Star Wars Day in the US was intense!

Jay85 · 18 May 2023 at 09:50

Having just come back from Orlando recently, i can tell you the most memorable experience day i had was at Hollywood Studios on May the 4th Star Wars Day! They really get into it! Everyone seriously nerding it and i've never seen so many lightsabers in a single area, was so intense! I love it! Highly recommend it to anyone who is a huge Star Wars fan.

Diddums · 18 May 2023 at 10:10

Hahaha nerds

Looks ace though.

dlockers · 18 May 2023 at 10:15

I can smell the picture

Maccy · 18 May 2023 at 10:16

@ThundyCat's wet dream right there

VincentHanna · 18 May 2023 at 10:27

Jay85 · 18 May 2023 at 10:34

dLockers said:
I can smell the picture

I can confirm it did smell like that too. Exponentially worse on this day due to the dry heat.

robfosters · 18 May 2023 at 11:17

just walking around normally is ok, but the Yoda cape and lightsabers are a bit too much.

Roar87 · 18 May 2023 at 11:19

Yeah I went when Disney first bought the Star Wars license and it was pretty cool, Hollywood Studios was fun. I can only imagine it's got better since then

Jay85 · 18 May 2023 at 11:51

Roar87 said:
Yeah I went when Disney first bought the Star Wars license and it was pretty cool, Hollywood Studios was fun. I can only imagine it's got better since then

Been twice now, this year and last and both times have been amazing. The queues this time round though have been much shorter, we've had a few walk ons for the star wars rides. Also got to ride Tower of Terror this time since it kept breaking down last time. Such a good ride!

Yaayuh! · 18 May 2023 at 11:54

Americans really are a fascinating breed.

Stu999 · 18 May 2023 at 11:58

Did you meet Rey? They're binning off Galaxy's Edge in Florida so you chose a good time to go.

Roar87 · 18 May 2023 at 12:00

Jay85 said:
Been twice now, this year and last and both times have been amazing. The queues this time round though have been much shorter, we've had a few walk ons for the star wars rides. Also got to ride Tower of Terror this time since it kept breaking down last time. Such a good ride!

Yeah Tower of Terror was awesome, one of my favourite rides out of the 3 Disney parks, the queues were short the whole time we were there fortunately

Jay85 · 18 May 2023 at 12:50

Stu999 said:
Did you meet Rey? They're binning off Galaxy's Edge in Florida so you chose a good time to go.

We didn't unfortunately, we saw mass crowds gathering so we can only assume a character was in there somewhere but in didn't attempt to approach knowing we'd just be wasting our time.

Jay85 · 18 May 2023 at 12:51

Roar87 said:
Yeah Tower of Terror was awesome, one of my favourite rides out of the 3 Disney parks, the queues were short the whole time we were there fortunately

We managed to get on Smugglers run twice both walk ons and one after another with only the 2 of us flying the ship lol! That was fun! Never had back to back walk ons and both times being pilots, gave us a chance to test things without people giving us weird looks.

Hades · 18 May 2023 at 13:56

That does look fun.

VincentHanna · 18 May 2023 at 14:11

Stu999 said:
They're binning off Galaxy's Edge in Florida so you chose a good time to go.

What? No they aren't. You think they spent 1 billion dollars and 3 years building it and shut it down 4 years later?

If you got that news from here: https://mousetrapnews.com/star-wars-galaxys-edge-closing-permanently/

You might want to check the source:

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413x · 18 May 2023 at 14:13

Looks cool. Always a tad jealous of Halloween in the states too

Jay85 · 18 May 2023 at 14:16

VincentHanna said:
What? No they aren't. You think they spent 1 billion dollars and 3 years building it and shut it down 4 years later?

If you got that news from here: https://mousetrapnews.com/star-wars-galaxys-edge-closing-permanently/

You might want to check the source:

There is no way they would close it down, it is absolutely booming! Everytime we went, there was always huge foot traffic moving in that direction.

Jay85 · 18 May 2023 at 14:17

413x said:
Looks cool. Always a tad jealous of Halloween in the states too

Yeah thats one i want to experience, we did Mardi Gras last year which was fun! Came back with loads of beads :cry:

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iamtheoneneo · 18 May 2023 at 14:21

Galaxy Edge is cool, the Falcon is great to see (though still smaller than pictures make out). Problem is Smugglers Run is trash, Rise of The Resistance breaks down every 10 seconds due to how complex it is and Star Wars tours is only good for a couple of runs.

It needs a proper indoor coaster or something but I doubt Disney are too keen on dumping more money into HS and seem to be focussing a lot on improving Magic Kingdom.