Star Wars Weekend VIP - Year of a Million Dreams Winner

[SunnieRN]

Can't wait to hear about your big day!! Your daughter is so adorable and your son is so cute! I bet they were really excited by the light sabers! Great pictures!

 

[CaptHomer]

Can't wait to hear about your big day!! Your daughter is so adorable and your son is so cute! I bet they were really excited by the light sabers! Great pictures!

Thank you!

Will try to get the big day up soon.

 

[mickeystoontown]

I don't know who I would be more excited to see....the Star Wars characters of Kris Allen. That's a great picture of him.

 

[CaptHomer]

I don't know who I would be more excited to see....the Star Wars characters of Kris Allen. That's a great picture of him.

DW took that picture. Probably won't see another picture of that guy, R2D2 and Chewbacca in the same picture anywhere else.

 

[mickeystoontown]

DW took that picture. Probably won't see another picture of that guy, R2D2 and Chewbacca in the same picture anywhere else.

So very true. I'm not a huge American Idol fan but I do like to watch. I think the reason we ended up watching it this year was because Kris is from a town that we travel through quite a bit. Neat seeing someone from nearby win.

 

[aaaateamsgrandma]

What a fantastic Dream Surprise. We were there also that weekend. It was amazing. My youngest grandson got to do the Jedi Training. He was in heaven. And seeing all the characters. All of my grandsons, age 17,15 and 10, are true fans. It was a madhouse that day for sure.
Ginny

 

[MK2010]

My kids are loving this report and the pictures. My oldest was thrilled with the pictures of the Mickey Jedi costume and the oldest. The pictures of all of the shaped bushes were fabulous! Of course now they all want to try the "Kitchen Sink" when we get to go! We'll see....

 

[CaptHomer]

Of course now they all want to try the "Kitchen Sink" when we get to go! We'll see....

It is fun. Tell them to lay off the whip cream because that is about all you taste.

 

[CaptHomer]

Saturday Part 1

We arrive in the lobby about 10 minutes before our scheduled meeting time at 9:00AM with our guide. Matt our VIP guide is already waiting on us. Here is a person that LOVES his job. He teaches school during the week and on the weekends he is a VIP guide with Guest Services. School is over for him the first week of June and he doesn't get a day off until the end of July. That is 7 days a week 10+ hours a day.

He said that he doesn't consider it work. He gets to go to Disney and ride the rides all day. When he is working as a VIP guide he has to wear a long sleeve shirt and the plaid jacket no matter what the weather is like. On May 30th it was hot and humid. I can only imagine what it is like in August in that outfit. Matt says that we have his services until 9:00PM.

It is time to get in the big white van and make our way to Hollywood Studios. We park in the back of the studios by the Imagineering offices and enter the park by the Tower of Terror.

 

[Nicole786]

Thats so cooL! I cant wait to hear more from this chapter

 

[CaptHomer]

Part2

Matt needs to process our tickets so he puts us on the Great Movie Ride while he does that. We meet up at the exit and head over to ride Toy Story Mania. Matt flashes his badge and we go through the fastpass entrance.

My 4 year old DD wants to ride with Matt so she can "show him what to do" on the ride.

Matt tells me some of the secrets to getting a good score but I didn't do that well and didn't break 175,000. The next time I ride I will ride with him and we can use a little teamwork.

Part 3 coming soon

 

[CaptHomer]

From Toy Story Mania we went and rode Star Tours. Star Wars Weekends seems to be the only time that this ride is busy. The ride seems a little dated to me at this point.

After Star Tours we go over to ride Tower of Terror. I am the only one who wants to ride it so Matt and I proceed through the fastpass entrance. He fills me on all the little details in the ride.

The rest of the family is waiting at the exit in the gift shop. On our way out we run into Deb Wills founder of Allears.net. This is always a highlight of our trips. This is the second trip in a row we have seen Deb. In December we ran into her in the parking lot at Animal Kingdom where she graciously took a picture with my DW.

As always Deb was very nice to us an willing to pose for a picture. We told her about our trip and she told me I should guest blog about our experience on her website (We did). She gave us some hats and lanyards and we were on our way.

Part 4 The Parade coming soon

 

[MJAJmom]

How cool to have Matt as your guide. That sounds so neat. I would love to hear all his stories. We tried Great Movie Ride for the first time this trip. My boys loved it!!! And of course TSM is fabulous!! Loving your report.

 

[CaptHomer]

How cool to have Matt as your guide. That sounds so neat. I would love to hear all his stories. We tried Great Movie Ride for the first time this trip. My boys loved it!!! And of course TSM is fabulous!! Loving your report.

Thank you! I will try to get the rest of it up this weekend.

 

[Disney Brat]

The updates are great!! It would be great to have a guide with you through the parks! I bet you learned some really cool things. What a neat thing that you saw Deb again! Can't wait to hear more!

 

[CaptHomer]

Part 4


Our first scheduled activity was the parade at 11:40 so we had some time before that so we went and rode Toy Story Mania again. This time I rode with Matt. I still didn't do very well. I believe Matt scored 187,000 and I had 174,000. We couldn't get the timing right on some of the bonuses.

We made our way to the parade route where they had special seating for us in front of the American Idol show. We were seated beside one of the other VIP experience families from California. They won their trip at Disneyland.


The Star Wars parade is very interesting. I don't think there is another parade at Disney where the majority of the people in it aren't Disney cast members. They are just Star Wars fans in various outfits.

The "501st Legion" is a bunch of people in Imperial Guard and storm trooper outfits, very good storm trooper outfits. There are clone troopers, Javas, sand people, Ewoks, rebel fighters, rebel pilots and an assortment of others that are just fans.

Also in the parade are the weekend's celebrity guests. Peter "Chewbacca" Mayhew, Matthew Wood (the voice of General Grievous), Jay Laga'aia (Captain Typho) and Ashley Eckstein (voice of Ahsoka in the "Clone Wars"). Chewbacca, R2D2, Boba Fett, Darth Maul and other characters round out the parade with Darth Vader bringing up the rear.

Part 5 Meet & Greet Coming Soon!

 

[goofy's_gurl]

love the pictures of parade.

 

[MK2010]

Have I mentioned yet that mysboys are LOVING this TR?

 

[MickeyReeds]

What an amazing trip! I can't wait to show your pics to my DS--he is a star wars freak! I'm going to show my DH too--he loves Star wars too--maybe I can talk him into a visit!!

 

[3BoysRDisneyFreaks]

Great Report!