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

HoustonHorn

HoustonHorn

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Rode for the first time today. Holy cow, what an amazing attraction. Thanks to this board for all of the hints and tricks - I was able to get BG 27 and was called right at 11. I didn't realize how fortunate I was until I talked to 4 other families in line for other rides who all missed out.

Thanks to all!
 
Capsin4

Capsin4

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DisneyCane said:
With the new 7am boarding group sign up, do you have to select your party or does it automatically select people that have a reservation at DHS?
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I’ve been doing it from home to get familiar with the screens and it consistently doesn’t select everyone. I’ve only done it a few times but it always has one person selected.
Im not sure if this is because we don’t have active tickets or if defaulting to one person selected is account based rather than random. I’ve made it to the screen that says no valid tickets only by proceeding with the default selections. When I’ve added everyone else, I’ve gotten the queue is full message.
I’ve seen recommendations to proceed with whoever is selected by default and then go to guest services because they only care about a reservation and will add your party. I’ve also heard that this depends on the cm you talk to.
Im not exactly sure what the best strategy is at this point.
 
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DisneyCane

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HoustonHorn said:
Rode for the first time today. Holy cow, what an amazing attraction. Thanks to this board for all of the hints and tricks - I was able to get BG 27 and was called right at 11. I didn't realize how fortunate I was until I talked to 4 other families in line for other rides who all missed out.

Thanks to all!
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I didn't really think about it until you posted this but if there are 100 people per boarding group (I have no idea what the number is), only around 11k get to ride each day. When the park is at capacity with reservations there are a lot more people in attendance than 11k. I've been fortunate to get a BG both times I've been to DHS since reopening and hope to make it 3 for 3 in January.

I have to criticize management and/or imagineering. Designing a ride that is rideable and desirable by at least 90% of guests that doesn't have the capacity for everybody who wants to ride to be able to one time in a day is bad practice. Even post COVID when the ride vehicles aren't capacity restricted, there is no way that everybody in the non-reduced attendance will be able to ride.
 
TriSeb

TriSeb

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Capsin4 said:
always has one person selected
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Same here for my practice runs the past few weeks and has been difficult to get to the "success" screen. Today was my brother and sister in law's actual day in the park. Both of them were preselected and I was able to snag them BG 58!

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Dapale

Dapale

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Lets gooooo. Got group 4. Stayed on the page with the physical circle image of Rise and just pulled the tab down @ 7am. The party (3 of 5 on the account) with tickets & park reservations was auto-selected
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EDIT: Was the first group on the ride for the day as far as I was aware. Only issues I discovered on this ride through:
- My ITS shuttle had Lt. Bek animatronic down
- Canons are still in B mode (only first canon fires & vehicles move backwards to make the scene more exciting)
 
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HoustonHorn

HoustonHorn

Premium Member
DisneyCane said:
I didn't really think about it until you posted this but if there are 100 people per boarding group (I have no idea what the number is), only around 11k get to ride each day. When the park is at capacity with reservations there are a lot more people in attendance than 11k. I've been fortunate to get a BG both times I've been to DHS since reopening and hope to make it 3 for 3 in January.

I have to criticize management and/or imagineering. Designing a ride that is rideable and desirable by at least 90% of guests that doesn't have the capacity for everybody who wants to ride to be able to one time in a day is bad practice. Even post COVID when the ride vehicles aren't capacity restricted, there is no way that everybody in the non-reduced attendance will be able to ride.
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I was talking with a manager this morning as we waited for rope drop (no BG for me today - this was a daddy-daughter trip, and my daughter was scared out of her mind on Monday, and even though she powered through like the trooper she is, she asked me not to ride again this trip, and at the end of the day, her happiness is worth more to me than a theme park ride, even one as spectacular as Rise. Plus, it isn't like this is our last trip, and she'll like it more when she's older).

Anyway, the manager said that her fiancé was in town to visit the parks, and she had to do the same thing as us normies - she had the app open on one phone and her clock app on another phone, and she was able to score him a BG. Said she was legitimately stressed about it.

FWIW, she said it truly is about finger and phone speed. This actually got me wondering if all the folks who are having bad results are on older phones. She also reiterated something several folks here have mentioned - at least for the 2PM BG drop, she highly recommended using your cell data and not the park WIFI. Due to the sheer number of people using the in-park WIFI, it slows you down and lessens your chance of success.
 

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