Star Wars Weekend Tips 2012

[RedM94]

Sorry to hear SWW 2012 is drawing to a close! Is it to soon to start the Star Wars Weekend tips 2013?

Thank you to everyone for all of the updates and information!!

Rick

 

[lovethattink]

Park opened at 7:30. Went to darth maul and bought one of the chewbacca lanyards bandolier. There were only two left and a guy got the last one. Still plenty of sww merch with 20% off, most of it in large sizes. Plan on watching parade, all shows. Got fp for Michonne for 10:30 and Nika for 5:45

We must have just missed you this morning. We got a 10:10 FP for Michonne. DH saw Nika just after 5pm as a walk in while we were at the show.

All right gang. Final report. Watched the parade and got sunburnt waiting in our spot. Watched all 3 shows; Dave Filoni came out during behind the force and gave a special mickey ears clone helmet to Ashley and James...the fab 4 came out at the end of stars of the saga.
met michonne and Nika and both were great. My dd11 asked nika to do the voices of chum chum and asajj talking to each other for her ringtone; so cool.
not sure if were staying for hoopla. So sad it's over

Isn't it so sad to say final report?

Thanks so much for all your advise and input these last 4 weeks!

 

[lovethattink]

Just curious if any merchandise was discounted beyond 30%. When we left around 6pm it was still 30% off.

 

[CentralFloridian99]

Sorry to hear SWW 2012 is drawing to a close! Is it to soon to start the Star Wars Weekend tips 2013?

Thank you to everyone for all of the updates and information!!

Rick

The 4 weeks have flown by indeed! I'd wait until Late August to start SWW 2013 tips.

 

[DanniDeer]

Hope everyone made it back to their homes and/or resorts in one piece during the spontaneous torrential downpour! It was definitely a very stressful drive home for us.

I just wanted to say, "thank you" to all the contributors to this thread for helping my DBf and I have an amazingly well-planned out and perfect day!

I can't wait to get my pictures edited and posted in my PTR!

The storm has finally caught up with us, and now it's time to try and sleep through rattling windows!

 

[CentralFloridian99]

Now that the event is over, what was everyone's favorite thing at the event? For me, meeting Ray Park and Andy Secombe.

 

[VeganCupcake]

Now that the event is over, what was everyone's favorite thing at the event? For me, meeting Ray Park and Andy Secombe.

This

I had such a huge grin on my face for about an hour!

 

[mesaboy2]

Thanks one last time to all in this thread who contributed. It went a long way to helping our family have a great time on our one day at SWW this year.

Don't know if next year is in the cards for us, but if it is you'll hear from me. You may hear from me in next year's thread anyway.

 

[Karpkg]

Was anyone here at the Padawan Mind Challenge 6:10pm Episode One on Friday, May 25 Wknd 2?

I ask because the photopass photographer loaded up all the pictures, not just my kids on our photopass account.

I'm getting the photopass CD so all of those pics will be on my CD when I get it next month.

If your kids were in that, pm me and I may be able to send those pics to you via e-mail.

 

[Victoria3]

Now that the event is over, what was everyone's favorite thing at the event? For me, meeting Ray Park and Andy Secombe.

Hyperspace Hoopla! It's gets better every year.

 

[yulilin3]

Here are a few of my favorite things (in the voice of Julie Andrews):

1.- I know alot of people had issues with only being able to get 1 autograph per day but this gives many more people a chance to meet the celebrities when before this was not an option.
2.- Hyperspace Hoopla was greatm even though it was more plotty (you had to be there last year to get the full show) still great choreography and music and awesome pyro .
3.- All three shows were great. JAT show will continue to be my favorite because of the message behind it and the Stormtrooper's pre-show was a riot. (look for it on youtube).
4.- All the visiting celebrities that we met were great. My favorite one that we met for the first time was Nika Futterman (voice of Asajj) she is just incredible and so nice.
5.- The variety of merchandise was a great addition to the event. Not only t-shirts but balls, mugs, nametags...

Now some of my not so favorite:
1.- The parade...it's just the same, nothing new. Maybe a new float or something.
2.- Some CM's working the event didn;t know alot about it. Yesterday waiting for the parade a lady approched a CM that was lining people up for the parade and asked her where Darth Vader was, and the CM simply responded I don't know. To me that's unnaceptable, especially if you are working the event. Lack of proper management.
I did talk to Melanie (one of the CM that has beend oing SWW for a while) and she told me that they broght management from MK to work the event instead of using the same team as years past . a lady standing next to me for the parade asked why they didn't do SWW like MNSSHP or MVMCP...she obviously didn't know much about SWW and how it works. The park can hold up to 40 thousand people and yesterday 30 thousand people were there just for SWW, doing it a special party wouldn't work. Plus people wouldn;t be able to spend extra on merchandise.

All in all we had a great time. and I hope everyone had a great time as well...and as always...MTFBWY...always.

 

[DanniDeer]

My favorite part was...absolutely everything.

I just had such an amazing day, being with my best friend, getting to see a park we go to all the time in such a different light.

Disney and Star Wars are two of my favorite things.

