Official Star Wars Weekends Thread Tips and Tricks 2015

[yulilin3]

Thanks msmama, x
I hope they change and add a Jedi mickeys breakfast next year then as we'd much prefer a good american breakfast than dinner (both fussy eaters!) but if not dinner will have to do to see the characters, husband is desperate to see storm trooper Donald and ewok chip and dale, just hope they follow form with the sww dates too otherwise that will definitely throw a huge spanner in the works lol! X

make sure to read the first post of this thread, I keep it up to date with new information that we receive.
I doubt they'll take away Disney Jr. breakfast at H&V, it's very popular.
Remember you can also meet the characters thru out the park, you just have to wait in line. The character meals are a huge time saver in that regard.
And, also

 

[yulilin3]

continuing my TBT tradition. This week is Ray Park. He is a fan favorite celebrity to meet. He cannot be more different than his alter ego, Darth Maul

 

[lovethattink]

Hey, I was there for the first couple pictures! They got great!

 

[goofy4wdw2]

I just read that the Jedi meals won't be open for booking yet, so I will keep checking to see when it's available. But...I just made some reservations and tried booking for Hollywood & Vine character meal for my son to see Jake and Handy Manny. I tried a few dates...5/11, 5/12, 5/18..they are around the Star Wars weekends but not on the actual Star Wars dates Fri/Sat/Sun. The cast member said he sees the Jake/Sophia character meal in the system but all times are booked and he said that seems odd this far out. Any thoughts on this? Has this become a super popular meal or could it be that it won't be offered due to Star Wars weekends and the Jedi meals? Are the Star Wars meals usually offered during the weekdays also or only on the Fri/Sat/Sun of SWW? Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[CJK]

I just read that the Jedi meals won't be open for booking yet, so I will keep checking to see when it's available. But...I just made some reservations and tried booking for Hollywood & Vine character meal for my son to see Jake and Handy Manny. I tried a few dates...5/11, 5/12, 5/18..they are around the Star Wars weekends but not on the actual Star Wars dates Fri/Sat/Sun. The cast member said he sees the Jake/Sophia character meal in the system but all times are booked and he said that seems odd this far out. Any thoughts on this? Has this become a super popular meal or could it be that it won't be offered due to Star Wars weekends and the Jedi meals? Are the Star Wars meals usually offered during the weekdays also or only on the Fri/Sat/Sun of SWW? Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

It's my understanding that the Star Wars breakfast is at Sci Fi Diner, not Hollywood & Vine. The Star Wars dinner is at Hollywood & Vine. I don't think the breakfast at Hollywood & Vine is sold out this far out. I think it's more likely that those dates aren't available to book yet.....

 

[shelbyf31]

My 180 day was on Monday 11/10. I had a difficult time booking H&V for breakfast on 5/10/15. It wasn't high on my priority list because I thought there would not be a chance it would be booked. Finally found a breakfast on 5/14. I have read people are having a hard time finding breakfast reservations that week.

 

[yulilin3]

Just to clarify:
Hollywood and Vine did Disney Jr. character breakfast and lunch and Star Wars Disney characters for dinner (replacing their regular non character dinner) for SWW 2014
looking at their times starting May 4 for 2015 they have completely taken away their regular dinner, it's expected that again it will be replaced for SW Disney character dinner. No one knows when we can start booking
Sci Fi Diner did SW character breakfast starting May 4 during this years SWW 2014.
Looking at their schedule they have pushed back their early lunch (usually 11am) to 12:10pm. This indicates that once again we will have SW breakfast starting May 4th 2015. Again no timeframe on when we can start booking it

 

[yulilin3]

I just read that the Jedi meals won't be open for booking yet, so I will keep checking to see when it's available. But...I just made some reservations and tried booking for Hollywood & Vine character meal for my son to see Jake and Handy Manny. I tried a few dates...5/11, 5/12, 5/18..they are around the Star Wars weekends but not on the actual Star Wars dates Fri/Sat/Sun. The cast member said he sees the Jake/Sophia character meal in the system but all times are booked and he said that seems odd this far out. Any thoughts on this? Has this become a super popular meal or could it be that it won't be offered due to Star Wars weekends and the Jedi meals? Are the Star Wars meals usually offered during the weekdays also or only on the Fri/Sat/Sun of SWW? Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Star Wars character meals (both breakfast at Sci Fi and dinner at H&V) were offered starting May 4th until the last day of SWW 2014

 

[MakiraMarlena]

Star wars breakfast was at SciFi, not Hollywood and Vine. No, they will not discontinue the Hollywood & Vine Disney Jr. character buffets. The H&V Star Wars meal was dinner (there are not normally characters at dinner). Don't know why you can't book breakfast but I'm guessing the ever popular computer glitch.

