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

[Ferrellcon]

It was still red. It turned gray when the page changed to tell me they reached capacity.

Interesting. Maybe i needed to refresh my app.

 

[B3rlingirl]

It was still red. It turned gray when the page changed to tell me they reached capacity.

It’s pretty weird that the app clearly didn’t behave in the same way for everyone...

and Disney clearly changed something from yesterday to today with the backup groups...

 

[Ferrellcon]

It looks like Disneyland is now boarding its at 10-22.

 

[mamapenguin]

What if they released groups at different times instead of all at once. One at park opening. One at like 12 and another at 4?

Nope. I only want to go through that once. I don’t want to schedule my rides around BG drops. This trip we aren’t even doing dining reservations other than one for classic afternoon tea, because those get in the way and effect Maxpass choices.

 

[vickiea]

Mine did too. No way it was available till 9:07

Mine was the same, nothing after 9:01.

 

[Tinkerbell19672]

Thanks to this thread we got a boarding group this morning! Being prepared and informed made the situation much less hectic than I had anticipated, so many MANY thanks to all.

-Left Tropicana at 8:28
-Security screen at 8:34
-Headed for the (short) non-MM/EMH lines to the right, scanned in at 8:40
-originally camped out to the right of the train station steps with great Speedtest results, but as more people entered the park we saw speeds get slower and slower (from 37mbps down/21 up to 14down/4up). Rebooting phone/closing apps didn’t improve performance.
-At 8:50 we made the decision to leave the park and find a place on the esplanade.
-Opened Disneyland app and then Atomic Clock app at 8:55
-At 8:59:59 exactly switched from clock app to Disneyland home screen, clicked “Find out more” and got BG 27! I was on TMobile with an iPhone XR. Husband’s boarding group button never turned red - he was on Samsung Galaxy Note 10+. Now camped out in Starbucks with Americanos and egg bites — per the app the ride still hasn’t started boarding yet at 9:31am.

Awesome thanks! DD has the same phone, were you on Disney WiFi?

 

[twodogs]

Since DLR is considered such a locals’ park, I wonder how long locals are going to tolerate not riding this ride if you aren’t there at RD? I envisioned locals dropping by after work for a few hours, and that would definitely not let them ride ROTR under the current system. I wonder if they will eventually use BGs like a sort of rolling time FP, and also allow a SB line for those who didn’t get a BG at RD or those that show up after RD and want to ride it. This would possibly keep people from lining up at the gates at 3am to try to be at the front of a SB line since all early birds would be able to (hopefully when things die down) get a BG without arriving super early. Then those that arrive later could do SB. But BG line would get priority over SB line like the currently do with FP and SB lines. Just a thought...

 

[CaliforniaGirl09]

and Disney clearly changed something from yesterday to today with the backup groups...

Yep, feels like something yesterday was a fluke. I wonder if they had a lot of upset people having issues so many backup BGs and barely getting to any of them.

 

[KPeterso]

Looks like they ran out of BGs at about 9:00:58. Backup groups were gone around 9:07.

Very interesting. Got busy at work and did not go into the app until 9:04 and the Join Boarding group button was already grayed out for me. Sure looked like they were all gone before that time to me and for many others on the thread too.

 

[Rich M]

Yep, feels like something yesterday was a fluke. I wonder if they had a lot of upset people having issues so many backup BGs and barely getting to any of them.

If you are given a back up and don't get to ride then you have no reason to be upset IMO. That's why it's a back up.

 

[south park]

For the ATT people - BG 74 on iPhone 11 Pro Max. At the Red Rose Tavern. Opened the App at 9:00.

 

[Ferrellcon]

Very interesting. Got busy at work and did not go into the app until 9:04 and the Join Boarding group button was already grayed out for me. Sure looked like they were all gone before that time to me and for many others on the thread too.

Maybe they were talking about disneyworld? I could see them running out by 9:07 am eastern. Anyone else able to see a red join button after 9:01?

 

[dina444444]

Maybe they were talking about disneyworld? I could see them running out by 9:07 am eastern.

Disney world ran out of guaranteed groups in 1/2 min this morning. Backups were around for an hour-ish after that

 

[Ferrellcon]

Disney world ran out of guaranteed groups in 1/2 min this morning. Backups were around for an hour-ish after that

An hour wow! Is that normal occurrence for Disneyworld?

 

[nutshell]

Disney’s website for the ride discusses the virtual queue. So anyone claiming Disney is keeping it a secret until guests enter the park are wrong.

 

[Ferrellcon]

Disney’s website for the ride discusses the virtual queue. So anyone claiming Disney is keeping it a secret until guests enter the park are wrong.

Disneyland blog reported it before the ride opened to the public as well.

 

[Malcon10t]

40 inches tall at 2.5 years old?? That is one massive 2 year old.

She is big, she just turned 9 last week. She wears a women's small (or a 14 slim) and a size 8 women's shoe, na dis 5' tall. She passed the 52" mark to ride solo on Autopia before she was 7, but even now, we have her ride with an adult still. She does do single rider (that was her birthday wish when she was 7) and has no fears still.

 

[crystal1313]

I was busy at work too and didn't get to try until 9:05 and the button was grey at that point.

 

[dina444444]

An hour wow! Is that normal occurrence for Disneyworld now?

It varies day to day. But usually the backups last for at least 10-20 minutes and up to 2 hours. They are also giving out more groups here a day on average including the backups. With no downtime on a 7am-8/9pm day they can get through 150/160 groups.

 

[Ferrellcon]

It varies day to day. But usually the backups last for at least 10-20 minutes and up to 2 hours. They are also giving out more groups here a day on average including the backups. With no downtime on a 7am-8/9pm day they can get through 150/160 groups.

Amazing! I hope Disneyland can accomplish this in one month.