News Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance to begin Standby September 23rd

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Rise of the Resistance is an amazing ride that still causes my jaw to drop. I don’t get the hate, unless it’s towards its reliability.

The only hate I've see is from people who can't get on it.

Not the case…scan the thread (or others) and you get different perspectives/measured

 

[ToTBellHop]

Bloggers: “like, oh my God, guys!!1 There are INSANE crowds at Rise of the Resistance today! Look at these pictures of mobs walking orderly!!!!1 Crazy cakes!”

Meanwhile…

Jungle Cruise has the same wait time as RotR right now.

Stick to reviewing cupcakes and Loungefly releases! Grownups are talking!

 

[Cesar R M]

They seem careful to use the word pause not remove.

That means there is more to the story.

Want to bet that the virtual queue will be for Genie+ and the "rubes" have to play the waiting game?

 

[Cesar R M]

Bloggers: “like, oh my God, guys!!1 There are INSANE crowds at Rise of the Resistance today! Look at these pictures of mobs walking orderly!!!!1 Crazy cakes!”

Meanwhile…
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Jungle Cruise has the same wait time as RotR right now.
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Stick to reviewing cupcakes and Loungefly releases! Grownups are talking!

We're not even in the 50th Mr Bubblingboopytybop.
Parks are usually lower capacity before the influx waiting for the "big event".

 

[Cesar R M]

It's apparently a 20 minute wait. Wait-times are being exaggerated.

The queue is like a mile long. So no surprise honestly.

 

[MrPromey]

Yes! But unfortunately that's not possible.

Of course it isn't. The pre-show is still the line.

You might as well say you want to get in front of the 200 or so people waiting to get on Space Mountain once you get into the switch-backs rather than wait like everyone else through that part of the line at the end.

Trust me, after seeing Clair Huxtable go on for the 500th time about how the Dinosaur tech is "proprietary" I wish I could skip that part (and the associated wait) too but again, it's all still the line.

 

[Liberata]

It is about preparing for Lightning Lane.

Agree .. they are thinking people will love paying for this ride after this deliberate chaos ..

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

We're not even in the 50th Mr Bubblingboopytybop.
Parks are usually lower capacity before the influx waiting for the "big event".

That and the delta spike has wiped out a lot of the fall travel…

…which is the reality if you track the business outside of one zip code in central Florida

 

[Parker in NYC]

We're not even in the 50th Mr Bubblingboopytybop.
Parks are usually lower capacity before the influx waiting for the "big event".

I can’t wait to see the magical throngs rumored to flood the gates next week.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Agree .. they are thinking people will love paying for this ride after this deliberate chaos ..

Game. Set. Match.

“Creating demand” in a lab.

there was zero reason to dump the virtual in low crowds unless you want to create chaos.

hope it blows up on them

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

I can’t wait to see the magical throngs rumored to flood the gates next week.

…they won’t be arriving via plane. Low prices and available on an already reduced flight schedule

 

[Parker in NYC]

…they’re won’t be arriving via plane. Low prices and available on an already reduced flight schedule

Don’t you know? They’re saving on airfare by grabbing some expensive flip flops and walkin’ on down.

 

[Parker in NYC]

What were FoP numbers today? Comparable?

 

[mikejs78]

What were FoP numbers today? Comparable?

Lower. 45 min at one point when it was 75 for Rise.

Currently Rise is 105 and FoP is 40.

 

[Cesar R M]

Lower. 45 min at one point when it was 75 for Rise.

Currently Rise is 105 and FoP is 40.

If we take out the 15 minute walk. We could be seeing an hour of waiting + preshow, right?

 

[Parker in NYC]

Lower. 45 min at one point when it was 75 for Rise.

Currently Rise is 105 and FoP is 40.

I never thought I’d see a day where FoP was just 30 minutes less of a wait than Rise. Then again, I hadn’t met 2020.

 

[Cesar R M]

I never thought I’d see a day where FoP was just 30 minutes less of a wait than Rise. Then again, I hadn’t met 2020.

I was there in 2020. And because almost every single live show was taken offline. All the crowds packed the standard attraction queues.
So the wait times were similar.. between 30 to 40 minutes in most rides.

 

[MrPromey]

Smugglers Run is a pretty lame ride though. It’s a one and done for most people. I would dare say that Star Tours is a better ride due to the randomization. If you didn’t actually sit in the cockpit of the millennium falcon, it would be considered one of the worst rides in the park. If they were smart they would change the video to the ones used in Star Tours and keep it randomized. That would be an excellent way to allow you to leave Batuu and go to the places in the Star Wars universe that people love, not to mention in the millennium falcon. They could then completely retheme Star Tours to a different IP and have all of the Star Wars in the one land.

What about if they were to simply add more than one experience - different missions with slightly different goals (in the same way they do with Star Tours) so it actually feels a little different and it wouldn't be entirely obvious on a second or third or fifth ride-through that the "interactive" aspect of the ride isn't all that different from Mission Space?

They could of course, also create greater consequences for a poor ride-through other than a lower score - it doesn't have to be a "you loose - you suck" ending so much as just a different ending from the same start involving the actual in-ride experience rather than a "meh" grade on a video screen and some "damage" people don't seem to notice on exit.

I feel like at least some of the bigger issues with this one could be improved upon within the software.

Remember, for most of it's life (decades), Star Tours was the very same dated practical effects video attraction it started out with on opening.

Comparatively speaking, this one should be easy for them to iterate on.

Hopefully, they do.

 

[ToTBellHop]

And RotR is added to early entry. Smart move. About time, Disney. Get rooms booked!

 

[Parker in NYC]

I was there in 2020. And because almost every single live show was taken offline. All the crowds packed the standard attraction queues.
So the wait times were similar.. between 30 to 40 minutes in most rides.

I was referring to the current lack of crowds/state of things because 2020.