Official Star Wars Weekends Thread Tips and Tricks 2015

[yulilin3]

Opening day is always busy. Merchandise is especially hard to get to opening morning. Lines begin over night.

Saturdays are typically the busiest day of the weekend.

After Memorial Day it gets more crowded, hotter and more humid.

You can check Touring Plans or EasyWDW for crowd calendars. I think KTP has a crowd calendar too.

The celeb makes a difference in attendance too.

Agree with everything. There's really no best week to go. But usually Fridays are a bit less busy than the weekends

 

[delmar411]

Really? That's great! Were they in the zoomed shots? I can't wait to post the rest of the pics. I'm sure a lot of us are in the parade viewing section for Feel the Force that Friday, 6/6/14. I remember several of us booking it for that weekend.

We were there as well. my poor husband was one of the retry folks at the FP scanner for Mark Hamill and ended up with nosebleed seats. They really needed to rope off enough space for the FP people.

 

[poison ivy]

We were there as well. my poor husband was one of the retry folks at the FP scanner for Mark Hamill and ended up with nosebleed seats. They really needed to rope off enough space for the FP people.

I'm sorry to hear that happened to your husband. He must have been really frustrated to go thru all that with the FP only to wind up in the way back. I saw quite a few people get stuck at the scanners right from the start and felt so bad for them.

I'm not sure if this venue is moving next year but I agree there should have been a roped off section for FP+. It was too much aggravation the way they had it set up.

 

[lovethattink]

For the Frozen sing-along FP they made some changes. They started scanning people BEFORE they go into the show. So when the line moves everyone up to a certain point is just walking right in because they've already been scanned. It's a very nice improvement!

Also, another heads up on the latex Jabba the Hut. I saw a bunch of them at the World of Disney Store yesterday.

 

[yulilin3]

For the Frozen sing-along FP they made some changes. They started scanning people BEFORE they go into the show. So when the line moves everyone up to a certain point is just walking right in because they've already been scanned. It's a very nice improvement!

Also, another heads up on the latex Jabba the Hut. I saw a bunch of them at the World of Disney Store yesterday.

I was just at DHS today and yes, it's a huge improvement scanning people in the fp line way before the entrance

 

[yulilin3]

I have 2 HS questions I hoped could be answered here:

1- Do they still do Darth Maul face paint in the park? My son had a caricature made last year at AK where they made him look like Nemo. Is there anything comparable in HS where he could be drawn to look like a Star Wars character?

2- Are the R2D2 snack kits still available anywhere?

We will be celebrating my Star Wars obsessed sons 5th birthday next month at Disney World and hopefully coming to SWW next May!! Any Star Wars tips you may have for a normal day at HS outside of SWW that I can do for him would be greatly appreciated!

If you don't mind could you ask the face painters a question - DD would like to have her face done like Ahsoka Tano (Star Wars The Clone Wars) - can they do other characters (than the ones they officially offer)?

Thank you!

just got back:
No R2D2 popcorn buckets but they do have a Darth Vader popcorn bucket $14 with caramel corn and $12:50 with regular popcorn and they have the stormtrooper stein served with beverage is $10.75. I saw all of these from the popcorn places around the Hat.
As for the face makeup they are offering the Darth Maul and also a Clone warrior for $18. I asked the CM about having Ahsoka for SWW and she said they should have her and also a lot more characters but couldn't tell me witch ones

 

[williamscm3]

just got back: No R2D2 popcorn buckets but they do have a Darth Vader popcorn bucket $14 with caramel corn and $12:50 with regular popcorn and they have the stormtrooper stein served with beverage is $10.75. I saw all of these from the popcorn places around the Hat. As for the face makeup they are offering the Darth Maul and also a Clone warrior for $18. I asked the CM about having Ahsoka for SWW and she said they should have her and also a lot more characters but couldn't tell me witch ones

Thank you sooooo much!! Looks like we will be getting Vader popcorn buckets and Darth Maul face paint then!

 

[lovethattink]

What do you think the theme will be this year?

 

[yulilin3]

What do you think the theme will be this year?

Episode VII I would think.

