CaptainAmerica
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Rat is not a lottery and neither was Rise.
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Disney Genie and Genie+ at Walt Disney World
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Waters Back Side
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Gosh, I was looking at the TP app just now - does no one go on Soarin anymore? It's 5 minute wait!!! And it was pretty low yesterday too.
All lines at all parks outside of ROTR and FoP are under 60 minutes at the moment.
If it stays like this, I'm not buying any IAS unless I can't control myself and want to ride Rat our arrival night!
Some weeks you can go and not need Genie + or to buy the IAS rides. Others you have no choice unless you do not mind waiting a long time for rides.
flynnibus
Premium Member
RAT is no Soarin' or FOP and never would be... they just need to drop the idea of trying to pitch it as some limited Tier 1 resource.
VQ for it would be fine to deal with 'opening' crowds, but should have always just been framed as dealing with the spike in demand due to opening. Past it's first year it's gonna settle down into a normal tier 2 kind of wait for a ride in a park with very few rides.
VQ for it would be fine to deal with 'opening' crowds, but should have always just been framed as dealing with the spike in demand due to opening. Past it's first year it's gonna settle down into a normal tier 2 kind of wait for a ride in a park with very few rides.
Waters Back Side
Well-Known Member
What would you call it then? It was completely random.
I was looking at Touring Plans and they have it at 46. I usually follow them, not Disney's times.
CaptainAmerica
Premium Member
It was first come first serve. It was not the nightmare everyone made it out to be.
Still weird.
G00fyDad
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Direct videos of people trying would suggest otherwise.
Waters Back Side
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First come first serve that was gone within seconds more often then not? Nah.
There were so many scenarios of people not getting it while others did it made no sense.
Jungle Cruise is always long. I think maybe it takes long to load?
pdude81
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If Rise was random then my family wouldn't likely have gotten it 5 out of 6 tries at 7am and 1/1 the only time I had to try in the afternoon. Back in the early days when you had to be in the park to try and pull of a BG while waiting in a rope drop line, I believe it was somewhat random. These days I'd have hit the button within a second or two of 7am and my wife would have a boarding group before the next page even tried to load for me.
Now it wasn't fair that speed, skill, practice, advance knowledge, etc. made a big difference, but if you followed the procedures it was not hard to achieve at least 50% of the time.
Now it wasn't fair that speed, skill, practice, advance knowledge, etc. made a big difference, but if you followed the procedures it was not hard to achieve at least 50% of the time.
Waters Back Side
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I do not think the IAS rides are anything more then what Disney sees are the 2 consistently longest wait lines in each park.
Remy is not Soarin and never will be. Remy is not the best ride in Epcot, but its the new ride.. and will draw people so it will at least to start be on that tier. HS its obvious it will be Slinky and Rise. MK Space and Mine Train. We heard a few different possibilities from 2 reliable go to sources for AK (FOP goes without say)and it will be either Safari or Everest which have comparable wait times when its busy. Same with Test Track and/or Frozen as the 2nd in Epcot. Perhaps there is internal discussions on which two it should be for AK and Epcot and thats why we saw two different possibilities. Regardless, I think it really comes down to the 2 rides with the longest wait.
Remy is not Soarin and never will be. Remy is not the best ride in Epcot, but its the new ride.. and will draw people so it will at least to start be on that tier. HS its obvious it will be Slinky and Rise. MK Space and Mine Train. We heard a few different possibilities from 2 reliable go to sources for AK (FOP goes without say)and it will be either Safari or Everest which have comparable wait times when its busy. Same with Test Track and/or Frozen as the 2nd in Epcot. Perhaps there is internal discussions on which two it should be for AK and Epcot and thats why we saw two different possibilities. Regardless, I think it really comes down to the 2 rides with the longest wait.
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G00fyDad
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Chip Chipperson
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Virtual Queue availability will be reduced when they start charging, so it won't be as easy to skip the line for free when that happens.
Chi84
Premium Member
We tried to get it at 7 and 1 on our only HS day in May and were not successful. We definitely would have taken the option to pay, especially if we could schedule it at a convenient time for us.
Tried Frontier once and wont again. It was nothing but trouble and hassle. Flight home arrived 6 hours late.
I attribute that to the Movie and the small refurb the ride just had.
pdude81
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I honestly only tried half the times because it was the only option for riding. Then once I got one I planned around it. I'd rather just wait on line if lines aren't crazy or pay if my son freaks out and needs to ride. Will make my day more flexible
DisneyDodo
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The standby lines will be longer when the rides have to accommodate LL as wellGosh, I was looking at the TP app just now - does no one go on Soarin anymore? It's 5 minute wait!!! And it was pretty low yesterday too.
All lines at all parks outside of ROTR and FoP are under 60 minutes at the moment.
If it stays like this, I'm not buying any IAS unless I can't control myself and want to ride Rat our arrival night!
But I would purchase Genie + for a day at MK and DHS, just to be able to schedule some rides ahead of time. Save some line time.
Chi84
Premium Member
That's true, but isn't the idea that fewer people will use a paid system, so the standby lines won't be as long as they were with the free FP+ system?