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

[brightlined]

Most of this feels like the morning that the Taylor Swift tickets go on sale, they sell out in five minutes, and people are all over social media ranting at how unfair it is and how much Ticketmaster sucks.

(To be fair, Ticketmaster does kinda suck.)

 

[GoldeneyezCA]

BG 20 called at 9:17 with 2-hr return window

 

[Aurora0427]

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

So do you mean you opened the app and it went straight into boarding group selection? Or did you have to select something? I’m trying to figure out the best way to launch the app! We will be there next weekend and will try and ride ROTR Sunday.

 

[montreid]

We've always enjoyed the first 2 or 3 hours of the day with minimal crowds, with the big influx not hitting until 10 or 11am. I don't know how many people are in a boarding group, but now we have 70-80 boarding groups in the park at 8am sharp so the relaxed early mornings are over, sorry to say. Thanks, Batuu.

Go straight forward -- should be fine. Even Jungle and IJA are still low waits - most will jump to SWGE and supplement with MFSR so crowds will still be mitigated for regular early AM folk

 

[dina444444]

8:40 Entered queue
8:42 Ticket scanned in queue
8:50 Entered 1st Pre Show
9:27 Off ride
We got held up since we forgot to request front row at the right spot and then they was having an issue on the side we were on.

 

[Aurora0427]

It just seems really light this morning.... I hope everyone isn’t coming next weekend. When we are coming.

 

[nutshell]

We've always enjoyed the first 2 or 3 hours of the day with minimal crowds, with the big influx not hitting until 10 or 11am. I don't know how many people are in a boarding group, but now we have 70-80 boarding groups in the park at 8am sharp so the relaxed early mornings are over, sorry to say. Thanks, Batuu.

Reports yesterday were that the park wasn’t that bad. Waits were not excessively long and plenty of FPs available.

 

[ironband74]

8:40 Entered queue
8:42 Ticket scanned in queue
8:50 Entered 1st Pre Show
9:27 Off ride
We got held up since we forgot to request front row at the right spot and then they was having an issue on the side we were on.

So... you broke it?

 

[brightlined]

I'm wondering if they changed the app to block out the details for people not in the park. Playing along at home, I'm still getting the "How to Experience" message rather than the one saying all boarding groups are full. (For a half-second, I wondered if BGs might still be available.)

 

[vharris2828]

I'm wondering if they changed the app to block out the details for people not in the park. Playing along at home, I'm still getting the "How to Experience" message rather than the one saying all boarding groups are full. (For a half-second, I wondered if BGs might still be available.)

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

 

[jfk4]

So do you mean you opened the app and it went straight into boarding group selection? Or did you have to select something? I’m trying to figure out the best way to launch the app! We will be there next weekend and will try and ride ROTR Sunday.

I got boarding group 9. I had EMH access this morning. I suspect that the key to scoring a low boarding pass is decent connectivity, so before the park opened I joined the guest WiFi network and wandered around the back of the park trying to find the location that had the best WiFi and cellular signal and the fewest people. I’m a Verizon customer and had the best results near the Matterhorn FastPass machines. I then camped out on the home screen until 8:00. I had myApple Watch and used the second hand to keep track of how long I had before 8.

 

[dina444444]

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

 

[SirBill]

So do you mean you opened the app and it went straight into boarding group selection? Or did you have to select something? I’m trying to figure out the best way to launch the app! We will be there next weekend and will try and ride ROTR Sunday.

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.

 

[Emily Urena]

8:40 Entered queue
8:42 Ticket scanned in queue
8:50 Entered 1st Pre Show
9:27 Off ride
We got held up since we forgot to request front row at the right spot and then they was having an issue on the side we were on.

I didn’t know you could request a row. When should you request the front row if you would like to ride in the front?

 

[emchen]

Wife and I both launched the app at 8.

I have android, she has an iPhone both on tmobile.

My button never enabled but hers did but when trying to book came up with a network error in app error.

She backed out and reopened and we got 76.

We'll get on.

Wife and I both launched the app at 8.

I have android, she has an iPhone both on tmobile.

My button never enabled but hers did but when trying to book came up with a network error in app error.

She backed out and reopened and we got 76.

We'll get on.

My main advice is...
Test the app a day or so before your visit to get use to where everything is at.

Do not use WiFi, use phone data.

Today many people on their phones struggling with the app at 8am

Best advise and hope the other veteran reporters with firsthand experience will start including the data service they used when they successfully scored a boarding group. Also, I read that being in The Hub was associated with success...implying better cell reception there. Is this a well known fact and does it apply for all the major carriers?

My family is on T-mobile and our experience is that signal can be quite variable throughout the park.

 

[LeiaOfAlderaan]

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!

 

[SirBill]

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!

Have the app freshly opened but do nothing else, go back to game screen and re-open the app a second before 8am, by the time it opens you should be ably to go into the Galaxy’s Edge section to get a boarding pass.

I was using an iPhone 7, I think a 6s should work.

 

[TarotFox]

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.

 

[dina444444]

I didn’t know you could request a row. When should you request the front row if you would like to ride in the front?

There’s a hallway once you get past the hanger. The cm at the end of that that’s directing you to a side and to stand in a si for file line.

 

[IsleofDisney]

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.

Thanks @dina444444 , it was great to meet you and pick your Disney knowledge brain. Looking forward to meeting up again at the Happiest Place on Earth!