Official Star Wars Weekends Thread Tips and Tricks 2015

[pmaurer74]

DS last day of school next year is 6/2. I am hoping to hop on a plane that night and be at SWW for the III weekend, maybe IV too

me too.

 

[yulilin3]

NOT EVEN CLOSE!!! Speaking for myself, at least!

I just apparently can't let the weekend go! Must. Move. On.

It's not working...

No, don't leave us. There's still much to learn about the force

Both of you are too funny...I'm going to be a mess June 15th...not knowing what to do

I'm glad you posted this because we booked all 3 meals for weekend IV but have been highly considering dropping the Jedi mickey. None of us are really that excited to see Mickey dressed up, I can see Mickey anytime. I know some disagree and it just depends on what you like. Im nervous about the RH because ours is at 8:10 and I'm worried there will be no characters..if anyone goes that late let me know how it was. I'd prefer an earlier time if anyone drops one for weekend IV. I'm going to drop the Jedi meal if anyone wants it. June 5th at 7:50 for 4.

our Rebel Hangar for Sunday is at 6:15pm I'll let you know who we see. Will take out time ordering food and drinks

 

[tigger1972]

I just apparently can't let the weekend go! Must. Move. On.

It's not working...

I totally feel your pain (because I too am experiencing the same sense of loss)!

 

[Teamanderson]

I went ahead and got the fast pass for Visit to Maul but if I can't sign my oldest up then I'm going to skip it because he will be bummed watching other kids up on stage and not him. I'd love to watch but not worth him being sad on the best weekend ever.

 

[pmaurer74]

We have found that all of the QS at DHS get really crowded, like 20-30min to order food, after 11:30am.

hmm, maybe I will have DH get in line while the rest of us do TSM, he does not like TSM so maybe he can get in line to order by the time we are done. Too bad they do not have the pre-order process yet for Pizza Plant.

Is there a FP+ for Visit to the Maul or is it one of the FTF package choices? What that be full early?

 

[pmaurer74]

3.- There's Darth Maul (the character meet and greet) there's Darth's Mall (the merchandise location) and there's Visit to the Maul (the stage show at 5:15pm) first page has information on the show and you can also look for youtube videos
thank you!

 

[HCinKC]

I think I'm doing this for this years SWW pictures. I think it's a neat way to keep all the pictures and maybe even take it next year for characters and celebrities to sign it
http://photo.walgreens.com/walgreen...yBooks?tab=photo_HomepageNewBabies_PhotoBooks

I have a Snapfish one that I was going to do of our honeymoon (literally nine years later), but now I think I will do collages of ODS's interactions with the SWW characters. Have one flip album with his sig card and pose with the characters and a book with him talking and interacting.

Have to share with people that will understand my excitement. My DD6 and I are going weekend IV just the 2 of us because oldest DD and DH have to work now. My DH is retired military and has been unemployed for a couple years. This week he got a job offer from a small local company that makes movie props and models. The owners are also huge SW fans, perfect fit for him.
To celebrate, I have talked him in to going with DD6 and I to SWW on Sunday. We are only 2 hours away so it took all of my will power to not go last weekend. I'm wondering though, what do you think the chances are of getting RH reservations or even just walk up when they open? I desperately want to try it out but already have dinner reservations for our trip in 2 weeks.
Also, who should I stalk to try and get DD6 in the parade? She has the cutest Chewie dress and the parade is all she has talked about for days. TIA

We were there on Tuesday night, and there were quite a few open tables. Not sure about the weekend though.

so it should be
I: May 20th-May 22th
II May 27rh-May 29th
III June 3rd-June 5th
IV: June 10th-June 12th
V: June 17th-June 19th
Or they can go deeper into May and start May 13th-May 15th and last weekend would be June 10th-June 12th

I for one am hoping they start it earlier so those of us that have to work on May the 4th can experience the awesome like what they had with Limited Time Magic.

I've been thinking about May the 4th, too. And, it seems like it makes sense to start the weekends mid-May so that it is not running into so much heat. It was bad enough this first weekend, those poor characters!

Please excuse this newbie's questions. i have actually read the last 450 pages but discover some questions as my SWW day seems to be getting longer with more stuff.

1. Are the Chipwoks at Jedi Mickey's? Yes, separate though. They came around 2-3 times each and were lots of fun.
4. I want to see Chewbacca but I doubt I will get to unless he is at the rebel hangar and it sounds like he will not be. I want to see Luke, Leia, R2D2, C3PO (if he shows up), Queen Amidala, the Jedi Council and the crew from Rebels (do they have a scheduled meeting?). When would you "tuck" them into this schedule? Chewie was at our RH on Tuesday. We had also gone through his line on Saturday. Our wait was about an hour, and we got Wicket with him. There was a huge "aaawwww" from the crowd when Wicket gave ODS a big hug as he walked up. It was sweet and worth the wait for us. We never saw R2 or 3PO. As far as I know, they never showed up this weekend. Amidala's line moves pretty quickly. Luke & Leia were slower. Jedi Council was super slow. The CM told me Anakin likes to talk a lot, so that is part of the reason it moves so slowly. If you time it right, for about 5 minutes (around the 40 minutes mark) that all four are out. We never saw the Rebels guys. DH asked 3 different people at RH, and they were not coming through (on Tuesday anyway).