The Star Wars meals were offered every day May 4 to June 15. Not just weekends.

 

[delmar411]

Star wars breakfast was at SciFi, not Hollywood and Vine. No, they will not discontinue the Hollywood & Vine Disney Jr. character buffets. The H&V Star Wars meal was dinner (there are not normally characters at dinner). Don't know why you can't book breakfast but I'm guessing the ever popular computer glitch. The Star Wars meals were offered every day May 4 to June 15. Not just weekends.

Yes but something is going on. H&V is unavailable even more than 180days out. (Using the +10). That is extremely bizarre.

 

[ebtbmom]

Booked my trip today! Checking in 5/23 and we'll do SWW 5/24 and 5/29. Planning on doing the other parks and maybe US the rest of the week. I'm really excited, this is my first SWW and a mother/son trip

 

[The Sunrise Student]

Hey Gang,

I know I have seen over the years people looking all over for a cool place to find fun SWW T Shirts that aren't the same as everyone elses....

Here's one of my fav places to get fun new SW shirts.

Tee Puplic has some really cook geekie shirts, but here's one of the artists out there that I have bought from lately.

https://www.teepublic.com/user/Alienbiker23

But truly check out the whole site, there is more....

PS: I just hit the 180 day mark for May 14th... Woot Woot... time to start making some ressies!

 

[lovethattink]

Congrats, Sunrise. How you get what you want.

All over my news feed was rumor that Dee Bradley Baker will be on Rebels. Yay!

 

[yulilin3]

Booked my trip today! Checking in 5/23 and we'll do SWW 5/24 and 5/29. Planning on doing the other parks and maybe US the rest of the week. I'm really excited, this is my first SWW and a mother/son trip

Congrats, Sunrise. How you get what you want.

All over my news feed was rumor that Dee Bradley Baker will be on Rebels. Yay!

yep. Just came to post this:
http://www.starwarsunderworld.com/2014/11/dee-bradley-baker-joins-star-wars.html
it has a spoiler alert as to which character he's playing and a very interesting theory

 

[yulilin3]

Hey Gang,

I know I have seen over the years people looking all over for a cool place to find fun SWW T Shirts that aren't the same as everyone elses....

Here's one of my fav places to get fun new SW shirts.

Tee Puplic has some really cook geekie shirts, but here's one of the artists out there that I have bought from lately.

https://www.teepublic.com/user/Alienbiker23

But truly check out the whole site, there is more....

PS: I just hit the 180 day mark for May 14th... Woot Woot... time to start making some ressies!

the most dangerous thing for my wallet was to open that link. So many cool designs

 

[jimim]

Hi guys,

This is our first year doing Star Wars weekend. Wanted to for years but the stars never lined up. I need some tips from the pro's.

We have Saturday and Sunday to play with cause we come in Friday the 12th. This is all dependent on if the dates line up again I know.

1. Is it worth it to get the package for the parade and fireworks so my 2 little Padawan's can see ok and so that I don't have to stress about times to get seats for the 2 events?

2. We wanted to do the star wars meal with the characters dressed like our favorite star wars characters. . . I assume the only diff in package is one has seats for fantastic the other doesn't.

3. this brings me to my next question. . . should we do the dinner and 2 events in one day or split it into 2 and add in the fantastic package if done in 2 days. if we did it all in 1 we wouldn't do fantastic. as a note i have seen fantastic at least 20 times. lol didn't know if it was diff or anything for this time of the year.

4. is this too much to do in one day if we did? figure use the other day to take in the meet and greats. use the first day to do above and shop a bit and wander around to enjoy.

5. when last year did the events go on sale? were they impossible to book?


