D23 EXPO 2019 Superthread - dates announced!

[PatMcDuck]

Disney has been saying that SWGE at DLR will not have MM/EMH access for anyone.

Yes, I am aware of this, I was just saying that I was disappointed that they are NOT having some sort of EE for resort guests (who pay a premium to stay "onsite"). Perhaps we can enter DL on the EE days and still get inside SWGE before most of the regular other crowd enters. I am ok waiting for the access system they have set up too, looks like a good plan.

 

[theluckyrabbit]

It will be interesting to see if/when Disney makes any adjustments or changes to the current plan for SWGE access, e.g. will it ever have EMH/MM access, when will it be added to the FP system, when will the virtual queue go away (if ever), etc. All this waiting and waiting to find out even the basics is tiresome!

 

[ej119]

Is the Legends ceremony the first scheduled panel we have? Or has Mousequerade also been scheduled?

 

[kristenabelle]

Is the Legends ceremony the first scheduled panel we have? Or has Mousequerade also been scheduled?

I know Mousequerade is happening (they publicized the contest again), just have no idea when - if that's what you're asking.

According to last year's schedule, they overlapped by about an hour

 

[leholcomb]

It's been two years and this has slipped my mind, what time does the floor open up? I mean I know they sometimes let you in early and sit in a room but when is the Expo actually scheduled to start? 9am?

 

[Castillo Mom]

Happy Friday everyone! Two weeks and counting for opening day!

 

[MinnieLovesMickey]

I can't wait to hear about everyone's experiences!

 

[PatMcDuck]

I think it is 9, but they began bringing us up from the basement at 8:45 or so. On Friday I skip Legends, and do the floor before the majority get in.

 

[njchris]

I can't wait to hear about everyone's experiences!

If someone could time travel into the future and come back to let us know how it is, that would be greeeaat!

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

REI is having a big sale right now.

They are a good company to get your minimalist camping gear. So like those small collapsible chairs for waiting in line.

We also have a camping mattress that folds up incredibly small. It's somewhat like a pool raft when blown up. We took that for waiting overnight for the live action panel last time and it was very comfortable. We didn't try to sleep on it, but we had three people sit on it and it was much nicer than sitting on the cold floor.

 

[kristenabelle]

I think it is 9, but they began bringing us up from the basement at 8:45 or so. On Friday I skip Legends, and do the floor before the majority get in.

I remember all of us basement dwellers cautiously (and impatiently) standing up and hovering around 7:30 or so, chatting "When are they gonna bring us up? Gotta be soon. What's happening outside? People on Twitter are saying this! We better be going in before outside folks."

Love anxious D23 line thoughts.

 

[rteetz]

Walls are down

http://blogmickey.com/2019/05/construction-walls-removed-at-star-wars-galaxys-edge-in-disneyland/

 

[Lesley Wake]

Walls are down

http://blogmickey.com/2019/05/construction-walls-removed-at-star-wars-galaxys-edge-in-disneyland/

I cried when I saw those photos. Like, literally tears went down my face. I don't know how I'm going to handle it in 2 weeks!

 

[alvernon90]

I cried when I saw those photos. Like, literally tears went down my face. I don't know how I'm going to handle it in 2 weeks!

I seriously wonder how easy it will be to get into the whole Star Wars vibe with people crying everywhere. There's no crying in Star Wars! Luke didn't cry when his adoptive parents were killed. Leia didn't cry when her whole planet was killed. It will be a strange thing to see...

 

[Tiggerette]

Thank you for posting this. I hope it will help other people following along in this thread. If anyone else has heard anything official from Disney regarding this issue, please post!

Earlier this week I tried to transfer a hotel reservation to a friend, and was told that wasn't possible. Now I don't know if I had an uninformed cast member, because they had to ask how to change the name..... or if they misunderstood I wasn't solely talking about the SW:GE reservation but the entire hotel stay reservation.... or a combo of circumstances. Ultimately I had to just cancel the hotel stay entirely. I'm used to being able to transfer a hotel stay to another person, so this seems odd to me, but maybe the SW:GE are making hotel transfers overly complicated.

 

[theluckyrabbit]

Earlier this week I tried to transfer a hotel reservation to a friend, and was told that wasn't possible. Now I don't know if I had an uninformed cast member, because they had to ask how to change the name..... or if they misunderstood I wasn't solely talking about the SW:GE reservation but the entire hotel stay reservation.... or a combo of circumstances. Ultimately I had to just cancel the hotel stay entirely. I'm used to being able to transfer a hotel stay to another person, so this seems odd to me, but maybe the SW:GE are making hotel transfers overly complicated.

Thank you for posting this. It sounds like perhaps the CM was being overly cautious? But this does sound consistent with what Disney has been saying all along about no changes. If you think a mistake was made, I would call back to ask for a supervisor to see if things can be rectified -- if that would make any difference to your friend's plans.
Someone recently posted that a CM told her that names could be changed on her non-hotel SWGE reservation so that she could "switch" dates with someone else's reservation -- that sounds highly suspicious to me based on experiences like yours. I would think that if CMs are going to err when it comes to these reservations, they would be too cautious rather than not.

 

[Skyegirl1999]

Earlier this week I tried to transfer a hotel reservation to a friend, and was told that wasn't possible. Now I don't know if I had an uninformed cast member, because they had to ask how to change the name..... or if they misunderstood I wasn't solely talking about the SW:GE reservation but the entire hotel stay reservation.... or a combo of circumstances. Ultimately I had to just cancel the hotel stay entirely. I'm used to being able to transfer a hotel stay to another person, so this seems odd to me, but maybe the SW:GE are making hotel transfers overly complicated.

Did you call the hotel line, or the SW:GE line?

We’ve had to cancel and rebook a couple of times due to my husband’s changing work schedule, and the hotel people are miserably uninformed and one of them basically yelled at me.

The SW:GE hotel line is where it’s at. It’s the number at the bottom of the SW reservation email. Use that one.

ETA: Oh, you were trying to transfer the ENTIRE reservation, not just some of the people? Yeah, I don’t think that’s possible. You’d have to cancel your room and then have them book it as their own reservation.

Otherwise people could book during deals and “transfer” those reservations to other people for an up-charge later... not cool.

You can add and subtract people from your hotel room and have the SW:GE reservation updated accordingly, though. That’s fine.

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

I find this blue milk thing quite interesting. There were reports of trying to find the right ingredients for a signature blue milk taste, etc. BUT, they already had blue milk, and perhaps it was forgotten about??

In 2015, we visited WDW for the final Star Wars Weekends event. Our meal at the Sci Fi Drive In with the Star Wars characters was fantastic, but we also chose the blue milk for our beverage. It was amazingly good. Did they forget they had it? Or did they lose the recipe? Or did they decide it needed to be different for some reason?

I think about that all the time. I think they've been saying in marketing that blue milk will be available for the first time. I had it at Star Wars Weekends as well as the blue milk ice cream.

Pretty sure this will be an entirely new recipe though.

 

[theluckyrabbit]

I find this blue milk thing quite interesting...

I think about that all the time...

I love that we think about these things.

 

[Cookiemonster156]

Does anyone know if you can upgrade the D23 theme park tickets to annual passes? And can the annual pass be placed on monthly payments if I am a California resident?

Thanks in advance!