Hey Guys, here’s a quick post to tell you about the awesome Star Wars experience that we had at the end of last year.
We made our annual trip to visit family in Hong Kong last December, and as is traditional for us, we stopped off at Hong Kong Disneyland for a day with the kids. Even though the park is pretty small (there’s a general lack of space in HK) there’s usually a few new attractions up and running each time we visit. With Disney buying up the Star Wars brand in 2012 (for $4 Billion!!!), it hasn’t taken them long to develop some cool new attractions to push on the back of The Force Awakens, to a whole new generation of tiny Rebels and Jedi.
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| Stormtroopers on Patrol |
For a start they’ve up-cycled the classic Space Mountain ride in to Hyperspace Mountain; an intense, rib jarring coaster ride through the galaxy with a fleet of unfriendly Imperial Tie Fighters on your tail. As we stumbled out, we were confronted by a Stormtrooper Garrison led by the evil, chrome-plated Captain Phasma, who rounded up this family of rebel-scum for inspection, eventually choosing to release rather than imprisoning or exterminating us.
We slipped straight from the clutches of villains and in to the company of heroes as we joined the queue to meet the Little & Large of the Millennium Falcon crew; everybody’s favourite walking carpet Chewbacca and R2D2 – just as exciting for the parents as it was for the kids!
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| Meeting Chewie & R2D2 |
But the real highlight of our Star Wars experience was signing the Boys up to
‘Jedi Training: Trials of the Temple’.
Our younglings donned the customary brown robes, joined a group of eager padowans upon the open air stage, and under the watchful gaze of Jedi Masters, received their weapons ready for a lesson in lightsabre combat.
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| Young Jedi |
After running through various fight sequences and picking up some new combat skills, the embryonic Jedi were soon thrust into action when their secret location was uncovered by the scourge of the galaxy himself, Darth Vader, and the Seventh Sister Inquisitor (from the Star Wars Rebels cartoon on Disney XD) who burst in to the Temple.
Each eager young Jedi took his and her turn to battle the two Sith Masters in front of their cheering families, eventually forcing Vader to unleash his secret weapon upon the young rebels; the terrifying Kylo Ren!
Such was the ferocity of Ren’s combat skills that it eventually took the Jedi Masters and their army of young apprentices to combine their mastery of The Force to drive the evil Sith Lord from the Temple. Victory was theirs!
It’s hard to put in to words how cool it was to watch the Boys take part in this awesome activity and to cheer them on to victory as they defeated the wheezing galactic bogeyman who unnerved their parents when they were children themselves! We were both pretty envious.
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| Training in Progress |
The best news is that there’s no additional cost in enrolling your Kids in Jedi Training; it’s covered in the cost of your ticket to the park (prices here). However, places are limited so you need to enrol them as soon as you arrive (at The Space Trader Station in Tomorrowland) to try and guarantee them a place. Also, don’t be late for the performance, as we saw a number of inconsolable kids being told they were too late to join in. There’s also an age limit of 4-12, so it’s pretty much impossible for the shorter parents out there to sneak in on the action.
We’re looking forward to heading back to Hong Kong Disneyland next December for more Star Wars action (hopefully with some new Rouge One inspired rides), as well checking out the currently ‘under construction’ Iron Man Experience, which is due to launch this month!
Disneyland + Star Wars + Marvel = Best Day Out Ever!
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