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May the Wallet Be With You: The Galaxy's Edge Splurge Guide with a Jedi Mind Trick
What would it look like to spend an entire day exclusively in Galaxy's Edge as a dedicated Star Wars fan? We tackle this question by creating our own immersive itineraries focused solely on Batuu, breaking down every experience, meal, and purchase along the way.
Our detailed plans take you from rope drop to park close, maximizing every moment in this meticulously crafted Star Wars land. We start with early morning strategies – should you head straight to Rise of the Resistance or save it for later? – before mapping out perfect timing for iconic experiences like building your own lightsaber at Savi's Workshop ($219.99) and creating a droid companion at Droid Depot ($119.99).
Food and beverages play a crucial role in any Galaxy's Edge adventure. We share why the Ronto Morning Wrap makes the perfect breakfast ("hands down my favorite breakfast in the park"), when to schedule your Oga's Cantina reservations for maximum enjoyment, and whether those colorful milk concoctions are worth trying. From the Andorian Fried Tip-yip to the signature Jedi Mind Trick cocktail, we cover all the must-try consumables that enhance the immersive experience.
Beyond rides and food, we discuss shopping strategies at Dok-Ondar's Den of Antiquities, character encounters with Kylo Ren and Rey, and how to experience the land's special ambiance as day turns to night. Most importantly, we break down the complete cost – revealing how a full day exclusively in Galaxy's Edge can easily reach $800-1200 when including all experiences, meals, and souvenirs. Is it worth the splurge for the dedicated Star Wars fan who may not care about the rest of Disneyland? We think you might find the Force is strong with this particular adventure.
Here's who we are and what is in store for you
Hello and welcome to Cheers to Ears, where today we're back to two people in the room.
Speaker 2:Yes our guests have left us.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's weird looking across with no one there.
Speaker 2:So now it's just about drinking and talking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but now our sound's gonna be better. Yes, yeah, that was an experiment last week, and today we're gonna drink one of my favorite drinks, the Jedi Mind Trick. I've never had this. You've had it in the park. Yes, we did not get exactly right. I'll tell you already. Oh, really, no, it doesn't taste exactly the same. It's a lot more sweet, but we didn't want to have the exact same ingredients. Okay, I think it's a couple of the things we've changed. The one of the things we've changed, it's a mainstay. It's made with Kettle One, botanical Grapefruit and Rose Vodka, brovo, lucky, falernum, liqueur Bowls, blue Carousel, white Grape Juice, lime Juice and Grapefruit Bitters. I think it was the Lemon Bitters that makes it even more tart than the Grapefruit.
Speaker 2:Yes, I would think so. That's what I think the difference was and I couldn't find grapefruit bitters, so that's why we went with the lemon bitters. Uh-huh, and we didn't use the same vodka. We used the Eddie's, or Deep Eddie's, grapefruit vodka, grapefruit vodka, which we had, which we already had. It was a different type of flurnum, yeah, and a different type of carousel. Different type of carousel, different brand, which probably, I mean it might make a little bit of a difference I don't think that makes too much.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was just a splash and it sold for $17.50. Not bad, not bad.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for your two-drink limit.
Speaker 2:It's in a martini glass. Yeah, with ice it's not as tart as the Sunspot. That one was very tart. Yeah, that was this one is is, like you said, a sweet tart. Yeah, candy flavor. If blue had a flavor, this would be it that's what I said it's not bad. I'm curious now to try, since you said it's off from what.
Speaker 1:You've gotten it at ogre's yeah, just a little, but you could, I could taste the. It's just that little tartness like in the back of your mouth that you get at the very end after you, right like after you drink. Yeah, the lingering tartness that I don't think is there, unless unless I always have a like a yub nub first and then this is my second drink and it hits the palate right.
Speaker 2:And that's the thing about galaxies. When you go into ogres, right, you have to get two drinks, but you only have 45 minutes, so you're drinking really fast, whereas you might be more relaxed.
Speaker 1:I don't know how time that is, though I feel like I'm always there longer than 45 minutes I don't know.
Speaker 2:Probably I don't think they enforce that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because it's just well, you sit with like if you go by yourself. You sit with like 15 of your closest friends yeah.
Speaker 2:so this had a shot and a half or one and a half ounces of the grapefruit vodka, an ounce of grape juice, an ounce of falernum, three quarters of an ounce of lime juice, splash of blue curacao, and then a dash of the lemon bitters, and that was how we made these.
Speaker 1:Made in a mixing glass or a shaker with poured over ice, over Christy's ice.
Speaker 2:Thank you, Christy.
Speaker 1:Thank you, christy. Yeah, this is good. The cocktail ice from the machine, yes, bought at your local Costco.