I put all 70-something pictures in my PTR [[HERE]] or in my signature.​

 

[CentralFloridian99]

What celebrities would you like to see next year?

 

[wbeem]

I was there last night for the final Hyperspace Hoopla. The show was great, but the bummer part of it happened in the audience. About a dozen Disney cast members pushed and bumped their way up front - past paying guests - in the final half hour before the show. A lot of those guests had been there in place for over two hours (and I was one of them).

When they tried to push past me, I spoke up. I mentioned to them that we had been there for an hour and a half at that point, but one of them just said "Yeah, well we were doing a show." (they all seemed to be performers).

I don't care if Disney cast members want to support their friends who are in the show, but there's no excuse for them to bump in front of paying guests who have been waiting in the sun for an hour or more. One woman behind me was pretty upset because she could no longer see the stage, since she was about 5'0 and some of the performers were six feet tall.

They just kept yelling for more of their friends to join them up front. Personally, I thought it was despicable behavior. Who the hell are they to push aside paying guests?

 

[mesaboy2]

I was there last night for the final Hyperspace Hoopla. The show was great, but the bummer part of it happened in the audience. About a dozen Disney cast members pushed and bumped their way up front - past paying guests - in the final half hour before the show. A lot of those guests had been there in place for over two hours (and I was one of them).

When they tried to push past me, I spoke up. I mentioned to them that we had been there for an hour and a half at that point, but one of them just said "Yeah, well we were doing a show." (they all seemed to be performers).

I don't care if Disney cast members want to support their friends who are in the show, but there's no excuse for them to bump in front of paying guests who have been waiting in the sun for an hour or more. One woman behind me was pretty upset because she could no longer see the stage, since she was about 5'0 and some of the performers were six feet tall.

They just kept yelling for more of their friends to join them up front. Personally, I thought it was despicable behavior. Who the hell are they to push aside paying guests?

Were they in uniform with name tags?

 

[yulilin3]

I was there last night for the final Hyperspace Hoopla. The show was great, but the bummer part of it happened in the audience. About a dozen Disney cast members pushed and bumped their way up front - past paying guests - in the final half hour before the show. A lot of those guests had been there in place for over two hours (and I was one of them).

When they tried to push past me, I spoke up. I mentioned to them that we had been there for an hour and a half at that point, but one of them just said "Yeah, well we were doing a show." (they all seemed to be performers).

I don't care if Disney cast members want to support their friends who are in the show, but there's no excuse for them to bump in front of paying guests who have been waiting in the sun for an hour or more. One woman behind me was pretty upset because she could no longer see the stage, since she was about 5'0 and some of the performers were six feet tall.

They just kept yelling for more of their friends to join them up front. Personally, I thought it was despicable behavior. Who the hell are they to push aside paying guests?

This makes me so sad...I know they had an after SWW party for CMs but that type of behavior is unnaceptable.

 

[Victoria3]

I was there last night for the final Hyperspace Hoopla. The show was great, but the bummer part of it happened in the audience. About a dozen Disney cast members pushed and bumped their way up front - past paying guests - in the final half hour before the show. A lot of those guests had been there in place for over two hours (and I was one of them).

When they tried to push past me, I spoke up. I mentioned to them that we had been there for an hour and a half at that point, but one of them just said "Yeah, well we were doing a show." (they all seemed to be performers).

I don't care if Disney cast members want to support their friends who are in the show, but there's no excuse for them to bump in front of paying guests who have been waiting in the sun for an hour or more. One woman behind me was pretty upset because she could no longer see the stage, since she was about 5'0 and some of the performers were six feet tall.

They just kept yelling for more of their friends to join them up front. Personally, I thought it was despicable behavior. Who the hell are they to push aside paying guests?

I'm sorry that happend to you. It's annoying when ANYONE pushes in.

Question. How do you who were cast members and who was a "paying guest"?

 

[wbeem]

This makes me so sad...I know they had an after SWW party for CMs but that type of behavior is unnaceptable.

Sadly, there's nothing you can do about it. If I leave to complain, I've lost my position. These people had absolutely no qualms about butting in front of people for their own benefit. They weren't in uniform as cast members, but they clearly weren't hiding it in their conversations, either.

Basically, they were a bunch of selfish jerks. What can you do?

 

[wbeem]

I'm sorry that happend to you. It's annoying when ANYONE pushes in.

Question. How do you who were cast members and who was a "paying guest"?

They were performers for Disney and even said as much. The rest of us who had been there for a couple of hours were talking. Some were local to Orlando, one woman drove up from Miami just for this show, etc.

If you've ever lined up for an event a couple hours early to get a good position, you know how frustrating it is when some party crashers come along to push in front of you. You also know who was there waiting along with you.

One guy was even wearing his ID badge and nudged his way all the way up front to take photos (which is why I was there, too). He even took a group shot of the other Disney cast members that were crowding around me.

Basically, it was as if the other guests were just in the way of these folks.

 

[wbeem]

Were they in uniform with name tags?

They were not in uniform, but one was wearing his name tag. They openly discussed that they were performers. In fact, they used that as an excuse for not being there sooner - they were doing a show.

That's fine, but get in back of the line like everyone else.