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

[VaderTron]

Just talked to someone in line at Slinky. They got BG 175 about 7:25. They won’t make it as they have to leave around 2.

Let's be honest...that person didn't have today planned well. In a park on a day you have to leave at 2? If AP then they should have known better than a 7:25 arrival time. If a day ticket tourist...what are you doing paying for a while day and leaving at 2pm???

 

[TPSou]

Inevitably this would lead to paid services where someone else books your BG. No good.

Does this already exist for fastpass/dining reservations? Never heard of that before, why can't people just do it themselves?

 

[relic827]

Let's be honest...that person didn't have today planned well. In a park on a day you have to leave at 2? If AP then they should have known better than a 7:25 arrival time. If a day ticket tourist...what are you doing paying for a while day and leaving at 2pm???

Yeah I’ll be in Orlando this week for a rare non-Disney reason and I’m flying home Friday. I was originally planning on going to DHS Friday and was going to have to leave around 5 to make my flight. One day, I had an epiphany and was like “why am I going on a day where I have to leave?” So now I’m going Wednesday. Just seemed like common sense...you know, eventually.

 

[KevinPage]

The friends I made this morning, at group 99, were called at 2:40.

That means less than a minute was the difference of an 8:45am call time and 6 hours later.

I get the shakes just reading that

 

[twilight mitsuk]

VVCVCT. VTZZ

 

[awhit066]

Let's be honest...that person didn't have today planned well. In a park on a day you have to leave at 2? If AP then they should have known better than a 7:25 arrival time. If a day ticket tourist...what are you doing paying for a while day and leaving at 2pm???

If its the last day of their trip and they had a multi-day ticket (say 7 days), the difference of the extra day is less than $20 isn't it? I'd say that's worth it for 6.5hr more in the parks!

 

[ToTBellHop]

It's no different then Disney restaurant reservations through your Disney account. How would that lead to paid services.

People already offer to book FP and dining for you for a fee. It’s somewhat more innocuous if you don’t make your Pooh FP. A lot of people really want to get on RotR.

 

[disneygeek90]

Let's be honest...that person didn't have today planned well. In a park on a day you have to leave at 2? If AP then they should have known better than a 7:25 arrival time. If a day ticket tourist...what are you doing paying for a while day and leaving at 2pm???

From what I could tell they were AP’s living in Florida. They definitely did not seem overly disappointed. I heard something about them needing to be in south Florida in the evening.

 

[UNCgolf]

I'm going to be at Disney next week and would love to ride RotR, but I've already accepted the fact that I probably won't. We've got Hollywood Studios scheduled for Tuesday the 14th, which should help, since that's probably about as low as crowds will ever be at Disney. As much as I'd like to ride it, though, I don't care enough to get up at 5 AM just to be there to have a chance to maybe get a boarding group which might let me ride it if it doesn't break down too many times. I'd rather have a pleasant trip without wasting an evening and/or being sleep deprived. It's not like this is the last time I'll ever be at Disney and thus my only chance to ever ride it.

 

[disneyREINA]

Has this died down at all? I heard you must be at the park by 8am to run to rise of resistance in order to get on a boarding group for the day. Is this still true?
If we arrive around 10am will we get a spot? I know it depends on time of the year, we will be there last week of March.

 

[RSoxNo1]

Today was a 9 out of 10 on the crowd calendar and I imagine plenty of people were leaving today.

Hopefully tomorrow we see the regular boarding groups lasting longer than a few minutes.

 

[James J]

It definitely hasn't died down much, if at all. You still need to get to the park early, as the boarding groups open up at rope drop (currently 7am) and are then filled within 2-3 minutes. I don't anticipate ot dropping enough by March that you'd be able to sign up if you didn't arrive until 10am.

There's a whole thread on it here: https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads...rts-and-using-boarding-groups.962202/page-251

 

[disneyREINA]

Omg wow 2-3 minutes!?? Woowww ok thanks I’ll read up!!

 

[DCBaker]

I'm going to be at Disney next week and would love to ride RotR, but I've already accepted the fact that I probably won't. We've got Hollywood Studios scheduled for Tuesday the 14th, which should help, since that's probably about as low as crowds will ever be at Disney. As much as I'd like to ride it, though, I don't care enough to get up at 5 AM just to be there to have a chance to maybe get a boarding group which might let me ride it if it doesn't break down too many times. I'd rather have a pleasant trip without wasting an evening and/or being sleep deprived. It's not like this is the last time I'll ever be at Disney and thus my only chance to ever ride it.

Right now (and it could change) DHS doesn't even open until 8am on the 14th. Why would you need to get up at 5am?

If it does open at 8, get there at 7:15-7:30 and you'll be fine to get in with the everyone else by 8 to get a BG. You really don't need to stress yourself out about it.

 

[Chet Dakota]

There’s actually a desire to entice APs more.

How so?

 

[UNCgolf]

Right now (and it could change) DHS doesn't even open until 8am on the 14th. Why would you need to get up at 5am?

If it does open at 8, get there at 7:15-7:30 and you'll be fine to get in with the everyone else by 8 to get a BG.

I don't want to get up at 6 AM either. I also don't want to stand in a massive group of people for 30-45 minutes just waiting to get inside the park to have the chance to maybe ride it. That sounds terrible and not worth it regardless of how great the ride is.

 

[socalkdg]

Anyone known if the boat was operating from Boardwalk this morning at 5:30 or 6:00 am?

 

[Chet Dakota]

Anyone known if the boat was operating from Boardwalk this morning at 5:30 or 6:00 am?

We walked over at 530 from BW this morning and noticed that the boats were not running, or at least we did not see one.

 

[DCBaker]

7:40pm and pretty much sitting at the same place as yesterday, with groups currently called to 174 (173 at 7:35 yesterday).

 

[UNCgolf]

You really don't need to stress yourself out about it.

Not sure how you got stress from my post? I'm about as far from stressed about it as someone could possibly be. I just probably won't ride it this time, and that's fine.

My original point was mostly surprise that so many people are willing to do that just to potentially ride this ride (since it's no guarantee unless you manage to get one of the first boarding groups). It's similar to people who will wait 3-4 hours to ride Flight of Passage (although the current RotR system isn't as long of a time commitment, the early morning aspect makes it roughly the same to me). There are too many other things I can do with my time at Disney.