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

[brightlined]

Weird, I’m still showing boarding groups full and which groups they are boarding. We are not there yet.

Weird. Maybe mine's just stuck from the issues this morning.

I’m so confused about the best way to try for a boarding group. The latest version of the app takes soooo long to launch for me (iPhone 6s, that might be the reason) that if I launched it at 8 boarding groups would be gone before I could do anything in the app. So I guess I should already have it open at 8 and be on the home screen? Any advice would be appreciated!

If you're going soon, just make do with what you have. Just know that it might not work out - tech will likely be a major factor in the immediate days. If you're not going soon, the process might change - they're clearly still working out the kinks - the issues that have happened in the last two days might not be happening anymore. (Or something else could be happening.) So the "best method" might be a little different.

 

[LeiaOfAlderaan]

I think, if it takes that long, that might be your only option unless you want to upgrade your phone! Otherwise, when are you going? The boarding groups won't always be gone in the same amount of time.

LOL this situation actually made me consider upgrading, but I do like my 6s and my headphone jack. Our trip is in 4 weeks but it’s over Presidents Day weekend, which I think will be crazy busy (last I checked onsite hotels were almost completely sold out).

 

[Mike_M]

Group 11!!! I launched app right before 8, went straight into group selection.

We got group 11 as well this morning! It’s been a great day!

 

[GoldeneyezCA]

Ride is down. Got in line at around 10:12, walked into the beginning of interior queue, and received the dreaded announcement that “Due to First Order activity, all missions have been aborted”. Sigh....

 

[montreid]

Good luck to everyone else trying to ride this weekend. I’m heading off to Disney world for the week now.

Ak was our fav being so unique from our DLR digs. FOP is the bomb. Add Lion King Nemo and Everest with kili....very nice park

 

[dina444444]

Ak was our fav being so unique from our DLR digs. FOP is the bomb. Add Lion King Nemo and Everest with kili....very nice park

I love FoP. Have a fp ride it later in the week and I’m going to moonlight magic on Tuesday so will probably ride then as well. Just road it 3 weeks ago when I was there for NYE.

 

[dina444444]

No lines for security now at the structures. There are a frames up with the boarding groups full message here as well as at the front of the parks(both inside the gates and in the esplanade).

 

[dina444444]

If anyone is arriving to the parks now not sure what the Mickey and friends entrance situation is right now but there’s no wait to get into the Pixar structure.

 

[Susie63]

We will have 3 phones. Should we all be logged into my Disney account or should we each have a Disney account with all of the tickets scanned into each account. We have never used our phones at DL and we will all have data plans and won't be using the park wifi.

 

[emchen]

We got group 11 as well this morning! It’s been a great day!

Cell carrier? Where were you when you snatched the boarding group?

thanks in advance!

 

[socaldisneylover]

ROTR was amazing!!! New favorite ride. Hopefully the local APs who visit late afternoon or evening will be able get BGs in the typical way they visit the park. I'm curious to see how the BG are distributed during the weekdays.

So long as they use the Boarding Group system, there is Zero chance that there will still be openings in late afternoon or evening. Including on weekdays. The only exception might be during a big rainstorm. Otherwise there will always be enough people in the park, and the majority of them will be signing up for a boarding group. Anyone can do it, and it doesn't take away a Fast Pass, and lots of people are going to want to experience this ride. Even multiple times.

When it hopefully changes over to a regular system, those who arrive late will at least have the option of waiting in a standby line. There's no telling how they're going to manage that though, as if people are allowed to get in line up until closing, it's going to cause it to remain open a long time. And much like Radiator Springs, the fast passes will be gone by morning, perhaps even within 1-2 hours of park opening.

 

[Kender]

A friend of mine got 134 . But I guess at least it gives her a chance. That's more than a lot of people got.