Speaker 2:Fancy schmancy, but I'm pleased with this one. This one will probably stick out in my mind oh good, I think in a year when we get back to our drink episode. Yes, we should maybe do those every half year, or something, maybe we just do the I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't know, We'll figure it out.
Speaker 2:We'll figure it out. We've got six months to think about it.
Speaker 1:But today we're going to talk all about Galaxy's Edge, all about it, and with a different twist than we usually do yes, we usually just and if we're going to the park and having the land in the land and as part of the Disneyland park- yes, right, the whole experience. Right, that's what we usually do.
Speaker 2:This is if you are a Star Wars fan and not a Disney fan.
Speaker 1:Yeah, not necessarily Disney, but you love Star Wars.
Speaker 2:And you want to spend the whole day in Galaxy's Edge? Right, we've come up with a plan for you.
Speaker 1:Right, we both have our own separate plans.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Separate, but probably pretty identical. Pretty identical, I bet. I don't know. Like I said, we don't. Like I said before, we don't talk about this first, we come up with a topic and we have our day.
Speaker 2:You know what's funny is now off the top of your head before we get into this. Okay, okay, mine required, of course, spending money to do all the things right and and whatnot. So, with a park, a one-day park ticket, non-park hopper, oh yeah, and you don't need a multi-pass. I did not add that.
Speaker 1:Mine's at least an 800 day I did not add the park ticket. So yeah, mine is gonna be, mine's gonna push like 1200, okay, at the end I haven't. I haven't added up for how much I spend in galaxy's edge. I have all the prices. I looked them all up, did you? I couldn't look up for souvenirs. I found a page. It's been a. It's a couple months old. I think it was disney food blog or one of those websites.
Speaker 1:Okay, it has every all the merchandise at doc on doors and how much they all cost, with pictures. So so I went shopping. Yeah, I scrolled through and shopped. I didn't buy too much. I went like so this room we're in now, this room in my house, this is where I think it should be a Jedi lair. Ooh, that's what my dream is. It's not. I have less votes than my significant other. I have like 10 less votes when we have a committee meeting.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Right, so she's vetoed it every time.
Speaker 2:And you don't have enough children to outplay that.
Speaker 1:No, I've lost 10. I think I have no votes. Actually, I think I lose 10 to 0 every time, so I vote yes, she votes for 10 votes and I lose 10 to 0. Yeah, but yeah, my dream, like, like, like, you're building a lightsaber, kind of yeah, I got it that kind of room, so I bought a few items for this room.
Speaker 2:Oh okay, that's why I said that because mine were just buying some things yeah, just stuff, yeah, which and I don't. Well, I don't think I went completely overboard, but maybe I went a little bit over.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would never buy this stuff actually, so this isn't something I'd actually go buy. Yeah, this is if I went there as a star wars fan only to spend star wars money.
Speaker 2:Yeah, one time so if you have a huge star wars fan in your life who's not a disney fan, you know, a thousand bucks if you, if you're willing to give them a thousand dollars to go do all the Star Wars things and hang out in a Star Wars land, this might be the plan for you. This could be the plan this would be a great gift to them, potentially.
Speaker 1:So how would you start your day?
Speaker 2:Well, of course it starts at rope drop. It always does, and I would be rope dropping. Rise of the Resistance. Oh you are, I, it always does. Yeah, and I would be rope dropping. Rise of the Resistance. Oh you are, I did not do that. Oh you didn't. Mm-mm. So everybody's running back there. And I assumed it would be. You didn't necessarily stay at the hotel so you could rope drop Rise and Galaxy's Edge, because the hotel you can only Fantasyland or Tomorrow, tomorrow, land, but rope dropping, rise of the resistance. So 8, am you're going to rise? Yes, and then once, once that's over, I head over and do smugglers run?
Speaker 1:oh, you do, both rides right away first. The first thing of the day is to do those two rides okay, so I don't start that way and my plan I, if I want to do a three day, three ride, maybe if I wanted to ride, rise three times during the day.
Speaker 2:Which I did.
Speaker 1:That's a good idea right, I didn't push that aggressive. I wanted the whole Star Wars experience, not just Rise-based, because later I might have to stand in line, stand in line, right. So I went to first. When I walk into Batuu, I purchased one of those metal gift cards, put $1,000 on it. A gift card right, because I could use it for anything Disney later.
Speaker 2:Yes, you could, I can't.
Speaker 1:So, after I figured out how much I'm going to spend that day, and then you have the souvenir of the gift card. It's a cool souvenir metal gift card that they have. It's really cool. It's free with purchase, so that's the first thing I do. Okay, then I head over and have at 8.30, I have a Ronto morning wrap and my black calf cold brew to start my day.