 

[yulilin3]

I'm gonna get on the rumor wagon, because Disney doesn't want to announce anything but they keep making changes.
Not sure if you guys know that the Tower of Terror 10 miler has been taken out of the Disney races for next year. This race started and ended at DHS with a good portion being backstage by LMA, Backlot Tour. This only goes to further the rumor that there will be heavy construction (not just inside Sounstage 1) in the area. Be it Pixar or SWland we don't know but I am almost 100% sure that the meet and greets from the Dark Side will be moved into Streets of America.
I just don't see any other place where they can be.
Merchandise will probably go back to the tent that is installed behind Rockn'rollercoaster.
Interestingly enough the Wine and Dine race also uses backstage areas of DHS is still in, so maybe they plan to be done with construction in that area by then or they will change the running course

 

[The Sunrise Student]

I also saw a poster in Walmart last week, that showed the movie for Star Wars Rebels would be available to purchase there Oct 3.

I saw it there over the weekend... but i really want the James Earl Jones addition that they are airing on ABC!!!!

 

[The Sunrise Student]

What do you think the theme will be this year?

Episode VII I would think.

I was wondering the same thing, will the boost the upcoming movie or wait and have that themeing the following year. (Not sure how much detail they are going to let leak out, JJ is wanting to keep that under tight wraps!)

I will be sure to post a trip report of how our April 2015 Star Wars Celebration went for us out of Disneyland... (we are staying at PP at Disneyland BUT the SW Celebration is held at the convention center across the street.) I am wondering if they will have some little teasers for us there as well.

 

[The Sunrise Student]

I'm gonna get on the rumor wagon, because Disney doesn't want to announce anything but they keep making changes.
Not sure if you guys know that the Tower of Terror 10 miler has been taken out of the Disney races for next year. This race started and ended at DHS with a good portion being backstage by LMA, Backlot Tour. This only goes to further the rumor that there will be heavy construction (not just inside Sounstage 1) in the area. Be it Pixar or SWland we don't know but I am almost 100% sure that the meet and greets from the Dark Side will be moved into Streets of America.
I just don't see any other place where they can be.
Merchandise will probably go back to the tent that is installed behind Rockn'rollercoaster.
Interestingly enough the Wine and Dine race also uses backstage areas of DHS is still in, so maybe they plan to be done with construction in that area by then or they will change the running course

Yulilin when are these races normally held? I mean date wise... trying to calculate in my head when the heavy construction will go. This also makes me wonder how much of this construction will affect the dates of SWW.

You and many others have already posted the rumor of "the hat" being removed from DHS... add to it the possible pixar/SW construction... this is a TON of construction to try and hold a large event such as SWW in the midst of!

*Sunshine starts to worriedly bite nails*

 

[Itinkso]

ToT 10-miler is in October and Wine and Dine is the last week of Food and Wine - November.

 

[The Sunrise Student]

ToT 10-miler is in October and Wine and Dine is the last week of Food and Wine - November.

Ok, that is really weird, I excepted that to be in a different order.... why would they cancel the earlier one?!

 

[Good Morning Dewdrop]

just got back:
No R2D2 popcorn buckets but they do have a Darth Vader popcorn bucket $14 with caramel corn and $12:50 with regular popcorn and they have the stormtrooper stein served with beverage is $10.75. I saw all of these from the popcorn places around the Hat.
As for the face makeup they are offering the Darth Maul and also a Clone warrior for $18. I asked the CM about having Ahsoka for SWW and she said they should have her and also a lot more characters but couldn't tell me witch ones

Thank you so much for checking on that for me! DD will be very excited!

My fingers are still crossed they'll have a SWW before Memorial Day. I dislike going in kind of blind (first weekend you have info from previous years but not a lot of 'that year' intell ) but I'll do just about anything for a 'lower' crowd level

Maybe they'll do a "Rebels" theme this year and 'save' 2016 for the year of VII...

 

[Itinkso]

Ok, that is really weird, I excepted that to be in a different order.... why would they cancel the earlier one?!

Because ToT takes place strictly in and around DHS after the park closes. The meet and greets take place until 3:00 a.m.

Wine and Dine will get re-routed and won't include DHS areas.

 

[jtowntoflorida]

To add to the rumor mill...Josh from easywdw.com (generally a reliable source) posted yesterday that SWW would start May 15th. Take it FWIW.

 

[Itinkso]

To add to the rumor mill...Josh from easywdw.com (generally a reliable source) posted yesterday that SWW would start May 15th. Take it FWIW.

Steve Soares is also reporting that date on his site: wdwent.com

Still nothing officially released from Disney although that is where Steve Soares receives his info.

 

[The Sunrise Student]

Because ToT takes place strictly in and around DHS after the park closes. The meet and greets take place until 3:00 a.m.

Wine and Dine will get re-routed and won't include DHS areas.

Ok that makes sense.... yeah wine and dine run is not focused on DHS, where as the ToT run would be!