D23 EXPO 2019 Superthread - dates announced!

[rteetz]

More land/Falcon reviews including Savi's

Spoiler: SWGE

FALCON GROUPING: Like stated before, everyone is handed a card. But now I learned the cockpit positions are upside down and cannot be seen by the CM. CMs quickly/anonymously hand out 6 at a time and you flip over your card to reveal what position you got. YOU CAN TRADE.. its just all up to your family.. you dispute and fight amongst each other. The cast is not held responsible.

GUNNER POSITION: 3 friends have all now said that the gunner position wasn't their favorite.
-One said that the buttons are placed at such a weird angle that it was difficult to watch the show and simultaneously push the correct flashing buttons
-Another said that the position was just boring and wasn't nearly as fun as the pilot position
-The last CM actually said she preferred the engineer position more than gunner bc there were more things to do. (This CM is tall and also stated that she didn't have a hard time seeing from the back)

SAVI'S WORKSHOP: So while one of my CM friends was exploring, another approached his group and asked if they wanted to build a lightsaber. They said yes and got pulled into Savi's to test the experience. The workshop was rehearsing show material and needed "guests" to participate in order to test and adjust. He said he did the entire experience and was blown away. He even got emotional throughout the experience. He said the experience really tugs at your heart and makes Star Wars fans feel like they're a part of something special. They hand built their custom lightsabers with eager grins to only have them taken after the experience. Nothing is free at Disney, folks. At the end, he said he would go back and pay $$$$ bc it was really that great.


CONCLUSION: I've received a lot of mixed reviews about falcon.. But through them all, I've concluded that your ride experience really just depends on how your group contributes... If you have great pilots and gunners, the engineer position could be boring with nothing to fix.. You could have an amazing time as an engineer if you're tall, can see the screen, and have crappy pilots that make you fix a lot of things.

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

More land/Falcon reviews including Savi's

Spoiler: SWGE

FALCON GROUPING: Like stated before, everyone is handed a card. But now I learned the cockpit positions are upside down and cannot be seen by the CM. CMs quickly/anonymously hand out 6 at a time and you flip over your card to reveal what position you got. YOU CAN TRADE.. its just all up to your family.. you dispute and fight amongst each other. The cast is not held responsible.

GUNNER POSITION: 3 friends have all now said that the gunner position wasn't their favorite.
-One said that the buttons are placed at such a weird angle that it was difficult to watch the show and simultaneously push the correct flashing buttons
-Another said that the position was just boring and wasn't nearly as fun as the pilot position
-The last CM actually said she preferred the engineer position more than gunner bc there were more things to do. (This CM is tall and also stated that she didn't have a hard time seeing from the back)

SAVI'S WORKSHOP: So while one of my CM friends was exploring, another approached his group and asked if they wanted to build a lightsaber. They said yes and got pulled into Savi's to test the experience. The workshop was rehearsing show material and needed "guests" to participate in order to test and adjust. He said he did the entire experience and was blown away. He even got emotional throughout the experience. He said the experience really tugs at your heart and makes Star Wars fans feel like they're a part of something special. They hand built their custom lightsabers with eager grins to only have them taken after the experience. Nothing is free at Disney, folks. At the end, he said he would go back and pay $$$$ bc it was really that great.


CONCLUSION: I've received a lot of mixed reviews about falcon.. But through them all, I've concluded that your ride experience really just depends on how your group contributes... If you have great pilots and gunners, the engineer position could be boring with nothing to fix.. You could have an amazing time as an engineer if you're tall, can see the screen, and have crappy pilots that make you fix a lot of things.

More info about Savi's
http://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2019/...I5lbPRPsmfirt-Q5rK4X0aUEbaqef4VsNtRBf6j9-BAPo

DD#2 is a Gatherer.

 

[gypsy_at_heart]

My plan is droid depot, walk around, blue milk and popcorn, then smugger’s run and hopefully sneaking in lunch right at the end.

