had a Sci Fi breakfast scheduled for 8, but I thought we'd have a jam packed day so we rescheduled that for the following Thursday.

Anyone have any criticisms? I know we should knock out Chewie and Darth Maul early on but am unsure about the rest of the character order.

 

[yulilin3]

FYI Disney is expecting HUGE amounts of people for the weekend of May 23 to 25...they just completely blocked all Main Entrance Passes to CM. This means CM cannot pass people and they cannot go themselves during these days

 

[yulilin3]

I think I've finally got my SWW schedule squared away

We are going that very first Friday.

We'll get in line for Peter Mayhew around 5, having walked over from the Beach Club.

Enter the park when it opens.

Head straight for Chewbacca.

Darth Maul.

Try for R2MK if time willing, if not go check in for Feel the Force and get our parade seats.

11:30 parade.

Run around and meet characters, we really want to meet as many as we can.

Get food from somewhere.

1:45 Behind the Force

Characters.

We have FP+ for Stars of the Saga, we'll probably head over around 2:45

Find more characters/shop at Darth Mall.

TT FP+ 530-630 if we have time.

Hollywood and Vine character meal 6:35

More characters if time.

Go to the fireworks dessert party.



We originally had a Sci Fi breakfast scheduled for 8, but I thought we'd have a jam packed day so we rescheduled that for the following Thursday.

Anyone have any criticisms? I know we should knock out Chewie and Darth Maul early on but am unsure about the rest of the character order.

It looks good!! Assuming you don't want a pic with Darth Vader you have a good schedule.
In order of Priority:
Chewbacca, Darth Vader, Disney SW characters
Darth Maul, The Fetts, Droids Luke and Leia
Amidala, Clone Wars group, Jedi Council group
Roaming characters

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

It looks good!! Assuming you don't want a pic with Darth Vader you have a good schedule.
In order of Priority:
Chewbacca, Darth Vader, Disney SW characters
Darth Maul, The Fetts, Droids Luke and Leia
Amidala, Clone Wars group, Jedi Council group
Roaming characters

We'll get Darth Vader for our Sci Fi breakfast on Thursday.

I've heard that the Disney SW characters rotate, is there a way we can be assured to get R2MK? Since we'll have the other characters at dinner.

 

[yulilin3]

We'll get Darth Vader for our Sci Fi breakfast on Thursday.

I've heard that the Disney SW characters rotate, is there a way we can be assured to get R2MK? Since we'll have the other characters at dinner.

I didn't notice you had the Sci Fi breakfast...
As for R2MK you can ask the CM handler of the group and they might be able to tell you his schedule
There are some CM that will give you the whole eschedule and there are other that won't so it's a matter of luck. Just insist to him/her that you already have a pic with the rest of the Disney SW characters and really want R2MK
Kenny has been able to get a schedule for the characters after weekend 1 but that won't help you since you're going that weekend

 

[jrjankowski8]

We're just looking to meet Chewie - So is that just RD and b-line right to his area near Star Tours?

The FP tickets are just for autographs from the celebs right? Not for M&G with characters? So we don't have to get there at 5am? Just for RD at 8am? (obviously 45 mins before that)

 

[handicap18]

It looks good!! Assuming you don't want a pic with Darth Vader you have a good schedule.
In order of Priority:
Chewbacca, Darth Vader, Disney SW characters
Darth Maul, The Fetts, Droids Luke and Leia
Amidala, Clone Wars group, Jedi Council group
Roaming characters

This is pretty much my priority, except I already have a picture with Darth Vader from '06. Not sure if we'll wait for him so my boys can get a pic as well, but we have seen him with our local 501st group a few times. Darth Maul is give or take with me. Chewbacca is definitely #1 along with Goofy, Donald & Minnie. I have a pic with Jedi Mickey from '06 but we'll probably wait for him for my kids. The Fetts and Droids are a definitely for me.

Can't wait to get down there. I want my week to come right now, but then I don't want that week to end once it gets here.

 

[OhStuffandFluff]

if we want to meet chewie, would we have time to ride TSMM before getting in line to meet chewie? Or would the wait be too long if we do this strategy first? Thanks!

 

[yulilin3]

We're just looking to meet Chewie - So is that just RD and b-line right to his area near Star Tours?

The FP tickets are just for autographs from the celebs right? Not for M&G with characters? So we don't have to get there at 5am? Just for RD at 8am? (obviously 45 mins before that)

Right...be at the entrance around 7:15am the park will open earlier than scheduled...Chewie starts meeting around 8:15am

if we want to meet chewie, would we have time to ride TSMM before getting in line to meet chewie? Or would the wait be too long if we do this strategy first? Thanks!

You could go straight to TSMM and ride but then the line for Chewie will be longer, at that time of the morning maybe already up to 50 min.,