Star Wars Weekend

Star Wars Weekend is upon us! Star Wars Weekend is an annual event held at Disney's Hollywood Studios where fans get to celebrate the Star Wars Saga and the animated series, The Clone Wars. During selected weekends, they have limited edition pins, artwork, collectibles, and apparel for the guests to purchase to be part of the unique event. There are also exclusive photo opportunities with Star Wars characters all around the park (with some lines being 40 minutes long).

Last month, I took advantage of an opportunity to be an extra on a Star Wars Weekend promotional shoot. At the 0:08 second mark of the video below, you can see the side profile of my body as I'm eagerly waiting in line to get an autograph with Ashley Eckstein, the voice of Ahsoka Tano from The Clone Wars. Check it out!

Can you tell I was excited?

The Disney characters were dressed up in Star Wars gear. Too adorable. However, I didn't understand why Goofy was in his underwear, but then again, he's a "goofy" kind of guy, isn't he?

Just like when Han Solo was frozen in carbonite, for the first time, guests were able to "carbon freeze" themselves onto a three-dimensional figurine exclusively made for the Disney Parks. I got to go backstage a little bit and see how it all worked out. 

The prisoner chamber where guests wait to get carbon freezed. A picture is taken of their head and it's transformed into a figurine.

Posters and examples of the carbon freeze product. 

End product of the carbon freeze merchandise. Because it takes about 10+ hours to make for each figurine, it has to be mailed to the guest's house.

Life-size model of the Carbon Freeze experience. 

For some reason, I found it very amusing for the Storm Troopers randomly roaming around the Streets of America. I took this candid picture to show just how normal they looked walking around. That guy had no idea what was coming behind him.

A character from The Clone Wars. She told me not to smile so I agreed to pout with her. But as you can tell, I couldn't help myself myself in the end.

Another cool thing they offered this year was exclusive Star Tours name tags with your name in Aurabesh, language/writing system that the Star Wars characters used. 

We went on Star Tours ride just because it was Star Wars Weekend. It only seemed right.

Donald Duck is cleverly designed as Darth Maul.

I had a fun time hunting around for the characters to get their pictures, but shopping was probably my favorite. If you do have the time, I would highly recommend you check out Star Wars Weekend at Disney's Hollywood Studios. There are only several more weekends left: May 25-27, June 1-3 & 8-10. For more information, click here.

I'm thinking of buying this R2-D2 gear. What do you think? Thanks for reading!