Official Star Wars Weekends Thread Tips and Tricks 2015

[boricuajedi]

Awesome! Next time you are at DHS, look up all the references in the park.
Last year my sister made Rocketeer Mickey Ears and we took pictures with all the Rocketeer items and references in the park.

I know about the props at DHS, is there more?

 

[southernfriedmom]

Thanks everyone for the advice a few days ago about navigating next weekend with my newly broken foot. I thought of two last questions...
- Mine & DH's plan was to split the kids up at RD and head to PMC sign ups with the DS's and make the Chewy run with the DD's. Clearly my husband will be able to move faster than me on an ECV- any thoughts of which one of us should head where?
- @yulilin3 you said if I could transfer there would be more seat options at the shows (with DPP). Would I be able to remain in my ECV until right before being seated or would I need to transfer before waiting in the line to get into the show?

Thank you as always!! We leave in 6 days!!!

 

[Gianfootography]

I know about the props at DHS, is there more?

Currently: Peevy's, Sci-Fi Dine-in Theater, Chinese theater, and One Man's Dream.




They should add a Sorin' style ride based on the Rocketeer at DHS too.

 

[boricuajedi]

Currently: Peevy's, Sci-Fi Dine-in Theater, Chinese theater, and One Man's Dream.

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Damn, been there all this time never knew it, will show it to her (and me) now that she knows more about the movie.

 

[yulilin3]

Thanks everyone for the advice a few days ago about navigating next weekend with my newly broken foot. I thought of two last questions...
- Mine & DH's plan was to split the kids up at RD and head to PMC sign ups with the DS's and make the Chewy run with the DD's. Clearly my husband will be able to move faster than me on an ECV- any thoughts of which one of us should head where?
- @yulilin3 you said if I could transfer there would be more seat options at the shows (with DPP). Would I be able to remain in my ECV until right before being seated or would I need to transfer before waiting in the line to get into the show?

Thank you as always!! We leave in 6 days!!!

actually I'm not sure about the transfer. I think @lovethattink might have more information
I think you should do the PMC sign up cause there will be less traffic going that way. Walk straight down Hollywood Blvd and make a left at the Hyperion Theater

 

[Gianfootography]

Damn, been there all this never knew it, will show it to her (and me) now that she knows more about the movie.

And the Fountain show at Epcot behind Spaceship Earth uses the theme music of the Rocketeer by composer James Horner. It used to make me teary-eyed back when I used to enjoy Epcot's International Food and Wine Festival too much.

 

[yulilin3]

Just to clarify something we saw last weekend about the roaming characters on Streets of America" some of them were actually roaming right next to the people lining up for Darth's Mall. So you would enter the black gates and see them all around, not just Streets of America.
Another thing that I cannot stress enough: THE TIMES POSTED ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE
This is why Disney doesn't release times because then people think they are set in stone and that's not the case. Just use them as guidelines
And that's it for me, heading to bed. Bright an early tomorrow to get an autograph fp for Vanessa Marshall.

 

[mesaboy2]

Just to clarify something we saw last weekend about the roaming characters on Streets of America" some of them were actually roaming right next to the people lining up for Darth's Mall. So you would enter the black gates and see them all around, not just Streets of America.
Another thing that I cannot stress enough: THE TIMES POSTED ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE
This is why Disney doesn't release times because then people think they are set in stone and that's not the case. Just use them as guidelines
And that's it for me, heading to bed. Bright an early tomorrow to get an autograph fp for Vanessa Marshall.

 

[Teamanderson]

Just got mine at 7:30 pm at the peeves stand

Oh how I hope there will be some weekend IV!!!

 

[Cluelyss]

Is there a Annual Pass Poster trading thread set up? I looked everywhere on the Dis and I couldn't find one.

I'm dying to get the Fett poster and I have a Yoda poster to trade. Private message me if you are interested.

Thanks!

~NM

Trading is taking place in the roll call:

http://www.disboards.com/threads/sww-2015-roll-call.3358654/

 

[sssteph]

Has anyone else noticed that Week 4 really only has two stars? Ashley is listed as the third, however, she was at SWW week one and wasn't listed as one of three stars. I'm a little bummed about that actually.

 

[Teamanderson]

My experience with Darths Mall - the guy at the entrance to the line guessed a 45 minute wait - it was 10. It seemed to be about 5-10 minutes per switchback.



Defintiely runs small. There are special Her Universe workers in the store and they were very happy to help me with sizes.



I saw a max of 30 minutes today (seemed to go up as shows let out) but mostly it was listed at 20 (and previous experience says that it's usually shorter).



