News Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance Standby Line and Boarding Groups at Disney's Hollywood Studios

[RobWDW1971]

You’re a “hater”, Rob...which means you’ll be dismissed out of hand by those looking to accept this for their Disney mental psyche at all costs.

I do think you may be over the top...but you’re a Star Wars fan - a true one that defends the foundation of the fandom - and you’re still probably right about this.

It’s always about “tone”...which ignores the lack of substance far too often.

I’m a “hater” that just raved in the other thread about how amazing ROTR looks. I just judge them on what they actually build and I wish all of SWGE was as good as ROTR, but it is unfortunately not.

So now that I said ROTR looks amazing am I now a “Disney defender”? I need to know what t-shirt to where to the meetings.

 

[ToTBellHop]

31-42 currently boarding.

So roughly 14 groups an hour. That's about 1400 guests/hour (I assume they are running a little below that, actually. Not everyone will return). If they are actually processing 1200 guests/hour, that's 16,800 today. Not awful for day 1. While it's had downtime today, that's been during short intervals so far. Given the state the ride is in, I'd say they are doing well so far.

Up to group 44.

 

[mickEblu]

If this is anything like “so many other rides”...then the reridability will fall short.

That’s my fear with any over-budgeted new ride they open.

It’s why I keep asking them for just simple nicely themed coaster. But we haven’t got one at DL since 79. Gadgets doesn’t count.

 

[Jon81uk]

When I think of a land I think "Fantasyland" or "Tomorrowland" - awesome theme and lots of attractions. IMHO just two attractions isn't "a land" regardless of who built it or how good the theme is.

That said, I still enjoy all of them and I'm super excited to see this new Star Wars "area" of Hollywood Studios

But Animal Kingdom has amazing theming but low rides per land. There is more to life than just rides. Of course at AK you can also walk the animal trails or watch a show. It feels like a big issue in Batuu is that many of the extra attractions like droid depot needs further payment and/or a reservation.

 

[ToTBellHop]

They've been accelerating the pace. Moving you along from room to room without having time to see everything or take pictures.

The early morning group 10 they allowed you to linger in each of the rooms and take it all in.

Are they like, "I know you're enjoying our 50 Storm Troopers but I'd like to invite you to enjoy this glass of White Zinfandel in our interrogation room so we can detain more people."?

 

[djkidkaz]

@wdwmagic how’s that review coming??

 

[Rinx]

From what I have heard the ride is so worth it. So I guess we will make it happen.

That's good to hear. From the POV videos it just looks like The Great Movie Ride on steroids.

 

[Mouse Trap]

That's good to hear. From the POV videos it just looks like The Great Movie Ride on steroids.

Not even close.

 

[peter11435]

That's good to hear. From the POV videos it just looks like The Great Movie Ride on steroids.

Did you forget to press play?

 

[JokersWild691]

As someone looking to go on this soon like a lot of people, I'm hoping this thread remains spoiler free and is a place to talk about the opening rather than the actual ride itself, which there seems plenty of places to do.

 

[Rob562]

They've been accelerating the pace. Moving you along from room to room without having time to see everything or take pictures.

The early morning group 10 they allowed you to linger in each of the rooms and take it all in.

That also may have been a factor of timing delays in the show. If there's a delay up ahead, it forces groups to be held wherever they are.

-Rob

 

[DryerLintFan]

Does anyone know the wait time for the ride itself once you're allowed to join the line?

 

[Rinx]

I only saw one video because I do not want to spoil it too much for my January visit. It was a laughingplace video. What I meant by comparing it to The Great Movie Ride was that it's a trackless ride system, (relatively) slow moving through movie scenes with special effects happening around you. The being on steroids part refers to the multi-directional motion of the vehicles, state of the art special effects, and moving through the scenes right in the middle of the action.

 

[tissandtully]

Does anyone know the wait time for the ride itself once you're allowed to join the line?

reports are saying 20-35 minutes, so not long.

 

[totchos]

When I think of a land I think "Fantasyland" or "Tomorrowland" - awesome theme and lots of attractions. IMHO just two attractions isn't "a land" regardless of who built it or how good the theme is.

Its hard to justify a land only by the number of rides it has. Would you consider Frontierland to be a land even though it only has two rides? You also have to consider that these lands (GE, Pandora, HP) are relatively new. Frontierland opened only with Tom Sawyer Island and The Country Bears I think which by todays standards would be no rides.

 

[tissandtully]

Its hard to justify a land only by the number of rides it has. Would you consider Frontierland to be a land even though it only has two rides? You also have to consider that these lands (GE, Pandora, HP) are relatively new. Frontierland opened only with Tom Sawyer Island and The Country Bears I think which by todays standards would be no rides.

Can we NOT in this thread please?

 

[Mem11]

So roughly 14 groups an hour. That's about 1400 guests/hour (I assume they are running a little below that, actually. Not everyone will return). If they are actually processing 1200 guests/hour, that's 16,800 today. Not awful for day 1. While it's had downtime today, that's been during short intervals so far. Given the state the ride is in, I'd say they are doing well so far.

Up to group 44.

How do you get 1400 guest/hour? My understanding is that ROTR opened at 6 this morning... So if you have 100 per group and say all 44 groups have gone through - 4400 guests in 6.5 hours, I get about 680 per hour.

 

[hokielutz]

That does not really help when you already have a three hour block of fast pass times made 60 days ago, I am just hoping this is gone by the 15th.

Needless to say... this is brand new and the must see ticket in town... so some sacrifice to ride it may be in the cards. Or if you don't care too much about Star Wars, then proceed with your regularly scheduled plans.

 

[ToTBellHop]

How do you get 1400 guest/hour? My understanding is that ROTR opened at 6 this morning... So if you have 100 per group and say all 44 groups have gone through - 4400 guests in 6.5 hours, I get about 680 per hour.

I believe it opened at 8 am (I was using 9, but stand corrected; it was closed before 8 as far as I know since it shut down very quickly). Now they are up to group 54. 5400 in 4.66 hours would be 1150 now.

 

[disneygeek90]

Boarding up to 54 now. Seems to be moving well overall.