I made a return visit to Galaxy’s Edge, the earlier trip was on June 8th during the reservation period, http://geektruth.blogspot.com/2019/06/a-star-warriors-guide-to-galaxys-edge.html. Now this was a visit after the opening without reservations on June 24th and the summer period. The takeaway? I think a standout to theme parks is the food. A common and necessary thing, but I find it more important than attractions, I may be biased having worked in food services. Theme park food has been standard hamburgers and hot dogs. The good parks are moving towards healthier and diverse options. I’m going to bring up again The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the food at Three Broomsticks was beautiful and delicious, but I was thinking about Ronto’s Roasters. It has great theming and my food memory of the Ronto Wrap that I ate in the morning, lasted into the night! The food item looks exotic, like something from another world, but the taste has some smokey sausage and creamy peppercorn sauce which does not have strange spices that might upset stomachs. The Ronto Wrap is very hearty and filled me up for the whole day. I did get the Outpost Popcorn Mix with the MSE-6 Series Repair Droid Souvenir Popcorn Vessel. I think I prefer that popcorn than the regular theme park popcorn. It has a different flavor, slightly sweet, colored purple and red, and then after a few handfuls it starts to get a little spicy. What struck me eating at Galaxy’s Edge, not under the pressure to seeing everything, it was finally immersive. It didn’t feel like another part of Disneyland.
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| Oga's Cantina, photo by the author. |
I have to follow up with drinks. The most refreshing is Blue Milk!, I bought the collectible Bubo Wamba Family Farms Novelty Drink Vessel at the Blue Milk Stand, a large bottle and strap. Really it was because I wanted the largest container for blue milk. I found the coconut and rice milk, different which makes the Star Wars origin of bantha milk perfect, and paltable. I haven’t tried the Green Milk, but drinking milk from a walrus is “not my idea of courage.” I’m actually thinking of buying more bottles and having a row of them! Next, at Oga’s Cantina, I ordered a Carbon Freeze. It is Powerade Lemon Lime, strawberry, blueberry and boba-like “green apple popping pears.’ Great taste and it is one of the best drinks visually! I didn’t order anything from the cantina the first time. I would like to try all of the drinks at Oga’s. I recalled the Dusty Jawas “Utinni” that DJ Rex was playing. Lastly is the Tatooine Sunset at Ronto’s Roasters; tea, lemonade, melon, and blueberry. What all of these drinks have in common, they quench your thirst, have good flavors, but are not sweet. So this brings me to the Meiloorun Juice which I also got at Ronto’s Roasters later; pineapple, lemonade, blueberry, cranberry, lemon juice, and desert pear, just too sweet, couldn’t finish it.
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| Toydarian Toymaker Stuffies, photo by the author. |
My objective was to go to places that I missed last time. This includes Droid Depot. It has automatic doors that shoosh open Star Trek-style. The shop is interesting, featuring the full size Artoo Detoo for $25,000! There is patches, pins, and droid parts. I was interested in the DJ Rex, it looked to be about full size (just saw him at Oga’s Cantina), voice and movement, $150. The next room was large, it had two areas for droid builders to assemble their droids, over it was a conveyor belt with droid legs that went around the room. I’m kinda not-interested in getting a droid (except Rex) because it is small sized. It would be better with something like a mouse droid. Plus, the cast member at the assembly point was seriously perturbed when I said I did not have a reservation and was just looking. No sale there! Next, I did see Black Spire Outfitters, but I’m not interested in any costume (especially ones you can’t wear in Galaxy’s Edge) yet. So the other store was the Toydarian Toymaker, a must if you have time, there are many wooden and plastic toys. Plus, stuffies of almost every character (except for Teek! Though again he may not be canon). There is an assortment of toys hanging from the ceiling; a Millennium Falcon model in an asteroid chase and a toy Star Destroyer. I picked up some Chance Cubes in a bag and an Admiral Ackbar puppet-like figure. I would like an Admiral Ackbar plastic swimmer toy! Also, a Teek pull toy or wind-up figure!
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| Vi Moradi, Rey, and Chewbacca, photo by the author. |
I went to Resistance Supply, two displays; they had helmets, full costumes, caps, and patches. I would like identification pictures so they can show Finn, General Organa, Poe Dameron, and Rey. They would be badges so you can get one of yourself too. I looked into the Batuuan Spira, a metal gift card that you need $100 to activate, those Batuuans have deep pockets, I would think $60 is affordable. Still, the one item that fascinated me was the Resistance MRE, this is in the clear plastic box like Luke had in Empire Strikes Back, even more the snacks, crackers, pretzels, and lemon candies, inside look the same! It was $24.95, but my funds were not at Batuuan Spira levels. Next time. On my way to the Resistance Base, I saw Rey and Vi Moradi, I will say I missed Vi the last time. They were leading a line of kids to the base. The Resistance show was Vi, Rey, and Chewbacca at the Resistance X-Wing that they are trying to repair. Vi asks the audience if anyone is an engineer. There isn’t any showtimes so I imagine you can ask a cast member (Batuuan resident) when Vi or Kylo Ren show up. Millennium Falcon, I went in early in the day, maybe a fifteen minute wait Single Rider line. Had fun. Second time, later, one hour wait, no Single Rider line, the queue was overflow and went out a hangar door to the back stage area. It had crates which was semi-onstage, but seemed dangerous with a kid yanking on wires from an electrical box. The downside though was the pilots were terrible, they crashed into everything, ignored flying towards the train so no second Coaxium. Not fun though I did get to be Gunner. The ride itself is ok. There was some variations like no asteroids, the last one was so much damage there was some extra material. I will also mention you have a chance to take pics and video if you are Engineer or Gunner, but probably not as Pilot. I hope every Star Warrior gets the chance to go to Galaxy’s Edge, especially before Rise of Skywalker!
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