EmJ
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MFSR or MF:SR is Millennium Falcon: Smugglers RunWhat does SR stand for? TIA!
MFSR or MF:SR is Millennium Falcon: Smugglers RunWhat does SR stand for? TIA!
Unrelated: it’s interesting watching the reaction to BGs play out on social media. A lot of very pro-Disney IGs have tried multiple days without being able to ride. I’m feeling especially bad for the ones with kids!
What does SR stand for? TIA!
Thank you!MFSR or MF:SR is Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run
Josh D’Amaro must have been approving WDW SWGE CMs riding RotR prior to BGs being loaded...the only chance they had to ride it. Also, Neil Patrick Harris had VIP access - no one saw his group enter the ride but they were seen exiting on a couple of different days - when he was a Candlelight Narrator.This isn't happening at DLR. I am checking sources to see if this is happening at WDW. I have previously been told "No Access" period at either park. Ms. Campbell has to personally approve any special access to the ride.
Thank you so much for this information! And I’m glad you were able to ride!Good Morning. I wanted to clear up a few things for you all. We were at DLR on Sunday 1/19 and we were a VIP TOUR group with a celebrity client. Our tour started at 7AM at the Grand Californian Hotel. From the day our client confirmed with Disney Special Activities the date of the tour they made it 100% clear that ROTR was NOT a ride that we could use for special access. They told us we would have to arrive early and use a boarding group process for a chance to ride the ride. We arrived at the Grand Californian at 7am, met our lovely guide who confirmed they ahve no extra access to walk ANYONE into RoTR for at elast the first 3 months. There were 8 of us and our guide and our clients mother is in a wheelchair. She said she would love to help us, but if they even take people to the ride without boarding passes they can be disciplined. We headed over to DLR. She escorted us through the turnstiles and we all added each others tickets into the disneyland app. She explained the process thoroughly for all of us. There were 8 of us in our group plus our tour guide. We waited with our guide near the Jolly Holiday Bakery at at 8am we had to use the process everyone else did. We were extremely nervous and it was so weird to ahve to do this but we did it. We managed to get boarding group 73. Our day was spent traversing the park and enjoying the services provided. We started to stress when the ride kept going down and our guide kept telling us that we should make it but it depends on the rides reliability.
The tid bit that sticks out most that noone on here has mentioned is that the ride needs a minimum of 8 hours of downtime every might to reset and that it generally will need to close between 10 and 11 with boarding groups stopping at around 9 each night. Our group as called at 752pm with a return by 852pm. We were inside the haunted mansion when our group was called and we went over to the ride as soon as we excited. As we went through critter country down by hungry bear our guide stopped to speak to a Guest Servjces Team Member. The line for the ride was all the way down near the entrance to the Galaxys Edge entrance. We used DAS entrance/fast pass entrance for the ride as our clients mother is in a wheelchair. We had all of our tickets scanned and boarding passes verified before they would allow us to enter. We got the the first preshow in about 5 minutes.
The ride is absolutely stunning. I cannot even tell you how many thoughts I have. My jaw was on the floor and I will need to ride about 15 more times to see everything. Our clients mother's wheel chair was taken when we loaded the R5 vehicle and it was waiting for us as we got off the ride where LT Beck is. Our guide told us she had noticed some things that time that she had not seen before so that gives me more excitement for further rides.
So I guess the take aways from all of this are that even though we had VIP tour we had to do the BG process just like everyone else, that the ride needs to go down for 8 hours min for maintenance and reset and that noone gets special access. Oh our guide also said that the boarding group numbers begin at random numbers. There is no super secret back entrance and there is no recovery numbers. Its dependent on the algorithm and the rides expected start time!
Staying at GCH later this week. Wondering what the best plan is for days where EMH is DCA but want to try to get BG for ROTR. Should we forego DCA and go straight to DL? Also, if we go through DCA security for hotel guests and go straight to DL, will that be a problem? I read a while ago that some people got stopped at DL turnstiles because it looked fishy they tried to get in so soon after DCA. Not sure if we should chance that or not. TIA!
Really glad you made it through - hope you get to ride everything you were hoping to during the rest of your day!It shut down for a little over an hour and a half right after I scanned in and lined up with boarding group 40 today. Once it opened, I made it through and rode it. Not my favorite ride ever but definitely a fun experience and highly detailed. It was an ambitious endeavor to design, create, and implement this ride and, I think overall, they hit the mark.
Near the ticket gates just after entering had consistently good verizon service both days we were there. Everyone around me got boarding groups.