Thanks so much!

Jim

 

[yulilin3]

Hi guys,

This is our first year doing Star Wars weekend. Wanted to for years but the stars never lined up. I need some tips from the pro's.

We have Saturday and Sunday to play with cause we come in Friday the 12th. This is all dependent on if the dates line up again I know.

1. Is it worth it to get the package for the parade and fireworks so my 2 little Padawan's can see ok and so that I don't have to stress about times to get seats for the 2 events?

2. We wanted to do the star wars meal with the characters dressed like our favorite star wars characters. . . I assume the only diff in package is one has seats for fantastic the other doesn't.

3. this brings me to my next question. . . should we do the dinner and 2 events in one day or split it into 2 and add in the fantastic package if done in 2 days. if we did it all in 1 we wouldn't do fantastic. as a note i have seen fantastic at least 20 times. lol didn't know if it was diff or anything for this time of the year.

4. is this too much to do in one day if we did? figure use the other day to take in the meet and greats. use the first day to do above and shop a bit and wander around to enjoy.

5. when last year did the events go on sale? were they impossible to book?


Thanks so much!

Jim

I really hope they extend the weekends to 5 like last year. As of right now we are looking at a starting date for SWW for May 15th. If they do the typical 4 weekends the last SWW will be June 7th
1.- I liked the package set up. The parade set up was Ok, they had a dedicated earea for kids to sit and then the parents would stand behind them (this happened the last weekends, the first weekends was not like this) I loved the dessert party in front of the stage, there was plenty of room to move around.
2.- Right, at Hollywood and Vine you have the option to get dinner with Fantasmic! seating or not. You can pick. For the SW breakfast there's no F! seating offered
3.- Fantasmic! is no different during SWW, I would split events just to be more relaxed
4.- Doing the Force package (parade and fireworks dessert party) and a character dinner is not a lot for one day.
5.- Last year I had inside access to the HUB (internal Disney CM site) and got the information on the packages and meal a whole week before they were announced. People started booking then, this year I'm not sure if I'll be able to have the same access but keep an eye on this thread and the Disney Parks Blog and be ready to book as soon as it's announced
The Feel the Force package was announced April 24th
If you have any other questions let us know

 

[Meech Loves Mickey]

Hey Gang,

I know I have seen over the years people looking all over for a cool place to find fun SWW T Shirts that aren't the same as everyone elses....

Here's one of my fav places to get fun new SW shirts.

Tee Puplic has some really cook geekie shirts, but here's one of the artists out there that I have bought from lately.

https://www.teepublic.com/user/Alienbiker23

But truly check out the whole site, there is more....

PS: I just hit the 180 day mark for May 14th... Woot Woot... time to start making some ressies!

Cool shirts, but I'm not seeing any kids sizes?

 

[jimim]

Cool shirts, but I'm not seeing any kids sizes?

i just ordered one to try em out. i got the star wars blue moon beer one cause i love blue moon. you guys suck btw! lol making me spend money! lol

this site will be dangerous.

jimi

 

[jimim]

I really hope they extend the weekends to 5 like last year. As of right now we are looking at a starting date for SWW for May 15th. If they do the typical 4 weekends the last SWW will be June 7th
1.- I liked the package set up. The parade set up was Ok, they had a dedicated earea for kids to sit and then the parents would stand behind them (this happened the last weekends, the first weekends was not like this) I loved the dessert party in front of the stage, there was plenty of room to move around.
2.- Right, at Hollywood and Vine you have the option to get dinner with Fantasmic! seating or not. You can pick. For the SW breakfast there's no F! seating offered
3.- Fantasmic! is no different during SWW, I would split events just to be more relaxed
4.- Doing the Force package (parade and fireworks dessert party) and a character dinner is not a lot for one day.
5.- Last year I had inside access to the HUB (internal Disney CM site) and got the information on the packages and meal a whole week before they were announced. People started booking then, this year I'm not sure if I'll be able to have the same access but keep an eye on this thread and the Disney Parks Blog and be ready to book as soon as it's announced
The Feel the Force package was announced April 24th
If you have any other questions let us know

thanks so much! so when do the dinner bookings come out? the package was way later though?

jimi