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Great Star Wars pictures - like a private parade just for Luke.
I Love Luke's shirt - I have the same one, so does Evan. We wore them to see Cars 2 and will be coming with us on our Oct trip. I actually wore mine this weekend and Evan had to run into his room to change. Then we had to match our shorts and shoes too.
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We are looking forward to the new Pixar parade this year. Love the picture of Superhero Stef!! And Luke certainly got some great shots of all of the SW characters! Looked like he was paparazzi on a SW red carpet.
I forgot to comment on Luke's handling of the tour group at Fantasmic! Between his "security officer" stance and your "teacher's look", you two have it all covered!
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We haven't seen the Pixar Parade yet. It looks very cute! Though we'd probably end up doing the same thing you did - just happen upon it and decide to stand and watch.
The Granny Gangster sounds hilarious. How did you keep a straight face?!
It must have been scary with the tour group jumping the bleachers while trying to exit Fantasmic. Glad Luke put a stop to it.
Seeing how i'm a new member to this site I did not know what a TR was. Now I know I thoroughly enjoyed reading about your trip. i was engaged whie reading about your trip i really wished i could spend up time so i would be able to go on my WDW trip with my son and be able to write about it as well.
Great pics as always! That sure was a huge cast for the Star Wars show! Luke Skywalker looked a lot like Mark Hamill!
We couldn't believe how many there were as they just kept coming! So cool to be in the right place at the right time!
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Dinner sounded delicious, the last time we did the Fantasmic package we ate at HBD, but I think we will try the package again next year with MM (one place that we just keep missing). Love the Star Wars pictures and we had a Granny Gangster back in February, I also thought she seemed out of place in the roll, wonder if it was the same CM.
Glad you got to enjoy Fantasmic and that you were able to get onto TSMM one more time before heading out in the crowds. I totally agree with you on waiting for a bus to sit on, I have knee issues and on our 1st night we stood on a bus and suddenly something felt wrong...woke up with my knee three times bigger then it should have been, we opted on trying to wait out a seat for the remainder of our days.
That was the same strategy we followed from here out. If we could wait, we would. I felt a little bad a few times when neither Luke and I would give up our seats, but between my knee and his broken toe, we were the walking wounded.
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Great day at HS!!! I was very impressed by Luke and Leia! They looked very much like the originals! Disney did a great job with all the SWW characters! I definitely wish I was able to get there for a SWW! You got great photos! Can't wait to hear what's next!
I thought the Luke and Leia were very authentic looking and they were the sweetest with Stefanie.
Sorry about the wait at Mama's, but at least you were able to go see Muppets during the wait! Carly and I actually went in to Mama's around 6 just to see if they had anything available. They told us to come back around 8. We never did go back! (I hardly ever try to just walk up and get in, but we thought it was worth a try! )
All of the Star War pictures are great! I have some very similar ones!
I just Fantasmic! We went to the second show that night. There were plenty of seats left over on the far left side.
It was fun to see you guys at the bus stop!
We really didn't mind waiting for dinner as 4:20 seemed a bit early, but that was the only ADR available with the Fantasmic package for that night. So the delay worked out to be more where I had wanted dinner in the first place. And we love Muppet Vision 3D.
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Luke has been quite a trouper this whole trip, as I can imagine how much his foot must have been hurting from all of this walking! I Fantasmic! Glad you just decided to take it all in and enjoy it.
Luke is one of the most pleasant people, never letting much (not even pain) get him down.
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What a wonderful night at the Studios! Love all the photos of the Star Wars characters.
It really was a great night and the SW characters were an added surprise.
Loved all of the Star Wars character photos!!! Glad that you guys got to enjoy Fantasmic.....we are looking forward to seeing it for the first time on our upcoming trip
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Another great day! I love the Pixar parade pics! I'm going to have to look for this when we go - I want to find Dug from Up!. And I love Stephanie's rationalization - "You have to - we are at Disney!" Makes perfect sense!
We met Dug the summer the movie had come out at the theaters. He was so much fun! Hope you meet him!
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Even with the more relaxed pace, you're getting tons done at the parks! I love Stefanie's power pose with the Incredibles and her "You have to, Mom, we're at Disney" comment. Can't wait to ride TSMM again!
She wasn't even prompted to pose this time! She raised that little arm and fist and I shouted, "Way to go!"
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Sounds like a great day at DHS. Dinner sounded yummy, too! And nice you got to see Fantasmic again!
Luke keeps saying it was the best pork chop he has ever eaten.
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Pixar parade is really cute. Love that Stefanie made you try her Sundae. I love Fantasnic and I am so happy that its going back to being an every Evening performance.
I hope the every evening performance continues into next June as it makes planning quite a bit easier.
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What a nice day! Love Stefanie's line about it being Disney. I'll have to use that for my own uses in 10 days...
Sounds like perfectly good Disney logic to me!
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A greanny gangster? That's a new one on me!
Glad you had such a fun day (and night!).
