Official Star Wars Weekends Thread Tips and Tricks 2015

[aliehssunday]

Wonderful!

 

[bigtony777]

Unfortunately, we will not be making it to SWW this year, but hope to read about everyone's great reports. Next year we will be able to return.

 

[Kaschper]

Anyone who did VIP today, did your Vader pictures wind up on Photopass? I checked the website and our Vader picture is not there! We took other pictures at DHS later in the day, including Jedi Mickey, and all of those are on the site.

Vader pictures were not on our MM either. I went into to HS photopass store to add our DS JTA photos and asked about the Vader photo. They were able to pull them up right away and add them to our MM, but said they should have loaded about two hours after they were taken. I did ask if they could make sure those photos were loaded for the rest of the group but I don't know if they will actually do it without prompting.

 

[jtowntoflorida]

Anyone happen to notice what time TSMM is closing? I assume it's 8:30, but just want confirmation.

 

[meuseman]

Love everyone's reports! thank you so much for the inside info!!!

Couple of questions on things I haven't seen too much about.

• has anyone done or watched the Padawan Mind Challenge this year? Can you tell us about that experience?
• what is the best/fastest route to sign up for the PMC first thing in the am?
• do the characters sign at the Jedi Mickey Dinner? I've seen conflicting reports
• are the desserts at Jedi Mickey Dinner the same as the those are the FTF DPP dessert party? if not, what is the same/different?

thanking in advance!

My DS4 did the mind challenge. Each kid gets a blue and red lightsaber. They get questions with two possible answers and raise the corresponding color saber.

The hosts were very funny, kind of corny, but perfect for the event. Sabine, Ezra and Chopper are on stage with the kids and when they get a question wrong, they leave the group and join the rebels crew that is hanging out behind the line of contestants. At the end, all of the kids get a Star Wars toy. My son got a Droideka, which he now loves.

 

[Itinkso]

Anyone happen to notice what time TSMM is closing? I assume it's 8:30, but just want confirmation.

Darth Mall closes at 7:30. TSMM will need to close their Standby line around that time to get everyone through the ride and then out of the area.

 

[NebrMom]

what is the best/fastest route to sign up for the PMC first thing in the morning? Someone else asked this but I haven't seen an answer (forgive me if I missed it) also, is it reasonable to this and Chewie before 9:45 when we were going to find a spot for the parade?

 

[pbb322]

My DS4 did the mind challenge. Each kid gets a blue and red lightsaber. They get questions with two possible answers and raise the corresponding color saber.

The hosts were very funny, kind of corny, but perfect for the event. Sabine, Ezra and Chopper are on stage with the kids and when they get a question wrong, they leave the group and join the rebels crew that is hanging out behind the line of contestants. At the end, all of the kids get a Star Wars toy. My son got a Droideka, which he now loves.

Sounds so fun! Did you go straight to sign up at RD? Was the sign up line crazy? My DS7 is really hoping to get signed up this year and I'm trying to manage his expectations...

 

[sairell]

Anyone who did VIP today, did your Vader pictures wind up on Photopass? I checked the website and our Vader picture is not there! We took other pictures at DHS later in the day, including Jedi Mickey, and all of those are on the site.

@tigger1972 I just checked the photopass site and ours are not showing up as well. This happened to us last October but I just used the email link at the bottom of the page with the date, time & where the photos were taken. I also attached a photo from my phone of what my family and I were wearing. They linked my pictures the next day. Hopefully, they'll be quick this time around as well.

BTW, my husband was the one who shared his umbrella with your son when it rained before the parade.

 

[RebelScumRunner]

There are 2 priority characters during SWW, if you have 2 days you can do Vader one day and Chewie the next. Best strategy for Vader go straight down Hollywood Blvd and head towards TSMM, past TSMM you'll find his line. IVader comes out at 8am. The reason I chose to do Chewie first is that he takes a 2 hour break to prep for parade and Vander meets continuosly even during the parade

Last year they had Vader buckets all thru out, the stormtrooper stein sold out weekend 1 and they had them back by weekend 3. Glow cubes sold out weekend 3 I believe

Thank you for the info. You, and some of the other folks on here, are incredible. The information that's been posted over that past weekend has been a huge help in my preliminary plans. Sidenote: your daughter's outfit is quite awesome, real glad you guys got to meet the 'Rebels'

 

[momofallsons]

@yulilin3 Im going to need you to remind me again the locations of JTA and Maul sign ups. Which one is at sound and commissary? ill remember to write it down this time, lol. Are Maul sign ups all 3 days on weekend IV? We are going to split, My husband is going to take our youngest to Chewie at rope drop and I'll meet them there after I sign up our oldest for JTA and Maul.

