Last year, we opened the highly-anticipated Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at both Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resorts, and this weekend marked the first anniversary of the grand opening of this incredible land at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. For the occasion, we’re sharing a special beverage recipe from Oga’s Cantina, one of the most popular spots at on both coasts!
Oga’s Cantina is the heartbeat of Black Spire Outpost. It’s a place where you can share your own tales from around the galaxy while you enjoy exotic beverages served in unique vessels. One of these beverages comes in perhaps the cutest vessel of all – the Cliff Dweller. This adorable drink features citrus juices, coconut, hibiscus-grenadine, and ginger ale – and it’s served in a SOUVENIR PORG MUG! While you have to visit Oga’s Cantina to get your hands on this special mug, today we’re sharing the recipe for this fan-favorite non-alcoholic drink.
Cliff Dweller Non-Alcoholic Beverage
From Oga’s Cantina in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resorts Serves 1
Combine orange juice, pineapple juice, lime juice, grenadine, and cream of coconut in Boston cocktail shaker with ice.
Shake well and pour over fresh ice in a tall glass. Top with ginger ale.
Note: This recipe has been converted from a larger quantity in the restaurant kitchens. The flavor profile may vary from the restaurant’s version. As a reminder while preparing this recipe, please supervise children who are helping or nearby.
Stay connected with Disney Parks Blog for more delicious Disney recipes and be sure to share the magic with other Disney fans using the hashtag #DisneyMagicMoments. Happy cooking!
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It’s hard to believe it’s been a full year since we first got the chance to live our very own Star Wars adventures in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. We’ve explored the planet of Batuu, we’ve tasted galactic delicacies, shopped in Black Spire Outpost, built our custom lightsabers, and even found ourselves in the middle of an epic battle on Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance.
Now, we have a variety of new ways to bring the excitement of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge into our own homes. A few weeks ago we announced the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge: Trading Post, accessible only at Target, are on store shelves now!
Earlier this week, D23 Inside Disney, the official Disney podcast, sat down with Walt Disney Imagineering’s Scott Trowbridge, Creative Portfolio Executive for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, and he shared some exciting announcements about brand new ways we are expanding the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge experience for our guests. Listen in.
Lucasfilm Animation recently released a series of exciting new
animated shorts called “Galaxy of Adventures” inspired by the adventures found
in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge on the Star Wars Kids YouTube Channel. See
below to follow Chewbacca on an adventure through Black Spire Outpost, then
head over to the Star Wars
Kids YouTube Channel to watch the other two adventures!
For video game fans, earlier this week EA and Lucasfilm announced
a brand-new adventure to the edge of the galaxy with “The Sims 4 Star Wars: Journey to Batuu.” This game
pack is coming to PC, Xbox One and PlayStation®4
systems on Sept. 8, offering players the ability to “play with life” and create
their own, unique Star Wars
adventure. Inspired by Star Wars:
Galaxy’s Edge, the Sims will experience the authentic sights and sounds of
Batuu, including the Millennium Falcon
and DJ R-3X’s interstellar hits at Oga’s Cantina. They’ll also embark on
exciting missions, unite with iconic characters like Rey and Kylo Ren, and get
their hands on their very own lightsaber and droid.
Launching later this year is another experience of a completely
different type: “Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge” will
come to life in stunning virtual reality. ILMxLAB, Lucasfilm’s
award-winning immersive entertainment studio, is developing the new
action-adventure virtual reality experience exclusively for Oculus Quest. You
play a droid repair technician who crash lands on Batuu after a pirate attack
and, in typical Star Wars fashion, you’ll quickly get swept up
into a grand adventure. Taking place on the outskirts of Black Spire Outpost
and expanding into the wilds of Batuu, the experience matches the look and
feel of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.
If you’re looking for something to stream on Disney+, we’ve got you covered there, too! Recently added to the service is the “Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge: Adventure Awaits” television special featuring Neil Patrick Harris, Kaley Cuoco and others exploring the land for the first time and living out their own Star Wars adventures.