That is awesome! Ours ADR was at 6 so it was pretty busy. I'll keep it in mind and try to do earlier ones in the future.

Must depend on the night. We had a 7:10, seated closer to 7:30. We had all of them come around 2-3 times with great interaction. We actually felt rushed through Mickey, so much so that I didn't realize no one took our picture with our camera. I'm not sure we would do the dinner again, but it was def worth it for ODS's first trip.

 

[yulilin3]

I went ahead and got the fast pass for Visit to Maul but if I can't sign my oldest up then I'm going to skip it because he will be bummed watching other kids up on stage and not him. I'd love to watch but not worth him being sad on the best weekend ever.

are you signing him for JTA as well? what day are you planning on doing VttM?

 

[yulilin3]

hmm, maybe I will have DH get in line while the rest of us do TSM, he does not like TSM so maybe he can get in line to order by the time we are done. Too bad they do not have the pre-order process yet for Pizza Plant.

Is there a FP+ for Visit to the Maul or is it one of the FTF package choices? What that be full early?

fp is offered but I believe all the fps for all SWW shows are gone and it is one of the choices for PP. It'll be very popular

 

[loribird]

A bit of an off topic question. My friend started making items similar to these, she's not selling them yet. But wanted me to ask my Dis/SW friends how much would you be willing to pay for something like this?

I think $15 sounds about right. Is she willing to sell her pattern? Most folks will pay a few dollars for the patterns (myself included) and she can get monies without having to actually make anything

 

[pmaurer74]

What is the earlier you can check in with FTF, my thing says 10am but I have heard others say they checked in around 9:30am?

 

[loribird]

So I just got this book of SW crochet patterns and cannot wait to start making them. I am thinking if X-wing glow cubes aren't available my weekend, someone might be willing to trade one for one of these SW amigurumis???

I am so worried they will run out before weekend IV...

 

[yulilin3]

I think $15 sounds about right. Is she willing to sell her pattern? Most folks will pay a few dollars for the patterns (myself included) and she can get monies without having to actually make anything

thank you, I'll let her know

What is the earlier you can check in with FTF, my thing says 10am but I have heard others say they checked in around 9:30am?

They will give you the credentials (check in) around 9:30am but the area opens at 10am. Maybe around 9:45am if there are a lot of people waiting to go in

 

[soniam]

3.- There's Darth Maul (the character meet and greet) there's Darth's Mall (the merchandise location) and there's Visit to the Maul (the stage show at 5:15pm) first page has information on the show and you can also look for youtube videos
thank you!

I have no idea why you got confused

 

[Teamanderson]

are you signing him for JTA as well? what day are you planning on doing VttM?

I haven't finalized our itinerary for the weekend but he wants to meet Chewie, JTA and Maul. I'm thinking one morning split up and head straight for Chewie and JTA and another morning our main morning priority just being vTtm. Our plan was to be at HS on Friday and Saturday but We have galactic on friday and RH on Sunday. Sunday is the only thing I could find. We really need to switch the RH for Saturday because Sunday we have chef Mickey and Epcot but if I can't get RH for Friday or Saturday then we will cancel chef Mickey and be at HS Friday and Sunday. Tomorrow they open up brunch for Chef Mickey so hopefully I can get one of those for a weekday and we will be alright! We will be at HS two days, just not sure if it's Friday and Saturday or Friday and Sunday.

 

[HCinKC]

The walk up at RH question reminded me...I knew I was forgetting something. We were seated early on Tuesday, when we checked in around 5:30, for our 5:45 ADR. There were quite a few empty tables, so they may be able to accommodate walk ups easier during the week. However, I think during the week you may get random, unknown, and/or more "common folk" characters. I don't know if we were lucky, but I was pretty shocked that Chewie came through. I would bet Jawas and troopers might be every night, but our Jawas were not trading. We also had a (blue uniform) rebel pilot and Rodian mechanic. All of them were great interactions, and they seemed to cycle through every hour, a new "group" every 15 minutes. DH asked 3 different RH workers, including a manager, and those were the characters for our night. The manager said they don't know who is coming. They show up at 4pm, and whoever that is, they are there for the night. I know I talked about the characters in a previous post, but I thought I'd just say it all again for anyone going during the week.

