Rise of the Resistance BOARDING GROUPS Superthread Part 1 *No Ride Spoilers Please* *PLEASE READ POSTS 1-4*

[katyringo]

Disneyland daily is reporting via Facebook comments that you have to be in Disneyland Park. Her information is usually rock solid.

 

[kboo]

Please no! Rained ALL week we were down in WDW and our day at HS - rain in the dark at 530AM with 8k other Disney fans, though comforting en masse, wasn't fun at all.

we were there the same week --- one RotR day it poured and was sort of miserable (but we did get to ride) and the other day it didn't and we managed to RD MFSR.

...My point is simply with all the craziness of more people getting there at rope drop in order to get a BG for ROTR, will it then cause an increase of wait times throughout the park, for rides that historically were walk on the first hour or two. This is what’s happening at DHS.

We were there Xmas/NY week and you might be able to rope drop ONE ride, then it was 50+ minute waits for everything until the shows opened.

Guests with 3 day or longer tickets bought in advance have magic morning during EMH at Disneyland.

Got it - I did a little DL research! So now I watch this thread to see how they do morning EMH/MM at DL.

Also, it’s my understanding from WDW DHS that BGs open afternoon published park opening only and does not open early for EMH guests,

After one disastrous day, they eliminated ALL morning EMHs and DHS and it seems to have calmed the problem down considerably at WDW.

They did a morning EMH at WDW in December (with a different process in place than the current one) and it was a total disaster; they just cancelled all the morning EMH after that and added evening ones instead. Can't really do that at Disneyland, so tomorrow will be interesting. Still picturing people refusing to get in their Space Mountain car at 7:58.

Based on WDW standards, 82 is a very low number of boarding groups. There have been a handful of days where they only got to around that many boarding groups, but once the ride was more fine tuned and the CM more experience, the numbers started getting to 150 and above. My guess is that DL only released a very small number today anticipating slow boarding and/or a lot of breakdowns. I would expect to see that number rise significantly in the coming weeks.

I agree, think they are being super conservative with the ##. We got BG 50 and 62 on our 2x at WDW... BG 50 got called about 2 hours after opening (so 9am), and BG 62 got called around 10:30am (7am opening) despite some downtime in the morning.

Once your BG is called and you get over to the ride, how long is everyone waiting in line to get on it?

I’m curious as well. I’ve heard it’s 30 minutes at WDW (as long as the ride doesn’t breakdown).

We rode both times in the AM, and the first time we waited about 30 minutes, but without giving spoilers, the queue has some stuff to look at, and we didn't really notice the "wait" because we were often in motion. It's not like we were stopped in 1 place for any length of time. The second time, we must have just hit a lull but it was a constant quick walk on. we walked right through the whole standby queue area, and I actually felt a little sad we didn't have more time to walk more leisurely and get more in the mood.

 

[MonocularVision]

We should start a FAQ in post 2. I can already see this thread is following the WDW thread where you get the same 4 questions asked 3 times a day.

 

[Skyegirl1999]

I’m talking to someone in line at Fantasy Faire who says that their group got a BG from someone who was at Starbucks in Downtown Disney (they had six people trying, all the others were in the park, so they sent one person out there - of course, they had previously scanned into DL).

Unless they’re lying to me, this confirms you can scan into DL and leave (which I assumed), but still no confirmation of whether you can have entered DCA.

 

[dieumeye]

Zero groups called in the first 30 minutes of hour 2.

 

[cm123]

Obviously they called a lot of groups at the start to fill up the queue, hopefully they are not stuck on 26 for long.

 

[Nonsuch]

Are there any “first day” buttons? Or pins, shirts...

 

[dina444444]

We should start a FAQ in post 2. I can already see this thread is following the WDW thread where you get the same 4 questions asked 3 times a day.

I will get started on this FAQ over the weekend. Post 3 is going to be where the chart will live. Will probably do a chart through the end of February.

 

[DLgal]

The ride is currently down

 

[Weedy]

The ride is currently down

RotR in WDW is finally back up it’s been down for 2+ hours
I guess only one can run at a time

 

[dina444444]

It’s back up. Group 27 has been called.

 

[Skyegirl1999]

Are there any “first day” buttons? Or pins, shirts...

Nothing I’ve seen or heard of.

They did trot out some of the GE “landing 2019” shirts inside Star Trader, so I guess they’re too busy unloading the previous “opening” merch to make anything for today!

 

[MikeRx]

PSA...If you are going to post about WDW on this thread please tell us this important fact. (Follow Weedy's example above). Simply stating "it's down" leads to lots of confusion/stress for those trying to live vicariously through those who are there today. Especially for those about to be there tomorrow...

 

[dieumeye]

For those playing along, they called 3 boarding groups in hour 2. That’s still a respectable 9 group per hour average!

Hope they get back on a good pace!

 

[Skyegirl1999]

PSA...If you are going to post about WDW on this thread please tell us this important fact. (Follow Weedy's example above). Simply stating "it's down" leads to lots of confusion/stress for those trying to live vicariously through those who are there today. Especially for those about to be there tomorrow...

I think the “it’s down” comments were talking about here, not WDW.

 

[ironband74]

And now they are up to 31...so they are moving right along...

 

[Rich M]

So far is there any advantage for staying on property versus not?

 

[Krandor]

So far is there any advantage for staying on property versus not?

In terms of getting a BG? No. Everybody inside the park at opening is on a level playing field

 

[Mathmagicland]

Question for those who have experienced it today at DL - how does it work when you enter ROTR? Is there a bar code scanned , or your ticket scanned, to verify the BG? Where are the scanners in relation to the entrance to the queue off the main walkway? And do they scan a second time, like happens with some FP queues?

Thanks.

 

[DLgal]

I think the “it’s down” comments were talking about here, not WDW.

It was. I am at Disneyland right now.