Official Star Wars Weekends Thread Tips and Tricks 2015

[yulilin3]

Is that only during SWW weekend dates or does that also include during the week?

Every day of Galactic breakfast

 

[MickeyMinnieMom]

Heh... these are going to be lightsaber keychains aren't they?

I'd almost prefer this -- easier to walk around with 5-6 of them!

 

[keishashadow]

booking friend came thru again

I just cancelled SW Galactic breakfast part of 2 @ 10:40 am for 5/19

 

[JayLeeJay]

I am torn about the autographs now. Unless we go straight over from the 24 hour day at MK, we'll only have Sunday to get autographs. I was thinking that my BF and I would split up and one of us would get Vanessa Marshall and the other Warwick Davis. Since I've met Warwick twice, I thought my BF could go meet him. But this photo collage of all his favorite characters I'm making is really cool and I want to be the one to show him (assuming he is impressed/cares). But I kind of don't want to deprive the BF of the chance to meet him

Do you think it would be possible to go directly from MK to HS to get your fast pass for the autograph and then take a break until your fast pass time? You could try for a time later in the day and that would allow you to rest after the 24 hr event.

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

Do you think it would be possible to go directly from MK to HS to get your fast pass for the autograph and then take a break until your fast pass time? You could try for a time later in the day and that would allow you to rest after the 24 hr event.

This is a really smart idea

Can anyone help me with logistics? I doubt buses would be running from the MK to DHS at such an early time...so we'd have to drive and then go straight to DHS. @yulilin3 , do you think there would be any FP left for Vanessa Marshall at that time? I imagine by the time we get to the car and get to DHS a 6:30 arrival time might be lucky.

 

[yulilin3]

This is a really smart idea

Can anyone help me with logistics? I doubt buses would be running from the MK to DHS at such an early time...so we'd have to drive and then go straight to DHS. @yulilin3 , do you think there would be any FP left for Vanessa Marshall at that time? I imagine by the time we get to the car and get to DHS a 6:30 arrival time might be lucky.

It's worth a try. Rebels will be definitely more popular this year than last but Warwick and Silas will be the more popular of the three

 

[lvstitch]

I think this pretty much sums up how we all felt

 

[meuseman]

Sucked into this thread today! I'm heading down for a boys weekend with DS4. We have H&V on 5/13, SciFi Breakfast 5/14 and then we will be Guinea Pigs! We were down last year and SWW was where DS fell in love with SW.

Thanks yulilin and everyone else on this this thread - so excited!

 

[The Sunrise Student]

After Celebration SWW will be a walk in the park...literally

No Kidding, I will never complain about any lines at SWW ever again.... SWC taught me that... and I am VERY extremely thankful that we got in on Galactic Gatherings so we can jump to the front of the line to pay for merch, rather than what happened to us at Celebration where we waited over 4 hours to buy a blessed poster!

 

[meuseman]

One question, and apologies if it is somewhere earlier in the thread (I only made it from pp375 forward).

Do we know where the Fab Four will be meeting? Last year was inside Darth's Mall. Will it be again? Thanks!

 

[yulilin3]

One question, and apologies if it is somewhere earlier in the thread (I only made it from pp375 forward).

Do we know where the Fab Four will be meeting? Last year was inside Darth's Mall. Will it be again? Thanks!

They will be close to the event stage. By ABC Commissary where Luke and Leia were last year

 

[meuseman]

They will be close to the event stage. By ABC Commissary where Luke and Leia were last year

Awesome - thanks! So are Luke and Leia moving? (and is there a listing or map yet? I'd be happy to make a map.)

 

[xxpunkstar6xx]

Woooohoooo! Magic bands are on their way!

