Our trip is coming up next week, and having dawdled I'd given up on reservations for either the droid or lightsaber activities. I did sort of have my heart set on the Star Wars VIP Tour, which was still showing on the website while I was making plans, but when I'd call nobody knew if it was even still happening. Well, now that it does seem to have vanished and that money has gone back into the planning budget, I decided once more to look for droid and/or lightsaber reservations, and to my surprise - there must have been cancellations - I found both of them available at convenient times on one of the days we were planning for the Studios. So, that afternoon my husband will be building a droid, and later on, I'll do a lightsaber. We agreed that, along with the entire trip, these are our main Christmas presents this year, we'll just get smaller (cheaper) items to unwrap on the day.
We're also taking his old "build your own lightsaber" hilt from several years ago, to see if we can find a place still selling some of the parts they were missing when he made it. We'll make a fun scavenger hunt out of it.