Does anyone know if they are limiting the amount of times you can ride smuggler’s run? I’m only trying for once, but I’m just curious as it would certainly slow things down if people are just focusing on the ride.

 

[alvernon90]

More info about Savi's
http://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2019/...I5lbPRPsmfirt-Q5rK4X0aUEbaqef4VsNtRBf6j9-BAPo

DD#2 is a Gatherer.

Are you able to determine whether the lightsabers sold at Savi's will be metal or plastic? Photos make them look plastic, like they're really no different from the $30 cheapies you can get in Tomorrowland. Do you really have to pay that much more for the experience, or is the merchandise actually higher quality?

 

[rteetz]

Are you able to determine whether the lightsabers sold at Savi's will be metal or plastic? Photos make them look plastic, like they're really no different from the $30 cheapies you can get in Tomorrowland. Do you really have to pay that much more for the experience, or is the merchandise actually higher quality?

The Savi sabers are metal.

 

[DisMomMT]

From the article:

“In order to get inside, you must tell the Gatherers the secret phrase!”

Any word on what the secret phrase is or how to obtain it? And how will we identify a gatherer?

 

[kpd6901]

From the article:

“In order to get inside, you must tell the Gatherers the secret phrase!”

Any word on what the secret phrase is or how to obtain it? And how will we identify a gatherer?

My guess is that it is hidden somewhere in aurabesh, and you will have to translate it to an unassuming cast member who will be in another location near other aurabesh signage.

 

[alvernon90]

Please be careful about taking information hidden behind a spoiler tag and reposting it without the tag. It defeats the entire purpose of spoiler tags. I get that some people on this board want to know every single detail about the land before it can happen to them, but plenty of us want to enjoy discovering the details ourselves. Circumventing spoiler tags ruins the fun.

You can ask questions about spoilers, just put your questions behind spoiler tags as well. Answers that are pure speculation may not technically be spoilers because they're not facts, but they can still spoil the story. Please be careful.

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

Are you able to determine whether the lightsabers sold at Savi's will be metal or plastic? Photos make them look plastic, like they're really no different from the $30 cheapies you can get in Tomorrowland. Do you really have to pay that much more for the experience, or is the merchandise actually higher quality?

https://www.polygon.com/star-wars-celebration/2019/4/16/18410525/star-wars-galaxys-edge-lightsabers

 

[wench]

My guess is that it is hidden somewhere in aurabesh, and you will have to translate it to an unassuming cast member who will be in another location near other aurabesh signage.

If a Gatherer asks me the phrase, I will guess, “May the force be with you”. Unless of course I’ve found some definitive answer that the phrase is actually something else before that.

 

[figment_jii]

Sorry, but I cannot find anywhere in the article where it says “that you won’t be allowed to enter the line at the last minute”

The article says "At the same time, Disney doesn’t want riders waiting until the last minute of their four-hour window to get in line for Smugglers Run." I don't think that's quite the same as saying they won't let guests get in the queue at the last minute, but hopefully they'll provide specific cut off times if they aren't allowing guests to wait until the last minute. Along those lines, I wouldn't necessarily wait until the very last minute on your clock/watch because who knows what time the clocks the CMs are using will say (I'd say it could be anywhere plus or minus 5 minutes).

 

[rteetz]

Blue milk sippers and mouse droid popcorn buckets!

http://blogmickey.com/2019/05/limit...corn-bucket-coming-to-star-wars-galaxys-edge/

 

[dieumeye]

The article says "At the same time, Disney doesn’t want riders waiting until the last minute of their four-hour window to get in line for Smugglers Run." I don't think that's quite the same as saying they won't let guests get in the queue at the last minute, but hopefully they'll provide specific cut off times if they aren't allowing guests to wait until the last minute. Along those lines, I wouldn't necessarily wait until the very last minute on your clock/watch because who knows what time the clocks the CMs are using will say (I'd say it could be anywhere plus or minus 5 minutes).

