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

[DANDAMAN1]

It works.

This would be for my Uncle. He's not "tech savy". So he can tap-in, then me using my phone in TX with his account signed in. Get him a Boarding Group right at opening. Cool. Thanks.

 

[disneygeek90]

Another Modified Demarke morning. My app glitched but my daughter got through. We had Group 18. Were called about 8:25 with a one-hour window. At least one major effect in B-mode, but we hadn't seen that before so didn't mind.

Please elaborate via spoiler tag!

 

[DCBaker]

4pm - current groups called 91-115, however no new groups have been called for the past ~20 minutes.

Pacing for the day so far is averaging just under 14 groups per hour.

 

[JD2000]

I may decide to visit DHS while there. But I don’t follow WDW discussions. Do the boarding groups continue to be a sort of lottery and gone within a couple minutes on most days? And just how many backups are usually called?

 

[DCBaker]

I may decide to visit DHS while there. But I don’t follow WDW discussions. Do the boarding groups continue to be a sort of lottery and gone within a couple minutes on most days? And just how many backups are usually called?

For the past 2 days, backup groups have been available for almost an hour, with today being available for 1 hour and 25 minutes. Initial groups have still been filled in the first minute.

As far as how many called, the past three days have been 121, 133, 143. Before this week, though, it had been really up and down as far as numbers called.

 

[DCBaker]

6:30pm - current groups called 132-142. There were 2 significant pauses for the day, each lasting roughly 40 minutes.

Pacing for the day is averaging just over 13 groups per hour for the day so far.

 

[JD2000]

For the past 2 days, backup groups have been available for almost an hour, with today being available for 1 hour and 25 minutes. Initial groups have still been filled in the first minute.

As far as how many called, the past three days have been 121, 133, 143. Before this week, though, it had been really up and down as far as numbers called.

Thank you for the reply!

Do you know how many boarding groups and backups they release and the conservative average called each day?

 

[KevinPage]

6:30pm - current groups called 132-142. There were 2 significant pauses for the day, each lasting roughly 40 minutes.

Pacing for the day is averaging just over 13 groups per hour for the day so far.

142 last group of the day?

 

[DCBaker]

142 last group of the day?

148, called just before 7:20pm.

 

[DCBaker]

Thank you for the reply!

Do you know how many boarding groups and backups they release and the conservative average called each day?

Initial boarding groups are staying quite low and for the past month or so, the highest was 73. How many backups are given out is only speculated as that data is not given out.

As a side note, backup groups for West RoTR were available for about 3 1/2 hours after opening today.

 

[wdwgreek]

I arrived today at 715 got through the gates at 730(no bag is the way to go!) And at 8 am pressed join boarding group and got group 51! We rode around 12:30 kylo was not in the finale of the ride.

 

[JD2000]

Initial boarding groups are staying quite low and for the past month or so, the highest was 73. How many backups are given out is only speculated as that data is not given out.

As a side note, backup groups for West RoTR were available for about 3 1/2 hours after opening today.

So do we know roughly the minutes you have to almost certainly get to ride (i.e. get a boarding pass within and your set)?

 

[MJJME]

So do we know roughly the minutes you have to almost certainly get to ride (i.e. get a boarding pass within and your set)?

The lowest BG ever called was around 60 I believe (DC Baker and others can prob give an exact answer)………...Guaranteed BGs are around the 60-70 range currently...……..so as long as you get a guaranteed BG, you should be fine to ride that same day...…….Guaranteed BGs are gone within 60 seconds of the park opening...……..remember though, this is a low bar...……..the last 4-5 days they have probably averaged close to twice that for BG called and the historical average is probably in the 100 range (does anyone have that exact stat?)

good luck

 

[DonaldDoleWhip]

Back for the first time since New Year - still got it

(Opened the app from scratch about 2 seconds before park opening)

 

[jrobe]

Group 8!! Thanks everyone for all the information!

 

[disneygeek90]

At Hollywood studios this morning with an out of state friend and this is our one park day. Had her try Demarke and I stuck with my open from scratch (FWIW she has AT&T).

Both had mishaps, “join boarding group” was available for both right at 8. The only problem was none of her friends showed. When my app loaded, I was once again not at the top of my list. That’s a few times that’s happened now so not sure whats going on.

I told her just to get herself a group as I reloaded my app. She got 31, I ended up with 83 after getting the red error. We were first in line at guest services and had them move me but phew that was a bit of a mess today!

 

[DisneyPirate123]

Back for the first time since New Year - still got it

(Opened the app from scratch about 2 seconds before park opening)

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On the bottom of the “you’re in a boarding group” screen is says “return within the next hour of when your boarding group is called”.

Is that new or has that screen always been listed what your return window length is (1 or 2 hours) on the “you’re in a boarding group” screen?

Did everyone today get 1 hour return windows?

 

[DCBaker]

9am - backup groups still available.

 

[MJJME]

Backup BG's still available at 9am...….

 

[disneygeek90]

Looks like it could be stalled at 28.