Official Star Wars Weekends Thread Tips and Tricks 2015

[yulilin3]

So if the fp window for sots is 2:50-3:05 can we just show up at 3 if we don't care where our seats are? We will be guaranteed entrance if we get in line before the window closes, right?

Yes as long as you are there before the window closes

 

[wdhinn89]

I have SotS booked on May 16th as well as ST and ToT and when I try to switch any of them, no other SW shows come up at all. I am afraid that if I cancel everything I may lose my SotS or if I ever am able to book another T1 show that if it is a glitch my SotS may be cancelled vs TSM. I am afraid to take a chance even if I was able to.

 

[yulilin3]

I have SotS booked on May 16th as well as ST and ToT and when I try to switch any of them, no other SW shows come up at all. I am afraid that if I cancel everything I may lose my SotS or if I ever am able to book another T1 show that if it is a glitch my SotS may be cancelled vs TSM. I am afraid to take a chance even if I was able to.

I wouldn't mess with weekend I fp right now. A lot of people are reporting not seeing anything available

 

[jimim]

8:30pm

Thanks. So here is my choice now. My wife is taking the kids for the afternoon so I can go to the talks. I'll be by myself. Anyone there feel free to talk to the guy sitting alone with the big ol camera. Lol

Do I go to the obi wan talk at 7 or meet up with my wife and kids and eat at the hanger if it pans out like we think? Can't really do both.

Opinions? Ideas?

 

[MakiraMarlena]

I think you need to wait and see whether or not there will actually be reservations for the hangar. If not it could take a while to get inside. And you probably wont need FP for Obi Wan anyway. I do highly recommend the show, the guy is amazing.

 

[yulilin3]

Thanks. So here is my choice now. My wife is taking the kids for the afternoon so I can go to the talks. I'll be by myself. Anyone there feel free to talk to the guy sitting alone with the big ol camera. Lol

Do I go to the obi wan talk at 7 or meet up with my wife and kids and eat at the hanger if it pans out like we think? Can't really do both.

Opinions? Ideas?

If you're there Saturday or Sunday I'll talk to you Obi Wan is a very good choice, it's the one that has the least SW in it but James Arnold Taylor is super talented and the show is very well written and executed

 

[coluk003]

So I've read all the posts and just want to be sure I didn't miss something. We have the 99 ftf package so I had fp for tsmm and little mermaid and star tours. All these people changing their fast passes are the ones that didn't purchase a package right

 

[MakiraMarlena]

If you have the deluxe premium package, you do not need FPs for any of the shows in theater of the stars on that day.

 

[jimim]

If you're there Saturday or Sunday I'll talk to you Obi Wan is a very good choice, it's the one that has the least SW in it but James Arnold Taylor is super talented and the show is very well written and executed

Lol. That's cool. Ya I'm on my own all afternoon for the talks since I got the deluxe package. I'm doing them Saturday. Sunday is our overflow day for Star Wars weekend and dinner that night. So the hanger is out for that night.


I do want to do his talk. I guess I will have to wait and and see how they handle the hanger. If it's walk up here is no way we will get in there around 6 or so for before the dessert party.

 

[yulilin3]

Lol. That's cool. Ya I'm on my own all afternoon for the talks since I got the deluxe package. I'm doing them Saturday. Sunday is our overflow day for Star Wars weekend and dinner that night. So the hanger is out for that night.


I do want to do his talk. I guess I will have to wait and and see how they handle the hanger. If it's walk up here is no way we will get in there around 6 or so for before the dessert party.

I have the DPP that Saturday as well

 

[jimim]

I have the DPP that Saturday as well

Very cool. Maybe we will see you there. You have been very very helpful these past few weeks with planning! Thanks so much. My family will be be the one trying to keep a 2 year old boy in check and not running in to the parade route. Lol

 

[lovethattink]

I had two attractions (the Frozen singlong one day and Star Tours the other) at times that overlapped with SotS, and was able to change both of them directly to SotS without having to move anything else around. Of course, I had to then change my third FP+ on that one day to Star Tours, which is fine.

MDE is so weird.

I had that happen with a few fp, but one wouldn't pick up visit to the maul until I moved times around. Who knows?

 

[Teamanderson]

Keep searching for 1 at the same time then, when you have it, drop the 3 and 1 at the same time from one PC and pick up 4 on another.

That's a very good idea! I'm going to keep the 3 in case I can't find any openings and hopefully when we get there they will be nice and let my 2 year old in. If I see a 1 become available for the same time I'll definetly grab! I'm sure it's going to be a lot easier to find 1 vs 4. Glad you mentioned it!

 

[momofallsons]

I just let them know that due to circumstances we now have an extra person, they was all perfectly fine,
One of them we thought we had actually booked for the correct no, we said we was really sorry that we had made a mistake when we got their, as we said reservation for 6 and they it's actually for 5 but we can sort that for you.

I actually lucked out and managed to snag a reservation to cover all of us. Thanks for the info though! Good to know!

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

So I'm a few pages behind because I've been helping set up the PTO tag sale all day. Totally worth it though because DS4 scored this sweet helmet for helping out today View attachment 90588

That is a sweet helmet!

Thanks. So here is my choice now. My wife is taking the kids for the afternoon so I can go to the talks. I'll be by myself. Anyone there feel free to talk to the guy sitting alone with the big ol camera. Lol

Do I go to the obi wan talk at 7 or meet up with my wife and kids and eat at the hanger if it pans out like we think? Can't really do both.

Opinions? Ideas?

What weekend will you be there? I was unsure about the Obi Wan show last year, we did it on a whim and I came out of there in love with JAT. He and the show is amazing.

 

[luvallprincesses]

I think you need to wait and see whether or not there will actually be reservations for the hangar. If not it could take a while to get inside. And you probably wont need FP for Obi Wan anyway. I do highly recommend the show, the guy is amazing.

Really? No need for a FP for Obi Wan? That's the only show I didn't book a FP for so that's nice to hear.

 

[Dugette]

What is the seating for the shows? Is it on benches? Thanks!

 

[lovethattink]

What is the seating for the shows? Is it on benches? Thanks!

Benches and way back are bleachers.

 

[Dugette]

Benches and way back are bleachers.

Thanks, I thought I remembered sitting on bleachers years ago there! FP+ and FtF are on benches with backs, then? Making sure DH will be reasonably comfy with 4 shows in one day!

 

[Tltorrez]

That's why I took screenshots of each day

The constraints in place to keep you from booking too many FPs in a tier are there when you select them and possibly when you submit. But once they're in the system, no one is checking the data to see if it's still valid. That's why people have been able to keep glitches like this in the past. So I wouldn't worry about losing them. Of course, if it is a glitch and they fix it you can't cancel and rebook.

But I'm not convinced it's a glitch. Namely because Rebels is still Tier 1 for the first two days. That suggests to me that each Show for each weekend had be set individually to change the Tier (i.e., there wasn't one setting for all SWW shows). And that wouldn't be something you could do accidentally while you were adding in the Week 5 shows. I have no idea why they would drop them to Tier 2 but it certainly seems intentional to me. In other words, I don't think it's a software glitch but a data change. Now, it's not impossible that the data change was incorrect. But that would require a much bigger screw up. So I think Rebels is the glitch and we'll see those two days get corrected, maybe tomorrow.

Just my 2 cents.