disneygeek90
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67 now! Yikes, but it’s movement.. 66.. ouch.
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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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KevinPage
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BUT I’VE BEEN LIED TO. I want to show up 5 minutes before Disney told me and not expect but DEMAND an equal chance
Probably some people with a Very Merry Christmas dilemma on their hands right now.
Darth Snips
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Commander D'amaro: "We shall double our efforts!"
Darth Chapek:
*Imperial March plays*
VaderTron
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On dear! I never thought of that... these poor people will have no where to go!
There is no place anywhere within 10 miles designed to hold cars! 
They go back to the hotel, to any of the hundreds of parking lots (hello Disney Springs), resorts, gas stations, restaurants (time for a McCafé?) in the area and wait till the scheduled opening time. There are plenty of options. Just because people don't like the options doesn't mean they don't exist. Besides, why should we care where they go? It's their fault for not knowing they couldn't arrive that early right? I mean if you are going to be consistent you have been saying people who arrive at opening and don't get a boarding group have themselves to blame for not knowing when to arrive.
thehowiet
Wilson King of Prussia
People are acting like crowd and traffic control is some new phenomena and is impossible. Contrary to popular belief, turning cars away will not turn into a disaster. It happens every summer with every large-scale music festival. Cars and people who arrive early get turned away and all is fine.On dear! I never thought of that... these poor people will have no where to go!
They go back to the hotel, to any of the hundreds of parking lots (hello Disney Springs), resorts, gas stations, restaurants (time for a McCafé?) in the area and wait till the scheduled opening time. There are plenty of options. Just because people don't like the options doesn't mean they don't exist. Besides, why should we care where they go? It's their fault for not knowing they couldn't arrive that early right? I mean if you are going to be consistent you have been saying people who arrive at opening and don't get a boarding group have themselves to blame for not knowing when to arrive.
VaderTron
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They have the room to accept the rush of vehicles. The issue is Disney doesn't want to pay to properly staff for that scenario.
If people want to stand around for hours by Boardwalk that's their business. Disney just doesn't want to deal with people peeing in cups because they don't want to leave a line and other idiotic things people do in those situations. I get it. But to say they have no options is wrong. They just would rather take the course of least resistance which also happens to conveniently be the course of greatest profits.
ToTBellHop
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False. They tried sending guests away Sunday. The result?
We will miss the Cinderella bus.
el_super
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Yeah, but opening the park early is also not a disaster, and actually results in a positive guest experience.
disneygeek90
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Boarding group 75 now. I wonder how many stuck around this late with how slow groups were boarding all afternoon. Regardless, they may be able to salvage the day with a good last 2 hours
ToTBellHop
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Many left, but if they call your group, no FP, no park hopper. That’s why they’re releasing a new group every 3 minutes...
thehowiet
Wilson King of Prussia
I didn’t say it was. I was commenting on the stance that turning people away is not a viable option. And not everyone had a positive guest experience, which was a result of TDO saying one thing and doing another.
Chicken Head
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Happy to report we finally made it through successfully! And they definitely had a good hour where they were only backfilling with called groups and people with paper fast passes.
It certainly added an element of suspense, praying the ride wouldn’t break down. Still totally worth it, just an amazing experience! Hopefully they can work our the issues sooner rather than later so more people can experience it.
It certainly added an element of suspense, praying the ride wouldn’t break down. Still totally worth it, just an amazing experience! Hopefully they can work our the issues sooner rather than later so more people can experience it.
disneygeek90
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6am is safe, imo. That’s when I’ll be there. There’s probably a slight uptick on a weekend compared to the weekdays. The earlier the better to cushion any extended downtime.
butterxcup
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I would agree with this. I tried last Saturday and it was noticeably busier than the weekdays but 6am was a decent time to get there for a group. I ended up with boarding group 50 and after only 1 breakdown in the morning I was on by 1:45ish. My best advice though would be to stand on the right side of the entrance gates. I was on the left side and I probably could have gotten 10 groups earlier with how slow our side was moving compared to the right.
disneygeek90
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We went far right. It was good except don’t go alllll the way right. The last two scanners were for some reason a single scan instead of the 2 per leg.
I parked at 5:50 Saturday, in line at 6, park opened at 6:35, scanned in at 6:45 and had group 28.
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bubbles1812
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We were there at 5 am and were group 8 and met a group that arrived at 6 and got group 38, or so they told us. Though this day has def been screwy with how many times it was down. If that helps put it into context for you.
EDIT: My mother corrects me and says they were group 48. It’s been a long day. We saw them on our second ride attempt, which was around 1230.
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flynnibus
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On dear! I never thought of that... these poor people will have no where to go!
They go back to the hotel, to any of the hundreds of parking lots (hello Disney Springs), resorts, gas stations, restaurants (time for a McCafé?) in the area and wait till the scheduled opening time
But that's exactly what you don't want... to displace all these cars into overflowing the surrounding areas not designed to hold that volume of cars. And those people who were there trying to be early aren't going to go far away when they know they want to get back as fast as they can. They are going to loiter, drive around creating more congestion, overflow places like the gas station, etc. That is the exact scenario operators are trying to AVOID.
That right there shows you have no real comprehension of operations.. nevermind that DHS is not an island, but infact inland of an empire Disney and RCID manage. Of course they care what happens outside the gates.
And note, it wasn't said they CAN'T do this.. it's been explained why they DON'T do it. Big difference. Nothing stopping you from cutting your own hand off.. but we can explain why people AVOID doing that.
Not impossible - just explained why an organization choses one way instead of another.
But this place continues to prove the adage.. you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. People wanted to know why Disney does something and it's explained. Yet some people want to close their ears and just keep beating their head against the wall 'why why why'. It's been explained why, if you all won't accept why Disney and many other operations behave this way.. clearly nothing is going to open your mind at this point. Enjoy the bewilderment... I'm done trying to help.
RobWDW1971
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That would be more intimidating if it was Kylo playing dress up as granddad and mumbling something about being sad and lonely.