Speaker 2:Mine's very close to that. Yeah, I thought it would be so. After ryes and smugglers, then I'm ready for a little bit of breakfast. So I go over and get a Ronto wrap. Right, I mobile order it, of course, but I switched it up with the Black Calf Cold Brew. The Black Calf Cold Brew and I went to Katsakis Kettle.
Speaker 1:Okay, right there in the shopping center.
Speaker 2:They have a Black Calf Slushie they do, which is cold brew slushie, chocolate cookie, sweet cream and cream-filled chocolate cookie crumbles. Yes, for $7.99.
Speaker 1:I know I thought about that. It's not a mobile order place and so I didn't get it every. I always got the Black Calf Cold Brew because it was easy to get, Easier to get Right.
Speaker 2:Understandable, yeah, and I will actually have one of those later in the day. Right, because you've got to have two as I do stay hydrated.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I and I need my coffee and it's one of the top five, maybe top three, maybe top one coffees in all of disney. Now, have you had that one? The black calf cold brew? Yeah, oh, many times, oh, okay, yeah, it's my go-to. This is my go-to breakfast whenever I can. Yeah, is the ronto morning wrap hands down my favorite breakfast? Oh yeah yeah, it makes my, it makes me smile in the morning, it makes you, it makes your day start off.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't think there's any other breakfast in the park.
Speaker 1:That's as good not, no, not that good no, not even a breakfast chimichanga, sorry dj. Oh, pretty good yeah sorry, dj, that's especially three breakfast chimichangas. Yes, so so. Yeah, so so you had breakfast. What time around that Nine o'clock or so?
Speaker 2:Well, I'm thinking Rise of the Resistance, so it starts at eight. You're looking at a half an hour. It's 23 minutes for the ride, right, and I'm thinking by then you're going to be in line for another 30 minutes. You're probably going to be killing an hour and a half just doing those two rides. Yeah, see, that's's and that's fine because it's it will take an hour just to do rise, to be in line and to do the ride right and then run over and do smugglers run.
Speaker 1:So I'm looking at breakfast at about 9 30, probably 9 30 to 10 okay, yeah, so at my 9 am is when I'm going to ride smugglers run. Okay, hop on smuggler's Run at 9am. I'm only doing it once.
Speaker 2:Okay, all day long. I think I squeezed two rides in there.
Speaker 1:You know I might if I was more aggressive with the rides there.
Speaker 2:but Because it has a single rider is why I did it a second time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then at 10, I just shop for an hour. Okay, one hour of shopping, and I'll go over what I bought at the end.
Speaker 2:Okay, so at 10 o'clock, from 10 to 11, I'm doing Savi's Workshop. I'm building a lightsaber.
Speaker 1:Oh, we might see each other, because I'm building a lightsaber at 11. At 11. Okay.
Speaker 2:That's my whole thing is I'm going to go in there going to build the lightsaber $219. $219.
Speaker 1:Yeah, $219.99. And $219.99.
Speaker 2:And the reason I went with that at 10 o'clock to 11 o'clock, because at 11.15, Kylo Ren and the Stormtroopers come out for their first appearance and I'm wanting to see all the characters Right. So I actually scheduled all the characters into my day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, see, I didn't look at their times at all. I did. I put in times to find characters an hour and a half in there just to walk around and look for characters during the day, but I forgot to look at exact their schedules. That are on there.
Speaker 2:Now you can't find anything for Chewbacca Right and for Chewbacca he's just one and Rey probably. Rey Chewbacca? And who's the resistance gal with the purple hair?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I knew her name forever, yeah.
Speaker 2:Anyway, they just wander around at different times.
Speaker 1:Darn it you got me.
Speaker 2:So anyway, I figured I'd catch them at some point. But if they did have times to meet the characters or that they would be out, I wanted to make sure I saw the characters Right, so that would be Kylo Ren and the Stormtroopers at 11.15.
Speaker 1:So at 11, I'm building my lightsaber. Okay, For $2.99. And I didn't talk about are you shopping at all in the market during your day?
Speaker 2:That actually. So we swap places. Okay, so we should talk about the market, because it's a really cool area. Yes, it is. It has that open air market feel to it, which is really cool, and there's lots of just stuff to look at Right and a whole bunch of stuff like right in a row yeah, it's all different little kiosk kind of things, but they're all like indented in, yeah.
Speaker 1:So you walk in, one's like a stuffed animal area, yeah. And then you get the little shoulder right and they have, yeah, all sorts of different ones games and stuff, ones like posters or pens yeah, oh, that I wear, I didn't add a pen. I didn't add a pen either. Oh, I would need the pens. Yeah, if I'm, I don't need the pens, I would need the pins so okay, that was fun.
Speaker 2:I just had black spire outfitters, which is all those little shops, right, doc on doors?
