Star Wars Celebration: Chicago April 11-15, 2019

[rteetz]

Got my free coke Aurebesh shirt. Only came in one size.

 

[rteetz]

Just saw Josh D’maro and Phil Holmes walk by...

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

Please understand that I am as excited for GE as anyone. I had my room booked at CSR within 10 minutes of the opening date announcement. I’m not bagging on the land. I cried when they showed actual footage today (which was completely worth the stupid Coke thing). I’m glad there will be Easter Eggs from all the trilogies to discover. Obviously I’ll be looking for the OT things I guess I was more surprised by what they chose of old and what they didn’t.

I get it. I'm super excited, but even with all that there are still disappointments and stupid things. Like the space coke.

 

[leiaorgana]

Okay I need all of those Tooka Dolls. They're so cute! Might have to find room for another Porg from the Creature Shop too....

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

Space coke t-shirts already on ebay. They're Extra Larges?!

That's funny. Try to get the audience excited by giving them a free advertising gift, then make it one size.

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

Okay I need all of those Tooka Dolls. They're so cute! Might have to find room for another Porg from the Creature Shop too....

I need to make more money.

 

[adam.adbe]

Got my free coke Aurebesh shirt. Only came in one size.

Yeah my small for her age daughter was unimpressed. Two for me I guess.

 

[rteetz]

Space coke t-shirts already on ebay. They're Extra Larges?!

That's funny. Try to get the audience excited by giving them a free advertising gift, then make it one size.

Yep wasn’t thrilled with that.

 

[rteetz]

Imagineers are everywhere.

 

[leiaorgana]

I hear you on that. I've been whining and shouting about not being the pilot for ages now. They still didn't say what the other front seat passenger will do.

I might not mind being a gunner.

But what will the engineers even do if the pilot is good?

I think I vaguely remember something from a while ago about a Navigator being one of the roles so maybe that's what the Co-Pilot does?

Yeah, I think I'd be okay with being a Gunner too but I wouldn't be happy about being stuck at the back as an Engineer at all. It doesn't really look like you can even really see what's happening from those seats either tbh Maybe something will happen during the flight that will cause the Engineers to have to do something even if the Pilot is doing well?

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Got my free coke Aurebesh shirt. Only came in one size.

on Twitter Kevin intimated that his shirt will be available in the auction at the Dreams event this summer

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Yep wasn’t thrilled with that.

I was thinking with the whole "give you a ticket thing to exchange" that it was so you could pick out a size

If all the same, why bother with the ticket? Just hand them out to people on the way out of the room

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Please understand that I am as excited for GE as anyone. I had my room booked at CSR within 10 minutes of the opening date announcement. I’m not bagging on the land. I cried when they showed actual footage today (which was completely worth the stupid Coke thing). I’m glad there will be Easter Eggs from all the trilogies to discover. Obviously I’ll be looking for the OT things I guess I was more surprised by what they chose of old and what they didn’t.

Thanks for sharing - and I do get where you are coming from. Definitely would be cool to be "in the movies" a bit more.

I do totally get whey it is more focused on the new trilogy since that is what is out now and what Disney made and what they are pushing

I know there is an expansion pad, maybe they can have that a bit more dedicated to OT stuff ... or maybe down the line they do a 2nd land somewhere that is more OT related

 

[TheMaxRebo]

I hear you on that. I've been whining and shouting about not being the pilot for ages now. They still didn't say what the other front seat passenger will do.

I might not mind being a gunner.

But what will the engineers even do if the pilot is good?

The way it was worded to those media people that got a tour of the land a few weeks ago was that there is a range of performance you can do - everyone will have some issues/take some damage and no one will do so bad that you would destroy the Falcon or anything. So the engineers will always have *something* to do - just different things depending on performance

 

[adam.adbe]

Yep wasn’t thrilled with that.

XL seems off message for a soda company.

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

All the people from the Galaxy's Edge panel are on the Star Wars Show Live stage right now.

 

[rteetz]

I was thinking with the whole "give you a ticket thing to exchange" that it was so you could pick out a size

If all the same, why bother with the ticket? Just hand them out to people on the way out of the room

Well it was very crowded on the way out so it makes sense to distribute elsewhere but yeah.

 

[rteetz]

All the people from the Galaxy's Edge panel are on the Star Wars Show Live stage right now.

Seeing them in person!

 

[rteetz]

The SWGE merchandise is legit!

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

This just in: there will be lots of yelling and banging on things during the Smuggler's Run attraction.