Getting into stormtrooper rigging during Disney’s Star Wars Weekends
8 views - published on May 17th, 2013 in Disney News tagged Disney, disney star wars, movies, star warsGuests during Disney’s Hollywood Studios can have their likenesses remade into a stormtrooper figurine, poise for photographs with Jabba a Hutt‘s pet and hear a brief story from a male who was an Ewok during this year’s book of Star Wars Weekends. The eventuality will be hold via a thesis park on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, currently by Jun 9.
In a D-Tech Me experience, a 3-D face scanner helps emanate a 7-inch-high personalized stormtrooper figurine. Picture yourself in their heading white uniform, finish with helmet tucked underneath your arm.
The singular commemoration takes 10 mins during a eventuality though 7 or 8 weeks to be shipped. The cost is $99.95. Disney wants folks to make allege reservations by job 407-939-8324.
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“Having a 3-D figure of yourself dressed as a stormtrooper in full tone is flattering cool,” says Disney World orator Gary Buchanan. “Who doesn’t wish to be a stormtrooper?”
That knowledge follows on a heels of final year’s Carbon-Freeze Me souvenir, in that guest were “trapped” in a tiny wall of carbonite a la Han Solo in a pivotal theatre in “Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back.” The Carbon-Freeze Me offer ($99.95) is accessible again this year.
Both Carbon-Freeze and stormtroopers activities will be in Darth’s Mall, a vast sell area nearby Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster during Star Wars Weekends. That’s also where fans can confront a 17-foot-long illustration of a rancor, Jabba’s pet beast.
It was combined by “Star Wars” fans, and it has done a rounds during “Star Wars” events.
“It’s literally been around a world,” Buchanan says. Rancor is creation a initial revisit to Star Wars Weekends. It is such a print eventuality that “Star Wars” designer George Lucas and actor Mark Hamill have acted with it.
Other activities, including meet-and-greets, will be set adult during a sell area, a diversion for a hordes station in line
“We wish to offer them some party in there,” Buchanan says. There are also food options, including a Darth Vader-inspired chocolate cupcake.
One-man shows also are incorporated into a event. Back are James Arnold Taylor, who shows off his outspoken operation in “Obi-Wan Beyond,” and Ray Park in “Visit to a Maul,” that facilities martial humanities and assembly communication during a initial dual weekends of a event.
“In a past he’s gotten kids on theatre and shown them moves.” Buchanan says. “And he gets a double lightsaber out and spins that around.”
Warrick Davis earnings to Star Wars Weekends after a few years’ absence. On a second and third weekends, he’ll benefaction “An Ewok’s Tale — my brief story.”
“He’s such a good storyteller, and he really brings a opposite viewpoint to a cinema and what happened behind a scenes,” Buchanan says. “He’s such a good presenter and so friendly with a fans.”
Popular activities sojourn in a eventuality lineup, including a Legend of a Force motorcade, that includes Disney characters in “Star Wars” drag, and a “Hyperspace Hoopla,” a theatre uncover that presents “Star Wars” characters in surprising settings.
It’s a initial Star Wars Weekends given Walt Disney Co. bought LucasFilm, a prolongation association for “Star Wars,” nonetheless formulation for a Studios eventuality was good underway before that was announced in late 2012.
“We’ve had such a good relationship,” Buchanan says. “We’re really looking brazen to operative closes with a partners.”
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