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

[Kenshin21]

70, back up starts at 71

thanks. Looks like it’ll be a long day

 

[Rich M]

So somehow over the weekend I missed about 50 pages worth and I just don't have time to go through. I am wondering how anyones experience was with getting in at the Monorail and being able to join a boarding group. Do you need to remain in the park to get a BG or once you have scanned in to be in the park are you good to go? We like to scan in at the monorail and then hit starbucks. Wondering if this could still work.

 

[dina444444]

So somehow over the weekend I missed about 50 pages worth and I just don't have time to go through. I am wondering how anyones experience was with getting in at the Monorail and being able to join a boarding group. Do you need to remain in the park to get a BG or once you have scanned in to be in the park are you good to go? We like to scan in at the monorail and then hit starbucks. Wondering if this could still work.

You don’t have to stay in the park but the monorail entrance won’t be open in time for you to get a boarding group.

 

[Candleman]

I’m here for my sons 2nd birthday today and didn’t get into the park until 8:50. Didn’t realize the park didn’t open until 9. So it was kind of last minute to think of RotR.
Reset my wife’s 11 pro. Closed all apps. Had it sitting on the main Disneyland app webpage. Right at 9 I hit find out more, then join boarding group. AT&T.
Got 4 of us in on boarding group 5.

 

[Kenshin21]

This morning the monorail entrance was only for mm/emh

 

[nursemelis374]

Was able to play along from work this morning. Had the App open to the home page and as soon as my clock turned to 9, I clicked find out more and went to Join a Boarding Group. Got to the screen allowing me to pick people. For fun, I closed the app and reloaded and everything was already gone.

Craziness!

 

[Skyegirl1999]

@SOCALMouseMommy did you get a boarding group?

Her son is sick, so they’re going next week instead.

 

[aymiewilson]

I’m here for my sons 2nd birthday today and didn’t get into the park until 8:50. Didn’t realize the park didn’t open until 9. So it was kind of last minute to think of RotR.
Reset my wife’s 11 pro. Closed all apps. Had it sitting on the main Disneyland app webpage. Right at 9 I hit find out more, then join boarding group. AT&T.
Got 4 of us in on boarding group 5.

Awesome! Where were y'all in the parks when you did this?

 

[Skyegirl1999]

Super depressing But you are right. My hope sprang from reading the WDW thread for so long. They never had a stretch like this. It feels as if DL is having a tougher time with the ride tech though. WDW has had some great days where they got through lots of backup groups, DL has really low numbers comparatively. At least it feels that way. I'll have to compare the charts.

It’s been pointed out by others, but it’s worth repeating: At WDW, this ride is in HS, which is a smaller and less-popular park. It’s difficult to park-hop at WDW. So you are largely just dealing with the people who are planning to spend their day at that park each morning. If someone’s spending 5 days at WDW, they’re not starting all 5 of those days at HS.

This is very different than DL. If someone is spending 5 days at DL, they can EASILY start all of them at DL if they want to. Its simply not that hard to have several thousand people in the park when it opens.

 

[Candleman]

Awesome! Where were y'all in the parks when you did this?

Right in front of the plaza inn.

 

[MikeRx]

So, we were fortunate enough to ride this weekend, but not without significant delays and two evacuations...We had back-up boarding group 95 on Saturday despite 3 phones trying to get a group at 8am. They cleared through the groups fairly well with only one short "reset" throughout the day so we were called about 6:15pm and waited in line for about 30 minutes. We completed a few of the walk through portions and then everything changed. The cast members in-character stated that "they had extracted the required information and we were being returned to our home planet with compensation". My heart sank and knew it had shut down...After we arrived back in Batuu, we spoke to a lead and he was able to arrange boarding the next day due to a hard ticket schedule conflict (WOC dessert party). We boarded on Sunday without incident and made it one section further before we were escorted out again...this time it was 9:30pm and they were shutting down for the day (hey close before park closing to clear the crowd through and do required maintenance). We were worried that we had missed our opportunity as they do not guarantee that you will ride even if your group is called. The cast members were awesome and they allowed all who were de-boarded (estimated to be around a hundred people that we could see) to wait and they restarted the attraction and finally we experienced the entire ride. They only got to group 81 as this was the 4th closure of the day. So I can say without question the backstage area is pristine and the cast member that helped us went above and beyond to assure we had a great visit. We took the delays as "no ones fault", treated the cast members with respect and they intern took care of us. It is a game changing attraction combining impressively updated elements of many different attractions to render a complete experience. We will be back in February to do it all over again.