One of the articles literally says: "...the Millennium Falcon ride attendants are not going to let you into that queue a few minutes before you're supposed to be out of the land... unless the ride is a walk-on by then." I really hope they make it clear because "last minute" could mean as much as a half hour I'd imagine.

 

[Barnabus Collins]

The more they release, the more excited I get!

 

[twodogs]

This is what it states for individuals with a DLRH reservation:


If there intent were clear, they would not have voluntarily issued to me, two SWGE reservations, one for each room I booked. I did not ask for both, they sent me email confirmations for both.

In the spirit of this debate, if you will, many things are open to interpretation. What bother's me is the self righteous, not you, calling me a cheat this morning, and then booking a second reservation because they failed to read the instructions and messed up their first booking. Funny how that works.

Are both hotel reservations under the same Disney account?

The reason I ask is that I am perplexed by my own situation. I made a free reservation on 6/22, but I was unsure if we were going on the trip yet (since we are already booked and going for sure Memorial Day weekend, and this is only 3 weeks later). I booked it because that is DD’s birthday and I thought, well, if we can swing the cost of 2 trips in 3 weeks, maybe she would like to see SWGE on her birthday! I made this free reservation under my Disney account.

We have now decided to go for sure on the trip in late June to see SWGE. We are going to stay at GCH (as we usually do), so I went and booked our room this weekend (booked room after free reservations stopped a few days prior). I booked this as I always do, under my Disney account. Yesterday, I got an email from Disney with our hotel SWGE reservation time. It is for 6/22 also, but for 8am. I figured Disney would not give me a hotel stay SWGE reservation since I booked the free reservation first under my account, and then I booked the room a few days later, under my account.

So this confuses me... I am not trying to restart the argument about if or should anyone have more than one entry during the reservation period. What is perplexing to me is that I believe the website states “one reservation per account.” In the literal interpretation, I would think that once I had the free reservation, that even when I later made an onsite hotel reservation (under the same account, as I was not trying to get two reservations for SWGE; just planned to use my free one, and we usually stay at GCH so would have stayed there either way), the system would not give me a hotel-stay reservation for SWGE because it “sees” my free reservation already in my account. So what is going on here?? Is their IT system just not able to handle this, or do they not care if you have more than one entry during the reservation period or what??

That all said, I feel like if their system generated my hotel-stay entry after I had already made my free entry reservation a few days before, and all are the same guest names, I am the lead guest on the free reservation and on the hotel room, and the account was mine for both reservations, that if they then deny entry for one of these reservations, that would be disappointing. Not that I am trying to skirt anything and get 2 reservations, but now that their own system generated the hotel-stay reservation, what am I to think?

I am going to wait until early reports come out to see what to do. Any guidance from Disney to anyone in a similar situation that anyone can share?

 

[njchris]

The more they release, the more excited I get!

I know! I can't stand it anymore. I'm going to put myself in a deep sleep until my reservation (June 3). Goodnight for now, everyone!

 

[njchris]

@twodogs my thinking is the open reservation from last week is one Res per account. You made one. Your hotel stay is another 'account' of sorts, or looked at as a different category. I think you'll be fine.

 

[Barnabus Collins]

I know! I can't stand it anymore. I'm going to put myself in a deep sleep until my reservation (June 3). Goodnight for now, everyone!

Just make sure you have an alarm set!

 

[njchris]

Just make sure you have an alarm set!

Also, I can't look at your name/avatar without whispering out loud: "My name is Victoria Winters".....

 

[twodogs]

@twodogs my thinking is the open reservation from last week is one Res per account. You made one. Your hotel stay is another 'account' of sorts, or looked at as a different category. I think you'll be fine.

I will be ok with whatever Disney decides to do. I just hope they don’t cancel BOTH of my reservations as another poster speculated, thinking I was intentionally trying to get 2 reservations. As long as we get one entry, our family will be thrilled!