That's what we got last week (didn't see anyone today). Near the coke bottle.

Today was brutal! After last week I would definitely do the VIP again. We got so much less done today (though stuff we didn't do during VIP so I think you'd still need at least two days).

We ran a little late this morning and got to the tap styles right when storm troopers let people through. We went immediately to chewy, waited about an hour. The dad of the girl in front of us came up at one point and said that the park was completely empty. Basically for the first hour everyone was in some sort of line - chewy, Vader, JTA, etc. we finished with chewy just in time for our breakfast reservations. I had the kessel run (rarely eat red meat, never for breakfast but it was good). DS had the Vader waffle.

We did non SW things for most of the day. Most of the "streets of America" roaming characters seemed to be near the coke bottle/the exit of Pixar place. Sat to get something out of my bag and in less than 2 minutes and saw, storm troopers, Sam wessel and a bunch of Tusken Raiders. Clone troopers were hanging out between the wattle grotto and x-wing collectable lines.

Built Legos (they were encouraging adults to build) and watched Darth maul for awhile. He was an awesome character. It was fun to see grown men back down from him.

Anyway, it was a fun end to our first SWW. And the dooney and Bouke wristlets is coming home with me.

Where can you watch Darth Maul? In the meet and greet line?

 

[kpd6901]

As long as you get to the park by 7am you're going to be fine. I think the buses start at 6:30am. If you want to be sure you can always take a cab.

When I first asked about making RD to do the Chewie Run, the above answer sufficed. Now that Weekend 2 has begun and we have a better idea of how the buses are running, would we still be fine getting from AS Music to the park with our 3 kids (plus the stroller) by 7 am from when the buses start running? or are they running later or change the routes or anything, where we need to get a cab? That being said, how do the local cab companies handle car seats, and how/where do we store the car seat at the park until we are done for the evening? We are looking at doing RD for JTA on Thurs 6/11 and Chewie run on Sat 6/13 - should we look at a cab for both dates or only for the Sat?
Thanks.

 

[yulilin3]

Well, lesson learned for the night. Don't update the first post when you are super tired...went to put the link to the characters schedule and erased a whole bunch of stuff.
I think what got erased were the times for shows and celebrities coming for weekend II thru V.
Please if anyone is answering questions this weekend let them know that I will have to put all that stuff back in on Monday.
I did save this for weekend II so it's not a total loss...ugh. Ready for bed. Goodnight peeps
DISer Strike Back...make sure to note that Silas Carson has 3 session only Friday and Saturday. Sunday only two sessions

Park opens at 7:30 am. Rope Drops at 7:45am

GMR closes at 8pm due to fireworks fall out

TSMM closes at 8:15 pm due to fireworks fall out

Fantasmic! At 9pm and 10:30pm

Weekend II: May 22-24
James Arnold Taylor (not signing)
Warwick Davis: Wald, Wicket W. Warrick (Star Wars: The Phantom Menace;Star Wars: Return of the Jedi)Autograph Sessions ( 1pm and 2:15pm)
Silas Carson: Ki-Adi-Mundi, Nute Gunray (Star Wars: The Phantom Menace;Star Wars: Attack of the Clones;Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)Autograph Sessions ( 1pm, 2:15pm and *4:30pm) *Friday and Saturday only
Vanessa Marshall: Hera Syndulla (Star Wars Rebels)Autograph Sessions ( 3pm and 5 pm)
Ashley Eckstein(Voice of Ahsoka Tano –Star Wars: The Clone Wars) Autograph session 12:45pm-2:15pm

Giving priority to Silas Carson, arrive by 5am. Second Warwick Davis since he has 2 weekends locals will split up. Arrive around 5:30am. Vanessa Marshall arrive no later than 6am. Ashley same as weekend 1
Legends of the Force celebrity motorcade and welcome 11am

Behind the Force Rebels 1:45pm
Stormtrooper Pre Show SotS 3:15pm
Stars of the Saga 3:30pm
Ewok Tale My Short Story 5:15pm
Obi Wan and Beyond 7pm
PMC kids edition 12:15pm and 4:15pm sign ups at ABC Sound Studios (kids only PMC featuring Sabine and Ezra)
2:30pm and 6:00pm no sign up required (Family Edition, picked at random, hosted BY Ashley Eckstein)
JTA 8:45 AM 9:20 AM 10:05 AM 10:35 AM 12:00 PM 12:30 PM 1:00 PM 1:30 PM 2:00 PM 2:30 PM 3:00 PM 3:30 PM 4:00 PM 4:30 PM 5:00 PM 5:30 PM 6:30 PM 7:00 PM 7:30 PM
DJ Lobot Dance Party 7 pm

Summon the Force Pre Show and Symphony in the Stars 9:30pm

 

[boricuajedi]

Oh how I hope there will be some weekend IV!!!

