Rise of the Resistance BOARDING GROUPS Superthread Part 1 *No Ride Spoilers Please* *PLEASE READ POSTS 1-4*

[montreid]

So are you stuck waiting in the long lines twice????? First group goes through and then rider swap parent has to wait in the slog again to ride? That’s going to take for freaking ever.

Swap at ride entrance and get access to FP line on the swap

 

[montreid]

Has it been confirmed if you actually need to be in Disneyland Park to join a BG at opening? Or would it be possible to get scanned in (possibly 7AM or earlier), then walk out of the park to join a BG at 8AM, regardless of your location? I saw a post that mentioned that worked at WDW. I wonder if the Disney app will tie you to your location.

If it works like FP programming, no need to be in park AFTER scanning into the park. I've grabbed FP no problem in the hotel offsite. same for WDW for the BG.

 

[Skyegirl1999]

So are you stuck waiting in the long lines twice????? First group goes through and then rider swap parent has to wait in the slog again to ride? That’s going to take for freaking ever.

I’m not sure what long lines you mean... At WDW, most reports are for a short wait once your BG is called (unless the ride breaks down). Usually rider swap goes through the FP line, but I’m not positive how it works for this. I was just saying everyone needs a boarding group; it’s not like when you rider swap off of a FP and can just have one FP.

Has it been confirmed if you actually need to be in Disneyland Park to join a BG at opening? Or would it be possible to get scanned in (possibly 7AM or earlier), then walk out of the park to join a BG at 8AM, regardless of your location? I saw a post that mentioned that worked at WDW. I wonder if the Disney app will tie you to your location.

Based on how Maxpass works and how it’s working at WDW, you should be able to scan in and leave.

 

[MikeRx]

Just a reminder, if scan in and leave does work as anticipated, the entire party needs to be present to scan in at the gate. You can’t be the family runner with everyone’s ticket and expect to get everyone in a boarding group.
Mike

 

[Tinkerbell19672]

This entire ROTR process stresses me out! Am I the only one??????

Nope, I am too. I confused how it works but I guess will find out when I’m there in a couple of weeks. I was hoping there would be an advantage to staying onsite, I think there was when GE first opened?

 

[BlueRibbon]

I was hoping there would be an advantage to staying onsite, I think there was when GE first opened?

The only advantage as I recall is that you were guaranteed a "reservation" to get into SWGE. The way things are playing out now with the BGs is that with Early Morning Magic, you may not have to worry as much about the crowds in the esplanade to get your ticket scanned. You'll have your own entrance and get past the crowds a bit earlier.

When it comes to the BGs though, resort guests have equal chance as everyone else.

 

[EmJ]

The boarding group system isn’t so different from MaxPass, there’s just a couple “extra” fences around it, and everyone can do it on their phone even without paying.

1. Scan everyone who wishes to ride into DLR before the published opening time.
2. Wait in Main Street, or other park areas if you’re there for MM/EMH.
3. At the published park opening time, boarding groups will become available to book.
4. Click “Join Boarding Group” in the app and select everyone who wishes to ride.
5. Pray.
6. The app will tell you what your boarding group number is.
7. When it’s your turn to board, you will get a push notification, or can monitor which groups are boarding on the screens around DL.
8. You have two hours after your boarding group is called to get to ROTR.
9. Ride!

The challenging parts come in at #5 and #9. With #5, because everyone is trying to get a boarding group at the same time, cellular connectivity can make a difference, plus the total available boarding groups for the day have been going very fast at WDW. Like, 10 minutes or less fast.

The other issue is that Disney can’t know what its true ride capacity is on any given day, since ride breakdowns or other issues may slow boarding beyond what was anticipated. Early boarding groups have a good chance of getting on; late boarding groups might not get called. On occasion, WDW has had to clear the line due to a breakdown, so even early boarding groups are not guaranteed a ride. Disney has been comping those folks with a ROTR FP and, in some cases a 1 day ticket, to ride another time. We will have to see what DL does.

 

[panda123]

Swap at ride entrance and get access to FP line on the swap

It's been reported on the WDW thread that once you're in line at RotR and boarding group scanned it could be anywhere from 5 minutes to a bit over an hour to get through the queue, depending on how the ride is doing and if a bunch of folks are showing up at the same time. So the other part of your group may have to wait up to an hour and a half but then will be able to go through fast pass part of the queue which takes you right to the beginning of the ride. It's a lot like doing rider swap where the first party is doing a standby line that's an hour or so long, give or take, except that all folks wanting to ride do need a boarding group.

 

[montreid]

It's been reported on the WDW thread that once you're in line at RotR and boarding group scanned it could be anywhere from 5 minutes to a bit over an hour to get through the queue, depending on how the ride is doing and if a bunch of folks are showing up at the same time. So the other part of your group may have to wait up to an hour and a half but then will be able to go through fast pass part of the queue which takes you right to the beginning of the ride. It's a lot like doing rider swap where the first party is doing a standby line that's an hour or so long, give or take, except that all folks wanting to ride do need a boarding group.

Yep. Just like any other swap....gotta wait in the standard lines the first time and the swap gets to bypass the line as much as possible. In this case, with the experience, that means FP line that merges right at the beginning of the first experience

 

[vharris2828]

So are you stuck waiting in the long lines twice????? First group goes through and then rider swap parent has to wait in the slog again to ride? That’s going to take for freaking ever.

