Official Star Wars Weekends Thread Tips and Tricks 2015

[Itinkso]

@kpd6901 For JTA plan on 50 minutes to an hour on a non-SWW day. If there is a waiting list and your child is late to return, the spot will be filled. That pre-show period is to prepare the kids so the show runs smoothly.

 

[yulilin3]

@kpd6901 This is during SWW. In reality it is about a 45 minute experience, I just like to add a cushion for anything unexpected

 

[BGparadise]

Anyone else having difficulty with reserving FP+ for Sunday June 14? It does not list any EVENT options.

I checked other earlier weekends and the EVENT options were listed.

 

[yulilin3]

Ya'll have seen the teaser where at the end we see Chewie and Han.....right? We drove home from California's Celebration Anaheim back to Phoenix and as we finally pulled into our driveway I said "Girls....we're home". They burst into laughter and glee.

So...how many times have you watched that teaser? Anyone NOT getting teary at the end yet? I think I'm watching it lately just so that I can see Harrison Ford say those words and feel like he's looking right at me when he declares it home. Yeah....38 year crush.

Countless views of the trailer and now countless views of people reacting to the trailer...it's just perfection

 

[HCinKC]

I hate to be a downer about the light sabers, and I hope I am wrong, but last year my son and I received light sabers and they did light. His was blue and mine was red. You may have guessed it by now, they were the light up swizzle stick light sabers from the signature drinks.

Not a downer! I wouldn't mind one of those...saves me from buying a $13 drink lol. I have to have ALL THE LIGHTSABERS...right? Honestly, for us, it doesn't matter what it is as we are surprising ODS with the meal. The souvenir will just be an added bonus!

I'm back lol. Three questions. 1....Is one day enough for SW weekends? We had planned on just going on a Friday but now wondering if we need Friday and Saturday. Maybe one day doing strictly Star Wars stuff and the second day doing part Star Wars and part regular HS stuff. I guess it's really just a personal preference but just curious what you guys think.

This is our first year going, but I am feeling good about our plan. I have a "regular" HS day planned for Thursday. We'll get JTA out of the way along with rides and characters. I don't want any of us distracted over the weekend. I also didn't want to get overloaded, so we are splitting our weekend days. Friday morning at MK, HS after lunch with dinner and fireworks. Saturday we RD at HS through lunch and will likely head over to Epcot in the afternoon. (We also want to see a bit of F&G.) Sunday is MK again in the morning. If we missed anything at HS, we'll go back in the afternoon. Since we aren't doing any shows, I think we'll be fine with the plan I have. We'll do characters and the Mall.

We have a 6yo and a baby. Regardless of how tired he is, I will be utterly shocked if the baby sleeps in the stroller, so we have an after lunch hotel break planned for each day. That is why I am finding it easier to hop around.

I just went "screw it" I'll die poor and in debt. Just got a ressie for 2 at Jedi Mickey's dinner for mother's day...We didn't do this one last year and after posting the review and reading it I got very excited about it. YOLO right? (my kids would be mortified if they ever heard me saying that out loud )

raise the roof...yo...

I am thinking they wouldn't wanna scratch up BB-8 in the parade, but bringing him out on stage would be awesome! Have you seen that they are going to try and have a remote controlled via phone app toy come out in the future, I gotta have one!

Not if they roll out a red carpet for him! Her? Are droids like ships? Do they have a predetermined gender?

(Oops, edited because BB is not an astro...off for some coffee that I clearly need...)

 

[yulilin3]

Anyone else having difficulty with reserving FP+ for Sunday June 14? It does not list any EVENT options.

I checked other earlier weekends and the EVENT options were listed.

the fp for sww shows are not up yet. Actually the SWW schedule for weekend V is not released. There's a fb group that as soon as the schedule/fp comes out we can alert each other. It's called V SWW and it has a picture of Frank Oz with Yoda

 

[slaveone]

Ya'll have seen the teaser where at the end we see Chewie and Han.....right? We drove home from California's Celebration Anaheim back to Phoenix and as we finally pulled into our driveway I said "Girls....we're home". They burst into laughter and glee.