 

[Teamanderson]

I'm back lol. Three questions. 1....Is one day enough for SW weekends? We had planned on just going on a Friday but now wondering if we need Friday and Saturday. Maybe one day doing strictly Star Wars stuff and the second day doing part Star Wars and part regular HS stuff. I guess it's really just a personal preference but just curious what you guys think. Our children are 2 and 5 and are obsessed with Star Wars. I feel like I'm going nuts planning it all into just one day. Our favorite show is fantasmic so we definetly want to see it but dont want the first show because of fireworks. 2....If for some reason we can not get the fast pass for second show, will we still get in? I'm imagining the second show is going to be packed due to no one going to first show because of fear of missing fireworks. Probably should do 2 days. 3....which dining experience is better, Jedi or galactic? I was able to get a galactic for 3 from a very kind person on here but there is a total of 4 of us. I was hoping I could get by with just reserving 3 since our youngest is 2. But I read about fire capacity and am nervous. My 5 year old really wants this meal and it's one of their birthdays so I don't want to walk up and they turn us down. I guess I need a galactic for 4 on 6/5 for back up. Thank you all! This page is a lifesaver!!

 

[yulilin3]

Awesome - thanks! So are Luke and Leia moving? (and is there a listing or map yet? I'd be happy to make a map.)

We don't know where Luke Leia and the droids will be.
Chewie in his regular spot
Jedi Council on the site it says closer to Mickey avenue so I'm thinking where the pirates thing used to be, before tsmm
Clone wars group on streets of America
Bad guys near Darth's Mall.
That's all that the Disney site says

 

[yulilin3]

I'm back lol. Three questions. 1....Is one day enough for SW weekends? We had planned on just going on a Friday but now wondering if we need Friday and Saturday. Maybe one day doing strictly Star Wars stuff and the second day doing part Star Wars and part regular HS stuff. I guess it's really just a personal preference but just curious what you guys think. Our children are 2 and 5 and are obsessed with Star Wars. I feel like I'm going nuts planning it all into just one day. Our favorite show is fantasmic so we definetly want to see it but dont want the first show because of fireworks. 2....If for some reason we can not get the fast pass for second show, will we still get in? I'm imagining the second show is going to be packed due to no one going to first show because of fear of missing fireworks. Probably should do 2 days. 3....which dining experience is better, Jedi or galactic? Thank you all! This page is a lifesaver!!

1. It really depends on what you want to do. You will be at least 2 days to do characters and shows
2. Actually the second F! never fills up. A lot of people just leave after fireworks
3. Depends on the characters you want to meet...just an fyi the character meals have been sold out for months and it's very,very hard to get an ADR. It can still be done but it needs a lot of stalking or an outside company to stalk for you
EDIT: stupid me for not reading the whole thing I see you have ressies made

 

[Jennifer Cooke]

We will be coming SWW for the first time on 5/31 ( not our 1st time to Disney ) ! Trying to figure out if you can see Fantasmic and fireworks in the same night. Says fireworks are @ 9:30 p.m., and 1st Fantasmic show @ 9:00. I was going to try to get a Fantasmic dinner reservation, but don't want to if it make us miss the fireworks.

 

[Candleshoe]

This is a really smart idea

Can anyone help me with logistics? I doubt buses would be running from the MK to DHS at such an early time...so we'd have to drive and then go straight to DHS. @yulilin3 , do you think there would be any FP left for Vanessa Marshall at that time? I imagine by the time we get to the car and get to DHS a 6:30 arrival time might be lucky.

I wonder if you might want to take a cab?
You could also grab a bus from MK to any Epcot resort and cab over from there.

 

[yulilin3]

We will be coming SWW for the first time on 5/31 ( not our 1st time to Disney ) ! Trying to figure out if you can see Fantasmic and fireworks in the same night. Says fireworks are @ 9:30 p.m., and 1st Fantasmic show @ 9:00. I was going to try to get a Fantasmic dinner reservation, but don't want to if it make us miss the fireworks.

Not possible because it'll take you at least 15 minutes to be able get our of the F! Theater.
You can watch fireworks and then do second F! with no problem

 

[JayLeeJay]

This is a really smart idea

Can anyone help me with logistics? I doubt buses would be running from the MK to DHS at such an early time...so we'd have to drive and then go straight to DHS. @yulilin3 , do you think there would be any FP left for Vanessa Marshall at that time? I imagine by the time we get to the car and get to DHS a 6:30 arrival time might be lucky.

I wonder if you might want to take a cab?
You could also grab a bus from MK to any Epcot resort and cab over from there.

I was going to recommend the same. You could get a cab from the Contemporary (walk or take the monorail). If you do a bus from MK, you can bus it to an EPCOT resort and take a cab or even walk, because I am sure you will still be full of energy after 24 hours in MK