No SoCal and no SoCal Select passes today. Doesn't look like it made a big difference today, though, in speed of BGs being claimed. But definitely a data point I'll be interested in as we go forward what, if any, changes pass block outs make. Not nearly enough data to go by yet, though, only being on day 2 lol

 

[socaldisneylover]

I'm wondering what the maximum # of groups they've been able to get through in between breakdowns. I think there were either 2 or 3 major breakdowns yesterday, where they cleared the queue, and one so far today.

 

[CaliforniaGirl09]

On the phone that worked best, here’s what I did - checked for boarding group at 7:55, and also looked at linked passes. Then I killed the app, and restarted it but left it at the top screen without checking again. Then I suspended (not killed) the app by going to the home screen... at 7:59:58 I re-opened the app, then went into the ride of the Resistance screen, where “join a boarding group” was enabled. I went in, both my wife and I were already selected, then I hit confirm. At that point I had 11, which was great for us as we fly out in the afternoon.

I used an Apple Watch with a digital second hand to see when exactly to reopen the app.

My wife’s phone she was just going in and out of the Rise screen but never saw join a boarding group activate.

We have t-mobile and were sitting in fantasyland with a good cellular signal.

Thanks so much for the report. Could you clarify as to whether multiple phones were logged into the same account. That's what we did in WDW, but I haven't seen specifics mentioned here.

We will have 3 phones. Should we all be logged into my Disney account or should we each have a Disney account with all of the tickets scanned into each account. We have never used our phones at DL and we will all have data plans and won't be using the park wifi.

Same questions for me. When we rode at WDW we had 5 phones and 4 were logged into the same account. Just want to make sure it's working the same way at DL and we don't need to have everyone create unique logins.

Thanks for all the reports. I'm *really* nervous about next Saturday now. The times for BGs to go are way faster than when we were at WDW.

 

[CaliforniaGirl09]

No SoCal and no SoCal Select passes today. Doesn't look like it made a big difference today, though, in speed of BGs being claimed. But definitely a data point I'll be interested in as we go forward what, if any, changes pass block outs make. Not nearly enough data to go by yet, though, only being on day 2 lol

I was wondering the same thing about whether the So Cal passes were going to make a difference on the weekend. Next Saturday I think only one of the So Cal passes is blocked.

 

[MommaofW&N]

How long do you think they will be using boarding groups ? We go at the end of April-beginning of May! Thank you so much! WDW is no longer using BGs?

 

[Mike_M]

Cell carrier? Where were you when you snatched the boarding group?

thanks in advance!

All of us in our group tried, but the one that got the reservation was using a newer galaxy phone on sprint. We were over by Jolly Holiday when we got it.
We couldn’t believe it!

 

[dina444444]

How long do you think they will be using boarding groups ? We go at the end of April-beginning of May! Thank you so much! WDW is no longer using BGs?

No clue and wdw is still using boarding groups.

 

[Kender]

I was wondering the same thing about whether the So Cal passes were going to make a difference on the weekend. Next Saturday I think only one of the So Cal passes is blocked.

SoCal Select is blocked both 25th and 26th. SoCal is only blocked 25th. So 26th I could see drawing a larger rope drop crowd trying for a BG

Flex is reservation only both days (as of 11:20 am PST, both days are still available for reservations).

Deluxe, Sig, and Sig+ are not blocked.

How long do you think they will be using boarding groups ? We go at the end of April-beginning of May! Thank you so much! WDW is no longer using BGs?

WDW is still using BGs. I don't think anyone could make a logical guess even when they or DLR might stop using BGs. There's not enough data, but they're definitely not ready for a true standby queue currently. No where near it.

 

[Go💛Go]

I'm wondering what the maximum # of groups they've been able to get through in between breakdowns. I think there were either 2 or 3 major breakdowns yesterday, where they cleared the queue, and one so far today.

Thrill Data charts the BGs off of info posted on the DL app. Although no one knows the # of guests in a BG, 10-12 BGs per hour is a good rate if there aren’t breakdowns...tap in the graph to view it:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1218289448695275520