Hollywood Studios

If you have ever purchased one of the cheap toy lightsabers at your local Target or maybe on Amazon, you were probably somewhat disappointed by what you got. Well, with the opening of Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge at Disney World and Disneyland, there is a new experience that may help rectify that. Yes, you can now build a lightsaber at Disney World in Savi’s Workshop. In this post, we’ll review my experience building a lightsaber on a recent trip. We’ll include photos of the whole thing, and we even have a video of it that we’ll embed in the post below!

If you’ve ever dreamed of owning your own Star Wars droid, you may want to drop into the Galaxy’s Edge Droid Depot at Hollywood Studios.  While this review is focused on our experience at Disney World, you can do the same thing at Disneyland.  Here in our Galaxy’s Edge Droid Depot review, we’ll tell you all about our experience building these droids, whether we think it is worth the cost, and there is even an epilogue on what Anna and Else have done with the droids since we returned home.

When Disney World opened up Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge back in August of 2019 without the FastPass system supporting the first ride, Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, we knew it was only a matter of time before it would take FastPass+ reservations. We just didn’t know how long that would be. Well, it turns out the wait is 174 days or February 19th. That is the day that the Hollywood Studios FastPass+ tiers will change and Smugglers Run will be added to the FastPass+ system. In this post we’ll tell you how the tiers are changing and what it means for your plans.

Last week, rumors started to circulate that Disney was changing the FastPass priority for Hollywood Studios in connection with the opening of Galaxy’s Edge on August 29th. When I first read about it I asked Carla if we should post something, to which she said “we’re not going to be one of those rumormongers!” Well now pretty much every Disney blog out there has posted something about the Hollywood Studios FastPass priority changing, so it doesn’t feel like a rumor now….even if Disney hasn’t released anything officially. There are verified screen grabs of the FastPass system showing this for club level resort guests that can book their FastPass reservations 90 days in advance, so it feels pretty legit.

Meeting characters at Disney World can be a great expereince for young and old. Here in our guide to Hollywood Studios characters we’ll let you know who’s in the park, where and when they meet!