**Official** Star Wars at DHS, Galactic Spectacular Dessert Party/Galactic Nights/Launch Bay/JT

Always a fun meet during Star Wars Weekends. A great man and a true fan favorite

yulilin3 said:

Always a fun meet during Star Wars Weekends. A great man and a true fan favorite

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He did seem like a really lovely man. I wish I had met him. Glad that he was able to give us all so much enjoyment for so long. Wearing my Chewbacca shirt tomorrow in remembrance.

Going to be celebrating SW day tomorrow evening at DHS, just nabbed a reservation for the dessert party after it was showing sold out for the last couple of days. Is anyone else doing the dessert party tomorrow?

yulilin3 said:

Going to be celebrating SW day tomorrow evening at DHS, just nabbed a reservation for the dessert party after it was showing sold out for the last couple of days.

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Nice

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yulilin3 said:

Going to be celebrating SW day tomorrow evening at DHS, just nabbed a reservation for the dessert party after it was showing sold out for the last couple of days. Is anyone else doing the dessert party tomorrow?

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That's awesome for you since you are such a big Star Wars fan! I hope you had a great time!

Disney & ME said:

That's awesome for you since you are such a big Star Wars fan! I hope you had a great time!

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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.

Disney & ME said:

That's awesome for you since you are such a big Star Wars fan! I hope you had a great time!

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FastPasser. said:

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.

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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

Thank you for that amazing review @yulilin3! Super excited to have been able to book this one more time that last month as we are bringing DD's BF from England for his first trip, and he is a major Star Wars fan!

We usually give the Steins to different CM's when we leave but I saw a post on putting a little succulent or cactus in them. Dollar store has some nice fake ones for the win.

LvsTnk said:

Thank you for that amazing review @yulilin3! Super excited to have been able to book this one more time that last month as we are bringing DD's BF from England for his first trip, and he is a major Star Wars fan!

We usually give the Steins to different CM's when we leave but I saw a post on putting a little succulent or cactus in them. Dollar store has some nice fake ones for the win.

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Omg i would've never thought of the cactus idea. That's great

yulilin3 said:

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.

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I see you interacted with Fran & Linda, both regular SW party CMs. Both fun to work with.

I just changed our plans, and we're now doing the dessert party on June 15th. For a night that SWAGS is at 9:30 (and the dessert party reservation says 8:00), what time can you get your credentials and enter the dessert party? 7:45 entry? I remember it's usually a little earlier than stated, but I can't remember the details. I feel like the show has usually been earlier in the evening when we've previously done this, with a 6:45 party entry. maybe I'm remembering wrong, that seems kind of early now that I think about it....

ninafeliz said:

I just changed our plans, and we're now doing the dessert party on June 15th. For a night that SWAGS is at 9:30 (and the dessert party reservation says 8:00), what time can you get your credentials and enter the dessert party? 7:45 entry? I remember it's usually a little earlier than stated, but I can't remember the details. I feel like the show has usually been earlier in the evening when we've previously done this, with a 6:45 party entry. maybe I'm remembering wrong, that seems kind of early now that I think about it....

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You can check in as early as 7pm, they give you your lanyard and the tell you to come back at 7:45pm, if you want to be one of the first to go inside the party be inside Launch Bay at 7:30pm. They do open the party at 7:45pm and walk you out to the viewing area round 8:50pm
The show schedule depends heavily on time of year, maybe you did it in the Fall or Winter when sunset is earlier?

yulilin3 said:

You can check in as early as 7pm, they give you your lanyard and the tell you to come back at 7:45pm, if you want to be one of the first to go inside the party be inside Launch Bay at 7:30pm. They do open the party at 7:45pm and walk you out to the viewing area round 8:50pm
The show schedule depends heavily on time of year, maybe you did it in the Fall or Winter when sunset is earlier?

