How do you know if a ride is down at rope drop?

[MomDoc_99]

Does it show up as down on MDE before rope drop so you can adjust your plans? Show as being down right at rope drop so you have to be vigilant and pivot quickly? Or do you not know until you get to the ride and it is pretty much too late to get to a different popular ride before lines build? Any experiences?

 

[MinnieMSue]

Does it show up as down on MDE before rope drop so you can adjust your plans? Show as being down right at rope drop so you have to be vigilant and pivot quickly? Or do you not know until you get to the ride and it is pretty much too late to get to a different popular ride before lines build? Any experiences?

Most of the time I find out when I get to the ride. Sometimes they announce major issues like with Rise of the Resistance they may announce a delayed opening but most times I find out after I get there and have to pivot to go elsewhere quickly unfortunately.

 

[loves to dive]

9 out of 10 times I've found out when I got to the ride. I think maybe once or twice it showed on the app.

 

[gharter]

Sadly, similar experience. sometimes it will show in MDE as a ride is closed, but generally it is after getting to the ride. One time at MK, waiting for EE, the CM's announced multiple times that 7DMT would be closed at EE. Most then headed to SM or PP.

 

[Dug720]

I will say that was one advantage of Genie+ at Disneyland - you can't book your first G+ until you've scanned into the park, so even if you were at the front and got scanned in moments before official opening they had the rides down marked as such. Even if you weren't getting your first G+ ride for that park or ride (I was almost always getting it for something in DCA even if I was starting in DL so it automatically popped to the first availability after hopping), you could see which of the G+ rides were down.

 

[AnnaS]

Same here. Rope dropped, walked fast on our way to the ride only to find out it was closed. My little gut tells me they don't tell guests intentionally - spread the direction of the crowd every change they get We (and many others would have sprinted towards another ride).

 

[goofyernmost]

Right after rope drop you go to the attraction and if it isn't open, then it's closed.

 

[Chernabob]

Generally agree with everyone here--you find out the hard way once you're at the attraction. Been there, done that.

That said, I can recall two occasions where CMs told the crowds gathered at rope drop that a ride was down (Remy at Epcot, and then Radiator Springs Racers at DL).

 

[JPKanks]

Unfortunately most of the time you will have to physically be at the ride to see if it's closed.