Speaker 1:okay, on dars yeah, so that's what I'm doing from 11 to 1230. No, yeah, 11 to 10 to 11. 10 to 11.
Speaker 2:And I'm after I go see. So I have all that in Smuggler's Run. So after I see Kylo Ren and the Stormtroopers, which I'm thinking will take at least a half an hour, it might take me up till noon. I'm thinking from noon to two. That's when I'm going to go to Smuggler's Run, the single rider line again, and hit Black Spire Outfitters and Doc Ondars for some shopping With the goal to buy more Kyber crystals, and so I didn't actually look what was in there because you can't necessarily from the app and that's all I did. But it's stuffed porg.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2:Those were my two. These are things I want to buy.
Speaker 1:Right, that'd be a good friend for Chuby here yeah, you would be who sits next to us every day. So at 1230 is my lunchtime. Okay, I'm going to Docking Bay, 7. Okay, where I'm sticking with my usuals. Again, the Andorian fried tip-yip. Okay, love that. They say it tastes like chicken. Yes, that's what I've heard. It's $15.49. And then, of course, a black calf cold brew for $7.29.
Speaker 2:That's what I have for lunch For another one, right. So I thought for me, the Ronto Wrap is pretty filling, uh-huh, and I pushed mine back a couple hours after you because you ate right off the bat, right off the bat. So Because you ate right off the bat, right off the bat, so because I went a couple hours, now it's 2 o'clock for me and that's when I go. I have a 2 o'clock reservation for Oga's and that's where I go and do my lunch. So looked at the drink list of what I wanted to get. Okay, what did you get? I got a Yub Nub. You can't go wrong, can't go wrong with a Yub nub. Okay, just you know, can't go wrong, can't go wrong with a yub nub.
Speaker 2:I did get the surabot valley harvest board, which is sourdough bread, ahi verde, infused pork spread and spicy salsa criolla. Okay, so a little bit of food to have with my drink. Okay, and that was lunch, because I figured I didn't need. My dinner is going to be big, I didn't need to go out all out on the lunch. Just something to counteract the two drinks. Because I also, while I was looking through the, the app, I saw that they had something called the broadberry meadow, which is one of their new drinks, which has honey, gin, lemon juice, pear syrup and it's garnished with edible flowers. That to me sounded really good. 1950, the food was 18 and the yub nub is 1850. So all total tax and tip, I'm probably looking at about 75. Lunch perfect. I actually spend a. I spend almost 200 bucks on food.
Speaker 1:I think yeah, yeah I have my food token. Yeah, yeah, okay, oh, perfect, perfect's wait till you get to my. We'll get to my Ogas time later, so what?
Speaker 2:are. So after lunch, what are you doing?
Speaker 1:So after I have lunch at 2 pm is when I cruise around and interact with the characters until 3.30. Okay, so I just walk around, see if I can see the droids riding around, see if I can talk to ray for a second.
Speaker 2:Say hi to chewy, see if I get any photo ops with any of them yeah, while they're walking around, right, get a walking away and send the picture to leah right, like we do, yeah yeah, he's checking out his behind. She loves that guy. She does.
Speaker 1:Sorry brad, sorry brad yeah, there's a true love, true love in her life. Never go away. The big furries yep, that's a um hallmark movie probably.
Speaker 2:Yeah, leah and chewy, leah and chewy the hallmark movie, come up with it. Oh, there we go, leah and chewy. A christmas special that'll be.
Speaker 1:That'll be an episode upcoming, for maybe around next christmas that could be so then at 3 30 is when I ride um rise, single, single, okay. So I try to get my single pass around there. That's $25. Yes, for the single pass, and I do it around $3.30. So that's the second ride, you've gone on. Second ride. Okay, this is Star Wars based. It's not really ride based. My idea of today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, to me the ride really enhances the Star Wars feel it does enhances the star wars it does, and I think a three day, three ride thing might have been cooler yeah but I hung out. So when I went by myself just a few weeks ago, uh huh I I will spend a lot of time in in galaxy's edge and I didn't ride either the ride the whole time. Oh, I rode neither ride. I even try to go there and ride rise, for some reason.
Speaker 1:Didn't cross my mind I was doing other stuff yeah, I've rode rise so many times now I have to in such a short period of time I've been on it a lot it hasn't been open very long for how much we've written.
Speaker 2:We've wrote it no, because it opened. Well, for us on the on the west coast it opened and then the whole parks closed, like two months later, uh-huh. So well, no, it was open for a while okay all that I did those times it opened in june.
Speaker 2:No, it did star wars land open in june. I'm just thinking of that family trip I couldn't make because I was sick and but rise of the resistance didn't open till the following january and then by mid-march the parks closed because of the pandemic right. So it was only two months and in those two months I wrote it like four or five times yeah, I've wrote it so many times.