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Ok, thanks! We had originally planned on the Fantasmic VIP dessert viewing this night, but moved that to 6/14 prior to DAH and added this dessert party into our schedule. I made a FP+ for AS2 at 7:15, sounds like we will still have plenty of time to use that before we need to be at the dessert party as long as we go at the beginning of the hour. We don't have to be first in, but we have 2 toddlers, 2 older kids, and gluten allergies so it takes us longer to eat and wanted to make sure not to bee too rushed before going out!

Is the general advice still the same, try to sit on the curb in the back left if possible? We can still go out early if we want to? What is the gift now?

ninafeliz said:

Ok, thanks! We had originally planned on the Fantasmic VIP dessert viewing this night, but moved that to 6/14 prior to DAH and added this dessert party into our schedule. I made a FP+ for AS2 at 7:15, sounds like we will still have plenty of time to use that before we need to be at the dessert party as long as we go at the beginning of the hour. We don't have to be first in, but we have 2 toddlers, 2 older kids, and gluten allergies so it takes us longer to eat and wanted to make sure not to bee too rushed before going out!

Is the general advice still the same, try to sit on the curb in the back left if possible? We can still go out early if we want to? What is the gift now?

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you basically have an hour to eat and drink and enjoy the party so plan accordingly.
Back section middle is best now, they don't have any off the side fireworks as beforre, more of a lot of smaller fireworks from the buildings all around you
The gift is the Vader stein, ask for it before you leave the party if you are leaving early. If you are leaving with the group they give them out along with a small bottle of water
remember to take some empty tupperware have fun

yulilin3 said:

you basically have an hour to eat and drink and enjoy the party so plan accordingly.
Back section middle is best now, they don't have any off the side fireworks as beforre, more of a lot of smaller fireworks from the buildings all around you
The gift is the Vader stein, ask for it before you leave the party if you are leaving early. If you are leaving with the group they give them out along with a small bottle of water
remember to take some empty tupperware have fun

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Darn it, we have gotten somewhere around 14 of those vader steins in the past, I was hoping for something different! I keep everything, but even I might try to gift these to some random kids at disney before we haul another 6 home.

I never remember the tupperware, since we are diving this time I'll have to put it on my list of things to not forget beyond the usual stuff. I always have baggies, but things get so mushed up in those! We have 3 with gluten allergies, but if I remember correctly at this party they don't bring out the separate bag of safe foods, they just show you what you can and can't have from the buffet. So I will take some stuff out to try to keep the kids happy if we need it (although after being able to eat for the entire party, I'm not sure how well that will work LOL!).

We last saw the show in June 2018, I haven't heard of any changes since then, correct?

ninafeliz said:

Darn it, we have gotten somewhere around 14 of those vader steins in the past, I was hoping for something different! I keep everything, but even I might try to gift these to some random kids at disney before we haul another 6 home.

I never remember the tupperware, since we are diving this time I'll have to put it on my list of things to not forget beyond the usual stuff. I always have baggies, but things get so mushed up in those! We have 3 with gluten allergies, but if I remember correctly at this party they don't bring out the separate bag of safe foods, they just show you what you can and can't have from the buffet. So I will take some stuff out to try to keep the kids happy if we need it (although after being able to eat for the entire party, I'm not sure how well that will work LOL!).

We last saw the show in June 2018, I haven't heard of any changes since then, correct?

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Scenes from Solo were added, there are more light and fire effects

ninafeliz said:

if I remember correctly at this party they don't bring out the separate bag of safe foods, they just show you what you can and can't have from the buffet.

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Unless it's changed since I left, the Chef in addition to showing Guests what foods are safe on the buffet still offer a selection of packaged safe foods.

FastPasser. said:

Unless it's changed since I left, the Chef in addition to showing Guests what foods are safe on the buffet still offer a selection of packaged safe foods.

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Ok, thanks, that's what happened at the JBJB and HEA parties. Maybe my DH just didn't ask them to bring it out for this one, or maybe I'm remembering wrong. This time we'll have our 2 kids who also need GF, so if they offer packaged treats we'll take them if nothing else to give them later on since they are packaged and easy to keep.