So, however you choose to live your own Star Wars adventure, inspired by your favorite memories at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, you now have more ways than ever… in the park and at home!
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Aug. 29, 2019, is a day long remembered at Walt Disney World Resort, as it saw the grand opening of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. This past Saturday marked one year since the land’s debut, so I joined a crew that traveled to Batuu to see how visitors to this galaxy far, far away spent the day.
We arrived before dawn to watch a beautiful sunrise over the Millennium Falcon, docked in the Black Spire Outpost spaceport.
We met many travelers from across the galaxy. Some built their own astromechs in Droid Depot, while others stopped by the garage to check out some landspeeders, explored the outpost’s marketplace or found some fascinating items in Dok-Ondar’s Den of Antiquities. One young man even appeared to be sensitive to the Force …
We also stumbled across members of the Resistance and the First Order who were in Black Spire Outpost. Kylo Ren was recruiting new members of the First Order over at Docking Bay 9.
Rey and Chewbacca made connections with potential new Resistance members at the outpost’s garage.
And Resistance spy Vi Moradi managed to find a good hiding spot to avoid being seen by First Order Stormtroopers.
We also enjoyed just wandering through the land to soak in all its spectacular sights – both big and small.
If you want to see more from Saturday at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, head over to @disneyparksblog on Instagram, where later today Ashley Eckstein, the voice of Ahsoka Tano from Star Wars: The Clone Wars, will be posting updates from her trip to Batuu this weekend.
And in case you missed it, we recently posted special 360-degree views inside two of the most popular locales in Black Spire Outpost: Oga’s Cantina and Dok-Ondar’s Den of Antiquities. Check them out here.
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Welcome to the latest edition of The Magic, The Memories, and Merch!, the longest-running monthly look at the still closed Disney Outlet Stores in Orlando. However this month, for the first time in a long time, we have some really good news! So let’s get right to it with…
THE GOOD: The Disney Outlet Store closest to Disneyland IS FINALLY OPEN!
While we in Florida have been outside of the Disney Outlet Stores looking in, not unlike the kids looking into the toy shop window in A Christmas Story, Christela McC was able to finally get back into the Disney Outlet Store that is located closest to Disneyland. Not only did the store re-open, it came back with deals even crazier than usual. For the first several weeks, the outlet offered an additional 40% off the already discounted ticketed price. Later in the month the additional discount dropped down to “just” 25%, but keep in mind this is a discount on items already massively reduced in price. The amount of times we in Florida have got an “additional discount” remains at ZERO.
Also, keep in mind that out in California those paying with a Disney Chase Visa card get an additional 10% taken off after all the other discounts have been applied. BE FAIR TO FLORIDA!!!!! Before I have an aneurysm, let’s see what items Christela saw at the store. First up is this solid Disneyland Resort attractions T-shirt. Love the concept of this shirt, but the thing keeping it from “great” status is the fact that some of the attractions are – for whatever reason – upside down. Just BONKERS. Originally $24.99, marked down to $14.99.
How great is it that the back of the shirt featured the dates in which each attraction made its debut?
Kid’s size Black Spire Outpost shirt. Originally $24.99, marked down to $8.99. For me personally, this is the type of merchandise I like in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. I love that minimalist style, but I can also see why others don’t, especially kids.
Kid’s Radiator Springs Racers shirt. Original price $17.99, marked down to $7.99.
Rescue Rangers button up shirt. Originally $59.99, marked down to $16.99. This one I really like and would buy in a second down here in Florida. I’d wear it in the parks and approach older guests to talk about reverse mortgages.
Retro Mickey jacket. Originally $59.99, marked down to $21.99. This one I actually bought in Florida as it arrived at our Outlets shortly before the world went to crap. I absolutely adore it, and maybe I’ll get to wear it that one night a year in Southern Florida when the weather isn’t 90 degrees with 100% humidity.
I mean look at the back of this jacket!!!!