Speaker 1:I mean I would use that 10 o'clock rule like like clockwork, yeah, and I got two, two, sometimes three times a day. Yeah, never, never, rope dropped it neither have I no and I always, always just got I'd hang out in galaxies at just enough time, or if it broke down, I would hop right on. Yeah. Stuff like that, so I didn't even worry about it this time. I walked by it like 10 times yeah.
Speaker 1:The lines were so long. When I was there, though, for everything, it was very, very busy. It was, and it wasn't worth $25 to me to ride it.
Speaker 2:No, no, no. It's one of those. Very few of the rides now are worth the money, right, except for I think, the only one that really to me is worth the money is Cosmic Rewind.
Speaker 1:That's worth the money.
Speaker 2:Guardians of the Galaxy yeah, that's a must, but that one's only like 15 bucks.
Speaker 1:That's a must one to me, yeah, yeah. And I think Rise is better if you have someone with you in your group, especially that first part when they capture you. Yeah, it's more fun. It's more fun to goof I'm. I'm kind of goofy on the ride.
Speaker 2:I talked to the, I talked to the animatronics and you want the first order to be like staring you down yeah, right, and I had.
Speaker 1:I had all the seniors last year talking back to the people when we wrote it all. We all went at the same time. Yeah, at the end of the night and and I forgot what Eli said he said something hilarious Like. Something like when Kylo Ren came out like didn't we go to high school together? Something like that he yelled really loud hey, didn't we go to high school together? Something like that. It was hilarious. So I think that's more fun in a group, with a group.
Speaker 2:Yeah, with a group.
Speaker 1:yeah, it's a great ride visually and everything by itself, but I've ridden it so many times.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So that's why I do it at 3.30. Are you at your 3.30 yet?
Speaker 2:No, okay, let's catch up From like 2 to 3, I'm into Ogas After that Luke Skywalker, which doesn't look like Luke at all, but I thought if I'm a Star Wars fan, I still want to meet him. He's at three, the Mandalorian is at 320. And Boba Fett is at four. Those are both worth it. So I'm just going to hang out and see all three of those characters all in a row. So that's what I'm just going to kill an hour doing that. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1:I'm missing all of them that stinks, Because at four o'clock I'm going to.
Speaker 2:I don't think that was the only time they came out.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah. So I don't even know what times they're there, because I didn't look at all.
Speaker 2:I didn't even cross my mind.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just thought I would walk around and try to find them.
Speaker 2:Actually that was my first plan, and then I thought well, let me look at characters and see who actually has set times, so then I can work around it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so 4 pm I'm building a droid, okay, which is 119.99 for the droid, okay, and then I'm gonna buy the backpack for 59.99. There's a backpack for the droid droid backpack. You can put the droid in the backpack and carry it around and go in the backpack oh, so his head sticks out, I think there's a little flap, I don't know I have. That's one thing I have never done is build the droid right because they're big and I gotta take it home yeah, it's, it's been.
Speaker 2:Oh good point yeah, that's why I keep thinking about it that's where you take, like the medium-sized suitcase, because if you're checking your luggage, I could check it.
Speaker 1:I could check a bag and go for my couple days sometime, and I have plenty of room. But I just haven't thought ahead of that. So now I'm at. Now I'm at 5 pm okay.
Speaker 2:So after I go I go meet Luke Skywalker and Mandalorian and Boba Fett. I'm going to slowly meander my way over, do a little more shopping and stuff Resistance Supply kiosk Look at what they have. Because I'm headed back over, because now I'm doing my single pass for Rise of the Resistance. Okay, I scheduled that for 4.30. So I've had plenty of time to see all the characters and now I'm headed over there at 4.30 to go for my second trip on Rise of the Resistance. So that's what I'm doing and you know I'm assuming that's going to be another 45 minutes or so that that'll take.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, we are assuming a lot here. We are assuming that people know what building a lightsaber even means, savi's Workshop and Droid Depot Should we talk about that at all? Oh, and what Droid Depot is? Sure, because we didn't mention that at all. We just said, oh, I'm going to build a lightsaber, I'm going to go build a droid, Like everyone listening just knows right.
Speaker 2:So I've walked into the Droidot because they let anybody walk in there. Now savvies you have to actually pay to go and be in there.
Speaker 1:You do because it's an experience unto itself. So which and I haven't done that you oh yeah, if you're a star wars fan, it is a must do at the park I really want to do it for the experience, but I don't really want a lightsaber well, maybe I'll build one next time, because I've never built one.
Speaker 1:I watched eli build build one Okay. And then I went and bought because I really want an Anakin's lightsaber from Doc Ondors, yeah, okay. And so I went up there and bought it after that, so I watched him build one. There's no reason to take two home.
