News Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance Standby Line and Boarding Groups at Disney's Hollywood Studios

[MichRX7]

Group 10 today, looks like that is the group they started with using @Demarke method. Samsung Galaxy S8 on T-Mobile. Today I did restart the phone 15 minutes prior. All iPhones in our group crashed both days.

Can't say thank you enough.

 

[SoFloMagic]

All iPhones in our group crashed both days.

Can't say thank you enough.

IInteresting. I'm #teamfresh all the way, but I had my girlfriend try demarke yesterday on her iPhone and she crashed and never got past picking people

 

[jt04]

Definitely seems they are phasing out the BGs as the debut of MMRR approaches. IMO.

Hope they bring the system back to all four parks eventually with 2 or 3 ride options per park. I think it would be a great benefit to all guests.

 

[wdwmagic]

Definitely seems they are phasing out the BGs as the debut of MMRR approaches. IMO.

I would find that to be a very unlikely situation. They would need to be consistently operating at full capacity before they make any changes to the current setup. That isn't going to happen within a week.

 

[MJJME]

Definitely seems they are phasing out the BGs as the debut of MMRR approaches. IMO.

Hope they bring the system back to all four parks eventually with 2 or 3 ride options per park. I think it would be a great benefit to all guests.

Theres no way they are phasing out BG's...…...They are phasing out guaranteed BGs so they don't have to give away any FastPasses or park passes

 

[rustincohle]

Group 10 is the first group today, so technically they’ve guaranteed 35 groups.

That is appalling.

 

[Texas84]

Epic fail. Took 30 minutes to get from parking booth through turnstile. Entered at 8:02. I should know better. Will try again tomorrow.

 

[Texas84]

Crowds are ridiculous

 

[Texas84]

And I should say the CMs are doing a great job. Just too many people.

 

[Texas84]

Falcon single rider closed

 

[disneygeek90]

Epic fail. Took 30 minutes to get from parking booth through turnstile. Entered at 8:02. I should know better. Will try again tomorrow.

Did you bring in a bag? I’ve been liking 40 mins early at the parking booths. Gives you a little wiggle room.

 

[Clyde Birdbrain]

My wife and I started refreshing the app at 7:59 this morning. We couldn’t join a group while others around us cheered. I restarted the app twice and still the button was greyed out. Then my wife got group 98. I don’t understand how this works. WiFi wasn’t working at all so we were both on LTE. I wonder if they prioritize people who have never done it before? The app probably knows that we have.

 

[DCBaker]

My wife and I started refreshing the app at 7:59 this morning. We couldn’t join a group while others around us cheered. I restarted the app twice and still the button was greyed out. Then my wife got group 98. I don’t understand how this works. WiFi wasn’t working at all so we were both on LTE. I wonder if they prioritize people who have never done it before? The app probably knows that we have.

There is no evidence of that.

 

[Joeamc]

I would find that to be a very unlikely situation. They would need to be consistently operating at full capacity before they make any changes to the current setup. That isn't going to happen within a week.

I think they may start fast passes at some point. That would certainly change things.

 

[Joeamc]

I think they may start fast passes at some point. That would certainly change things.

The way I see it happening is that they will start Fast passes and the Boarding groups may become the standby line.

 

[KevinPage]

My wife and I started refreshing the app at 7:59 this morning. We couldn’t join a group while others around us cheered. I restarted the app twice and still the button was greyed out. Then my wife got group 98. I don’t understand how this works. WiFi wasn’t working at all so we were both on LTE. I wonder if they prioritize people who have never done it before? The app probably knows that we have.

Had a similar issue as this 1x and I’ve done the boarding group thing over 15x.

So yeah, you are giving Disney IT waaaaaaay too much credit

 

[Parker in NYC]

I think they may start fast passes at some point. That would certainly change things.

No. They. Won’t.

 

[The Mom]

Please limit discussion to actually using boarding groups - not whether or not they should exist. Thank you.

 

[Hawkeye_2018]

Did you bring in a bag? I’ve been liking 40 mins early at the parking booths. Gives you a little wiggle room.

is 45 min plenty of time to get through bag security and into park by 8AM?

 

[disneygeek90]

is 45 min plenty of time to get through bag security and into park by 8AM?

Leave your bag in the car if you can just to be safe and come back for it later. Otherwise yes. I’ve showed up to parking booths around 7:20/7:25 the past few times and am in the park by 7:45/7:50.