Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance opening reports and using Boarding Groups at Disneyland

[Californian Elitist]

I overreacted. I apologize to you. I was on the defense mode after talking to a fellow poster and my sensativity and defense got taken out on you as a side effect. Again I apologize. Plus its early and going on little sleep.

It’s okay.

 

[THE 1HAPPY HAUNT]

It’s okay.

Thx you. Again, I am very sorry.

 

[Darkbeer1]

Not true.

In fact, I’d be curious to know who here (sub-forum regulars) has been consistently visiting Disneyland since babyhood.

I am a native SoCal'er who has never moved his permanent address from SoCal. Multiple temporary exits, including getting a Canadian DL, though.

Regular DL visitor since I was a baby in 1960.

 

[solidyne]

You're not making any sense at all mate

That's rich.

 

[Phroobar]

I am a native SoCal'er who has never moved his permanent address from SoCal. Multiple temporary exits, including getting a Canadian DL, though.

Regular DL visitor since I was a baby in 1960.

I've been a regular DL visitor since I was a baby in 1969. 50 years of magic!

 

[Californian Elitist]

I am a native SoCal'er who has never moved his permanent address from SoCal. Multiple temporary exits, including getting a Canadian DL, though.

Regular DL visitor since I was a baby in 1960.

I’ve also been going since I was a baby.

 

[MoonRakerSCM]

If Disney had a problem with what vloggers are doing, Disney would shut them down. Instead, Disney rewards them with freebies and early access to things like Rise.

Yup, almost like Disney knows it's free advertising. Every tiny thing shared on social media is free advertising for Disney generating hype and discussion about their product.

Its literally nothing to Disney if a vlogger makes $5 off a monetized video. They got advertising to a few thousand or more people and didn't have to pay for an employee or ad space.

 

[Darkbeer1]

Any reports of crowds lining up today, a supposedly slow Tuesday?

The second time SoCal Selects can try for a BG.

 

[waltography]

Any reports of crowds lining up today, a supposedly slow Tuesday?

The second time SoCal Selects can try for a BG.

Here to try again for a pass; they’ve dedicated the center and right turnstiles to magic morning/EMH and the left turnstiles for regular folks. The EMH guests were just let in, with the line 3/4 of the way to DCA. The regular lines are just past the monorail.

I’m worried that with the fewer operating hours they’ll cut off the boarding groups at some absurdly low number.

 

[BubbaQuest]

So, am I reading this page with the "wait times" at the bottom correctly? A guest has to get to the park early enough to be in the park at 8am. They then jam on the app and hope they get a reasonable boarding group. Then, assuming their group is called, they stand in line for an hour

Well, you know people said it was easier to plan for DLR than WDW, so Disney decided they had to fix that .

I won't be going until there is a buy-your-way-to-the-front-of-the-line system because the current system sounds like my worst $150/day nightmare.

I'm just going to throw this out there. I'll grant you my conspiracy theory is ludicrous...

Does anyone else think that the low capacity of Rise, the "lottery" boarding group nightmare requiring you to be there at opening and no guarantee of actually seeing the attraction undoubtedly resulting in people having to come back and try again is very convenient considering that the problem since Galaxy Edge opened is that no one was even coming to DLR. Now people have to come over and over just to try to get on the new ride!

I'll go one further. I'm thinking of making a trip to DHS because the odds of getting a boarding group are higher than DLR. Do you think Disney planned this slow loader to transfer some of DLR's amazing attendance to DHS?

 

[Stevek]

Not true.

In fact, I’d be curious to know who here (sub-forum regulars) has been consistently visiting Disneyland since babyhood.

Not quite for me....I'm 53 and have been going since age 4.

 

[waltography]

Update: lines for EMH are still across the esplanade, and now the regular lines are too.

EDIT: they let us in at 8:10am. Sounds like it’ll be a very rough day for boarding groups.

 

[Stevek]

There's a part of me that wishes that the boarding system would prioritize passes as follows during this first month:

1. Hotel Guests
2. Day/Multi-Day Tickets
3. Passholders

I'm guessing they could easily build the system to recognize tickets based on these purchase categories.

 

[Phroobar]

I'm loving that the parks are crowd free in the afternoon and evening. I hate that Knotts is now packed all day because of the AP crowd that couldn't get a BG. Disney should continue to open star wars attractions. It helps every other park but Disney's.

 

[el_super]

There's a part of me that wishes that the boarding system would prioritize passes as follows during this first month:

1. Hotel Guests
2. Day/Multi-Day Tickets
3. Passholders

I'm guessing they could easily build the system to recognize tickets based on these purchase categories.

Each of those groups alone would have enough people to completely fill the boarding groups for the day.

That said, I do wish there was a way that those who want it enough, can work harder to gaurantee a BG. Suppose its just the capitalist in me.

 

[Californian Elitist]

Not quite for me....I'm 53 and have been going since age 4.

Close enough lol.

 

[Ismael Flores]

Coming up on 6pm and the ride has been closed for about two hours. Still waiting for it to reopen and move past Boarding Group 72. Park closes at 11pm tonight. I'm hoping this post un-jinxes it!

ok well that is the problem, why would you schedule to close a park at 11pm on a holiday weekend at a time that you opened a major ride and know that it will be highly in demand.

What happened to the old times when TDA would accomodate as many guests even if it menat keeping the ride operating a few hours after the park closed. They did it for the last major attraction - Indy and Star tours as well as captain EO before that

 

[waltography]

44!

And they started calling groups starting with Group 1, which is a first here at DL.

 

[waltography]

Were you able to get a pass or were they all gone by this point?

No one was able to get a pass until 9am.

 

[flynnibus]

Oh interesting. I wonder if this will be the new norm. Did they announce the boarding group distribution time in advance? Or did you not know till you showed up.

It's always the scheduled park opening time - not when people are allowed into the park (EMH or not)