 

[montreid]

Wow. Rain too or not? Raining down here in SD. Lower group cutoff at 70 and slightly longer time IS encouraging though. Let's see how the ride performs.

More concerning though -- WDW HS is still down? DLR - Grp 15 already

 

[jfk4]

Any advice on a spot with good reception since we may not be able to get to the Matterhorn FP area??? Steps by the train station? Also, are you recommending connecting to Disney WiFi?

I haven't thoroughly scouted Main Street, but I had good luck with the train station about half way up the steps.

 

[Susie63]

Working two phones at home I got a red boarding group on both, Backed out and tapped find out more. Still both red bg. I managed to get that red bg 4x's before it greyed out.

 

[ckb_nc]

It’s been pointed out by others, but it’s worth repeating: At WDW, this ride is in HS, which is a smaller and less-popular park. It’s difficult to park-hop at WDW. So you are largely just dealing with the people who are planning to spend their day at that park each morning. If someone’s spending 5 days at WDW, they’re not starting all 5 of those days at HS.

This is very different than DL. If someone is spending 5 days at DL, they can EASILY start all of them at DL if they want to. Its simply not that hard to have several thousand people in the park when it opens.

Disagree...I could easlily head to Hollywood, try for a BG at say 7am with FP+ in hand for the afternoon at AK. We are in going in March and this one of our plans - ropde drop HS then hop to Epcot in the PM

 

[JadeDarkstar]

i got two red buttons before it grayed out on me.

 

[sunflare]

Disagree...I could easlily head to Hollywood, try for a BG at say 7am with FP+ in hand for the afternoon at AK. We are in going in March and this one of our plans - ropde drop HS then hop to Epcot in the PM

While this is true, I think the number of people who get (and use) hoppers daily at WDW may be significantly less than at DLR (unless they're using a package that requires them.) The hours at HS are also a lot earlier, with a lot more involved to get there in the morning and planning the rest of the day for both on-site and off-site guests. I think all of that impacts the number of people that are in the parks at opening.

 

[asumom]

Disagree...I could easlily head to Hollywood, try for a BG at say 7am with FP+ in hand for the afternoon at AK. We are in going in March and this one of our plans - ropde drop HS then hop to Epcot in the PM

Yep, we park hop all the time. Last visit it was to rope drop FOP at AK, got off the ride and out of the park at about park opening (we were on the first ride of the day, they opened fop before park opening)

 

[SOCALMouseMommy]

@SOCALMouseMommy did you get a boarding group?

We had to cancel. My son is sick. Current plan is to try again next week. In the meantime, I’m going to keep “playing at home” to get familiar with the process. Today I was able to get a red button from home.

 

[tlovesdis]

We got very lucky this weekend and got to ride it both Saturday and Sunday. Saturday we had early entry for DL so we went in at 7, rode Star Tours and ate breakfast. Right at 8 we all tried getting in and my friend did and we got BG 29. I think we got on it about 11. Sunday we got into DL at 7:45 and sat right near the exit as we were going to go to DCA. Right at 8 we all tried again and my friend got in and we got BG 15!!! We figured we would be on pretty early. The ride didn't start running til about 930 and at 10 broke down for almost 3 hours! Our group was finally called about 1:15 and halfway through the ride broke down and we were escorted off and got a return FP for the ride. We got back on it about 2:30 and made it through! It was so crazy how many people were there trying. The best part was hearing all the people cheering when they got a BG! The ride is amazing and I can't wait to go back in March!