Official Star Wars Weekends Thread Tips and Tricks 2015

[kalliyan1]

Anyone have any idea if the Boba Fett steins that come with the GG event might be available for purchase on the 15th?

 

[Tltorrez]

for those of you who haven't already blown your budget.

http://www.theforce.net/story/front...th_You_Have_Lunch_With_Mark_Hamill_164048.asp

 

[Tltorrez]

Another question. We're staying offsite, so no Extra Magic Hours for us. Can we still go to the 10:30 F! show if the park is supposed to close at 10?

Yes. Fantasmic is always available irrespective of EMH. Once we entered the park right before closing just to do F!.

 

[itsthatdisneygirl]

Anyone have any idea if the Boba Fett steins that come with the GG event might be available for purchase on the 15th?

I believe that they should be as these are this years stein...If not I will have issues

for those of you who haven't already blown your budget.

http://www.theforce.net/story/front...th_You_Have_Lunch_With_Mark_Hamill_164048.asp

Thank Jeebus that's in LA otherwise my wallet would probably run away

 

[yulilin3]

Soooooo. Just called again, not available to book and it will be walk up only
ME: If it's walk up why both WDW official site and SW official site say to call you to book?
Agent: I'm not sure why. But maybe is for me to give you more information
ME: Ok, what info do you have
Agent: it's set like a hangar and will have SW food and drinks.
ME: Cool, can you tell me any of the food items
Agent: There's some slider, key lime pie and wings
ME: Awesome, any special drinks?
Agent: yes SW beer, I don't see anything else
ME: Ok, where will it be?
Agent: It's on the second floor of Backlot Express
ME: Backlot Express doesn't have a second floor
Agent: Oh....is there anything I can help you with to make your experience more magical
ME in my head: well how about letting me book something that has been basically announced for a month
ME for real: No thank you

 

[itsthatdisneygirl]

@yulilin3 here are some better pics for you of the "stage" area http://wdwnt.com/blog/2015/05/photo...er-former-sorcerers-hat-at-hollywood-studios/

 

[Cluelyss]

The tatooine Sunset, Dagobah Swamp Juice, and the dark side are new. They had a dark side last year but i think its been renamed the Imperial blue

The Dark Side was a coffee/kahluah drink last year I think???

 

[SalmonPink]

Is it the same box? I can't tell from the picture.

On further inspection of the cupcake tin, it looks more like a pencil case? I would think the popcorn bucket would be larger than in the cupcake photo.

Sorry for the false alarm!

From the website - Trio of Star Wars Mini Cupcakes, including Darth Vader (chocolate-peanut butter), Yoda (chocolate-hazelnut), and Jabba the Hutt (salted caramel latte) served in the Han Solo Carbonite Souvenir Box

Hmm, agree, could very easily be a different tin. But it could also be that there's a 'shelf' in the box to display the cupcakes, with the actual box being deeper. It's hard to tell if the rim is patterned at the top but the side actually stretches down out of the photo, or if that texture in the bottom right is the table beneath it. It's mostly the fact that they referred to it as the carbonite box, not a carbonite box that made me assume it was the same one.

 

[Tltorrez]

Soooooo. Just called again, not available to book and it will be walk up only
ME: If it's walk up why both WDW official site and SW official site say to call you to book?
Agent: I'm not sure why. But maybe is for me to give you more information

Agent: It's on the second floor of Backlot Express
ME: Backlot Express doesn't have a second floor
Agent: Oh....is there anything I can help you with to make your experience more magical
ME in my head: well how about letting me book something that has been basically announced for a month
ME for real: No thank you

Sometimes it's better if they just don't try. ;-)

Also, you have an incredible amount of patience all things considered.

 

[itsthatdisneygirl]

The Dark Side was a coffee/kahluah drink last year I think???

The dark side last year was what they are calling the Imperial Blue...it came with a glow cube death star ....Trust me I have six at home

 

[Tltorrez]

*sigh* We're reduced to gathering clues from a bad photo of a cupcake box.

 

[jtowntoflorida]

@yulilin3 here are some better pics for you of the "stage" area http://wdwnt.com/blog/2015/05/photo...er-former-sorcerers-hat-at-hollywood-studios/

This is great. I'm glad they're using the base of the hat for the base of the new stage. It's going to result in so much more open space, and without the hat there blocking the view, there should be tons of prime viewing for the fireworks.

 

[BobaFettFan]

I feel like I could walk to Disney World from Washington State and "find a table" at the backlot faster than this website.

 

[CheshireCrazy]

I'm getting to the page where you can book, put in my time and get "we're unable to check for available tables at this time"

 

[slaveone]

Hmm I could probably bike to HS in the time it takes for the ADR system to come back up and I am a slow biker.

 

[Tltorrez]

Ok, I pulled up the earlier image from the DPB site on my computer, and it does indeed appear to be the popcorn bucket with a cardboard insert. You can see the hinged lid and the texture on the right matches images of the bucket.

If it's not, it's a smaller replica and I just can't see them making two sizes of the same product.

 

[SalmonPink]

I could use my back hair to lash sea turtles together in a makeshift raft and cross the Atlantic and still "find a table" faster than this bloody website

 

[Felipe4]

Did they run out of Death Star glow cubes last year?

On our first night, my friends got The Dark Side and The Force, but I was pretty sure they only had regular glow cubes, not Death Stars. This was also on the Saturday of the Markl Hamill weekend.

 

[Tltorrez]

This is great. I'm glad they're using the base of the hat for the base of the new stage. It's going to result in so much more open space, and without the hat there blocking the view, there should be tons of prime viewing for the fireworks.

It says they're using the base for a stage but it also looks like they're planting Palm trees in it.

 

[slaveone]

Yes they ran out of Death Stars. I had a lightsaber in my Dark Side as a result.