#Star Wars Galaxy's edge

[lillikoifish]

Jenny Nicholson’s new star wars cruiser video and her experience reminds me of when i went to star wars land with my boyfriend. Im the one who actually cares about star wars and loves it, he was literally just tagging along to spend time with me and we’d have a good time riding rides while i geeked out. Characters all went right to him to interact with his phone, and a stormtrooper literally told me to go away because he wanted to do soundboard lines to my bf’s camera.

I was really sad at the end of the day, like i felt like a bad person and like i did something wrong for wanting to interact with the land as someone who loves star wars. My bf had a great time tho. Good for him.

[sketchupnfries]

On a trip to Batuu

Felt like finally drawing a variation of "Jedi Survivor Goes to Disneyland," but as "Cal, Merrin and BD-1 go on a trip to Batuu." I have been waiting to do another one of these "fandom goes to Disneyland" drawing things, and I finally got the chance to take some pics in Galaxy's Edge the other day during a recent Disneyland trip.

[skywalkerslvt]

I almost came when I saw Oscar Isaac on this ride today

[darth-memes]

HAPPY MAY THE 4TH!!!!

[mando-and-bucky]

he pointed directly at me and gestured to get close and said would you look at that with his goddamn pedro voice and im just supposed to get over that ???

[ashleyjohnsonoftheday]

Day 611

[robooctopusart]

I LOVE THEM. I hope we see more walk around droids in Batuu!!!

[atdisneyland]

A view of the Batuu sky

[sketchinfun]

Another Disney day, and I decided to get the Vintian Mineral Mousse again. Snapped a pic since I love the presentation of the dessert!

[impossibleprincess35]

Me because next month I'll be back in Batuu East to see this delicious motherfucker in the ROTR pre-show.

[chasinggeekdom-blog]

A perfect Disney's Hollywood Studios day post-runDisney 5k! 🏃‍♂️ 🏅 🎢

[vetinarivimesy]

Okay okay okay. I'm enough of a nerd that yes I own those damned Disney Star Wars themepark cookbooks, and I've been steadily working my way through most of the recipes in them.

Mostly the recipes are a great balance of fun, interesting, and vaguely deliberately shifted around a really solid base to make it just a little unfamiliar so it's 'space' themed. But actually something you'd be willing to cook, without a million and a half rather finnicky steps and a ton of things to wash up before the thing even meets heat.

(With one or two minor SNAFUs caused by ye olde separated by a common language - tomato paste vs tomato puree woops)

But ahem, anyway that 'spicy' Mandalorian stew, ey?

For all of the advertised heat in the thing... You essentially end up with a rather tasty Japanese style curry with couscous in it, rather than rice on the side.

Nice? Yes.

Spicy? No not really. Even compared to other similarly mild curries, and taking spicy to mean spiced not hot. The Japanese style curry this recipe seems to be based around somewhat infamously comes from the bland for the UK-palette generic curry powder of the Victorians...

Sooo. I am spitefully choosing to follow a large chunk of fandom's example and picking bits of Star Wars at random to pick and choose my canon from... I'm now taking that recipe as 'proof' that Mandalorian cooking... really isn't all that hot.

And yes, I made that Pog soup too. Tasty? Yeah sure. Spicy? ...Eh?

And again, spitefully logicking my way through, which culture is always depicted in the films as actually extremely multicultural, and actually allows its members to retain their home traditions from their roots, and actually is based loosely around Asia rather than the old colonising empire building bounty hunters and rogues mashed with Knights Templar thing that is still the bulk of what the Mandos have?

The Jedi.

Who, notably, are absolutely missing any representation whatsoever in either of the two Disney-era Star Wars cookbooks. Since the setting is post the second Jedi genocide in the Skywalker Saga...

So whilst I'm now headcanoning, Mando food as all bark and very little bite, spitefully and based solely off of a very dubious bit of 'canon'.

I can also with impunity go, Sichuan cooking for the Jedi? Yes. Yes. Yes. Genuinely interesting Indian cuisine? Sure why not? Spicy Uzbek style stews? Great! Shakshouka as fiery as you can get it for breakfast? Amazing! Enough spicy kefta to feed fifty ravenous knights? Fabulous!

There's a brisk, and expensive given they're just cheap space-ramen, trade in the Jedi Temple sector of Coruscant of all the numerous flavours of Space-Buldak Chilli Noodles, since the Padawans basically live off of them.

Swimming in chilli already? Well that's not hot enough for old Master Rancisis! Add more! And don't forget the numbing peppercorns, that's Master Sifo-Dyas's favourite part!

