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News Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance Standby Line and Boarding Groups at Disney's Hollywood Studios
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Kamikaze
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Thats not what he said, he said 'open the entire lands together' - meaning all of SWGE at the same time, not the lands on both coasts opening at the same time.
disneygeek90
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67 is just a terrible showing. It appears progress has gone backwards.
I took that to mean more than one land, as in both SWLs.
RobWDW1971
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Assume that number was gone in the first minute? Somebody on another thread said that boarding passes at DHS we’re often available an hour after opening. When I was there recently I had less than a minute to get one for that day.
disneygeek90
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Backups were available nearly 2 hours after open on Saturday. I’m not sure what the issues are this week.
KevinPage
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Less then 30 seconds.
I have a 6+ year old Android and it worked fine to get BG 7. I determined that it took about 7-8 secs to start the app from scratch. At T-1 minute, I killed the MDE app (Apps->Force Stop) because MDE automatically restarts. At T-5 seconds, I started the app so it was up and running just after park open. Join Boarding Group was already red and I was able to click it. I only had to select my son and hit done.
Just learn everything you can from this forum. You'll be fine. For me, getting the BG was part of the whole experience. Good Luck!
Sorry for the confusion -- "bandwidth" is a term of art in the industry referring to any limited discrete capability.
The MDE app servers can only tolerate so many connections. At opening time in AK, the system handling the BG process is likely saturated. If your MDE app is banging against the specific servers handling BG assignments at the same time as 8,000 or so others in the park, you're injecting connection and content request traffic that is being queued, then responded to, just like someone who's in the park trying desperately to get a BG they can actually use.
Considering that you can't possibly ride while you're not in Orlando, you're unnecessarily slowing down responses and perhaps even blocking a connection by someone who might have got a lower BG than if you weren't practicing during prime time.
disneygeek90
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So when the open time was 7am, were people scheduling fast passes 60 days out at 7am somehow hurting the people in HS that morning?
TheDuke
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Resort guests get to do enough things in advance.
Good question. Obviously, EVERYBODY is vying for the app's attention, and somewhere in the application level, requests for FP+s are split out from requests for BGs. We can only hope they've split those tasks up across multiple servers, and that they haven't co-allocated resources where the FP+ deluge interferes with the BG request deluge.
I can't imagine their system engineers didn't foresee this kind of traffic...
They can take a lot of users simultaneously, but as we've all experienced, things like FP+ every day at 7 am and the first day of free dining promotions can result in Stitch licking his nose -- but then those people are all competing for the same limited resources, unlike FP+ versus BGs.
rustincohle
Active Member
True - because they pay a lot more to WDW than locals/AP holders, especially those on long visits from foreign countries who aren’t coming back anytime soon.
I think it’s pretty fair to give resort guests with a 5+ day stay one ‘FP+’ for their trip, maybe a second if their resort stay is over 10 days.
This would also make rope drop & BGs waaaaay less hectic for non-resort guests, as I imagine most resort guests would be happy knowing they have one ride lined up and not worry about doing BGs. You could even bar resort guests with a ‘FP+’ from the ride from getting a BG, at least until after their ‘FP+’ has been used (if not for their whole stay).
There would obviously be less BGs available at opening, but there’d also be less people going for them. And Disney could spread out the resort ‘FP+’ so they aren’t all clumped together incase of a breakdown (at which point resort guests for that time could just get a paper FP like how it works now), maybe even focusing them around midday and later so people with BGs get in earlier after taking the time to get there at park opening.
I’m aware this forum is dominated by AP holders and locals who probably won’t like that, but I honestly think it’s pretty fair.
Twirlnhurl
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Yes, if you go to guest relations within an hour of entering the park and explain that you only entered the park for the opportunity to ride Rise and that you are leaving because they are out of boarding groups, they should put the day back on your ticket. This is why it is vitally important that all the days boarding groups be distributed at once. If they were distributed throughout the day, guest relations wouldn't be able to provide compensation for guests entering the park and not being able to ride Rise.
Additionally, giving hotel guests a Rise FP+ for every 5 days at the resort would likely be more than the current guaranteed boarding group capacity for the ride.
I am really hoping they push the opening back up to 7am. The reports about the 8am openings I've read are making me nervous about my planned trip to take my dad to see the new ride in a few weeks. Of the three times I've ridden the ride, only once have I secured a boarding group lower than 67.
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I'm a passholder that goes at least once a week since I was 18 (over 20 years). I can promise you I spend way more money in a year at WDW that anyone staying for a week or two at concierge level, and I'm spending that money all the time, even when it's slow.
Passholders are Disney's bread and butter.
Yesterday, I got bg 7. Did the same exact method and got "weak signal". After several refreshes, got 80. 
disneygeek90
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Ugh. Is that a backup today?Yesterday, I got bg 7. Did the same exact method and got "weak signal". After several refreshes, got 80.
Edit: backups just closed so I can see guaranteed is 62 again...
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Yeah, 63 again is backup.