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

[Ismael Flores]

One day I want a screen to touch me for a change.

 

[dlr74]

A great day for ROTR at Disneyland! Boarding groups did not book out until around 12:30 PM today (park opened at 9:00). And as of 8 PM, all backup boarding groups have been called to ride, ending at Group 153!

 

[TROR]

It makes me happy to know that everybody who tried succeeded.

 

[Sailor310]

What happened??!!!

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

A great day for ROTR at Disneyland! Boarding groups did not book out until around 12:30 PM today (park opened at 9:00). And as of 8 PM, all backup boarding groups have been called to ride, ending at Group 153!

 

[Atomicmickey]

Starting to feel much better about my March 20,21,22 trip (even tho Touring Plans has the parks at 10, 8, 10 for crowd levels for those days!).
Glad to hear they are working the bugs out.

 

[choco choco]

I agree with this 100%, and I am also surprised they also built such a big beautiful waste of space (at least on the West Coast where space is a luxury). It's amazing to look at, but it's hard not to imagine switchbacks in the place of all that rockwork!

?? I'm not sure what space you think is available. Rock work does not take up much space.

 

[themeparkchat]

?? I'm not sure what space you think is available. Rock work does not take up much space.

I'm talking about the space taken up to the right hand side of the FP entrance or even down the middle of the entrance that you simply walk by and stay to the left of. Before you get to the scan point, on the left side you do walk through a couple switchbacks that are formed by rocks, however it's short lasting and they're less switchbacks and more of a winding path leading to the scan point. Avatar: FOP has a very similar outside queue but has way more switchbacks in the space than Rise and when walking through this section you wonder why they didn't utilize it better for queuing when the park needs all the space it can get. Monsters Inc. has a bigger extended queue area than Rise... Half joking but half serious, it can't be much smaller if not the same. It's like they decided last minute to throw some ropes at the end there to hold people for Rise.
I've seen a video of the fastpass side and while it doesn't seem to waste space too much itself, right to the left of that path is tons of beautification that could have been utilized also. Since the queue full is estimated to be only an hour or so, my opinion is that they could have utilized the available space better.

There's been days the line at Florida's Rise has blown by the full queue, extended queue, and gone out the entrance to their land. That's what will happen the day this turns into a normal line and they have to face the fact there's very little queue space for this ride, despite it being themed fantastically. It can barely hold a virtual queue's worth of people, which is a small piece of the real demand for this ride.

 

[themeparkchat]

Drove over to grab a group since they're still available and I can do a few rides and come back tonight if it gets called. Got this at 11:40am. I've not made to 116 and 120 before. Lets see how it goes!

 

[BayouShack]

View attachment 454123Drove over to grab a group since they're still available and I can do a few rides and come back tonight if it gets called. Got this at 11:40am. I've not made to 116 and 120 before. Lets see how it goes!

You bested me by 2!

 

[DLR>WDW]

They’ve reached group 154 two days in a row. Very impressive.

 

[dlr74]

Another great day. Boarding groups booked out again around 12:30pm with a 9:00 opening. As of 7:55pm, all boarding groups for the day have been called to ride, ending at Group 163.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

It seems the reason they're doing so well is astonishingly low crowd levels.

 

[BayouShack]

My boarding group (153) was called at 7:15pm. Of course, I didn’t take advantage of it. I was joined by two friends at that point.

 

[Nirya]

It seems the reason they're doing so well is astonishingly low crowd levels.

Does that really explain the ride doing well? They’ve handed out similar numbers of boarding groups in the past and not come close to getting them all on. My guess is they’re starting to figure things out here, though I’d guess we’re still about a month away from it being truly consistent.

 

[dlr74]

It seems the reason they're doing so well is astonishingly low crowd levels.

I think that is the reason they are booking out so late in the day, for sure.

But I think the reason they’ve been able to make it through so many boarding groups recently is more-so related to improved attraction reliability

 

[themeparkchat]

My boarding group (153) was called at 7:15pm. Of course, I didn’t take advantage of it. I was joined by two friends at that point.

Don't worry, I didn't use my 151 either lol. Maybe they are calling them faster because of no-shows. I could have sworn they had over 40 numbers active at one point yesterday.

 

[Darkbeer1]

Someone mention Bacardi 151?

I thought that was the requirement for Target Run pilots

 

[MoonRakerSCM]

Heading out tomorrow (Saturday) morning with a friend to try again... I'll keep y'all updated.

 

[RobWDW1971]

Saw the new billboards no longer advertising ROTR - just Chewie mauling a small child in front of the Falcon. Good they are no longer pushing a ride so few can get on, but that's not why you spend $100M+ on a new ride....