Here’s three shirts that are labeled Made in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. However, only the 70s one features the Disneyland Resort logo on the front. This makes NO SENSE as Disneyland was “made” in the 1950s. If anything Walt Disney World could have the “Made in the 70s” gimmick as it opened in 1971. Anyway, each of these three shirts were originally $24.99, marked down to $12.99. This concept seems like a no-brainer to just change the logo at the bottom and port on over to Disney’s Pop Century Resort.
Both the 80s and 90s shirts would have benefited from adding a bunch of more characters on the shirts, especially with the library they can pull from.
Disneyland Resort zip-up hoodie. Original price $54.99, down to $19.99.
The Orange Bird Adventureland shirt. Original price was removed, marked down to $11.99.
Class of 2019 graduation ears. Originally $24.99, marked down to 99 cents. Imagine that. Under a dollar and at some point in the month could have gotten 40% off of that and then another 10% off that. I was told there would be no math, but I think at that point Disney is paying you to take it home.
Zero on a leash. Original price unknown, marked down to $7.99.
Haunted Mansion Tsum Tsum and Aulani Emoji booster pin packs. Christela couldn’t get a picture of these in the store because there were so many hands reaching over and grabbing them by the handful. Mansion pin set originally $32.99 while Aulani was $29.99, both marked down to $9.99.
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit costume for Duffy. Original price unknown, marked down to 99 cents with an additional 40% off. For me personally, once an item drops down to 99 cents I almost have to buy it on principle. However this is also why I had to rent a storage unit that is, shall we say, off the books (because if my girlfriend found out about all this crap she may kill me).
Mickey Santa Loungefly backpack. Originally $90, marked down to $34.99. The eBay pirates came out in full force for this item – one couple came in and announced upon entering at store opening that they would take everything on the shelf plus whatever they had in the back. A fight nearly broke out in the middle of the store. Crazy times.
Set of 2 “toothpick” holders. Original price unknown, marked down to $8.99. Like the Black Spire Outpost style of artwork above, I’m a huge fan of this “Shag“-like retro style of art that looks like it would fit right in at Universal’s Cabana Bay Beach Resort.
Holiday bar towel. Original price unknown, marked down to $5.99. When stuff like this makes its way to the Florida Outlets, I’ll usually end up buying one for each particular season. We have one set for Halloween, another one featuring Remy from Ratatouille for just regular days, etc.
We’ll close out with this Holiday snacks adult onesie. Originally $69.99, marked down to $32.99. I’d probably be forced to wear this if my girlfriend ever finds out about the storage unit. Like the attractions shirt we started with, this also includes several of the designs being upside down and I just don’t understand the reasoning behind that.
Thanks Christela! So glad to see at least one of our regularly featured stores is open. Now let’s check in on Florida…
The Bad: The Disney Outlet Stores in Orlando are STILL CLOSED.
Someone play the sad trombone sound effect, because we’ve had yet another disappointing month here in Florida. What’s even crazier is that just about everything else in Florida has re-opened, even movie theaters, and yet the official Disney Character Warehouse outlet stores in Orlando (and there is another in Sunrise, Florida) remain closed. Many other Disney outlet stores across the country have reopened as well, just not these stores. Here’s the current look at the Disney outlet store located closest to Walt Disney World, off Vineland Ave.
Disney Character Warehouse. (photo by Brandon Glover)Disney Character Warehouse. (photo by Brandon Glover)
Minimal work has been done inside in what seems to be getting ready to help with social distancing, but no markers on the ground and no sanitizing stations have been put in.
A quick check at the Disney outlet store closer to the Universal Orlando Resort, off International Drive, reveals the same lack of activity.
Disney Character Warehouse. (photo by Brandon Glover)Disney Character Warehouse. (photo by Brandon Glover)Sorry, Moose out front should have told ya. (photo by Brandon Glover)
That hasn’t stopped Disney from releasing next level bonkers items. I mean take a close look at this “limited edition” pin featuring Mickey Mouse. Look at that face! Look at the hands and feet! Then for some reason there is a normal Mickey Mouse on the back of the package. WHAT IS GOING ON?!!! I FEEL LIKE I’M TAKING CRAZY PILLS!!!
