TL;dr: you pay $215 for a show, to build a fairly heavy metal lightsaber, a saber holder for your back and an interchangeable battle ready blade,
The in depth: The experience is likely going to get changed up, because operationally it was a nightmare, but it was magical. I’ll explain. It’s not obvious where it is, it’s meant to be hidden and I accidentally walked into it on my way to find legacy savers. The cast around there are trying to keep everything “secret” but they throw hints.
Part 1: waiting in line to pay. There are a few cast with goggles and leather vests and in front giving hints as to what is to come. They lead you to the line, which took conservatively 30 minutes. This is just the line to pay. Once you pay you choose a “path”. They show you some of the pieces available but you choose one of four paths, and you get a Disney trading limited release pin. The cost for cast (and presumably Annual passholders) was about $190c regular cost is more like $215 with tax. You can also buy extras like a warranty or a nicer saber holder.
Part 2: After you pay you’re given a color coded card and asked to place to limited edition pin in your lapel. This tells the workshop cast what path you’re building. You’re asked to wait by a tree until they call you color card. Note: they said there were no refunds. You had to wait for your card to be called, and if you missed it, you missed out. There is no way this won’t be changed later.
Part 3: you’re called or wait in a line to be placed in the waiting area. This is liger just a line outside of the waiting area, and occasionally Stormtroopers or Kylo Ren came by to see what we were doing. You are asked to play dumb by the cast.
Part 4: the waiting pen. You wait in a little gated area with about 20 other people and their guests. We were told we could have one or two guests come along to watch. Then comes the actual build. You’re ushered quickly into the build room and you’re given a show by one of Savi’s workers. They have to additional cast members helping out the main cast member. This is basically a show, wherein they discuss some of the history and lore of lightsabers and kyber crystals. They explain all of the Kyber crystals and give you a choice. It’s cool because they keep the kyber crystals in a radioactive labeled chamber in the back that’s constantly smoking or flashing, it was cute. You only get 4 choices: Red, Blue, Green, Purple. There are more, but you buy them in blind boxes. I can explain that later if anyone wants to know (this includes white, yellow and a technically black one) The crystal actually has a censor which changes the blades colors. I choose violet. Then you are given a set of pieces which come from the path you choose. Then they express the urgency, you need to build fast because the first order could show up at any point. So the three cast members lead everyone in a very intense building session and at the end, you place them inside this station that was at your right the entire time and all together you ignite the blades. I saw a lot of people crying in the room when that happened, it was super cool.
