And to finish up my little report...
Tuesday we had an 8 am Sci Fi breakfast. This was an hour before the park opened and we ended up being about 10 minutes late. We still got in right away so I guess it turned out all right. When we got inside only Vader was there for a picture. The hostess assured us that we could stop by after our meal to get another picture with Boba Fett.
We ordered our food and the characters immediately started to come by. I had heard on the DISboards that the mini lightsabers had run out a few days before. I thought maybe a jawa still had one for trade, so I pulled out my special Tomorrowland pin that was part of the Disney parks blog Tomorrowland 24 hour day prize. I figured that would get me a lightsaber if anything would. Both jawas were there and rumaged through their pouches with their flashlights and I could tell neither one had a mini lightsaber. One offered me an angry Mickey pin to trade so I traded and told him that the Tomorrowland pin was only supposed to go to dreamers. I hope some nice child got it.
I reeeeeally enjoyed the Force Awakens trailer they played during the meal. Can't watch it enough.
Food: I thought the pastry plate was good, nothing great but not bad. I enjoyed my fresh fruit cup, but neither Brian nor I liked our meals. I guess it just went along with me disliking almost all the Disney food this trip. I believe I had the Dune Sea, the puff pastry thing. The eggs tasted like they'd been cooked the day before.
Atmosphere: Can't be beat. In my opinion the Sci Fi Drive In is the best themed restaurant I've ever been inside and I'm in love with it. Add to that all the SW clips that are played and it is so amazing.
Characters: all the characters here are a lot of fun. The stormtroopers walk around arresting people and causing trouble. I had my stuffed panda sitting on the car and they walked up and picked it up by it's head and shook it then put it down and wiped their hands off like it was gross. I asked Greedo if he'd shot first lately and he was not pleased with me. The jawas are just such great fun too, they'll trade with you and try to steal any items you have sitting out.
When we left we asked about our make up picture and only had to wait maybe 2 minutes. And we just ended up with a second vader picture since we'd taken one with him before hand.
This isn't SW related, but after breakfast we rode Star Tours (and got the death star/Slave one scene and thank goodness, I get that stupid naboo scene 80% of the time). Then we got in line for Baymax and Hiro at 9:45. Good thing too, by the time they came out the entire room was full of people waiting. I think its definitely worth it to get there early. Hiro was so funny and Baymax is the cutest thing ever!
Anyway, we went off and did other stuff, but we were back at DHS for Characterpalooza at 6:10, we didn't see our white whales but we saw Dopey who is quite rare. We then checked in for our 6:30 pm Rebel Hangar and were seated right away in the lower section.
We ordered a lot of food again and for the second time it was all quite delicious. Very quickly characters started to come around. We figured out the pattern, at least for that night. They would come out 2 by 2 and stay for 15 minutes, then leave and a different set would come for 15 minutes. There were 3 rotations. First we saw was jawas and Chewie. Second was stormtroopers. Third was Bith and Rodian pilot. We got to meet them all except the Rodian. You just have to be aggressive at the Rebel Hangar. If they walk by your table and you don't show interest, they probably will not stop. We started jumping up when they came by so we got pictures with most. Just have your camera ready!
Thank you. Hope you join in on the new one I'll be starting about this SWW sometime this weekend, I'll link to it here in case anyone wants to join in and share their experiences as I share mine!
I hope someone who has been crazy searching for a table will see this. I know how hard it is to find a spot for this meal.
