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Star Wars @ WDW - 2016

By Jake Parrillo
As part of our trip to Walt Disney World this Spring (full post here), we had a few new experiences including going all-in on Star Wars.  And the reason why we went all-in on Star Wars is because Disney is kinda going all-in on Star Wars.

It started with seeing the newest Star Wars movie The Force Awakens with Granddad and Uncle Peter during the holiday season.  The girls loved the movie and loved the heroine Rey.  

So, for Easter, Nat decided to get both Ellie and Sadie Rey costumes for our trip.  They couldn't try them on fast enough!  

We decided to wear the Rey outfits on the day we were going to Hollywood Studios.  That's where Disney is building the new Star Wars land and where most of the Star Wars activity is located.  

Here they are all doll'd up like Rey and wielding tubes of bubbles as light sabres outside of our room at the Polynesian.  Check out the hair!  Nat did it up just like Rey's.

One of the things you get to do is to interact with Jawas.  Yeah...like real Jawas.  This one was super nice.  And...turns out that true to their plotline in the Star Wars movies, a Jawa is basically a junk collector.  So, you can 'trade' with them.  As long as it is metal!  We had a few Disney Pins with us, so we gave SD them to trade.  The Jawa, examined the pin.  Touched it, looked at it.  Turned it over.  Then...stuck the pin in their little pouch and pulled out something.  

It was this matchbox car on the right!  Weird, right?  But cool.  She traded again, and got that bottle of Germ-X lotion!?!  Awesome.  The Jawas kinda freaked Ellie out, but we traded on her behalf and got a part of a toy Droid.


Here's the girls posing with a Rey display:


The Storm Troopers patrol the park. They stopped Sadie because of her Rey outfit and interrogated her about being a Jedi.  It was awesome!

Just one more memory that we've gained down at Walt Disney World!
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