That's awesome for you since you are such a big Star Wars fan! I hope you had a great time!
I checked out her live stream and in spite of some weather challenges, I got the sense that she had a fun night. I had thought about stopping by the party but looked at the forecast and decide not to. Glad I did.
Full report:
It was an extremely hot and humid day yesterday but we did have those pesky scattered storms through out.
Checked in at 7pm. Did so this early because it was my DD18 and myself and I was going to live stream the dessert party and didn't want to sit with 2 other people and bother them with my camera. So I went early to the podium, explained the situation and the CM there told me that although it was a sold out party they would try their best. To come back at 7:40 inside of launch bay and they would let us in at 7:45pm for scheduled 8pm party
We basically just went inside, found a bench right across from the dessert party setup and waited, people started to form a line around 7:30pm, I got up and was about 4th in line to get in, promptly at 7:45[m they started to check our names and tell us our table number. When I approached the CM with the cliipboard and told her my name and started explaining the live streaming situation, she knew exactly what I was talking about and told us our table number. We were seated at the last table against the wall by the drinks.
Now my DD18 hadn't been to the SW dessert party since it was done outside so she was pleasantly surprised about the new chairs, she was also very impressed with the savory options, I had told her that there were many and she didn't believe me. It ended up being her favorite items
We put our bags down and went straight to get food, I would recommend going early and getting as much food right away because the line grew very fast, by the time we got back to our table (maybe 5 minutes) balancing plates of food the line was long.
Because we had grabbed savory items first we were able to go quickly and get sweet stuff without waiting. I made a beeline for the bread pudding thing (it's my favorite)
The line did die at around 8:20pm for both the food and drinks. I was surprised that even though it did feel very crowded at firstt once everyone settled in it was really nice, especially for a sold out party.
All the items are still there, also remember to bring your tupperware to fill up on goodies for the next day. My daughter finished her sweets by going over to the nitro table and asking for a Mickey Bar
It was time to work, I really hate live streaming or recording inside restaurants because I hate bothering people that are eating but everyone was sitting and enjoying their food which gave me time to go through all the offerings without much of a distraction.
We then started playing a game of when will we go outside, it was not onlly sprinkling but there was heavy lightning in the area, I thought to go out to the reserved viewing early but there was no CM out there (because of lightning) so we went back in and got in line with everyone else, they had us waiting for about 5 minutes before we were informed we were going back inside to wait it out.
Once inside, the food and drinks were still there and people went for some items but about 3 minutes later they told us it was safe to go out
We were handed our Vader steins and small bottles of water and out we went.
This is where I would love to see a change in the party, even though the viewing area is elevated it is just too close, but it does make you feel like you are in all the battles that take place through out the show.
Wonderful World of Disney ANimation was a cute projection show right before, my first time watching it and I enjoyed it for what it is, a pre show to SWaGS.
All in all I still give this party the highest of marks, for convenience, food options, CM awesomness, maybe a -B for viewing location