I don't think I mentioned our take on the food other than liking it. We had the hummus, sliders, dawgs, and chickaffles. The sliders and dawgs were very good as well as the chips that came with them. I think there were six dawgs. There was certainly enough for an entree or plenty to share. IMO the sliders can also be an entree though definitely not as much food and not really sharable between more than 2 people (DH and I had half of each one). ODS liked his chickaffles. It was two mini waffles and probably 10 chicken nuggets (standard Disney ones). Also plenty to share or eat as an entree. The hummus was fine, but it was our least favorite. It was what I would expect store-bought hummus to taste like, but someone made it look super cool and charged way more. It is definitely plenty to share as an app (or a meal though it only comes with chips, some veggies would have been nice). DH and I both had the Swamp Juice and liked it. We were stuffed at the end, obviously unable to finish it all with two adults and one child sharing.

We were really hoping for Rebels characters, but it was still a nice way to end our Disney trip. ODS liked all of the decorations and character interactions. I would do this one again...but maybe not order so much lol.

 

[rascalflatts1]

Just opened up 2 for 5/22 feel the force package

 

[yulilin3]

The walk up at RH question reminded me...I knew I was forgetting something. We were seated early on Tuesday, when we checked in around 5:30, for our 5:45 ADR. There were quite a few empty tables, so they may be able to accommodate walk ups easier during the week. However, I think during the week you may get random, unknown, and/or more "common folk" characters. I don't know if we were lucky, but I was pretty shocked that Chewie came through. I would bet Jawas and troopers might be every night, but our Jawas were not trading. We also had a (blue uniform) rebel pilot and Rodian mechanic. All of them were great interactions, and they seemed to cycle through every hour, a new "group" every 15 minutes. DH asked 3 different RH workers, including a manager, and those were the characters for our night. The manager said they don't know who is coming. They show up at 4pm, and whoever that is, they are there for the night. I know I talked about the characters in a previous post, but I thought I'd just say it all again for anyone going during the week.

I don't think I mentioned our take on the food other than liking it. We had the hummus, sliders, dawgs, and chickaffles. The sliders and dawgs were very good as well as the chips that came with them. I think there were six dawgs. There was certainly enough for an entree or plenty to share. IMO the sliders can also be an entree though definitely not as much food and not really sharable between more than 2 people (DH and I had half of each one). ODS liked his chickaffles. It was two mini waffles and probably 10 chicken nuggets (standard Disney ones). Also plenty to share or eat as an entree. The hummus was fine, but it was our least favorite. It was what I would expect store-bought hummus to taste like, but someone made it look super cool and charged way more. It is definitely plenty to share as an app (or a meal though it only comes with chips, some veggies would have been nice). DH and I both had the Swamp Juice and liked it. We were stuffed at the end, obviously unable to finish it all with two adults and one child sharing.

We were really hoping for Rebels characters, but it was still a nice way to end our Disney trip. ODS liked all of the decorations and character interactions. I would do this one again...but maybe not order so much lol.

thanks for the detailed review. Entertainment makes the call on character so the people in the restaurant really have no clue. Would've loved the picture of the blue uniform pilot, that sounds interesting.
We are going to RH again Sunday and plan on getting the hummus and maybe the detonators. I LOVED the Dagobah swamp juice (did you see they misspelled it on the menu) maybe will have that one again.
And can you believe that weekend I came and went and I still haven't had the DV cupcake!! must fix that this weekend...and now I'm hungry

 

[yulilin3]

I haven't finalized our itinerary for the weekend but he wants to meet Chewie, JTA and Maul. I'm thinking one morning split up and head straight for Chewie and JTA and another morning our main morning priority just being vTtm. Our plan was to be at HS on Friday and Saturday but We have galactic on friday and RH on Sunday. Sunday is the only thing I could find. We really need to switch the RH for Saturday because Sunday we have chef Mickey and Epcot but if I can't get RH for Friday or Saturday then we will cancel chef Mickey and be at HS Friday and Sunday. Tomorrow they open up brunch for Chef Mickey so hopefully I can get one of those for a weekday and we will be alright! We will be at HS two days, just not sure if it's Friday and Saturday or Friday and Sunday.

let me know when we get closer to your weekend what your plans are, ok.

 

[poohfriend77]

We are home from our awesome vacation and I just wanted to comment on the SW meals. We did all 3...Galactic Breakfast, Jedi Mickey and Rebel Hangar.

The breakfast was amazing. The characters came by our table 3 times each. My dd is vegan and the chef made her an amazing breakfast. Totally worth the money
The Rebel hangar was also amazing. Greedo and the Cantina band came and sat with us and played around with my Dh (he was thrilled ) and my 3 girls.
The Jedi Mickey dinner was probably our least favorite. Jedi Mickey was great but I didn't feel we had the time to really interact with the other characters beyond a picture.

For the money I'd probably skip Jedi Mickey's dinner if we plan another SWW.

So no Chewie at RH? I know there are no guarantees, but he is the main reason I'm keeping my ADR for this. I'm curious to know how often and at what times he is making appearances.