Speaker 2:And they let you pick parts. Uh-huh, pick what color your kyber crystal is Right, and pick what color your kyber crystal is right, and so the kyber crystal is what color your, what color it's going to be right right and I won't spoil the experience of what you, what happens down there, okay, but you basically, you basically build all the different parts of it.
Speaker 1:There's different styles of lightsaber, like elemental, and you have different styles that fit together, like like wood looking pieces or steel.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And you get to pick the different hilt and the different parts to screw together. Yeah, and you build it right there and they give you a bin with all the parts to your style. Oh, nice. Yeah, I don't know if they still do it, but back then you got a little pin with your style and you put the pin on, and that's how they knew which kind you had.
Speaker 2:Okay, do you get to keep the pin? Keep the pin, oh, excellent.
Speaker 1:Yep, that's probably Eli's favorite part of the experience is getting a pin and so you build your lightsaber and then it's a great little ceremony. It's amazing, it's very Star Wars.
Speaker 2:Very cool, see, and that's the thing. Like I said, I want to experience that, but I don't really necessarily want a lightsaber, because I know it's just going to sit in the closet and gather dust.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we were just talking yesterday. I need to buy something where I'm going to hang the lightsabers in this room that we have. Oh, that would be a good one, and I need to. Eli has like five or six kyber crystals for his, I think, I don't know.
Speaker 2:He, he's got a few.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know DJ had one which was great because for Christmas and his birthday it was just me buying Kyber crystals for him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's awesome. Oh here, here's a green one, here's a. Now, the black one is the one that's hard to get right, I think so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because it's a red.
Speaker 2:It's in a red box, right, but the surprise in every tan or so, yeah, it's a black crystal right.
Speaker 2:So then real quick at droid depot, you just pick your parts of your droid, you pick what kind of droid you want to build they're going by the conveyor, all the parts, you just put it together yeah whatever color you could build a red, white and blue, r2d2 a black and yellow bb8 yeah, and, and you can walk through the Droid Depot because it's not a big ceremony type of deal and you can watch other people building their droids and stuff and they have people who will grab the parts and attach them for you and yeah, right, it's still kind of cool and that's why I had it. That was my next thing after I get out of Rise and I've done a little more shopping and stuff, I head over and do the Droid Depot.
Speaker 1:So what time is that about?
Speaker 2:Well, like I'm saying about 530.
Speaker 1:530, okay, yeah, so 5 is when I go to Oga's. Okay, that's kind of my dinner.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Right, but I don't eat a lot in the tip-yip, and what I'm going to eat, to your surprise, is the Surbot Harvest Bread. Oh, okay, with a Yub Nub.
Speaker 2:There's not a whole lot of food options available there, so it's not like out of 90 things we picked the same thing. It was like out of three.
Speaker 1:I know we still did, though.
Speaker 2:And the other two or three don't have meat.
Speaker 1:But I'm going to do something I've always wanted to do and I'm splurging and getting the rancor beer flight. Oh, board, you can take home with the rancor teeth oh, I've always wanted that, but it's so big again to fit my suitcase. Yeah, it's 75 and it comes with the four beers, I think. Come in the thing and you drink the beers and you take the whole thing home oh, at the end. Yeah, that sounds fun. Just to pour four beers some night, okay, and home and drink them out of some teeth and it sounds like a good evening oh yeah, okay, I think I've seen somebody who's ordered that I've wanted.
Speaker 1:Every time I go in I look at it and think oh, christy will find out how much this costs and she'll yell at me when I get home yeah, I really then I'd say thank you, christy the.
Speaker 2:The food I was getting was spicy. I really wanted another angry, bloody rancor, uh-huh, but I was like that's spice on other spice and I wanted something drinks that were a little more cooling right to go with that.
Speaker 1:So that's why I didn't order one of those, because I really want another one of those so then I'm gonna walk around batu at dusk and just check out the night time it's different and I'm gonna walk, re-walk through everywhere, yeah, in the evening, back to back over by rise, just to see it not ride it yet just to see it over by the jedi little kiosk thing, back over by kylo Ren's ship and just walk around the market and just check it out at dusk. Yeah, that's around 7. I'm not sure like Droid Depot.
Speaker 2:I'm assuming that's probably I'd be done by 6, maybe 6.30. And I just have up until 8 o'clock whenever that for a couple hours. I like people watching. I might do smugglers run another time I might for single, single writer, okay, and just look at all the other shops and just walk around, take it all in.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's part of it too, is just take it all in and this, this drink's playing some kind of jedi mind trick on me because I keep hitting my microphone with it. Well, I keep spilling it. So yeah, you do. I've spilled this like seven.
Speaker 2:Yeah, playing some kind of Jedi mind trick on me because I keep hitting my microphone with it. Well, I keep smelling it. Yeah, you do. I've smelled this like seven times.
