mickEblu
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I don’t disagree but your options in the future won’t be much better. Wait an hour and a half minimum or waste a fastpass on it... if you re there early enough to get one.
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Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance opening reports and using Boarding Groups at Disneyland
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I don’t disagree but your options in the future won’t be much better. Wait an hour and a half minimum or waste a fastpass on it... if you re there early enough to get one.
waltography
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The phrasing is a little odd; it sounds like they'll be following the "anywhere" method then, since they're careful to state that the second queue requires guests to have entered the park but the first queue doesn't have that qualification.
chadwpalm
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My understanding is that for the first queue (9am?) you will have to be in Disneyland either as a 1-day 1-park ticket holder or have a park hopper ticket, but are doing Disneyland as the first park. You cannot be in DCA to get the first queue reservation.
For the second queue (1pm) you can be either in Disneyland or DCA, but obviously must have a park hopper if you started in DCA that morning. After 1pm, you can park hop over to Disneyland to get in line when your time is up. This is an assumption, but if Disneyland is full and they aren't letting in park hoppers, I would hope showing them your RotR reservation will let you in, but it does say in the fine print that nothing is guaranteed.
George Lucas on a Bench
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I forgot all about this Boarding Group nonsense. Too much of a hassle when you can just get in line for anything else.
D.Silentu
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I believe mickEblu is most likely correct. I'm guessing the lines for the ride will be indefinitely similar to Radiator Springs Racers without the lottery. Hopefully Mickey's Runaway Railroad and the potential Avengers ride are more efficient.
Brer Oswald
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Even so, that’s better than lottery crap. I’d rather wait an hour and a half in line instead of waking up two hours earlier to have the chance at getting to ride it.
mickEblu
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You don’t have to wake up early anymore. Their is a 1pm lottery too
chadwpalm
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I'm really hoping with reduced park capacity that it won't be the nightmare it was the first month it was open.
At least now I have two opportunities to be disappointed lol.
D.Silentu
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I suppose it is a bit like the old saying: Out of the frying pan and into the fire. I'm no fan of waking up early, but once I'm at the park I want to maximize my time and the lottery certainly freed up some. At the core of the matter there really is no approach without compromise.
1HAPPYGHOSTHOST
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I have no problem waiting an hour and a half in a well themed queue. i waited longer for Indiana Jones on multiple occasions.
1HAPPYGHOSTHOST
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I don't mind waiting in line. I prefer it to this boarding group junk
DLR>WDW
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Unfortunately WDI has seemingly moved away from building large queues in favor of expanding FastPass. ROTR and MFSR both have queues that hold less than an hour of stand-by guests, and attractions like RSR have a high FP to stand-by ratio, inflating the posted wait time and discouraging guests from joining the line. This seems like a decision from TDA to have guests in the park spending money rather than waiting in line and to reduce costs when building new attractions.
1HAPPYGHOSTHOST
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The rise queue is large so is the smuggler's run queue.
mickEblu
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45 to one hour these days is my max
1HAPPYGHOSTHOST
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I have waited in queues before up to 2 hours. But then again I am very patient and I like Disney's queues. I wold rather wait in line for over a hour and take my chances of getting on or not depending on if the ride breaks down then participate in a lottery for the chance to get to line up for the ride.
Brer Oswald
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Right. Your chances are less down to luck and more down to willpower.
mickEblu
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I will say trying to get ROTR fast passes was a very stressful experience. I posted about it here. Got a really late boarding group and didn’t know if we’d make it on on all day. By the time we did get on after the roller coaster of monitoring the app and ride breaking down while we were in line it was like midnight and we were delirious because we had been up since 5am or something. With that said, now they re doing a lottery at 1pm so that changes things a lot.
chadwpalm
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I dunno if you remember my experience. I went the weekend after the ride opened. I didn't want to take time off of work, so I flew to SoCal Saturday morning and got to Disneyland around 9:30am. Obviously, I was too late for a boarding pass that day, so I just enjoyed the parks and set out to get it on Sunday. I stayed the night at the Hilton and woke up early enough to walk over to the esplanade by 7:30am. Got into Disneyland by 7:50am and waited by the Mickey flowers ready to go. I ended up not being fast enough and getting a boarding pass that was somewhere in the 70's. I had to fly out that evening and the latest I could stay at the parks and make it back to the airport in time was like 4:30pm. There was an hour-long stall in the early afternoon and I had to leave before my boarding pass was called. Saying I was disappointed would be an understatement. At least I got two days in the parks, so it wasn't a complete waste.