Which leads us to…
The UGLY: Disney is still putting out a lot of weird stuff that is Outlet Worthy
Let’s start off with an item that was recently seen at Disney’s Magic Kingdom. Our ol’ pal @bioreconstruct spent one of his rare moments on the ground this past week and took a picture of this “Halloween Countdown” piece. I didn’t even realize people counting down the days to Halloween was even a thing. First I find out about the absolutely bizarre perfectly sane thing called “Halloween trees” and now this. But this one gets even better. Take a close look at Minnie Mouse…
Intrepid TouringPlans blog guru Julia Mascardo has helped scour the internet for the most ridiculous Disney items available, and boy has she found some doozies. Let’s start off with this Mickey Mouse shirt at Wal-mart. Price is $19.19 and this is an officially approved product from the Walt Disney Company.
Staying with shirts, here we have a bonkers meme shirt at Kohl’s for $21.95. I’m wondering who the audience is for this, as we’ve covered them in the Outlet Reports in the past. The people who want a Beauty & the Beast shirt probably aren’t the demographic that would want a “meme” shirt. The people who wouldn’t mind wearing an obnoxious “Weird Flex But O.K.” shirt are probably wondering who the guy in the chair is. Just another amazing merchandise decision made my Team Disney.
That said, you could get me to wear either of those two shirts above before I could get Bacini – the official dog of DisTwitter – into this Mickey Mouse Dog Costume. I think we could get Vincent Vision 4D to get this for his dog Kent though, and film another award winning VLOG~! Actually, for those of you who don’t know, there is a HUGE rivalry in the are of DisTwitter pets. It’s competitive like you wouldn’t believe. I’m talking competition straight out of the Olympics. Bacini is like Nancy Kerrigan and Kent is like Tonya Harding. (Tom Bricker’s cat would be Mitch Gaylord in this metaphor.)
This Princess Leia Bun costume for cats is just $5.50 at Chewy, but I’d pay quadruple that just to see someone try to put it on a cat.
Staying on Star Wars, here’s a reminder that we can’t have the awesome Hyperspace Hoopla at the parks anymore because Disney wants to “protect” the Star Wars brand. However we can get this Darth Vader “Clap On, Clap Off” nightlight for $29.99 at Bed, Bath, & Beyond.
This overhead ceiling light isn’t that awesome, especially since it is designed for a children’s bedroom. However, apparently the company who makes it didn’t want to spend the extra money for the Disney license, so instead we get a “Cartoon Mouse” lamp.
Wayfair went the other way. They paid for the Mickey Mouse license, but said “F— it, we’re gonna call it FAUX TAXIDERMY.” You already have the insufferable QAnon weirdos up in your business Wayfair. Do you want the DisTwitter mob too?!
The Zero toy we saw earlier in the Disney Outlet Store does nothing for me, but I actually like this “mood lamp” from Boxlunch. Especially at $17.17.
Hot Topic has this interesting product featuring the awesome Pixar film Up. The box is a wonderful recreation of the “My Adventure Book” from the movie that never fails to tug at the heart near the end of the film.
Unfortunately the box reveals… an eyeshadow palette. WHAAAAAAAAAAT?!
Hot Topic going all in on crazy this month because you gotta check out this “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” necklace. This is from the point in the movie when Snow White was in a near death state. I want to meet the gal – or guy – who rocks this around their neck. I feel like if they remake the Harry Potter series for Netflix, this is the cursed necklace Draco Malfoy would give to Katie Bell.
Saks Fifth Avenue has this Mickey Mouse-branded “Facial Treatment Essence.” I know all of those words individually but have no idea what they mean when presented like that. The bottle is under 8 ounces, so it at least it can’t cost that much. Right?
Wrong.