Are you going to try to sign up for both JTA and Maul the same day? If so, please post how it works out! I want to try the same plan for weekend V... split up, one takes youngest to Chewie & one takes older two to try to get JTA and Maul, but wasn't sure if it would be feasible to get both sign-ups.

 

[drmartin1998]

My DS4 did the mind challenge. Each kid gets a blue and red lightsaber. They get questions with two possible answers and raise the corresponding color saber.

The hosts were very funny, kind of corny, but perfect for the event. Sabine, Ezra and Chopper are on stage with the kids and when they get a question wrong, they leave the group and join the rebels crew that is hanging out behind the line of contestants. At the end, all of the kids get a Star Wars toy. My son got a Droideka, which he now loves.

We were planning on rushing for JTA signups our SWW day but my DS6 is a huge rebels fan and after reading this description I'm thinking this is a better choice for him. I may do the chewie run and shuffle while wife takes DS6 and DS9 for mind challenge signups now.

 

[Teamanderson]

Are you going to try to sign up for both JTA and Maul the same day? If so, please post how it works out! I want to try the same plan for weekend V... split up, one takes youngest to Chewie & one takes older two to try to get JTA and Maul, but wasn't sure if it would be feasible to get both sign-ups.

I was going to try lol but it's probably going to fail. I'm sure the line for JTA will be long and by the time I make it over to Maul they will aLready be full and I'll be making my husband wait forever at Chewie. It's worth a shot though! I'll let you know how it goes

 

[yulilin3]

Anyone happen to notice what time TSMM is closing? I assume it's 8:30, but just want confirmation.

Yes, 8:30am. They have a big sign outside the attraction reminding people

 

[yulilin3]

Celebrity motorcade from the shady square for the DPP
First pictures has our group of DISers
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/...646.1073741906.1406401066&type=1&l=39878e379a

 

[The Sunrise Student]

Sunrise, will you be marching next weekend??

We will be Marching in Friday's parade

 

[yulilin3]

Rebels and SotS shows. The standby line is brutal, if you must see a show I really recommend being there at least 1 hour before Rebels and 1 and a half houres before SotS. Only the first 50 people in line get some shade while waiting
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/...039.1073741907.1406401066&type=1&l=12d40d6445

 

[lovethattink]

Anyone happen to notice what time TSMM is closing? I assume it's 8:30, but just want confirmation.

@yulilin3 and @Itinkso won't it close earlier next week since fireworks are earlier?

 

[The Sunrise Student]

I know that @The Sunrise Student did the pp on Friday. I'm sure she'll report back

With that queue the FtF Premium Package was pretty good I thought. We were able to get Rebels passes and still had our FP for SotS, the passes for the FtF put us right in the middle, check in 30 minutes before show, they start seating 15 minutes before show time.

The parade viewing is a bigger area but everyone still try to get as close to the ropes as humanly possible. There were ice cream, popcorn, soda and water.

I would get to the parade checking about an hour ahead of time.

For the desert part (which begins an hour before the fire works) get there at least 30 minutes before it begins.

The reason everyone is reporting it seems more crowded is they nearly doubled the amount of tables for people this year, last year there were a lot of people having to try to balance things in mid air because there was not enough tables for everyone.

The viewing was good but obstructed a nut for the fireworks. But you can see the stage too.

Hope this helps

 

[yulilin3]

DPP desserts party. There's really no need to line up early. You can get there at 8:25pm. They let us in at 8:30pm
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/...656.1073741908.1406401066&type=1&l=f887e6aae5
Sorry no good pics of fireworks cause the camera died on us right before they started. But the view was good, we were just close so you had to really look up