Two of the Disneyland blogger accounts I follow on Instagram (Magical Kinda Mama and Mr. Cheezy Pop) have both ended up riding thanks to a little “magic” even though they didn’t end up with a guaranteed boarding group. MKM was able to ride with her son today and Mr. Cheezy Pop ended up riding with Rebecca Campbell (DLR president) on opening day after getting a back-up group. It makes me think they are trying to avoid the bad PR by ensuring the more visible Disney bloggers are able to ride even without a guaranteed boarding group. No shade at all, just an observation!Agree! Sad for Magical Kinda Mama this morning trying to ride with her son!
LOTS of posts here in this thread and I myself have not read them all yet... ... just sayin' though that I "threw this out there" last night as well. I think it has merit.OK, so I'll just throw this one out there. I completely believe that Disney is not going to change a thing, and continue with the boarding passes. But here, for purposes of this board, is my suggestion.
Go ahead with the Boarding Passes. But limit them somewhat more than they currently are. Then also allow a Stand By line. Make it known that if you are in that line, there are no guarantees as to how long it may take before you get on the ride. Could be 3 hours, could be 8 hours. Then pick a time, say 2:00 PM, and say that each day, the Stand By line will be cut off, meaning no more people can enter it. So while it will be more difficult to get into a "guaranteed" boarding group, for those who MUST get on the ride that day, the Stand By line will be an option. You may spend half of your Disneyland day in that line, but for all intents & purposes, you will get on eventually.
That will make the Backup groups the least desirable place to be, since those will only get called if it's a good day for the ride, i.e. few breakdowns. My solution allows people an option. If people complained, Disney could say, "well the demand is just so enormous, there is no way we can accommodate every single visitor. But if you are willing to wait, the Stand By line will afford you the opportunity of riding at some point today.
Of course, it's not perfect, it's not ideal, but no process would be. But the way it is now, I think Disney is disingenuous by advertising a ride that it is both a time consuming process, with absolutely no assurance of success. And if you're unsuccessful in those 90 seconds, you're shut out for the next 16 hours, and nothing you can do about it.
I agree that BGs are the way to go (for DL at least) until they get the ride operating reliably. For many reasons including the ability to close it early for maintenance.
Once DL has ROTR more reliable, I would say a middle road that might address all sides of the disagreement here about BG vs. SB lines is to have both - like FP. So all those lucky ones who get BGs in the morning are set, and if you don't get one, well there is the (3-6 hour?) SB line option - which rewards the early arrivers. Of course, that is sort of like just having FP, so maybe they will switch on FP for ROTR instead of BGs, although MaxPass at DLR allows you to get FPs before park opening while BGs do not.
Exactly - plus it's a holiday weekend with a good number of APs in town. Very curious to see what happens in say two weeks on a Tuesday.
It’s definitely possible. But also, an influencer I’m friends with was able to ride Friday because someone she knew let them use their BG when they left early. So she might have looked like she got a Disney “in” from the outside, but really she just has nice friends. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if someone who’d already ridden offered MKM their BG because people love her and her son is cute - shoot, I’d probably have offered today if I’d been there and scored a BG!Two of the Disneyland blogger accounts I follow on Instagram (Magical Kinda Mama and Mr. Cheezy Pop) have both ended up riding thanks to a little “magic” even though they didn’t end up with a guaranteed boarding group. MKM was able to ride with her son today and Mr. Cheezy Pop ended up riding with Rebecca Campbell (DLR president) on opening day after getting a back-up group. It makes me think they are trying to avoid the bad PR by ensuring the more visible Disney bloggers are able to ride even without a guaranteed boarding group. No shade at all, just an observation!
Totally agree - the hyperbole and ignoring of history (i.e., looking at Disneyland's past with rose colored glasses) are not helpful to anyone and generate more heat than light.Certainly there are legitimate concerns and points raised. But there are those using words like “disaster.” Such hyperbole is unbecoming.
I almost asked this myself as I was stumped (and I am the author of the "official DIS DLR abbreviations" thread in the stickies! ) After some thought I figured it out lol.What does SR stand for? TIA!
Ohhhhh, they 1000% know people are that dumb.
You should HEAR some of the things guests do. Dropping a phone mid-ride doesn’t even ding on the “dumb”scale.
Unrelated: it’s interesting watching the reaction to BGs play out on social media. A lot of very pro-Disney IGs have tried multiple days without being able to ride. I’m feeling especially bad for the ones with kids! It’s not actually possible to “hide” from your kid that you’re trying for a BG since you have to be there so early and have to be glued to your phone and they make announcements and everyone’s reacting...
Obviously this can’t happen for many logistical reasons, but I wish they could experiment with different ride options. They could never do it because it would confuse the heck out of everyone, but the data nerd in me would love to see them do one week with a lottery, one week with FPs, one week with standby, combos of things, etc. I bet it kills some of them that there’s no way to “test” for the best system!