Official Star Wars Weekends Thread Tips and Tricks 2015

[Brandiwlf]

Is this a good plan for Friday May 22? Arrive 7 am, head straight to jta sign ups, then chewie, have breakfast ressie at 9:20, then parade, fp for rides/shows after parade, jta hopefully, shopping, etc (possible afternoon break for some of our party), dinner ressie at 5:55, whatever we can fit in and then fireworks? Not too worried about celebrities or the Theater shows this trip

 

[yulilin3]

Yeah, the Obi Wan show. The front page lists it at 6 or 6:30 last year.

I apologize. It was 6:30 2 years ago. Last year it was at 7pm or if there was a show at 5 then it was at 7:30pm and the weekend that Mark Hamill came it was at 7:45pm
I'm fixing the first page now

 

[ConnieB]

Is the dinner at Hollywood and Vine worth it for the star wars event?

That's a difficult question for anyone to answer for your family. It's a buffet dinner, like most other Disney buffets the food is good...gourmet no way, worth the cost in the "real" world sense, nope, but it's Disney so that is the price.

The characters last year were Mickey Jedi, Minnie Leia, Stormtrooper Donald, and Darth Goofy meeting at the tables. Ewok Chip & Ewok Dale were at the door for photos as you entered.

If your family loves characters then it is likely worth it....if the characters aren't the reason you're going, I'd say there are other places for decent food without the added cost of a character Meal.

 

[yulilin3]

Is the dinner at Hollywood and Vine worth it for the star wars event?

If you're looking for these characters then it's worth it. The Fab4 can get a very long line during SWW plus you get to meet Chip and Dale as Ewoks

Is this a good plan for Friday May 22? Arrive 7 am, head straight to jta sign ups, then chewie, have breakfast ressie at 9:20, then parade, fp for rides/shows after parade, jta hopefully, shopping, etc (possible afternoon break for some of our party), dinner ressie at 5:55, whatever we can fit in and then fireworks? Not too worried about celebrities or the Theater shows this trip

SOunds good to me

 

[MickeyMinnieMom]

I actually had a real question, too.

For those that did the VIP last year and/or asked better questions than I did this year...

1. Will we get to see the storm trooper show at park opening (I'm guessing no)?

2. Will there be a photopass photog at the private Vader meet and greet?

1.- Yes, you will miss the stormtroopers opening the park
2.- No one knows this one because there wasn't an opportunity like this during last years VIP tour. My guess would be that there will be one. I would call again and ask the VIP tour service

Are you talking about the Obi Wan and Beyond show at 7pm?

I asked about this when I booked and was told that there WOULD be a photopass photog at the private Vader M&G. Perhaps we'll only know for sure on May 15th...

 

[bgg319]

happy to help. Have you checked into the Roll Call thread?

Will have to do that.

 

[sunshine0206]

That's a difficult question for anyone to answer for your family. It's a buffet dinner, like most other Disney buffets the food is good...gourmet no way, worth the cost in the "real" world sense, nope, but it's Disney so that is the price.

The characters last year were Mickey Jedi, Minnie Leia, Stormtrooper Donald, and Darth Goofy meeting at the tables. Ewok Chip & Ewok Dale were at the door for photos as you entered.

If your family loves characters then it is likely worth it....if the characters aren't the reason you're going, I'd say there are other places for decent food without the added cost of a character Meal.

I'm not sure how my son is going to tract to the characters yet, he's only 2. But my boyfriend loves star wars!

 

[HCinKC]

That's a difficult question for anyone to answer for your family...The characters last year were Mickey Jedi, Minnie Leia, Stormtrooper Donald, and Darth Goofy meeting at the tables. Ewok Chip & Ewok Dale were at the door for photos as you entered...If your family loves characters then it is likely worth it.

If you're looking for these characters then it's worth it. The Fab4 can get a very long line during SWW plus you get to meet Chip and Dale as Ewoks

ODS and I are doing the dinner, and ODS and DH are doing the breakfast. ODS wants to meet EVERYONE. DH and I want to meet folks, but are more focused on ODS, so splitting up is fine. The meals make it easy to meet a decent amount of characters, allowing us to focus on the other characters in the park. It really eliminates several lines/wait times. Traveling with a baby coupled with the desire for lots of m&gs makes it worth it for us.