I’m worried about this too. And you’re not the only one! the whole thing stresses me out. I’m so stressed about crowds the week we are going and all these people camping to ride this. I hope the whole week isn’t just absolutely bonkers.

 

[vharris2828]

Swap at ride entrance and get access to FP line on the swap

So I’m a bit confused on something. Do boarding groups work how a fast pass works regarding rider switch? So with fast pass parent 1 and child 1 grab fastpass and ride. Get the rider switch and then parent 2 and child 2 can ride next. If it works that way would that mean parent 1 and child 1 show up early to hopefully grab boarding passes. Get rider switch when they ride And then parent 2 and child 2 ride with the rider swap. Or do all four need a boarding pass first thing in the morning?

 

[Skyegirl1999]

So I’m a bit confused on something. Do boarding groups work how a fast pass works regarding rider switch? So with fast pass parent 1 and child 1 grab fastpass and ride. Get the rider switch and then parent 2 and child 2 can ride next. If it works that way would that mean parent 1 and child 1 show up early to hopefully grab boarding passes. Get rider switch when they ride And then parent 2 and child 2 ride with the rider swap. Or do all four need a boarding pass first thing in the morning?

They all need boarding passes.

 

[smercerdiemont]

Sorry if this has been asked before, I am getting super nervous about our upcoming trip. My whole party needs to be scanned/ enter the park that morning to try to get BG for us all, correct?
We do not have early entry, so if we get there to line up at 6:30 for a 8:00 opening, what happens if we get to the front of the line to get scanned in by 7:20, probably not happening, but what if? Will they turn us away or are we allowed to wait at rope drop?

 

[montreid]

IF they continue the same protocol as WDW....
1. Open turnstiles sometime before opening....usually 30minutes before opening. They may open earlier if crowds are very deep and probably on the first few days is may guess.
2. Hold nonMM at main Street untill opening
3. At opening...will drop BG in app and all folk scanned into DL will be able to request a BG number.

 

[smercerdiemont]

IF they continue the same protocol as WDW....
1. Open turnstiles sometime before opening....usually 30minutes before opening. They may open earlier if crowds are very deep and probably on the first few days is may guess.
2. Hold nonMM at main Street untill opening
3. At opening...will drop BG in app and all folk scanned into DL will be able to request a BG number.

Thank you!

 

[midnight star]

This entire ROTR process stresses me out! Am I the only one??????

Yeah if we are somehow able to do it in Florida, I might just hold off on doing it here. Until the kinks are worked out. At least with WDW, it's been going for a while so you kind of know what to expect.

 

[ZCarroll]

This thread has convinced me to get a travel sim for our visit.
Any idea which will give me better coverage/performance

A. AT&T or

B. T-Mobile

?

I don't know if it's changed but I was t-mobile customer from the beginning (when it was voicestream) for over 20 years and the difficulty I experienced with it at DL was one of the reasons I finally switched.... when I was asking around what people were using at the parks that were able to connect while we weren't AT&T was the top answer. I've been with Verizon a few years now so I don't know if t-mobile has improved in that time but it was so bad we actually brought walkie talkies to use while we were in the parks to communicate with each other.... I just checked out of curiosity and it does sound like people are reporting major improvement with tmobile in the last year or so at the parks but AT&T might still be better.

 

[Aurora0427]

Swap at ride entrance and get access to FP line on the swap

Ok, so only your first party waits in the line. I’ve read the lines at WDW were up to 70 minutes when the ride opened.... another poster just posted that the lines are 5 minutes to an hour. So basically the person who has to wait with my three year old won’t have to go through the entire line again like out first group. Not sure if I’m making sense!

 

[Aurora0427]

Yeah if we are somehow able to do it in Florida, I might just hold off on doing it here. Until the kinks are worked out. At least with WDW, it's been going for a while so you kind of know what to expect.

I think I feel extra anxious because when we are going we will have my parents and a toddler who is ONE INCH TOO SHORT to ride. All the potential chaos at rope drop and the potential for extra crowds everywhere else is what’s adding to my anxiety. I’m probably over reacting.... if it’s too much we’ll just skip it and my parents will just have to miss it. The focus of this trip is my daughter turning 4.... Disney threw me for a loop when they announced the ROTR opening. I’m just glad we aren’t going opening weekend!

 

[IsleofDisney]

I don't know if it's changed but I was t-mobile customer from the beginning (when it was voicestream) for over 20 years and the difficulty I experienced with it at DL was one of the reasons I finally switched.... when I was asking around what people were using at the parks that were able to connect while we weren't AT&T was the top answer. I've been with Verizon a few years now so I don't know if t-mobile has improved in that time but it was so bad we actually brought walkie talkies to use while we were in the parks to communicate with each other.... I just checked out of curiosity and it does sound like people are reporting major improvement with tmobile in the last year or so at the parks but AT&T might still be better.

We have TMobile and haven't experienced technical issues with connecting and I'm one of those who is always on the DL app checking FP availability, often finding ones that look unavailable. The only issues is if we are in a queue that goes deep in a building, like IJA or GotG:MB. I know Verizon's coverage is the best but the bill I pay is ridiculously low for 5 lines, free Netflix, & 50 Gigs data per line. I'm sticking to TMobile.