Official Star Wars Weekends Thread Tips and Tricks 2015

[AngiTN]

Ok, Odd.. was just on the phone with someone to cancel and get them to pick up 2 ADR's and somehow they both did not show up as available??!! Timed perfectly and they were searching on 2 different computers for them even a few minutes after I dropped them. They even called reservations while I was on the phone with them and still nothing... ADR's were for RH FYI. All I can assume is that they may have overbooked the space and they did not go out as available?? Possible warning for RH pickups and Thoughts... Anyone else have luck handing off RH ADR's??

Hmmm...that IS an interesting thought about the overbooking, especially if you didn't see any of your reservations reappear. I was coordinating with someone to get their 5:55pm Jedi Mickey H&V and in this case I DO think it must have briefly appeared because suddenly there was an 8:00pm available, and within minutes that disappeared and the 8:30pm showed up. However in reference to your situation- I would also not rule out a system snafu...they may be in hyper space and could appear again at any moment OR they set it that way to weed down the numbers. IF they were not functioning properly when we flooded them the other day(system was down more than up), I guess it's possible the numbers are higher than they could accommodate ...??? Not sure

Very possible. CM told me sometimes it can take 15 minutes for the ADR to refresh in the system. Or maybe with it getting so close, others were stalking and picked them up.

I wonder if the site DisneyDiningBuddy is going to start to put a wrinkle in the drop/pickup coordination? It probably wouldn't for RH since it's not loaded in their system yet but it could for the others TS locations. I don't know what system they use to scout for openings but it's possible for someone to drop and their system notify someone of it and they grab it before the other person that wants it can.

Someone commented earlier on how the prize trip must be taken in Sept/Oct and includes a SW meet & greet dessert party.

Do y'all think the SW M&G Dessert Party could just include those that are usually in JTA? Darth, some Storm Troopers and a Jedi Master or two would technically qualify as a SW M&G and they are around year round.

 

[xxpunkstar6xx]

Our countdown for today!

 

[yulilin3]

@Brandiwlf

We have stayed at BWV and POP during previous SWW. When staying at POP with a rental car, we would drive to be at the park for 4:00 am. If we took a break in the afternoon, we would take the bus. This way my car was near the entrance for DHS when we left at night.

If you are leaving right after the fireworks, you will have one more line to wait on to board the bus.

100% agree. Having a car there beats dealing with buses.

 

[39CINDERELLA]

Staying at AoA but also have a rental car, are we better off driving or taking the bus? I plan to leave AoA no later than 6:45 am

@Brandiwlf we stayed there last year and drove. Took the bus on last day. Prefer to drive our own car.

 

[The Sunrise Student]

You know you're close to your Disney Vacation when you can look at the 10 forecast on weather.com and see what the weather is predicted to be

5 days, 15 hours and 8 minutes till I board that plane!

 

[Tltorrez]

I bet that "prize" Star Wars dessert party will be a private event and not open to the public.

The Meet & Greet I can see. But I wouldnt think they'd do a dessert part for only 4 people. That would just be odd.

 

[yulilin3]

saw this on the Force Awakens fb page

 

[Disaholic73]

The only good thing to come of it is we are getting reimbursed for the entire first leg of the flight and also giving is $200 vouchers for each ticket. So we basically got these flights for half price and we have the next set of flights almost paid for. But have to use them within a year so not sure if I can swing next years sww with them.

Usually you have 1 year to book them, not fly within one year. So if you book your flights by May of next year, that should work. I would check with the airline.

 

[HCinKC]

Just remember that is going to be REALLY hot and even hotter with a baby strapped on so make sure everyone stays am safe and comfy!!

You know, I wasn't thinking of that right now, but I bet I would be once we're there! Sadly, the heat cannot be ignored.

The plane we were supposed to get on was deverted to another airport for an emergency landing. We were told it lost cabin pressure. They were supposed to get. A new plane to get the people that got deverted and then take us. But they had other issues I guess. We were told the plan was still coming in but for some reason they were not going to be allowed to fly again last night. It's with allegiant, they are a small airline and I don't think they have a bunch of standby aircraft. As far as the $200, that pretty much covers our entire ticket price. they are also reimbersing the flight to Orlando. So really we are getting about $300 per person along with $60 in food vouchers per person. They also put us up in a hotel and are claiming they will cover out lost room cost for last night. We will see. New flight time is 1:00pm today so crossing fingers here.

Well shoot! That's a bummer, but I am glad they at gave you some credits. If the flight crew on the new plane had already been working Z amount of hours, then they wouldn't have been able to continue. If they didn't have another crew that could replace them, then that is probably why they cancelled the flight. It stinks, but I suppose it's better than tired pilots!

