CJ25 Star Wars Celebration (social thread)

I'm surprised they don't bring back Star Wars Weekends or some kind of variation of that at the parks with celebrity guests, autographs and a parade. My brother, sister-in-law and her family were in Orlando when they had that in honor of the 30th anniversary of ROTJ. He brought me back some Disney themed ROTJ 30th anniversary souvenirs.

 

I would love to see Star Wars weekends come back! Never got to do them and would have loved to.

 

It seems like saving for the 50th Anniversary is the best bet

It's also an excuse to go to Disneyland/world which I've not been to outside of the European one (which I know is not on the scale of the American parks)

Having been to Tokyo myself a few years ago, I can't say I found it particularly expensive.
Certainly not in terms of food or travel, but since I stayed in a hostel I can't speak for the cost of hotels near any convention centre or tickets for events like Celebration.

 

I’m planning to go - benefits of still being young and single lol. On the plus side VIP tickets will probably be easier to get in Japan.

 

Unfortunately I have pretty bad allergies. Medication helps.


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I was doing some poking around for past Celebration memories, and it appears the live streams from Celebration Anaheim 2015 have been taken down. I linked the thread where we had them here, and as you can see they no longer come up. I tried finding them elsewhere, and even on websites where these same streams were linked, they appear the same way now. Which is weird because I know I've referred to this thread in recent memory and they were still up.

https://boards.theforce.net/threads/past-live-streams.50045121/

All of the Europe 2016 and Orlando 2017 streams are still up, as well as individual panel streams from those Celebrations. And of course all of the streams from Celebrations after that are still up. But only highlight clips from Anaheim 2015 are available now. With a few scattered panel videos on different channels that just happened to post them. I wonder why they decided to remove most of the content from Anaheim 2015.

 

That's pretty bad Obi Anne about those badges! Reed really needs to get the questionairs out either at the Cele. or very shortly afterward, maybe even have an option when you buy your tickets you would want to participate in one afterward while memories are still fresh.

 

My badge still hasn’t arrived but I did get the questionnaire for the first time having not gotten one for my previous four Celebrations! In my response to the questionnaire I did highlight not receiving my badge or my pre ordered merchandise which I’d paid postage to receive before Celebration started!

 

Have you written or called Reed concerning this? the first Cele. Orlando,I did receive a questionnaire and answered it, but did not receive any other from Cele.'s after that. Reed owes you badly! please call them!

 

May the 4th Be With You All!

 

Another big change signifying the decreasing relevance of these major conventions. This one is actually pretty huge, more than any studio pulling out in my opinion, as Sideshow was basically a museum exhibit right in the middle of the show floor at SDCC and kind of set the tone for everything else around it. As it is, the show floor last year already felt lesser than it had been in previous years due to other major companies not being there who previously had been. So this is just going to make it seem dead almost. I imagine it's only a matter of time now that the last remaining major studios and companies who have a presence on the show floor at SDCC will pull out, including LucasFilm.

And if you remember, Sideshow had a pretty small display at Celebration Anaheim last year and were kind of tucked away in a corner of the show floor. So this is probably an indication that they will no longer be at Celebration in the future.

 

I saw that earlier and posted about it in the Collecting Sideshow thread.

 

Walt Disney World to close Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser
May 18, 2023, 2:15 PM · Disney's Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser will take its final voyage this fall. Walt Disney World announced today that it will be closing its ambitious, role-playing, cruise-like Star Wars experience, after just over a year of operation.
Star Wars Galatic Starcruiser's final voyage will board September 28, concluding on September 30. Disney will be contacting passengers booked on the Halycon after that date to arrange an earlier booking, if available and desired. To accommodate those guests, Disney is pausing booking on the Starcruiser until May 26.
https://www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/202305/9561/
I'm a little sad this is going away. I was hoping they would cut the prices a little so I could go next year.

 

They wrote things into canon for that...

It's quite a big change in the convention world.

 

No, it wasnt hard to get bookings. They even tried offering discounts to other Disney hotels to try to entice people to go and extend their trip. The place only has 100 rooms and they couldn't fill them.

 

A sad situation! I wonder if things would change if the prices were lowered to $500 per person?

 

I doubt that it would ever be that low unless they completely did away with the extras.
For me the cost breakdown would be closer to this for two days:
1) Room $600 per night (not too far off regular Disney room. Wilderness Lodge standard room is ~$530 plus taxes)
2) Characters walking around in costume and extra theme/games cost $400 per night
3) Food per day $150 ($300 for two days)
4) Disneyworld trip Galaxy Edge $150
So maybe ~$2500 for a single person and $450 extra per person would have been more reasonable to me.

 

Mark Hamill is scheduled for San Francisco Nov 24,2023
Not sure how to make this link smaller but here it is
https://fanexpohq.com/fanexposanfrancisco/mark-hamill-live/?_mc=1/Promo_Pay/FXSF23/Mark Hamill - Sep 21 - NTH&sp_eh=7a7a110464e3417f5883e1900261768e8b27eb0d0146225f7717fc96508fbf65&utm_term=LEARN MORE&esp=adestra&segments=none&tracker_id=04NSZWYQK&user_id=900078158280&utm_campaign=1/Promo_Pay/FXSF23/Mark Hamill - Sep 21 - NTH&utm_medium=email&utm_source=FAN EXPO San Francisco Show Information / Announcements

 

This bodes well for 2025, although who knows if he will be up for a trip to Japan.

 

Hamill starts at $400. That's absurd

 

Woah. I didn’t see that

 

Well, there were rumors if he was gonna sign again, he won't be cheap?

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