Star Wars Weekends

One of the coolest things your child can do at Star Wars Weekends is the Jedi Training Academy.  Now this used to exclusively happen only during SWW, but is now a regular event at the Disney Hollywood Studios.  Still, in this setting, unless your child is a regular Disney Visitor, I promise that this is one of the things your child is going to want to do most.  Once the schedule is out, we will see for sure, but there are usually about 5 sessions daily where the children have the opportunity to be selected for the Academy.  Read more

Despite the Florida Heat, with some careful planning do not be afraid to dress up and enjoy your fandom.  It is always admired and appreciated one way or another with the other.  One of the perks of attending weekends for fans of the saga is the opportunity to dress up as a Star Wars Character.  Over the years we have seen everthing from little Clone Troopers, Bounty Hunters, adult Jedi and Rebel Pilots.  There are named characters from the original trilogy, characters from the prequels, characters from the expanded universe as well as original Star Wars Characters created by fans just for the event.  A quick look at any pictures from the event will show you that there are always costumes in the audience.  Costuming fans come in all shapes, ages and sizes.  There is no wrong to be had here.Read more

While we wait for confirmation on just about everything I figured it was worth while to speculate on one item for this year.  With Ray Park (Darth Maul) attending weekends 3 and 4, it feels like a safe bet to assume that he will agree to once again do the “Trip to the Maul” program.  For anyone attending during these weekends this is a great addition to Weekends for participants and observers alike.  Before the program children are randomly selected to participate in this on stage demonstration.

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Information hit on all fronts today as both Disney and StarWars.com announced the Pins for 2010 Star Wars Weekends.  Kara shared the link at Disney Pins first thing this morning at:  http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/04/star-wars-weekends-2010-pins/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DisneyParks+%28Disney+Parks+Blog%29 

followed by the announcement at the StarWars.com site:  http://www.starwars.com/vault/collecting/star_wars_weekends_pins/index.html Read more

Better late then never I’ve decided it is time to weigh in on the celebrity lay out for this year’s Star Wars Weekends.   This 30 year anniversary of the Empire Strikes Back is being well served this year and the inclusion of Star Wars the Clone Wars appears to be complete.  Each of the past two years they have worked the Clone Wars in and this year it feels as though it is an equal partner to the films.  For better or for worse this is a natural progression and serves the greater purpose of sharing Star Wars with several generations.  Jeremey Bulloch (Boba Fett- Empire Strikes back, Return of the Jedi and pilot of Tantive IV in Revenge of the Sith) Read more

I've looked and looked at the logo for this year's Star Wars Weekends.  As we reported here several months ago, the logo depicts Boba Fett, jet pack firing, shooting his arm mounted blaster at Mickey, dressed as pre-Return of the Jedi Luke Skywalker.  Mickey, using his blue lightsaber, is deflecting Boba Fett's blaster fire. In my best Comic Book Guy voice I have this to say, "Worst SWW Logo Ever."

Okay, maybe that is a bit much.  I suppose I am in the minority of people who doesn't find the Boba Fett character all that appealing.  There is no doubt, he has some cool armor.  It has a missile launcher attached to it, it makes Boba Fett fly (or falling with style?), and can shoot an ineffective cable from it to ensnare his enemies.  Neat.Read more

So the new logo is out and there can be no doubt that while Star Wars Weekends will have a strong Clone Wars presence there is an eye on celebrating the 30 year anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back.  If you were to poll long time Star Wars fans on which movie was their favorite of the entire saga, Empire traditionally comes out on top.  So this years theme coupled with Lucas’s own Celebration V event later this year should get Star Wars fans excited.Read more

Well, Star Wars Weekends 2009 is officially in the books.  I won't go into  my thoughts about the quality of this year's event here, as we have others way more qualified than I am on staff to wrap things up for the SWW website.  But I did want to say that I enjoyed frequenting this site for SWW info, and it was a pleasure to contribute when I had little tidbits to share.  I hope I'll have the opportunity to do so again next year as well.Read more

Just a quick shot to point out that starwars.com continues to hand out helpful information with this weeks planning guide.  You can check it out here:

http://sww.studioscentral.com/main/files/StarWarsWeekendsJune5-7LR.pdf

Steve Sansweet is not listed, but will be there.  Check the times we listed earlier this week.

The news today that Steve Sansweet, head of Lucasfilm fan relations, curator of Rancho Obi-wan and Author of both The Star Wars Vault and the Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia would be joining the celebrities attending Star Wars Weekends #3 has only solidified this as one of the better weekends for this year.  While weekend #1 is still tough to top for me, this falls as a very close second with Prowse, Bulloch, Sansweet, Matt Lanter, Jay Laga'aia  and Ashley Eckstein. Read more