The Jedi Training Academy is a must for those with kids and a ridiculously adorable show for those without

“Even if you don’t have kids watching the Jedi Training Academy is an almost unbearably adorable way to spend twenty minutes.”

We’ve all been there. Your ADR at Mama Melrose isn’t for another half an hour but the idea of doing the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror just before a big heavy meal doesn’t seem like a great idea. Or the lines are all long and your fastpass for the Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster won’t be due for another hour. Can you withstand the cuteness of a thousand puppies without going into shock? Well then, you’re in luck.

Jedi Training Academy was a staple of Star Wars weekends until a couple of years ago when it became its own daily event near Star Tours at the Studios. Now every day kids can go up to learn the Force as padawans from trained Jedi Knights. They get robes, li'l lightsabers and guidance in the way of the Light Side. Watch out, though. Darth Vader has heard that some powerful up-and-coming Jedi are being trained in the area and he might be sending some Stormtroopers to investigate.

It seems silly and for people without kids it might even seem like a waste of time, but seriously, it’s possibly the cutest thing in the parks. Seeing a bunch of kids with plastic swords standing up to the Dark Lord of the Sith is just fantastic and even if you don’t give a rip about kids, it’s hard not to grin when Lord Vader stands down.