 

[OZMom]

Just completed online check-in Countdown is under 2 months!

 

[HCinKC]

Just completed online check-in Countdown is under 2 months!

Did ours yesterday. I believe we are both at CBR at the same time...perhaps we'll see you around!

 

[OZMom]

Did ours yesterday. I believe we are both at CBR at the same time...perhaps we'll see you around!

So cool! It's our first time at this resort and at SWW, so it's all new to us It's all getting pretty exciting!!

 

[jennab113]

I apologize. It was 6:30 2 years ago. Last year it was at 7pm or if there was a show at 5 then it was at 7:30pm and the weekend that Mark Hamill came it was at 7:45pm
I'm fixing the first page now

Oh, okay. Thanks!

 

[AThrillingChase]

Just completed online check-in Countdown is under 2 months!

Did ours yesterday. I believe we are both at CBR at the same time...perhaps we'll see you around!

Opening weekend CBR over here too! Now don't you guys be crowding up our bus...

 

[Ninja Mom]

What I've always heard is that Disney stopped it when they purchased the Star Wars brand because the characters were now owned by Disney and they wanted to treat their characters seriously. Which to me at least, makes a lot of sense. Darth Vader is a pretty scary, tragic villain. It takes a bit away from his character to have him break dancing. Just as Disney does not allow the princesses or any other Disney character to break character, they now do not allow the Star Wars people to break character. So Darth Vader will be intimidating and threatening, no more dancing.

I know the stormtroopers do silly pre-shows, but I believe that is in character for them to be somewhat bumbling.

This is the explanation that I got from a CM whom I met at MVMCP who was planning on auditioning for the (cancelled) 2014 Hoopla. She spoke with the Hoopla casting director who was a friend of hers and that's what she was told.

~NM

 

[coluk003]

Just completed online check-in Countdown is under 2 months!

Did ours yesterday. I believe we are both at CBR at the same time...perhaps we'll see you around!

Opening weekend CBR over here too! Now don't you guys be crowding up our bus...

Hey I just found this out not to long ago. Did any of you call to make any requests over the phone. Like floor ,building what have you? If you did and then after did online check in call to make sure those are still there. When you do online check in it knocks the request out. There are two types of requests , a drop down menu and a free typing one that cm's use. So just dbl check if you had any requests

 

[Koh1977]

Hey I just found this out not to long ago. Did any of you call to make any requests over the phone. Like floor ,building what have you? If you did and then after did online check in call to make sure those are still there. When you do online check in it knocks the request out. There are two types of requests , a drop down menu and a free typing one that cm's use. So just dbl check if you had any requests

It should not delete any of the requests you made by phone. CMs will be able to see both when they do the room assignments.

 

[yulilin3]

I'm going to be working on the first post today. I'm going to take away some information from last year as to not confuse anyone. I will leave the link to last years thread so you can see all the info on the first page of that one, times for shows, celebrities that came, etc.
I will put up the name of shows, the parade, fireworks and as soon as we have confirmation on times they will be in red so any confirmed information for SWW 2015 will be in red.

 

[OZMom]

Hey I just found this out not to long ago. Did any of you call to make any requests over the phone. Like floor ,building what have you? If you did and then after did online check in call to make sure those are still there. When you do online check in it knocks the request out. There are two types of requests , a drop down menu and a free typing one that cm's use. So just dbl check if you had any requests

It should not delete any of the requests you made by phone. CMs will be able to see both when they do the room assignments.

Oh I didn't realize that. Thanks!! I will give them a call just in case. Doesn't hurt to check, right?

 

[coluk003]

actually it does, spoke to Guest services and said" a travel agent told me if someone has free hand notes in a reservation they will be removed once they do online check in , is this correct" She said yes its a glitch they ahve known about for a long time, the guest just needs to call back in and have them retyped.

 

[coluk003]

Just padding my post count lol j/k