From AOA to BLT for $15 (7/10-7/19) updated 9/20

We are staying at BLT in November. I love the wine glasses you made! Do those stickers stay on pretty well?
They stay on the straw tumblers really well. I don’t know about the wine tumbler because it went home with my mother in law 😀
 
Just binge read your entire trip report! Loving it! I would’ve been leaving for Disney in two days. I’d have still gone in a heartbeat but my boyfriend and I are military and not allowed to take leave outside of so many miles during COVID. Your trip report was my Disney therapy today!
 
Look here two updates in a row!

DHS will probably take a handful of updates because it was a BUSY day!

The park hours were 10-8 but we wanted to get there plenty early to make sure we were in the park and ready for the ROTR queue attempt.

We woke up around 7 and mobile ordered Contempo Cafe breakfast. We ordered two bounty platters and two full sized waffles.

The waffles have optional fruit topping on the side, I chose caramel bananas. OMG amazing! 5 stars, totally recommend. Lindsay got hers without fruit and I wished I had gotten her fruit too 😋
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After breakfast we put it in hyper drive and headed to DHS.

We arrived about 9:15, we parked in the second row of cars and quickly went through security. We really liked the new security, hopefully after Covid they will keep some of the faster procedures.

We headed straight to Batuu! We were so excited for grandma to see Galaxy‘s Edge, she and grandpa have always been huge fans. HUGE! We actually played the Star Wars main theme at the end of grandpas funeral. His last outing before his passing was to see Episode 9. ❤️ So I hope that shines light on how much Star Wars means to her.
This is our first visit to Batuu.

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They let us on Millennium Falcon Smugglers Run straight away, it was about 9:30. We walked right on and soon enough were headed into space.
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Finally we boarded the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.
They no longer add extra people so unless you’re a party of 6 there will be empty seat(s). We were a party of 5, so the girls were Pilots, Grandma and I were gunners and Eric was our lone engineer.

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This ride was very cool, I know ROTR is the big draw, but MFSR is really fun too!

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After this we headed to find a quiet corner to attempt a boarding group. It was approximately 9:50. I took the time to make sure we were linked on MDE, that we were on LTE and that everything else was closed on our phones. We were trying from 3 phones, mine (IPhone XR), Eric’s (iPhone XR), and Lindsay’s (iphone 11) . Lydia had an atomic clock up on hers so we could monitor the time. Janet sat this out because technology is not her forte and we didn’t want her to accidentally mess something up 🤣😂

Previously I had pared down my Friends and Family to the 5 of us and my friend with an AP that I was getting my photopass pics sent to. Eric and Lindsay only had our travel party linked.

I had also coached Eric and Lindsay that they should select all, and keep moving forward if any glitch happened and screen capture as needed.


Time was ticking and we decided I would try when Lydia’s phone said 10:00:00, Eric at 10:00:02 and Lindsay at 10:00:04. We were ready!!


Deep breath.....Finally it was go time...

I go and when I select all my father in law appeared in my list. Admittedly that stunned me as I had him removed after his passing, this glitch delayed me so the passes were gone 😭😱 I think grandpa was trying to ride with us. ❤️

Eric gets some other bad message 😱

Lindsay goes and this happens.

(Ignore the time I took the screen cap much later)
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Well good news, she amazingly got Group 1 😯 🤩 but...... butttttttt..... look closely it’s for 1 person.

The MDE had glitched and only had herself one the boarding group. 😭😢😱( FYI Guest Services is far, far away from Batuu, so stick to the front of the park around 10 am. )

Panic Ensues. This was the most stressful part of our trip, so I will skip ahead a bit and just give it to you in a nutshell. There were tears, a long GS line, a panic attack, a rude manager CM that caused the panic attack, a wonderful CM named Liz and finally success.

Liz added us to Lindsay‘s boarding group and explained to my distraught daughter that her scoring the BG actually saved us and didn’t mess anything up at all (the rude manager insinuated Lindsay would just have to go alone #notafan.)

Because those fast teen fingers got Group 1, we headed back to Batuu, because it was already boarding!!! We stood outside very briefly before we were in the real inside line...❤️❤️

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I‘m going to stop here for now, but hopefully will add more today or tomorrow.
 
Ok we were finally in line for ROTR when I left off...

We got in line at 10:42 and were in the first ride vehicle at 11:21

We loved this ride, it was amazing. I can’t put into words how much we loved it. They hit it out of the park with the theming, hopefully reliability will improve soon.

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I’m just going to leave some pics here, I don’t want to spoil too much for anyone who hasn’t experienced it.

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There’s probably a hundred more pics, but I just wanted to share a few.

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After that thrilling ride we grabbed Batuu provision... they’re 6 credits each 😱 we got two sprites and two diet cokes For 24 credits. The girls really wanted the round bottles to keep.

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After we quenched our thirst we headed back to Smugglers Run, this time we switched roles. The girls were gunners, Eric and grandma were pilots and I was the engineer. Seeing my mother in law pilot the ship was a definite highlight for me and made the extensive planning and replanning and replanning worth it!

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Fun fact: I was such a great engineer that there was no damage to the ship when we returned, so we got an alternate ending where a hitchhiker joins us. We were pretty confused, but google helped clear up that it was just an alternate ending, because I was awesome.

Then we toured Batuu a bit more.

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We ran into Rey! This CM was very well cast, she did a great job!

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We walked back past the Galaxy’s Edge character area and saw a stormtrooper hunting for Vi but luckily she tucked herself if the shadows and wasn't spotted.

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We leave Batuu and head out into the rest of the park! But we’re not done with our space journey yet!
 


Back to DHS but we headed out of Batuu and into the rest of the park.

We headed to Toy Story Land!

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The only ride we decided to do today was Toy Story Mania.
Lindsay loves Uno, preCovid she played everyday at lunch with her friends.

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It was a posted 15 minute wait and took about that long.
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After the Photopass location we needed a snack. We had an ADR for lunch but not until 2:35.

We grabbed a couple Mickey Pretzels, any food shaped like Mickey is even better!
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While snacking the wait time for Tower of Terror was 10 minutes so we left grandma and Lyd and headed over there! They were going to shop and look for a baby Yoda for grandma to take home (spoiler alert we could not find one anywhere... we ordered it on shop Disney).

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but when we got there it was up to an hour 😱 I think everybody saw the low time and ran there!

So we headed here instead!
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We headed to catch back up with grandma and Lydia.

We were headed over to Star Tours and ran into the Pixar mini parade.
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Star Tours was just 5 minutes!
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We got a row to ourselves, but smaller parties might share. They have these walls to divide groups.
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We had a rebel spy in our midst 😱 she did look a little shady!

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Finally it was lunch time! The girls had wanted Sci Fi and it was a reservation I fought to find for our June trip, then July and finally July again when reservations were wiped and brought back.

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We had a car in the very front row, right by the screen!
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Lots of burgers all around! They were delicious, we loved the dark and cool atmosphere (both temperature and decorations)

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Just a few weeks from this pic and she’ll be driving for real!
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We left the 50’s and head back to Galaxy’s Edge!
 

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