This was a very Magical day!!! Luke really managed some great shots of most of the Star Wars Charaters. Love the pictures of Stephanie and the Incredibles too. Nice scores in Toy Mania!!!
We were lucky to have magic every single day!
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Very cool
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Your pics of the Star Wars char. are great! We will have to visit Disney one SW weekend because we have a lot of fans in this family! Do you find that the crowds are really bad then?
We have been to SWW weekends since 2003 and the crowds have grown over the years. We have had some exceptionally crowded days, but usually the early in the schedule that you go the less crowded it is. The last Sunday can sometimes be very crowded, though it was not this year.
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I would never be able to keep all of those SW characters straight since I know nothing about them except for the popular ones.
Luke and I remembered most of them, but the CM at the pin shop knew them all and helped us.
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Very cool Star Wars pics! Sounds like yall had a great time!
We did!
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Great pics of SW characters Love Chewbaca but I love my Wookie more
Know what you get a Wookie for Christmas when he already owns a comb?
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I just never got into Star Wars, but I'm glad Luke was able to get so many photos! Looking forward to more!!
We have loved Star Wars since the first movie (now the 4th in the series) came out in the 70s. In fact we got premiere tickets to an early showing of the second (now 5th) movie to a theater in the town where we went to college. We got to see it several days before it opened nationwide.
All caught up! What a fun morning at the pool!
Looks like you all had a great day at DHS!
It was!
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Mike takes weird angle shots of SSE too. In fact one year for Christmas I made him a calendar on shutterfly with all pictures he'd taken of SSE.
Love the SWW shots! We'll be doing that again next year!
I might just borrow that idea, but combined all his cool building shots.
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Holy smokes, it looks like you were positioned at the entrance to the Mos Eisley Cantina with all those characters going by! Great photos. Luke Skywalker looks like the real deal!
I the photo of Stefanie with Frozone and Mr. Incredible. So cute!
We haven't seen Fantasmic in a long while either (2006). It just wasn't my favorite, but, then again, I was dealing with a fussy 2 year old at the time, so maybe that's why. We'll have to give it a try again soon.
You all should definitely give Fantasmic another try. Stefanie loves it!
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Really cool pics of the SW characters! I'll have to show them to DH - he loves SW!
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I saw Boba!!! Nice pics of the characters. Luke was blocking the mob huh, nice. I would have like to have seen that....maybe toss or tackle a tourist here and there. You know, just for the fun of it .
I think I hollered there's Bobba Fett! But I wasn't the only one calling out names. One thing that amazed me was that folks formed a lined path and did really crowd the characters with very little CM interference.
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What a great night at DHS!! How awesome that you got to see all those Star Wars characters.
It was very !
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All caught up again. Y'all are having so much fun! Love it!
Great Star Wars pictures - like a private parade just for Luke.
I Love Luke's shirt - I have the same one, so does Evan. We wore them to see Cars 2 and will be coming with us on our Oct trip. I actually wore mine this weekend and Evan had to run into his room to change. Then we had to match our shorts and shoes too.
He was actually hoping to see Lightning in LMA, but we missed the show. Later we learned that Lightning's appearance had been postponed so we didn't miss him after all.
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We are looking forward to the new Pixar parade this year. Love the picture of Superhero Stef!! And Luke certainly got some great shots of all of the SW characters! Looked like he was paparazzi on a SW red carpet.
He said he felt like paparazzi, especially with me trying to name everyone as they appeared.
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I forgot to comment on Luke's handling of the tour group at Fantasmic! Between his "security officer" stance and your "teacher's look", you two have it all covered!
He really did save quite a few kids both in the tour group and walking toward the aisle from colliding. Scary for a few moments!
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We haven't seen the Pixar Parade yet. It looks very cute! Though we'd probably end up doing the same thing you did - just happen upon it and decide to stand and watch.
The Granny Gangster sounds hilarious. How did you keep a straight face?!
It must have been scary with the tour group jumping the bleachers while trying to exit Fantasmic. Glad Luke put a stop to it.
They were literally running and hopping up the bleachers as fast they could go right toward some other families with small children like us who had waited for the crowd to think out. I'm not even sure where they came from as they had not been in the front of our section and just seemed to appear as we started across the row.
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Seeing how i'm a new member to this site I did not know what a TR was. Now I know I thoroughly enjoyed reading about your trip. i was engaged whie reading about your trip i really wished i could spend up time so i would be able to go on my WDW trip with my son and be able to write about it as well.
I've still got several more days to add, but I've found this is a wonderful way to relive our vacation and then to preserve the memory for my family. for reading along!
Let's give Mike a chance to guess and then I'll let you know, though if you're in a hurry, google Star Wars Christmas album. We bought this album/LP in 1980, the year before we got married, to begin our extension Christmas album collection.
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Fantasmic! We went to the second show that night. There were plenty of seats left over on the far left side. 
!!! Luke really managed some great shots of most of the Star Wars Charaters. Love the pictures of Stephanie and the Incredibles too. Nice scores in Toy Mania!!!
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