Cue a fanfic, with the usual increasingly irritating set-up. Ahahaha, lets laugh at the culture that supposedly eats nothing but the blandest thing on the menu encounter the Manly Men we only eat the Hottest Vindaloo because we're hard! culture... And... Nope, nosiree the Mandos cannot handle it at all, cue much blue milk chugging, and not from the jedi half of the contingent. Despite all their showboating about how spicy they love their spicy spicy stew, they're like the old stereotype about white Brits in an Indian Curry House in Goodness Gracious Me.

(Seriously still far too spitefully amused that the official 'Spicy Mandalorian Stew' recipe produced bland but tasty comfort food in reality.)

[coooooooooooooulson]

Hey so with the news of Galactic Starcruiser closing being super fresh today, first I wanna say for anyone on tumblr who is a cm or knows a cm who found out the same as the rest of us today, I’m so sorry. Thats not how a company should treat people who put in that much work to make their dumb rich people endeavor actually function. I’m sorry for the lack of respect and recognition. You were the heart and soul of that whole experience, without a doubt, and you deserve better.

That said: I never got to go. And I really want to know the story, I want to know the characters. Can the fandom share with me how I can do that? Are there fics? Videos? Compilations posts of lore or anything like that?

[darth-memes]

[meekosthemeparkphotos]

First Order Stormtrooper

[aaajaxolotl]

Feast Your Eyes: Fandom Cookbook Recipe Review #7

Blue Noodles And Sweet Failure - Star Wars Ultimate Cookbook + Galaxy’s Edge Cookbook

Tonight's menu: sourced from Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge + Star Wars Ultimate Cookbooks

Main Dish: Gormaanda’s Glowblue Noodles, pg 103 of Galaxy’s Edge Cookbook

Side Dish: Hanava Pods, pg 185 of Star Wars Ultimate Cookbook

Dessert (not pictured): Aleen Firefly, pg 125 of Star Wars Ultimate Cookbook

Full review under the cut!

Aurum Leuci’s Log:

[Begin recording.] I just left the outpost. There was a chef in the tavern that let me help make a send-off dinner, and it turned out pretty good. I’m off through the multiverse again, towards one of the locations I ended up in on accident when the portals were miscalibrated. Not much else to report. Wait for my next transmission. Aurum Leuci out. [End log.]

Please see this post for my full review scale!

Main Dish: Gormaanda’s Glowblue Noodles

RATING:

Difficulty: 5/5

Ingredients: 5/5

Immersion: 5/5

Time: 5/5

End Result: 4/5

TOTAL RATING: 24/25

This was a fun recipe, and I was excited to do it since I finally got the butterfly pea tea bags for the colorant (no gel food coloring here!) When I eventually make it again I think I’ll probably use a thicker noodle, since the angel hair rice noodles were a little rough to work with, and the cookbook’s image resembles a soba noodle rather than such a thin noodle. The original recipe called for mozzarella balls (which I couldn’t find a vegan alternative for) so we just compensated with a couple extra tomatoes. It was delicious and alien and exotic, and at the same time incredibly homey and comfortable.

Side Dish: Hanava Pods

RATING:

Difficulty: 4/5

Ingredients: 4/5

Immersion: 3/5

Time: 5/5

End Result: 5/5

TOTAL RATING: 22/25

Not much to say about these; the recipe is a little overcomplicated (don’t boil your frozen edamame, just put them in the microwave). But aside from that, they were pretty well seasoned and tasty. The ichimi togarashi (japanese hot pepper flakes) was super, super spicy! So definitely wash your hands thoroughly after eating these.

This really only loses points for telling you to boil frozen edamame, and also for just being… edamame. They aren’t terribly immersive. But they are tasty!

Dessert: Aleen Firefly (mocktail)

RATING:

Difficulty: 1/5

Ingredients: 5/5

Immersion: 5/5

Time: 1/5

End Result: 0/5

TOTAL RATING: 12/25

If you look at the picture of today’s dinner, you’ll notice that there is no mocktail. Did I just forget to photograph it? Was it labeled wrong? What’s up with that?

Well, friends… I was very excited about this recipe. It was essentially a soda with pineapple juice and little jello cubes at the bottom. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of trusting the cookbook in its explanation of how to prepare jello. (Don’t do this.) By the time dinner rolled around, the jello had only sort of set and had just kind of turned into… pretty sludge?

Anyway, after trying to put it together as a cohesive drink, I realized that I wasn’t going to get anywhere close to the cookbook’s version (which looked very cool and pretty), so I decided to just try a sip of it. Even if it had been visually successful, I wasn’t a huge fan of the taste, so this recipe ties Pandora’s Shoreline Salad for lowest rating thus far. At least this one didn’t clog my sink!

Tune in this Friday (6/28/24) for another fandom cookbook review!