Official Star Wars Weekends Thread Tips and Tricks 2015

[yulilin3]

Delurking for a moment to say that That leads to an interesting thought. I'm not sure just exactly how to pronounce your Dis Boards "Stage Name"

If you were Canadian it might be pronounced Yi-li-lin-EH!
Or if you were Swedish it might be YULI as in "Hey Yuli! Please pass the fondue pot and a hunk of Brot!"
If you were from the Philadelphia area it might be "Youse"-lil-lin.
If you were from Brooklyn... well fuhgeddaboudit cause you wouldn't want all that traffic.
Now if you were from California it would be pronounced Yulilin-dudette.
And if you were from Texas it would be Yulilin-Darlin.
Mexico?? Senora Yulilin
At home it's probably pronounced Mom! MommMMMMMmmmmMMMMmmmm! MooMMy MomMomMomMomMom!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!!1!!!!
and finally ~IF~ you were from Florida Your name would be pronounced "MOST Helpful, FUN and FRIENDLY Star Wars Maven Yulilin~"

So just how exactly do we pronounce your board name?

~NM

This is awesome!! You made me smile. I have a love/war relationship with my real name. You see I'm from Venezuela but my mom wanted all of us (I have 2 sisters) to have unique names so she decided to give me Yulady. Now in Venezuela every teacher mispronounced my name so when I came here I thought, "well now everyone will pronounce it right"...not so. So as for my real name: Yulady as in You-Lady just like that. As for my username it's yulilin: Julie-lin. But please if you see me during SWW or any other time any one is here at Disney you can just call me Yuli (Julie) that's what my friends call me.
Love the last sentence, I'm happy to help in anyway shape or form plan your awesome SWW vacation

 

[coluk003]

Sabine and Elsa were in the parade last year and each weekend there was a Rebels actor.

Clears throat,WHO?

 

[ethanwa]

So is no "Feel The Force" packaging coming this year?

 

[lovethattink]

Clears throat,WHO?

Brain freeze. Remember I'm running the FSF thread. My phone defaults to Elsa. Lol. Let's try this again. Sabine and Ezra.

 

[Itinkso]

So is no "Feel The Force" packaging coming this year?

Ethan - possibly available beginning March 22...

 

[ethanwa]

Ethan - possibly available beginning March 22...

How do we know that's the date?

 

[yulilin3]

How do we know that's the date?

VIP package cast members have hinted that it should be announced around that date

 

[Itinkso]

yulilin posted it earlier, she's been calling and checking in with Disney quite frequently. I believe that's the date the VIP package was supposed to open to everyone but it was available by calling the phone # listed in the VIP email.

 

[Ninja Mom]

I just made my FP+ selections for my trip starting May 13th. As expected there were no FP+ for any of the SWW special event shows and the Beauty and the Beast theater was not available for any FP+.

It's kind of a bummer having to select Toy Story Mania as my tier 1 FP+ choice, knowing that I will have to dump it as soon as the FP are released for the shows. The good news is that I suspect a bunch of FP+ for TSM are going to become available for people who are unable to book them until later.


~NM

 

[AuntieK]

Symphony in the Stars is now on the media calendar at 9:30.

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

 

[yulilin3]

Symphony in the Stars is now on the media calendar at 9:30.

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

Awesome, just checked on the May one and it varies from 9:30pm to 9:45pm. I expect it to be the same time as last year with the Summon of the Force pre show (With JAT calling out all the characters) ay 9:30pm and then the fireworks at 9:45pm
I'll update the first post.

 

[MickeyMinnieMom]

Awesome, just checked on the May one and it varies from 9:30pm to 9:45pm. I expect it to be the same time as last year with the Summon of the Force pre show (With JAT calling out all the characters) ay 9:30pm and then the fireworks at 9:45pm
I'll update the first post.

I noticed that as well. Do you think that first wknd where it's listed as 9:45 is a true 9:45 for fireworks with preshow before, or preshow at 9:45?

Would that mean in June the preshow would start at 9:15 if they list 9:30 fireworks??

 

[pookadoo77]

lots of new adr's added or available for Jedi Mickey's around 6/12 to 6/13.....

 

[yulilin3]

I noticed that as well. Do you think that first wknd where it's listed as 9:45 is a true 9:45 for fireworks with preshow before, or preshow at 9:45?

Would that mean in June the preshow would start at 9:15 if they list 9:30 fireworks??

I'm not sure. I don't think they want fireworks going up at 10pm. They want people to have enough time to make it to F! at 10:30pm. As usual we have to wait for the official word on the Disney site. But I doubt it'll change from last year

 

[AuntieK]

If it helps, I checked last year's (2014) media calendar in my files and Symphony in the Stars was listed at 9:45.

 

[yulilin3]

I just made my FP+ selections for my trip starting May 13th. As expected there were no FP+ for any of the SWW special event shows and the Beauty and the Beast theater was not available for any FP+.

It's kind of a bummer having to select Toy Story Mania as my tier 1 FP+ choice, knowing that I will have to dump it as soon as the FP are released for the shows. The good news is that I suspect a bunch of FP+ for TSM are going to become available for people who are unable to book them until later.


~NM

this is what happened last year. The day that the SWW shows became available there were a whole bunch of TSMM fp being dumped back into the system

 

[Koh1977]

Would it make sense to make the TSMM Fast Pass for a similar time as the SWW show you want to FP? That way it *should* be easy to change it without screwing up the others?

 

[Itinkso]

Would it make sense to make the TSMM Fast Pass for a similar time as the SWW show you want to FP? That way it *should* be easy to change it without screwing up the others?

It may be easier if you choose a morning FP so that all afternoon FPs will show as available when you enter MDE FP to change/modify the Tier 1 FP.

I know on other threads, people suggest initially choosing the opposite time of what you really want.

Or, if you don't want to block someone from TSMM, choose RnRC for the morning slot.

 

[markmcalear]

I just did my fastpasses, only going to DHS on May 15th.
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Toy Story Midway Mania!
8:40 AM - 9:40 AM
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The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror™
9:40 AM - 10:40 AM
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Star Tours® – The Adventures Continue
10:50 AM - 11:50 AM

I am hoping to be able to hit TSMM, RnRC and Star Tours before 9:30 before I start my fastpasses! I like to try to squeeze in 4 or 5 rides on Star Tours

 

[Itinkso]

I just did my fastpasses, only going to DHS on May 15th.

Toy Story Midway Mania!
8:40 AM - 9:40 AM

The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror™
9:40 AM - 10:40 AM

Star Tours® – The Adventures Continue
10:50 AM - 11:50 AM

I am hoping to be able to hit TSMM, RnRC and Star Tours before 9:30 before I start my fastpasses! I like to try to squeeze in 4 or 5 rides on Star Tours

As soon as you get off of ToT, stop by the FP kiosks and ask an iPad CM to move up your Star Tours FP. We've always had good luck moving things up to "right now" if we ask nicely and chit chat a little.