Official Star Wars Weekends Thread Tips and Tricks 2015

[The Sunrise Student]

Sunrise:
That Halloween pic of your front porch was great. Loved it!

Thanks

 

[The Sunrise Student]

Love the porch! We have one of those Vader pumpkins. Never saw the stormtrooper before, cute! Now what did he do with his candy dish?

Thanks The candy dish was too small and cheap plastic we just threw it out.

 

[The Sunrise Student]

Hey Gang,

As some of you know I spoiled myself this coming SWW with a first time stay Club Level style at AKL. Sunshine the over planner however is going nutz trying to let the IPO office make her bookings for her!

I told The AKL IPO staff that if there was a hot SWW event I would not wait for the IPO office to contact me about it. They admitted in return that I would probably know before they would, it happened to them last year. I promised the IPO Staff that if I heard anything I would tell them about it after I made my reservations, and not to be surprised if Reservations they didn't make for me start appearing, I know I am not going to be able to keep my hands totally out of it.

In any case I submitted all my guesses for ADRs to the IPO office at AKL, and even though some of them are not at the 180 day mark they booked them all, EXCEPT the Hollywood and Vine ADR I was going to used as a book mark For Friday May 15th (which is within the 180 day mark now).

So what that is telling me is even IPO staff isn't able to book any thing at H&V even though the booked all my other requests (even ahead of time, I have all the ADRs I requested all the way through the 23rd of May at the moment).

I will keep you posted if Hollywood and Vine appears on my reservation list, so far everything we have heard, seen from trying too book ourselves, and now IPO staff isn't even able to, is true about Hollywood and Vine, they have indeed locked those.

I am thinking they are trying to avoid the madness they had last year of converting everyone's reservations to the Star Wars Themed one, they had to call everyone and make sure it was ok. I am sure that was a pain in the rear.

Anyway that is the latest scoop from my end!

 

[yulilin3]

Thanks for the reports Sunshine. Keep us posted

 

[The Sunrise Student]

(** Sorry looks like I should not get excited and post too fast, I should read all the post! I couldn't figure out how to delete this. Sorry for the repeat!)

Not to get everyone excited BUT walk with me here....

Look at the two links that Yulilin posted for the schedule...

May http://media.disneywebcontent.com/StaticFiles/ParkHours/WDWTravelAgent_may.pdf

June http://media.disneywebcontent.com/StaticFiles/ParkHours/WDWTravelAgent_june.pdf

... I noticed something VERY INTERESTING!

There are no magic hours for DHS on Saturday May 16th, Saturday May 23rd, Saturday May 30th, Saturday June 6th, and Saturday June 13th... HOWEVER they do return on Saturday June 20th.

Did anyone count the Saturdays there

That is 5 Saturdays without Magic Hours for DHS...



I am still not betting on 5 SWW BUT that definitely upped the odds in my book.

 

[The Sunrise Student]

I was at Michael's last night and my hubby flipped out when he saw Darth Vader, a Storm Trooper and Chewbacca figurines dressed up for Christmas. They looked like they were the same size as the Halloween decoration posted above. Maybe 2 feet tall?

My Stormtrooper is about two feet tall. The back side is hollowed out. It's a resin/foam mix.

 

[Meech Loves Mickey]

Please let us know what you find out, I would be interested in hearing that

Here is the response I got from them:


"Hey there!

We do offer kids sizes but the choice of canvas depends on the artist
so some of the designs are offered in kid's sizes and some are not
So sorry about that!

Best,

Saysha"

 

[The Sunrise Student]

Here is the response I got from them:


"Hey there!

We do offer kids sizes but the choice of canvas depends on the artist
so some of the designs are offered in kid's sizes and some are not
So sorry about that!

Best,

Saysha"

Gotchya, that makes sense!

 

[yulilin3]

Ive been checking the daily operating hours for both Sci Fi and Hollywood and Vine restaurants. This seems odd
Sci Fi restaurant starting May 4th only shows as having lunch available, dinner has been removed. This could be that they are adding SW character breakfast and dinner to this location

 

[lovethattink]

Ive been checking the daily operating hours for both Sci Fi and Hollywood and Vine restaurants. This seems odd
Sci Fi restaurant starting May 4th only shows as having lunch available, dinner has been removed. This could be that they are adding SW character breakfast and dinner to this location

That would be pretty cool. Especially if they offered different characters at each!!

