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

[Disneyhead'71]

Ok, so I talked with a friend in the know about these questionable opening procedures and was told that the reason they are doing it is because they want the "at capacity" sign out in front of the tapstyles as early as possible because of 2 reasons. 1. The attraction is running at a low capacity. And 2. The parks capacity as a whole is pretty low and those with higher boarding groups are left wandering the park until their time is called. They want the "at capacity" signs out front early to encourage folks to go to another park instead of DHS. If they wait until the scheduled opening there would be more people who can't get on the ride in the park, and the park as a whole would be slammed.

 

[ToTBellHop]

on Extra Magic Hour days they do because only resort guests can enter until regular park opening hours

Sort of. They started letting non-resort in before opening BGs. The advantage for resort guests was they were already in the park. With that large group, BGs closed in about 25 minutes however.

 

[Schmidt]

Flight of Passage has never closed the line early for “capacity”, let alone reached capacity before the park even opened or shortly after it opened. The FoP rope drop people are only battling for a shorter wait, but still have the entire day to queue up. Not the same situation.

Actually, they have closed the line down for capacity quite a bit for FOP. It even happened when I was at AK this August. The lines were crazy for FOP when I was there as well. I imagine with ROTR open now that lines will decrease at FOP.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Ok, so I talked with a friend in the know about these questionable opening procedures and was told that the reason they are doing it is because they want the "at capacity" sign out in front of the tapstyles as early as possible because of 2 reasons. 1. The attraction is running at a low capacity. And 2. The parks capacity as a whole is pretty low and those with higher boarding groups are left wandering the park until their time is called. They want the "at capacity" signs out front early to encourage folks to go to another park instead of DHS. If they wait until the scheduled opening there would be more people who can't get on the ride in the park, and the park as a whole would be slammed.

They should put up signs on the highways too. “All Rise of the Resistance Boarding Groups claimed. Slinky Dog 145-minute wait. Nothing else worthwhile. It’s a Small World open at Magic Kingdom”

 

[BrentSienna]

At the park today with boarding pass #78. It seemed all boarding passes were gone by 8:30 am. Dread to think what the next two weeks will be like here. Thoughts and prayers to guest services employees when the angry hordes get at them.

 

[DryerLintFan]

Yes, they were. I guess that makes it okay that everyone that showed up today after 7:45 (mind you, they may have parked at 7:15, taken the tram, and had a long bag check line),15 minutes before the park even officially opened, will not get to a chance to ride?

I'm sorry but there has to be some personal accountability. I have a hard time believing that people who aren't specifically going to ride this ride are going to have that hard of time with it. And people who ARE going specifically to ride this ride can wake up a half hour earlier based on how the crowd has gone the past few days.

"oh, it says here on all these news articles and google search results that the ride is well received and people are having to arrive well before the park opens to get on it. I think I'm going to arrive close to park opening and just see if its different today...."

 

[Tom Morrow]

Actually, they have closed the line down for capacity quite a bit for FOP. It even happened when I was at AK this August. The lines were crazy for FOP when I was there as well. I imagine with ROTR open now that lines will decrease at FOP.

I've never heard of this happening for the day, where the line is closed off before the park closing time and does not re-open, barring technical difficulty issues. I could be wrong, but I could see this happening if the extended queue fills up or something. I've never been to DAK where FoP wasn't open until the very last minute of park operation.

 

[Touchdown]

I waited 30 min at the bus stop before downloading lyft, buses were cycling through MK bus stops (I’m at the contemporary) but one never came in before 5:30 when I called.

 

[disneygeek90]

Actually, they have closed the line down for capacity quite a bit for FOP. It even happened when I was at AK this August. The lines were crazy for FOP when I was there as well. I imagine with ROTR open now that lines will decrease at FOP.

Walked into FOP line 10 mins before close on Monday and waited 35 mins.

 

[ThistleMae]

on Extra Magic Hour days they do because only resort guests can enter until regular park opening hours

Then I'm totally confused! All the posts I'm reading say the park is opening at 6ish/6:30ish and people are let in. This is before EMH even starts!

 

[Tom Morrow]

I'm sorry but there has to be some personal accountability. I have a hard time believing that people who aren't specifically going to ride this ride are going to have that hard of time with it. And people who ARE going specifically to ride this ride can wake up a half hour earlier based on how the crowd has gone the past few days.

"oh, it says here on all these news articles and google search results that the ride is well received and people are having to arrive well before the park opens to get on it. I think I'm going to arrive close to park opening and just see if its different today...."

I don't agree, it's not unreasonable to take Disney's word that the park opens at 8:00 and therefore arriving at 7:15 should be enough time. The average guest doesn't follow the theme park social media sphere and they shouldn't have to to not get screwed over.

 

[disneygeek90]

At the park today with boarding pass #78. It seemed all boarding passes were gone by 8:30 am. Dread to think what the next two weeks will be like here. Thoughts and prayers to guest services employees when the angry hordes get at them.

What time did you arrive and tap in?

 

[Crunchie9]

Then I'm totally confused! All the posts I'm reading say the park is opening at 6ish/6:30ish and people are let in. This is before EMH even start!

And those are only open to resort guests to the best of my knowledge with passes opening up around 6:30 ?

 

[marni1971]

At the park today with boarding pass #78. It seemed all boarding passes were gone by 8:30 am. Dread to think what the next two weeks will be like here. Thoughts and prayers to guest services employees when the angry hordes get at them.

Signs went out at 7:50 this morning.

 

[Crunchie9]

I don't agree, it's not unreasonable to take Disney's word that the park opens at 8:00 and therefore arriving at 7:15 should be enough time. The average guest doesn't follow the theme park social media sphere and they shouldn't have to to not get screwed over.

that’s why we get the perks because we did our due diligence.

 

[disneygeek90]

And those are only open to resort guests to the best of my knowledge with passes opening up around 6:30 ?

It’s my understanding that they let EMH guests in around 6 but boarding groups were not released until around 7:45. Non EMH were let in approx 7:25

 

[ThistleMae]

And those are only open to resort guests to the best of my knowledge with passes opening up around 6:30 ?

I don't see how this can be true. How would resort guests get past the massive lines of people at the gates to get in before them?

 

[ToTBellHop]

I don't see how this can be true. How would resort guests get past the massive lines of people at the gates to get in before them?

With separate tap points and fences like every other EMH morning. People are excited to ride RotR but aren’t behaving like wild animals.

 

[Schmidt]

They should put up signs on the highways too. “All Rise of the Resistance Boarding Groups claimed. Slinky Dog 145-minute wait. Nothing else worthwhile. It’s a Small World open at Magic Kingdom”

I've never heard of this happening for the day, where the line is closed off before the park closing time and does not re-open, barring technical difficulty issues. I could be wrong, but I could see this happening if the extended queue fills up or something. I've never been to DAK where FoP wasn't open until the very last minute of park operation.

I was just referencing that they do close the line down for capacity. Not sure for the whole day though. I haven't heard of that either.

 

[jt04]

Good thing Ratatouille is near completion.