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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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SpoiledBlueMilk
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Pandora gives me serious claustrophobia on busy days. Galaxy's Edge at least has room to breathe.
One's whole party or just one person?
SoFloMagic
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No, but I heard a family say they had 120. They sounded happy about it.
tissandtully
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This is what I'm wondering as well, we get to pick how many people are in our party on the app?
Soluna16
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It went up to 120 before they closed it.
The one gentlemen said he went to the park at 5:30? I’m assuming he booked for his family.
tissandtully
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I also have heard that 20 or so people can be in 1 boarding group. So, doing the maths (calculates loudly) that puts today's capacity at a whopping 2400 people..... that... can't be right?
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
The popular movies...not the reboot land
Anyway...gonna need a full spoiler laced discussion on the ride. From the perspective of re-reridability.
Very intrigued so far
Sirwalterraleigh
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Disneyhead'71
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There are no M&Gs for popular characters at the WWoHP, but Dumbledore, Harry, Ron, Harmione, Hagrid, Draco, Godrick Griffendor, Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff, Salizar Slitherin, and the Sorting Hat, a Hungarian Horntail Dragon, and the Wimping Willow are in Forbidden Journey. Along with iconic locations like Hogsmeade, The 3 Broomsticks, Honeydukes, Zonko's, Hog's Head Pub, Dervish & Banges, Hagrid's Hut, and of course Hogwarts. Throw in Butterbeer and Pumpkin Juice and you have a heap of nostalgic fan service.
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ToTBellHop
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Up to group 38. Seems like they’re keeping pace to do all 120 groups.
WDWBigEd
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I'm near Magic Kingdom. When I tried to get into a boarding group it brings up a list of Friends and Family (just like FastPass+). The next screen gave an error showing the guest I picked on the list not being in Hollywood Studios.
disneygeek90
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It appears that the boarding group is created just as you would fastpasses. You choose all guests that you want, and if any of those are not in the park it tells you that you must remove them from your group to continue with the booking.
Tha Realest
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We're going in mid-January. We've planned to split one day at EPCOT then hit DHS (it's EMH for EPCOT that day, and in-laws are very eager to ride Soarin'). If we already have FPs for EPCOT, and have park-hoppers, can I scoot over to DHS first thing, get in a later boarding group, then get over to EPCOT to do the rides and go back to DHS later on?
Soluna16
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Roughly 100 people per boarding group.
flynnibus
Premium Member
The thing about virtual queues and using them all the time is similar problem to fastpass... you have to keep the funnel filled. FP wipes most of that problem by having a stand-by.. a 100% virtual queue does not. You have to balance how long you give people to return and show up.. keeping the funnel full.. and keeping the wait where you want it.
The smaller your batch size, the more risky things are at draining to zero. The tighter your window, the more risk. No-shows or late people threaten starving the funnel. Since return time is a human issue and customer experience topic.. you can't be militant about that. You have to have good wide return time. You manage when you release boarding groups to return to try to keep the funnel full.
In normal conditions.. the further you push people out in time, the greater the chance of no-shows. So starving the queue towards the end of the day when you allocated all your slots early like this would normally mean your boarding groups would accelerate later in the day and maybe even need walk-ups to keep things full. This assumes the ride stays operating all the time
Basically, virtual queue and nothing else is more at risk of reducing utilization due to no-shows or late returns... and requires more hands-on management to keep running smoothly. But you offset that by using larger batch sizes and the consumer benefit is high.. even tho it doesn't have the predictability that FP return times have.
But virtual queue avoids promising a timeslot.. which is good when you don't know how good your uptime or throughput really are going to be. Making it great for new attractions.
The smaller your batch size, the more risky things are at draining to zero. The tighter your window, the more risk. No-shows or late people threaten starving the funnel. Since return time is a human issue and customer experience topic.. you can't be militant about that. You have to have good wide return time. You manage when you release boarding groups to return to try to keep the funnel full.
In normal conditions.. the further you push people out in time, the greater the chance of no-shows. So starving the queue towards the end of the day when you allocated all your slots early like this would normally mean your boarding groups would accelerate later in the day and maybe even need walk-ups to keep things full. This assumes the ride stays operating all the time
Basically, virtual queue and nothing else is more at risk of reducing utilization due to no-shows or late returns... and requires more hands-on management to keep running smoothly. But you offset that by using larger batch sizes and the consumer benefit is high.. even tho it doesn't have the predictability that FP return times have.
But virtual queue avoids promising a timeslot.. which is good when you don't know how good your uptime or throughput really are going to be. Making it great for new attractions.