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

[waltography]

Rise hit boarding group 142 today. The highest since re-opening.

And today started with BG 13 or something too. That's exciting.

 

[AJFireman]

They are currently at group 163. I also saw that the 12pm opportunity to get boarding groups lasted until at least 2pm. I didnt check after that so not sure when it ended.

 

[waltography]

Ended today at 168 from a starting BG of 16! Exciting stuff.

 

[DLR>WDW]

Wow, very impressive! Rise seems to be operating very reliably over this past week. Bravo to the operations, engineering, and maintenance teams.

 

[fctiger]

Wow, very impressive! Rise seems to be operating very reliably over this past week. Bravo to the operations, engineering, and maintenance teams.

I mean they've had basically a year to work on it more at this point. Hopefully this is a sign it will just be more reliable going forward even if it breaks down from time to time like Indy.

 

[1HAPPYGHOSTHOST]

Wow, very impressive! Rise seems to be operating very reliably over this past week. Bravo to the operations, engineering, and maintenance teams.

Most impressive?

 

[chadwpalm]

Today topped at group 183. Now THAT is most impressive.

 

[waltography]

Today topped at group 183. Now THAT is most impressive.

I feel like I'm watching the little train that could! It warms my heart

 

[DavidDL]

In line for Mermaid now, tried to get a boarding pass right at noon and was kicked out immediately. It filled in less than 2 seconds.

 

[1HAPPYGHOSTHOST]

In line for Mermaid now, tried to get a boarding pass right at noon and was kicked out immediately. It filled in less than 2 seconds.

Little Mermaid uses boarding passes now?

 

[DavidDL]

Little Mermaid uses boarding passes now?

Touche’! Poor wording on my part. Basic at trying to say, I was in the other park, trying to get a noon boarding pass for Rise but they were gone in less than 2 seconds. I was on the page where it asked me to select my party and it immediately booted me and was like, “nope! All gone suckers!”

 

[1HAPPYGHOSTHOST]

Touche’! Poor wording on my part. Basic at trying to say, I was in the other park, trying to get a noon boarding pass for Rise but they were gone in less than 2 seconds. I was on the page where it asked me to select my party and it immediately booted me and was like, “nope! All gone suckers!”

I understood just wanted to give you a hard time

 

[fctiger]

In line for Mermaid now, tried to get a boarding pass right at noon and was kicked out immediately. It filled in less than 2 seconds.

It's crazy how popular this ride is. Well I guess not lol, it is the first true E-ticket experience Disneyland has had since Indy. But the fact they all go in seconds is insane. I wonder how long it will take before you can snag one like the first half hour? That may be at least a year away. Or maybe it will calm down after the summer.

 

[chadwpalm]

It's only at group 80 right now. This time yesterday it was at 127. I noticed it seems to struggle a lot more on weekends for some reason.

 

[waltography]

It's only at group 80 right now. This time yesterday it was at 127. I noticed it seems to struggle a lot more on weekends for some reason.

I saw that too—when I checked this morning it was at group 50 and averaging ~7 groups an hour, which is a shame.

 

[1HAPPYGHOSTHOST]

It's only at group 80 right now. This time yesterday it was at 127. I noticed it seems to struggle a lot more on weekends for some reason.

Do we know how many are in a boarding group?

 

[chadwpalm]

Do we know how many are in a boarding group?

Nobody knows for sure since Disney's never released the actual numbers. In my google search, the most common guess is about 100 guests. One comment section of a blog had someone say, "We asked a CM who said each Boarding group consists of 64 people." All grain of salt stuff, but I'd agree it's probably somewhere close to 100.

 

[CastAStone]

Do we know how many are in a boarding group?

It sure seems like 75-100.

 

[mickEblu]

In line for Mermaid now, tried to get a boarding pass right at noon and was kicked out immediately. It filled in less than 2 seconds.

Sorry to hear that. I imagine the are a little easier to get in the morning. Overall, how do the parks feel? Looks like the wait times are a little higher than they have been.

 

[DavidDL]

Sorry to hear that. I imagine the are a little easier to get in the morning. Overall, how do the parks feel? Looks like the wait times are a little higher than they have been.

Attractions-wise, they felt fine. Yes, little longer waits today but nothing unbearable. We got here two hours after park opening, took our time to shop and eat and still managed to get 10 rides in, which is about our goal each time.

Had we actually been planning or “trying” to do more, we probably could have. I don’t care about shows so I don’t want to speak to how the lack of those feel, your mileage will vary.

Dining options were terrible though. Hardly anything was open and the only places accepting walk up orders are the churros carts, popcorn, etc. Hardly any options at all and you need to mobile order all of it. Sometimes way in advance but you won’t always know when you’re hungry or what you even want at the time.