disneygeek90
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And we’re skipping the pre shows. Judging from the other ROTR thread, this has been happening all afternoon. Yikes 
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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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UNCgolf
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And we’re skipping the pre shows. Judging from the other ROTR thread, this has been happening all afternoon. Yikes
I'm very interested to see how they handle this once people are paying an additional fee to ride.
disneygeek90
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That was exactly what I was thinking about while going through the experience tonight.
Final report of night: Joined group at 6:20pm, called at 8:46. No pre shows but my first order officer definitely knew and tried to fill in where possible. Kylo AA was back, and the canon room is still pretending as if the canons are operating.
zakattack99
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- In the Parks
- No
SpectroMan93
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RoadiJeff
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I did that once, trying to get an afternoon BG when my group was park hopping and they wouldn't be at HS until the afternoon. I got BG 11 and I went up to a cast member at a blue umbrella and asked if she could bump my number to something higher. She reached into her bag of pixie dust on her laptop and changed it to an unrestricted BG, meaning I could walk up to ROTR any time of the day and get on it. It worked out perfectly and I waited until that afternoon to use it.
Joel
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Hey all, your friendly neighborhood API investigator here.
The latest change to the BG process is a slight step in the right direction and hopefully the start of a larger reworking. It's still a mostly cosmetic change, though, and not as far as I'd like to see them go toward making the system simpler and less error-prone.
Yes, your party is now "pre-selected and confirmed"... but it essentially was before, too. The only meaningful differences are:
This is better than before, where you were presented with your entire friends/family list, each with a checkbox that understandably confused many into thinking you needed to scroll through your list to make sure everyone was properly selected.
Still, what's even the point of this screen? If not for the historically anomalous absurdity we're all currently experiencing, you wouldn't have time to read any of that text -- and certainly not to change your party -- before all the boarding groups were snatched up. Besides, you already told the app you wanted to join the queue -- why do you have to do it again?
As others have pointed out, Disney has recently added an "isAcceptingPartyCreation" key to the getQueues API response, which could mean they eventually intend to allow you to select your party before the queue opens. This would enable them to eliminate this second screen and the additional point of failure caused by its associated network request during the extremely time-sensitive portion of the process. This is the way (as I think I've proven).
Anyway, it's better than it was, but it could, should, and hopefully will be even better.
The latest change to the BG process is a slight step in the right direction and hopefully the start of a larger reworking. It's still a mostly cosmetic change, though, and not as far as I'd like to see them go toward making the system simpler and less error-prone.
Yes, your party is now "pre-selected and confirmed"... but it essentially was before, too. The only meaningful differences are:
- It won't let you select someone who isn't eligible, like you could previously.
- Because of (1), you aren't automatically pre-selected all the time, which was just a bug that conveniently made it possible for people to practice the entire process before their trip.
This is better than before, where you were presented with your entire friends/family list, each with a checkbox that understandably confused many into thinking you needed to scroll through your list to make sure everyone was properly selected.
Still, what's even the point of this screen? If not for the historically anomalous absurdity we're all currently experiencing, you wouldn't have time to read any of that text -- and certainly not to change your party -- before all the boarding groups were snatched up. Besides, you already told the app you wanted to join the queue -- why do you have to do it again?
As others have pointed out, Disney has recently added an "isAcceptingPartyCreation" key to the getQueues API response, which could mean they eventually intend to allow you to select your party before the queue opens. This would enable them to eliminate this second screen and the additional point of failure caused by its associated network request during the extremely time-sensitive portion of the process. This is the way (as I think I've proven).
Anyway, it's better than it was, but it could, should, and hopefully will be even better.
disneygeek90
Well-Known Member
Pre shows operating today?
Rteetz
Well-Known Member
They were down this morning.
Raymondraymond
New Member
Pre-shows up after lunch (they were indeed down this morning). Cannon effects were partially working I’m guessing. First cannon was recoiling; others weren’t.
SpectroMan93
Well-Known Member
Can concur that all preshows were running and the ride, other than a static Finn AA and only one cannon recoiling, was working smoothly. Glad my friends’ first ride did not disappoint.
