Curious Constance
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Seems like the new thing to do on Twitter. Post when you’re in line for the new Disneyland Star Wars Ride and it breaks down. 
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Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance opening reports and using Boarding Groups at Disneyland
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TP2000
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Seems like the new thing to do on Twitter. Post when you’re in line for the new Disneyland Star Wars Ride and it breaks down.
Twitter is full of those now! A close second is photos of the lines to get into the park just before 8am, like this one taken last Wednesday morning. Wednesday morning!!!
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SuddenStorm
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Curious Constance
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This just won’t do come June.Twitter is full of those now! A close second is photos of the lines to get into the park just before 8am, like this one taken last Wednesday morning. Wednesday morning!!!
Darkbeer1
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Darkbeer1
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https://.com/2020/02/rise-of-the-resistance-queue-at-disneyland-park-experiencing-power-outages/
>>As one of our reporters waited in line for Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance this afternoon, she and other guests were subject to ongoing power outages within the ride’s queue, leaving guests in near pitch darkness at times.
Thankfully, the area was not totally dark due to emergency lighting in the area.
Our reporter — who was in boarding group 47 — heard periodic communication from Cast Members via a loudspeaker in the queue area. As the power outage occurred, the ride itself was down. The queue line began moving, but then stopped again. The ride has been down for about an hour and a half on one of Disneyland’s busiest days of the week.<<
Sunday, 2/23/2020
themeparkchat
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It looks like the ride made a miraculous comeback tonight. I'm guessing all vehicles are back online as they got the pace back up, hopefully they can keep it that way and have high throughput again this week like they did the week before last.
TP2000
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Yikes! That explains the continued long closures all day on Sunday. Continual power outages to the queue??? What a mess. EDIT: But at least the fireworks look pretty tonight as they began just as I ended this post!
Yes, I noticed that too. Once they got the ride reopened this evening, they were back to calling an average of 25 Boarding Groups per hour instead of the previous 8 to 10 Boarding Groups per hour for the past three days. Although I imagine some of that aggressive tactic was due to the higher no-show rate on a Sunday evening 12 hours after the Boarding Group was distributed and many people had gone home for the night. Still, it's a good sign.
You can see how awful most of Sunday was for Rise Before Dawn, apparently due to power outages in the facility. Disneyland is open 8am to Midnight today, but as per usual they made Last Call at 8:30pm and have closed for the night already.
Saturday 2/23: Open 9:00am, Closed 8:30pm at Boarding Group 122, Closed 9 Hours, Open 7 Hours
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DavidDL
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It sounds like you're in a pretty good spot as far as research/planning is concerned if at this point you only need suggestions as to where to stand to get a good signal. I never use park Wi-Fi and have heard that it is spotty at best so I would go with the data option. The only other place I have heard that has a good track record is around the Corn Dog cart on Main Street, which goes against your desired location/plan morning of.
What I would do, is maybe close and open the app a few times in the minutes leading up to 9am while you are wandering elsewhere in the park. Do a "test run" and see how long it takes you to open the app, click the "Find Out More" button and see how smoothly you're able to make it to the greyed out "Join Boarding Group" option. If things go off without a hitch in your test runs in the minutes leading up to the lottery opening, then you probably don't need to worry all too much about your connection speed because you're probably in a good enough spot. At least, this was my experience and I was able to snag a boarding group standing inside a busy Candy Palace with a cheap-o $100 dollar phone that is many years old.
TP2000
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They really seem to do better when the park opens at 9am instead of 8am. Today Disneyland is open 9am to 11pm, and the ride was only late opening by 15 minutes instead of the usual hour delay with an 8am opening.
Travel Junkie
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MiceChat's column today says they need about 12 hours of maintenance every night. That may explain why the weekends are more problematic.
Has there been any reports about what constitutes the most breakdowns? Is it just constant power failures? Is it the wifi system? Is it a combination of factors? What is Disney doing to resolve these defects?
Porg nests.
SuddenStorm
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Boarding group 91. They're at 43 right now.
Phroobar
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Why does anything need twelve hours of maintenance every night? What is so poorly built and engineered that they have to spend half a day fixing it for the last three months? Seems like Disney should be suing the subcontractors that built this ride if that is the case. Look at all the negative press they are generating. However the competition is having their best year ever since the opening of DCA.
RobWDW1971
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If that's the case, then it is even worse - by DESIGN they created a ride that can't operate a full day when the park is open 8 am to midnight. Brilliant.
TP2000
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Agreed. I'm hoping that a few months from now they will whiddle that down quite a bit. But I find it inexcusable that they've opened a ride that can only work for 12 hours a day maximum, even though Disneyland is routinely open for 16 hours per day. And the 12 hour operation is a pipe dream at this point, as they have only been averaging 9 or 10 hours of daily operation on their very best days so far. Some days it's only been open for 5 or 6 hours per day.
There is a bit of good news today, even though the ride was late opening and its currently broken down. For the hour they were open from 10am to 11pm they were able to call 14 different Boarding Groups, which is an improvement from the last few days when they often only called 7 or 8 Boarding Groups per hour.
This also tells me the Boarding Group capacity is still 100 people per group, and they ramp up or down the quickness they call groups based on the current capacity and situation at the attraction.
Currently at 12:30 the ride is broken down and stuck at Boarding Group 47.
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Phroobar
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How are the closing/opening procedures for operations any different from any other ride? How long does it take to open and close?