 

[jtowntoflorida]

So I was just looking at Josh's June crowd calendar ( http://www.easywdw.com/site-news/june-2015-disney-world-preliminary-crowd-calendar/ ) and noticed that SWW is overlapping with Gay Days at DHS the weekend we're planning on being there. I'm planning on three park days that trip...two at DHS, one at MK. I was going to do what I did in the past--DHS Friday and Saturday, and MK Sunday, but if the Gay Days crowd is going to make DHS even more crowded, then maybe we'll do Friday at MK and Saturday and Sunday at DHS. But then again, I also thought that Friday would be less crowded than Sunday because there will presumably be fewer locals on Friday, at least during the day while people are still at work. So maybe it's a wash?

Anyway, does anyone know if Gay Days has coincided with SWW before, and does it substantially increase crowds?

 

[Skywise]

So I was just looking at Josh's June crowd calendar ( http://www.easywdw.com/site-news/june-2015-disney-world-preliminary-crowd-calendar/ ) and noticed that SWW is overlapping with Gay Days at DHS the weekend we're planning on being there. I'm planning on three park days that trip...two at DHS, one at MK. I was going to do what I did in the past--DHS Friday and Saturday, and MK Sunday, but if the Gay Days crowd is going to make DHS even more crowded, then maybe we'll do Friday at MK and Saturday and Sunday at DHS. But then again, I also thought that Friday would be less crowded than Sunday because there will presumably be fewer locals on Friday, at least during the day while people are still at work. So maybe it's a wash?

Anyway, does anyone know if Gay Days has coincided with SWW before, and does it substantially increase crowds?

Heh... I asked this question last year.

Yes it has and no it doesn't. It was NUTS last year, not because of gay days but because it was the first year Mark Hamill was there. But the rest of the crowds were "normal" and not that bad I thought.

 

[yulilin3]

So I was just looking at Josh's June crowd calendar ( http://www.easywdw.com/site-news/june-2015-disney-world-preliminary-crowd-calendar/ ) and noticed that SWW is overlapping with Gay Days at DHS the weekend we're planning on being there. I'm planning on three park days that trip...two at DHS, one at MK. I was going to do what I did in the past--DHS Friday and Saturday, and MK Sunday, but if the Gay Days crowd is going to make DHS even more crowded, then maybe we'll do Friday at MK and Saturday and Sunday at DHS. But then again, I also thought that Friday would be less crowded than Sunday because there will presumably be fewer locals on Friday, at least during the day while people are still at work. So maybe it's a wash?

Anyway, does anyone know if Gay Days has coincided with SWW before, and does it substantially increase crowds?

Heh... I asked this question last year.

Yes it has and no it doesn't. It was NUTS last year, not because of gay days but because it was the first year Mark Hamill was there. But the rest of the crowds were "normal" and not that bad I thought.

it has coincided and it doesn't really affect the crowds at all

 

[Dugette]

Sorry if this is a repeat question, but I'm on lunch and could only read a few pages now:

We're planning to arrive probably 5/15/15. We'd like to do all of the character meals for Star Wars Weekends. Should I be making ADRs now to hold a spot (within 180 days now) or do I wait until those character meals are posted officially?

Thanks!

 

[MakiraMarlena]

You can't hold a spot now. You definitely can't hold a spot if they are going to have breakfast at Sci Fi again, because Sci Fi does not otherwise serve breakfast. You'd probably need to wait until they are opened for booking. Apparently you can't book H&V right now anyway for either breakfast or dinner.

 

[yulilin3]

Sorry if this is a repeat question, but I'm on lunch and could only read a few pages now:

We're planning to arrive probably 5/15/15. We'd like to do all of the character meals for Star Wars Weekends. Should I be making ADRs now to hold a spot (within 180 days now) or do I wait until those character meals are posted officially?

Thanks!

As soon as booking for SWW character meals open up I'll update the first post of this thread. I always update the first page with any new information so you don't have to read thru all the pages looking for information

 

[Dugette]

Thank you, both! I'll keep watching for updates!

 

[yulilin3]

Ive been checking the daily operating hours for both Sci Fi and Hollywood and Vine restaurants. This seems odd
Sci Fi restaurant starting May 4th only shows as having lunch available, dinner has been removed. This could be that they are adding SW character breakfast and dinner to this location

lunch hours are back at Sci Fi...why do they toy with our emotions and our need to plan??

 

[lovethattink]

lunch hours are back at Sci Fi...why do they toy with our emotions and our need to plan??

What about H&V? Are they back to normal?

 

[Itinkso]

What about H&V? Are they back to normal?

On the MDE app, H&V and SciFi are both showing no availability for Dinners during the May time period that is open for reservations.