Official Star Wars Weekends Thread Tips and Tricks 2015

[jthornton94]

Asked about a map for this weekend(well, hubby did) and they said no dice until Thursday. I'll try and snag one in our way to MK. Currently trying to stay concious after eating the kitchen sink at Beaches and Cream.

 

[Joe Vazquez]

Here are the magic shots. The PP photographer was standing around looking bored when I did it, so no wait at all.

The shots are cool and I can't wait for my family to get in on one. However, I thought that the red gate was not apart of the actual photo. I thought it was used as a 'green screen' of sorts and there was a scenic background. I think I recall the stormtroopers being tossed down the corridor of death star or star destroyer.

I still want to do them, though. I just did not want to have to do the photo editing myself, because frankly, the other ones looked reaaal good.

 

[Joe Vazquez]

Here's DJ Elliot's SWW mix:
https://soundcloud.com/disneydj/sta...ndcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=twitter

Awesome! I was totally blasting it while getting ready for work today. My cats seemed really confused.

I bookmarked it because my daughter likes to listen to, as she puts it, "boots n pantsing" music with me (say it fast: bootsnpantsnbootsnpantsnbootsnpants...)

 

[wdwalice]

YAY! Which SW cake did you get? I was in the cake thread too since I was struggling with getting a SW cake - I'm ending up with a Chewie one.

I asked for a SW Vader theme. I was told about the Chewie cake but my DH loves the Dark Side. Lol!!

Behind the rocks (made of sugar), there is a hidden red light that reflected off the picture and illuminated his lightsaber. It was so cool!

 

[pmaurer74]

YAY! Which SW cake did you get? I was in the cake thread too since I was struggling with getting a SW cake - I'm ending up with a Chewie one.

how did you get a chewie one? They would not do one for me and only gave me a choice of two cakes, neither I liked.

 

[Lights]

Hey everyone! I will be going to my first Star Wars Weekends this year, and my grandmother will be tagging along, and she will be in a wheelchair. My question is, for the parade, is there a wheelchair area? And if so, at what time should we head that way to be able to grab a spot? Thanks in advance!

 

[momofallsons]

The mat simply is decorated with "Star Wars Weekend 2015" on the bottom (I ordered it from Etsy). I will definitely let you know how it goes. I figured worst case scenario I could "cut out" the autographs from the card (assuming we at least get that) and attach them to the mat, but I'm sure that would look really cheesy and would just tick me of every time I looked at it! Lol!! I'm hoping since we have a specialized item I can convince someone to help us out, but we'll see. We still probably would have done the breakfast even knowing they didn't sign, but I may have rethought the mat, as we don't plan to meet a ton of characters, and it will look stupid only half-filled

Just a thought... if you had to go the route of using the autograph cards... you could maybe cut a rectangle (or whatever shape) around the name, then cut a larger rectangle out of contrasting card stock to mount it on before attaching it to the mat to kind of frame it and make it look intentional... not sure if that makes sense the way I wrote it, but I can picture it in my head looking ok.

 

[yulilin3]

Hey everyone! I will be going to my first Star Wars Weekends this year, and my grandmother will be tagging along, and she will be in a wheelchair. My question is, for the parade, is there a wheelchair area? And if so, at what time should we head that way to be able to grab a spot? Thanks in advance!

there are 2 small areas between the tip board and the stage. The shady side was full by 9:45am

 

[Lights]

there are 2 small areas between the tip board and the stage. The shady side was full by 9:45am

Thank you soo much for the pictures! It helps to know where to head. Another question, will they let me stand with her, (it's just the two of us) or will I have to find a spot myself?

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

Babababababa (old timely news report music).

This just in. Character palooza at 610 at tot gates. Rebel hangar 630 so far chewie and 2 jawas. Stay tuned for more updates from your friendly galactic reporter.

 

[yulilin3]

Thank you soo much for the pictures! It helps to know where to head. Another question, will they let me stand with her, (it's just the two of us) or will I have to find a spot myself?

If it's only the two of you i would think it's ok. It's a very small area so not completely sure

 

[Teamanderson]

They are behind the Coke bottle, near the Vader meet. Just look for the tripod aimed at the red wall/gate off to the side. They were in my photopass account. Those are actually screen shots of the pictures, but I have MM and will be downloading them "legally" next week. I believe they are $14.95 per picture if purchased without MM.

Thank you @jennab113 and @yulilin3 looks like I'll be getting MM this year. I had it but called and had it removed thinking we wouldn't need it because on the previous trips our phones do fine. seeing this though I know my boys will want to do these.

 

[boricuajedi]

Babababababa (old timely news report music).

This just in. Character palooza at 610 at tot gates. Rebel hangar 630 so far chewie and 2 jawas. Stay tuned for more updates from your friendly galactic reporter.

And now sports, the podracer has been postponed do to some nasty Sandpeople shooting at people.

 

[Lights]

If it's only the two of you i would think it's ok. It's a very small area so not completely sure

Ok! I will check that day to make sure. Thank you so much! The info. helps a lot with the planningl

 

[Felipe4]

My Star Wars shirt came! Disers Take Oz will recognize me in my Star Jasmine outfit.

 

[Teamanderson]

I asked for a SW Vader theme. I was told about the Chewie cake but my DH loves the Dark Side. Lol!!

Behind the rocks (made of sugar), there is a hidden red light that reflected off the picture and illuminated his lightsaber. It was so cool!



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Wow! How do I go about ordering a cake? We will be there weekend IV for DH birthday weekend and also celebrating DS graduating preschool.

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

Rebel hangar update: 2 stormtroopers and bith and rodian pilot as well. Missed both pilots.

 

[Teamanderson]

Is there a certain place to go to likely your chances of your child getting picked for the parade? I'm torn though because I'm sure he'd like to be in the parade but then hed end up missing all the characters walking by because he's in it lol

 

[Candleshoe]

Babababababa (old timely news report music).

This just in. Character palooza at 610 at tot gates. Rebel hangar 630 so far chewie and 2 jawas. Stay tuned for more updates from your friendly galactic reporter.

>> Babababababababa <<

 

[yulilin3]

You guys are awesome!!
Someone should be doing the weather