Boarding Group question

[MimiDee905]

Can someone dumb down how boarding groups work with hopper tickets?
For example, if my first park of the day is DCA, can I not get a boarding group for rise? Or vice versa, if my first park is Disneyland, can I not get one for we slingers? Can you get one at 12 if you are not starting in that park? How does it work?
I am only familiar with WDWs boarding group.

Thanks!

 

[gelatoni fan]

So if you start at a park, that's the one you do at 7AM. If you ride it in the morning, you can grab the other one at noon. If your boarding group is not called yet, you are either stuck with that one only or can cancel it and grab the other one at noon assuming you have already entered the park. If you didn't manage to get a 7AM boarding group, you can get a group for either at noon assuming you already entered the park.

So if your first park is DCA, you can get Web Slingers at 7AM but not Rise. At noon, you can get Rise if you already entered DCA and do not have a Web Slingers boarding group because you either used it or cancelled it.

 

[goldengate1]

We just went through this and reserved Disneyland each morning and were able to get the boarding groups each day at exactly 7:00:00 per atomic clock time... windows for ROTR were often after the noon deadline, so as soon as they scanned our phones in ROTR we then got web slingers reservations for early evening. I do wonder what it would have been like if we selected DCA as our first park since it seems like most were doing what we were doing judging by the masses moving to DCA at 1 pm. Our logic was the ROTR was a must see and we wanted two chances for that, whereas Web Slingers was a yes that would be great but otherwise we'll just do Toy Story...