So...how many times have you watched that teaser? Anyone NOT getting teary at the end yet? I think I'm watching it lately just so that I can see Harrison Ford say those words and feel like he's looking right at me when he declares it home. Yeah....38 year crush.

I watched it erm 51 tImes so far.

 

[yulilin3]

raise the roof...yo...



Not if they roll our a red carpet for him! Her? Are astromechs like ships? Do they have a predetermined gender?

True Dat!!

 

[alafond83]

Countless views of the trailer and now countless views of people reacting to the trailer...it's just perfection

Did you see the one of the babies reacting to the trailer it was so precious.

 

[xxpunkstar6xx]

Is it bad to stalk your mailman for your magic bands? trying to play it cool. Lol

 

[kpd6901]

@kpd6901 For JTA plan on 50 minutes to an hour on a non-SWW day. If there is a waiting list and your child is late to return, the spot will be filled. That pre-show period is to prepare the kids so the show runs smoothly.

@kpd6901 This is during SWW. In reality it is about a 45 minute experience, I just like to add a cushion for anything unexpected

Thank you. I knew there were more times for SWW dates than non-SWW dates (Thurs. 6/11), but I also thought maybe that they had more kids per showtime also, meaning longer prep and longer show for SWW than during the week.

 

[yulilin3]

Is it bad to stalk your mailman for your magic bands? trying to play it cool. Lol

 

[BGparadise]

Thank you Yulilin3.

 

[pookadoo77]

weekend V fastpass stalking, I mean watch group listed in my signature. No chatter there please just when one of us sees fastpasses for shows lets all BLOW it up with posts as a "alert"

 

[Candleshoe]

I like the cab idea!



OK, I am combining both of your responses. I believe what we'll do is leave the car at the resort and take the bus to MK for the 24 hour day, then when we leave at 6 am we'll walk to the Contemporary and grab a cab to DHS. Hopefully we can get in the tail end of Vanessa Marshall's line, get our wristband, then bus back to our hotel. Haha, we'll be the only ones leaving DHS at 7. Even funnier is we'll be in our costumes from the 24 hour event. Should be quite a sight. If anyone is going to be at DHS Saturday morning of the second weekend keep an eye open for us, we'll be easy to spot.

I know we're going to be exhausted so I think cab from the Contemporary would be the fastest way to get there.

Does anyone know if cabs always hang out at the Contemporary or will we have to wait until the front desk calls one?

I'd call if I were you

The other thing is I *think* they hang out at TTC.

 

[Itinkso]

I'd call if I were you

The other thing is I *think* they hang out at TTC.

Actually, cabs are stationed at Deluxe resorts or ask a Valet to call one for you.

 

[mmafan]

Galactic Breakfast available NOW for 5/16 @ 9:30am 2 ppl
Also 5/16 9:30am for 6 ppl

someone scoped it up already.......

 

[Delphinus317]

I booked the Feel the Force Premium Package for June 13th. Included in that is "Reserved Seating for one of the Celebrity Talk Shows in Theater of the Stars". Does that include any of the shows at the Theater of the Stars for that day? I'm thinking I'll try for a FP for our priority show & use the "reserved seating" for our 2nd priority show (Or vice versa depending on which FP I can get, if any). Is this a good strategy? This is our first time doing SWW & it appears it's going to be a busy day. I just want to make the most of it for my DS9. Thank you!!!

 

[Candleshoe]

Actually, cabs are stationed at Deluxe resorts or ask a Valet to call one for you.

awesome! I've only caught cabs at Boardwalk (b/c "Jellyrolls") and ASMu, and both places bell services had to call a cab for me.

 

[yulilin3]

6:30pm Jedi Mickey available 6/12