Speaker 1:Yeah, playing some mind tricks on it. So we're at 8 o'clock now I'm going to go. I know you probably don't like these, I don't love them, but I have to have one because I'm there. I'm going to go grab a blue milk.
Speaker 2:I was wondering if one of us would do blue milk, yeah, or a mixture, or they say it's green milk. To me it's like yellow milk yeah.
Speaker 1:So well, when I'm with someone, I usually get both one of each and then get a cup and then mix them. They taste a lot. I like that taste a little better.
Speaker 2:Oh, it tastes better.
Speaker 1:But I'm just getting blue milk right now, Just original the OG milk. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Out of the moisture farming of Luke Skywalker.
Speaker 2:Which is an actual milk. It's rice milk and some other stuff, and there's some coconut involved, I think.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's, but it's like a slushy type of thing.
Speaker 1:So that's at 8 o'clock and I'm still just, I'm just hanging out. Okay, no big deal right now. You know, this is where I would, you know, know if I rode, if I rode rise earlier, if I rope dropped it. This is where I might do my single pass, but oh, eight o'clock, around eight o'clock.
Speaker 2:yeah, wait a minute. So did you do single pass earlier? Yeah, I did. Okay, I did it at 3 30, okay, so I still rode two rides and I've ridden now four or five. Yeah, right, so my eight o'clock. As i'm'm looking around, I'm like, well, and this is why. So I started creating this list and then I started adding, shifting some things around, and it's why I went later with the food, because at 8 o'clock, docking Bay 7, food and cargo nighttime gathering Right 89 bucks.
Speaker 1:Yes, it is. That's why I didn't do it. I didn't Didn't sound right to me.
Speaker 2:Probably not, but cheeseburger croquettes, assorted cheeses and fruits, wonton, citrus, ginger, chicken salad, taco pastries, chocolate. You can get sodas. They say specialty-themed non-alcoholic beverages, which is your mouffe juice, which I always get a mouffe juice whenever I go. That is your moof juice, which I always get a moof juice whenever I go. That's some good stuff. Fatro, which is basically Arnold Palmer with Desert.
Speaker 1:Pear Okay.
Speaker 2:And then the cold brew Black Calf. Okay, those are their specialty non-alcoholic drinks. So that's when I'm having my cold brew Black Calf, and maybe a moof juice as well. But I thought I'm going to do that because then there's a private viewing of the Shadows of Memory of Skywalker saga at 8.45. And it's a projection show up on the side of the hills above the Millennium Falcon and I'm just going to sit and watch that until that ends. And then the fireworks start going off at 9.35. Right, I'm probably not staying for all of the fireworks, because at about 9.45, I'm making my way over all of the fireworks, because at about 945, I'm making my way over, because I want to end the day writing rise of the resistance one last time.
Speaker 1:Perfect, perfect. So I skipped the whole projection show. Okay, I might watch, try to watch it anyway, right, but just not private viewing, right, and pay all the money, yeah, but then I'm going gonna watch the fireworks, the fire of the rising moons, I'm gonna watch that, and then once it's over because it'll be before 10 that it's over, because I just have to get in the line yes, before 10 pm yeah, I just have to step in that line, like we did the one time where they put the rope behind us as we walked behind us right and I just got to get in there.
Speaker 1:the closer to 10, the better for me that I can walk onto it, because you end up waiting so little. Such little time, do you wait?
Speaker 2:Pretty much at 10 o'clock.
Speaker 1:The closer to 10 you get, the less time you actually wait, because it's just better that way.
Speaker 2:The last time when we rode it at 10, we had to go from cars, I think we rode cars and we booked it all the way over from cars radiator springs, racers, all the way over there, but we couldn't walk directly over there. We had to walk all the way around through like fantasy land or tomorrowland tomorrowland, and through the like the back entrance to get over there, because everything was closed off. Yep, for the fireworks for the fireworks or nighttime parade.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it was the fireworks. Yeah, because they were going off and the people were taking pictures right in front of me.
Speaker 2:And we're plowing through people. Yeah, I kind of ran into a lady.
Speaker 1:She stopped right in where she wasn't supposed to.
Speaker 2:And we made it, and we were the last ones on.
Speaker 1:Right, but the weird part is ending our night in batu. Yes, right, because I have my rituals. You do that, I do. One of one of my main rituals is saying goodbye to the castle. Yeah, and that's just only the last night I leave, so I don't do it every night. It's the last night I'm there, yeah, but do I say goodbye to the millennium falcon? Maybe, maybe. And then do I like, walk with my head down all the way through main street, so I don't see anything. What do you do? You're at Disney. How do you not stop? We'll see.
