Don't lose hope. Try again at noon. If I remember correctly, @George Lucas on a Bench didn't get one at 7am but got one at noon and was still able to ride it.
Has any guest ever...EVER.. been unable to board Pirates, Big Thunder, HM or basically any normally-operating other ride in Disneyland because there weren’t enough seats available? You might have had to wait in line for hours, but you could get on if you wanted to. But Disney has decided that guests can’t spend money when they’re in line. And so they come up with “brilliant” ideas like this.
I just grabbed all of May's data and this is what it tells us (all numbers based on final boarding group for the day):
This is why I hate boarding groups. It should be left up to the people if they want to spend all day lined up in a queue for a ride than not even have a chance to get in the line in first place. I hate the boarding group idea. Sorry you went through this.
Yeah you shouldn't have to do all that just to line up to ride a theme park ride is the overall point you are missing there buddy.
Physical ride photos? I didnt see any to purchase besides in the app.
Oh, I agree you shouldn't have to, but you do and you can't change that fact, so offering suggestions to help is about all we can do at this point.
So FYI for Indy, last Saturday at about 5pm ish the ride went back to waiting in line, no more virtual queue.
Ok! This I knew, but figured I'd double check. There are those main street and california adventure photoshops that print out photopass photos as well, but I didn't go in to them.
Hindsight is 20/20 and it's too late to guide on this, but one of the biggest things most blogs will tell you about getting RotR boarding groups is to temporarily unlink any tickets from your account for people who aren't going to ride (and only link those who are) before going through the process so that you aren't slowed down by clicking on extra things, then relinking them again afterward before you enter the park.
. I know I'll be stressin' when the time comes.
The DL app
There aren’t enough seats available for most rides. Yes you can wait and people chose not to wait, but there is a limit. Letting people chose to wait can be nice for guests willing to do so but it also has negatives that do impact the guest experience. Disney doesn’t close the line until park closing, meaning those hours of people queued up are going to be cycled through the ride. That means extra late hours for the employees working the attraction and other facilities as the ride cycles through those last riders. A ride open hours later than the park is also getting less work done on it at night, an issue for new rides that continue to be adjusted after opening and more so for one as problematic as Rise of the Resistance. Sure, the queue could be closed before the park, but then we’re right back to people being unable to board. And even if you chose not to deal with the long line you may be stuck having to navigate around it as it spills out into the park (I still remember that long queue for the Indiana Jones Adventure the summer it opened).