ShopDisney has this Mickey Mouse cookie jar and maybe it’s just me, but it seems like Mickey’s been eating too many of his own cookies…
That however isn’t even the most disturbing part.
If we get that cookie jar, our kitchen won’t be complete without this $150 Iron Man Keurig coffee maker from Bed, Bath, & Beyond. Tony Stark’s lucky he didn’t live to see this.
This seems like a perfectly reasonable price on eBay.
Be kind. Rewind.
Our last item comes from the Bradford Exchange, so no matter what you’ll be able to buy it on monthly installments. It’s the “Mickey’s Magical Moments” figurine.
The bottom of the figurine features a quote from Walt Disney himself.
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Waking up to rain on a Sunday in August: surprising! But that’s just what happened in Central Florida today as a westerly flow pushed heavy rain Saturday afternoon and overnight into the area. If you were at Walt Disney World on Saturday you saw some bursts of heavy rain and lightning around the parks. If you’re heading there this week, you can expect more of the same.
This week will begin quite wet, with a steady southwest flow bringing the area both heat and tropical moisture. The ridge axis keeping this flow in place will shift north Tuesday through Wednesday, nudging some big sea breeze collisions both days which will cause heavy rainfall over Central Florida’s interior. Then on Thursday, the Atlantic ridge will build nearby and lift north, creating a southeast flow that will help the west coast get in on the rain action.
The storms move in from the west over Lake Buena Vista Golf Course on Saturday, Aug. 29. Squint and you can see some French Quarter resort buildings in the top left.
Oh, and in the midst of all these storms? Above-average heat. Because Florida, I suppose.
This week’s weather at Walt Disney World
For the rest of today: lots of extra moisture in the air and the low pressure just north of us means plenty of storms in the area. Look out for heavy rain and frequent lightning as these storms move west to east, eventually settling over the Atlantic beaches late in the evening. At least this gives us a slightly cooler overnight, with a low around 74 degrees.
The deep moisture and southwest flow sticks around for Monday, bringing us a 70% chance of thunderstorms. The best chance will be in the afternoon, but there’s a shot at early morning storms moving in from the Gulf as well, with clearing late morning to midday. It will stay steamy, with a high around 91 degrees and a heat index around 102. Storms should clear before midnight, with an overnight low of 76 degrees.
On Tuesday, above normal heat and rain chances continue. Look out for storms developing with the sea breeze collision occurring after noon, with a 60% chance of rain. The wind will shift from southwest to west, then drop off overnight. The high will be around 93, the low around 76.
Wednesday will be hot with a high around 94 degrees. Sea breeze collisions will fire off afternoon thunderstorms. There’s a 60% chance of seeing a storm or two. The overnight low will be around 76.
On Thursday the Atlantic ridge will begin to build, with its axis moving from Cape Canaveral on Thursday to near the Georgia line on Friday and Saturday. With this shift, the winds become southeasterly, then east-southeast by Friday. This will slowly bring rain chances down by the weekend.
Thursday through the weekend, look for about a 50% chance of rain, but with that southeast and then easterly flow, storms will favor the west coast as they first develop in the Orlando area but quickly push west. Highs will stay very hot, around 94 degrees, and lows will be around 76 degrees.
Tropical Weather Update
I was a little surprised when I opened this morning’s Tropical Weather Outlook and saw the red X over Florida. It turns out that all of this weekend rain is going to spin up into something tropical over the next few days—but it’s going to move into the Atlantic and out to sea.
One moves out to sea, two have low chances of development. Courtesy NOAA/NHC
Two tropical waves in the inter-tropical convergence zone are being watched for development, but they have fairly low chances over the next five days. One is far out in the Atlantic, near the Cape Verde Islands. The other is entering the Caribbean Sea and still moving westward. Their chances of development are placed at about 30%.
Why so low during the peak of hurricane season? One reason: a fresh layer of Saharan Dust is moving across the Atlantic and Caribbean this week. This inhibits storm development. We’ll have to wait and see what is left of these waves after the dust settles in a few days.