Me too! Weekend V

 

[cvjpirate]

Had to share. Just got my package from my travel agent and she put in a Star Wars the Force Awakens hat in there!!

 

[lovethattink]

Thanks everyone for the advice a few days ago about navigating next weekend with my newly broken foot. I thought of two last questions...
- Mine & DH's plan was to split the kids up at RD and head to PMC sign ups with the DS's and make the Chewy run with the DD's. Clearly my husband will be able to move faster than me on an ECV- any thoughts of which one of us should head where?
- @yulilin3 you said if I could transfer there would be more seat options at the shows (with DPP). Would I be able to remain in my ECV until right before being seated or would I need to transfer before waiting in the line to get into the show?

Thank you as always!! We leave in 6 days!!!

Depends if you can do any steps or not and if you have package or not. Assuming package, if you can do steps you transfer just before you are seated and get 2nd to 5th row. If you can't do steps you can stay in ecv or see if there is a first row seat, if not, then last row of theater is your option left.

Without package it's pretty much the same, 1st or Last row for non - transfers and far right front few rows for transfers or center back rows for transfers

ETA: FP+ would be left side

 

[soniam]

Man, I'm seriously thinking that we are going to have to do all 3 days of a weekend next year or do parts of 2 weekends, after catching up on everyone's fun

 

[Good Morning Dewdrop]

Man, I'm seriously thinking that we are going to have to do all 3 days of a weekend next year or do parts of 2 weekends, after catching up on everyone's fun

We ended up adding a lot of extra time into our SWW plans.

On Friday we had planned to spend the morning at DHS then hop to MK for a few hours then back to DHS - did all of that

On Saturday we had planned on doing DHS in the morning then hopping to AK and maybe Epcot - ended up spending the whole day at DHS!

On Sunday we had planned on AK in the morning and then Mk for the early afternoon and arriving at DHS around 4 - well we did do AK in the morning - then went directly to DHS for the rest of the day.

It seemed like this year was busier or things just took longer to get done than they did last year. I know we spent additional time lining up for the parade on Saturday and we spent a chunk of time in line for Boba Fett steins and two wasted rounds of standing in line (once the Jedi line - ended up seeing Shaak Ti a second time - and once in the Blister Pack line -it rained when we were the next family).

 

[pookadoo77]

No they give out the wristband and fp way before the park opens. No problem doing the Chewie Run, JTA, PMC or VttM sign ups
I wouldn't count on the busses. It's very easy to get to DHS from AoA. Only about a 5 min. drive

awesome, thanks! Can you recommend a taxi or cab company to fit 5 of us, 1 being a 4 yr old needing a car seat?? Thanks!! Gonna try to leave at 5:45

My experience with Darths Mall - the guy at the entrance to the line guessed a 45 minute wait - it was 10. It seemed to be about 5-10 minutes per switchback.



Defintiely runs small. There are special Her Universe workers in the store and they were very happy to help me with sizes.



I saw a max of 30 minutes today (seemed to go up as shows let out) but mostly it was listed at 20 (and previous experience says that it's usually shorter).



That's what we got last week (didn't see anyone today). Near the coke bottle.

Today was brutal! After last week I would definitely do the VIP again. We got so much less done today (though stuff we didn't do during VIP so I think you'd still need at least two days).

We ran a little late this morning and got to the tap styles right when storm troopers let people through. We went immediately to chewy, waited about an hour. The dad of the girl in front of us came up at one point and said that the park was completely empty. Basically for the first hour everyone was in some sort of line - chewy, Vader, JTA, etc. we finished with chewy just in time for our breakfast reservations. I had the kessel run (rarely eat red meat, never for breakfast but it was good). DS had the Vader waffle.

We did non SW things for most of the day. Most of the "streets of America" roaming characters seemed to be near the coke bottle/the exit of Pixar place. Sat to get something out of my bag and in less than 2 minutes and saw, storm troopers, Sam wessel and a bunch of Tusken Raiders. Clone troopers were hanging out between the wattle grotto and x-wing collectable lines.

Built Legos (they were encouraging adults to build) and watched Darth maul for awhile. He was an awesome character. It was fun to see grown men back down from him.

Anyway, it was a fun end to our first SWW. And the dooney and Bouke wristlets is coming home with me.

awesome! I really want a wristlet, how much are they?? Hope they still have them the last friday (weekend V)