 

[HCinKC]

GONE to a DISer!

 

[slaveone]

Allegiant has a very small fleet. Overall I find them good though.

 

[Dugette]

A couple Galactic Breakfasts and Jedi Mickey dinners were just posted on the May cancellation thread (right below my post there with some Jedi Mickey and Rebel Hangar).

 

[Bugdozer]

Just read on another site that at the ABC Sound Studio at DHS will begin playing Star Wars Rebels: The Ultimate Guide. It will be a 30 minute recap of the first season of the animated show and will begin on May 15th on the opening day of SWW. It is replacing the Cinderella preview. It starts at 10AM daily through 30 minutes prior to park closing.

 

[yulilin3]

Just read on another site that at the ABC Sound Studio at DHS will begin playing Star Wars Rebels: The Ultimate Guide. It will be a 30 minute recap of the first season of the animated show and will begin on May 15th on the opening day of SWW. It is replacing the Cinderella preview. It starts at 10AM daily through 30 minutes prior to park closing.

that's great news, they must've just made that decision cause I checked the calendar this morning and it still showed Cinderella previews, I checked just now and they are gone.

 

[Bugdozer]

that's great news, they must've just made that decision cause I checked the calendar this morning and it still showed Cinderella previews, I checked just now and they are gone.

I read Cinderella ends on the 13th. This might be something to see for me as I have never watched the Rebels and its animated so might keep my 5yo granddaughter interested and little AC is always nice lol

 

[pookadoo77]

They all look great! Did you follow instructions to decorate them or any tricks to share? We just received our bands and I would love to do something special for my 2 boys.

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Those are the people I say "oh I'm sorry it's something you can not get enjoyment out of but please don't pee in my Cheerios

I was so excited for 2.0 even got some free figures at d23, but for some reason I've lost so much interest in the infinity stuff

. Ps4 here.

. What is this magic your band thing and was it hard to do? And by hard I guess I mean I don't have any editing software for images and stuff like that.

It wasn't hard, just a bit time consuming because they wanted so many characters on each side. I did use Photoshop to get clear image cuts so i could paste them onto my own background & move them around to get them in the center. If you want to do something simpler & don't have editing software, you could just as easily google "facebook cover photo" & the name of what ever theme or character you are looking for (i.e. Star Wars). The Facebook Cover Photos are already formatted in a long skinny size that would work pretty well for the application. You can preview what your image will look like on the website & manipulate it as needed. There's also a tool on the website that lets you add 3 layers of images to make up what you need on the band. The website is www.magicyourband.com. I believe there's a coupon code listed on 516 of this thread.

Magic your band has been AWESOME!! We ordered 5 different ones, 1 each and got sent 6 each. One side of one came out dark and they fixed it yesterday a few hrs after I emailed them and sent me a preview of fixed band to ok, ships super quick too!! 10% off code is O2WE-1ZGF-0415 I added my phone number to my kids bands near the clasp end.

 

[yulilin3]

I read Cinderella ends on the 13th. This might be something to see for me as I have never watched the Rebels and its animated so might keep my 5yo granddaughter interested and little AC is always nice lol

And another great spot to cool down for 30 minutes with minimal wait

 

[pookadoo77]

I have a RH for May 17, 5:35, 4ppl if anyone is interested. I haven't coordinated before, and it sounds like the online system is still wonky. Still, I am happy to try if someone wants. Just pm me.

A couple Galactic Breakfasts and Jedi Mickey dinners were just posted on the May cancellation thread (right below my post there with some Jedi Mickey and Rebel Hangar).

I added these to the facebook group, hope its ok and they find homes... RH is still wonky on disney site right now though....

 

[jimim]

this is what I REALLY want so I will keep my fingers crossed for both of us. I don't even know if they make it in my size though.



I may or may not have had a fight with Comcast. We live in the middle of nowhere and it's either them or Frontier and we just haven't gotten them out to hook up new service yet. I was like meh no hurry we won't die. We grew up in the 80s and 90s with no internet so we'll be fine. I was so very very wrong DS4 cried like his girlfriend had just dumped him when I told him he couldn't watch Miles From Tomorrowland!



What kind of camera? You may have and night setting, also take the pictures with your back to the screen and the subjects facing it. That will give you some extra light

make sure your focus is on the person not the screen cause then the exposure will be dark cause you focused on a bright surface rather the darker surface of the person you are trying to take a picture of

 

[yulilin3]

make sure your focus is on the person not the screen cause then the exposure will be dark cause you focused on a bright surface rather the darker surface of the person you are trying to take a picture of

and another tip is having the person taking the picture turn their back to the screen, the person getting the picture taken faces the screen and the light from it will also help