Speaker 2:If this is for somebody who's not a big Disney fan, but huge he won't care. He won't care.
Speaker 1:He will. He'll change his mind.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is true.
Speaker 1:He'll change your mind. I told someone that I work with last night that he said he doesn't like roller coasters. Right, I said go to disneyland with me, sit next to me, just ride one. Pick two roller coasters and ride them with me.
Speaker 1:I guarantee I'll switch your mind yeah, disney will change your mind because, disney roller coasters hit different they do, they'll be fun, they'll have a blast. And yeah, yeah, yeah, one kid was one kid senior last year. We went with swore. He didn't like roller coasters. He begrudgingly got on a credit coaster with us because we went there, we rope dropped it and walked right on. It was a walk on, it was a. He goes. If it's less than a five minute wait, I'll ride it okay it was like a three minute wait when it went there was no one in line and so we walked right on.
Speaker 1:He went and he went on it again right afterwards. He's never rode a roller coaster his life, so he didn't know right. Oh okay, yeah, so that's our day at galaxy's edge. Yeah, a full day. And oh, let me break down how much I spent. You have all the things. Yeah, let me break down how much I spent. So so, of course, we already talked about food and experiences, so my food cost total was 155, 56 as well as food.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I spent. I spent a little, probably a little over $200.
Speaker 1:Yeah, probably you had that experience. You did. Yeah, right, the experiences the lightsaber and the droid building with the backpack was $399.99 altogether.
Speaker 2:Oh, and with the backpack.
Speaker 1:With the backpack, droid and lightsaber $400. Yep, okay, so the Rise was $25 for the multi-pass, yeah Right. And so with the Rise was $25 for the multi-pass, yeah Right. And my shopping? Here's what I bought at Doc Ondors I bought a Yoda mini bust for $110. Okay, I bought a Temple Guard mask that would look awesome in here $130.
Speaker 2:I didn't go crazy. I had a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 1:I love for like $350. Right. I didn't buy any more lightsabers, right. I bought a Holocron bunch of stuff for I love for like 350, right, I didn't buy any more lightsabers, right, I bought a holocron for 50, which I don't have one. So then I bought four kyber crystals okay for 12.99 each, and a jedi mug. There's a really cool coffee mug that I can have in this room. There you go, okay. So simple, pretty simple, really, yeah, and that's a total of 369.94 on merch was a total of $950.47.
Speaker 1:I spent that day that's without park ticket, so I didn't know about the backpack.
Speaker 2:I probably would have thrown on the backpack. So mine is at about $625 for food and experiences, droid and lightsaber Right, and then $25 extra bucks for Rise Rise Right, and then 25 extra bucks for rise. Yeah, I'm looking at 625. Now then I've got kyber crystals. I'll probably get a couple of those and a stuffed porg. I might get a t-shirt or some article of clothing. Yeah, I've never really liked the hats there. I have one. Someone gave me one of the hats Not a big fan of the hats from Galaxy's Edge, because the baseball cap is what I usually wear in the park. I'm probably going to find something else that looks cool. Probably want to pick up a pin. That's another 15 bucks. I don't know about a pin, so I'm thinking it might be about $700 that I spent.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe a little bit more.
Speaker 1:So that's without park ticket.
Speaker 2:That's without the park ticket, so 900 bucks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I'm talking, you know, 12, 1100. Yeah, something like that. Yeah, yeah, for the perfect day. I mean that's, that's splurging every, every which way yeah, that's doing a lot of star wars stuff.
Speaker 2:You have to be a big fan for, for doing all of that stuff. But that is the immersive experience of galaxy's edge, right, I would say you did all the things. You saw everything. You got to enjoy it. You spent all day in galaxy's edge. You didn't have to leave at all, which kind of makes me almost want to do that now. So it's kind of fun.
Speaker 1:But I couldn't drop a thousand bucks and then I couldn't do it. I got to drop a thousand bucks and then I couldn't do it. I would want to. I'm in Disneyland, It'd be so hard. Yeah, not to walk out. Oh, I'm going to go over it. Oh, Mr Toads has a 20 minute wait.
Speaker 2:Now, if you live down there and you were going three times a month, yeah, you could give up a day for content.
Speaker 1:Wouldn't that be fun to live down there and be able to do that, to go there so often, like you could go every day, where you can just do different things every day, like that? Yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, I did look. If I had moved to Orange County because I was living in LA County up near East Hollywood, it was my neighborhood If I had lived down in Orange orange county, I probably would have gone two, three times a week, yeah, just uh, pop in even for a couple hours in the evening, right, yeah, I had that much fun there. So anyway, yep, I have a little sip of my jedi mind trick.
Speaker 1:It's playing mind tricks on me very good, good drinks, good convo and we'll see you next time. And we'll see you next time, cheers.
