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

[disneyholic family]

I was playing along at work today on T-Mobile LTE. Right at 9 I did not get the red button after clicking find out more, so I clicked My Status and was able to hit Join boarding group from there. Went back out to home screen, hit find out more and then the button was red. Went back out again, hit find out more, and button was grey. Then nothing happened when I exited. So I closed and re-opened the app and by that time it was on backup BGs. Seemed fast today!

As I expected. The "Status screen/Find Out More" cha cha seems to work well for you iOS folks. I haven't been successful doing this on my Android in play at home mode. I'd be interested to hear from any Android users for whom this works.

i played along for the first time today...
i've wanted to before, but kept missing the time...

i was grocery shopping....
but first i tried when i was still at home, but the virtual line didn't open up....
it was 6 pm my time, but that's 8 am california time, so i realized the virtual line must open at 9 am..

so i set my alarm (how crazy is that????).
then at 6:55 PM my husband called about something else (masks for coronavirus - that's another story)..
and then i realized it was probably 7 pm so i got off the phone, saw that it was exactly the hour, went back into my DL app, which i'd left open on the gray/red button page, hit "my status" and voila join a boarding group appeared..
then i toggled back and forth just to see how it all works, and kept getting the red button..
after about 30 seconds, i went back to looking for the box of cornflakes i need..

then i remembered i should look at the back up situation, so at 3 minutes i went back in and still got a red button - this time for backup..

then for fun i fully closed the app and reopened..
it opens lightning fast on my phone, so it opened and i still got a red button...

then i went back to shopping..
all in all, pretty interesting..

by the way, i have an iPhone 11 and i live halfway around the world (in israel)...

to all those who got BGs and backup BGs, here's hoping it's a good day today and you all get in.....
may the force be with you (while you're being sprinkled with pixie dust)..

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[VandVsmama]

I learned something this morning by playing along at home. Sharing here so y'all can learn from my innocent "mistake." Bear with me as I explain.

Last night, I bought 3 out of the 4 DL tickets we'll need for our trip in March. I also purchased 2 1-day parking tickets at that time through the Disneyland website. All 5 of those immediately showed up in my Disneyland.com account (and on the phone app). Great, right? I mean, all I'll have to when we get to the parking lot is have them scan the bar code of the parking ticket. It's very convenient.

Well, that's not ideal if your goal is to get a ROTR boarding group. Here's why...
When you click the red "Join Boarding Group" button, a screen similar to the following popped up. Except those 2 "tickets" at the bottom (i.e., "ID ending 2965" & the one below it) are the parking tickets. They were the first two in the list and like our park tickets with our names (the stuff blocked out in blue), they ALL had green check marks.

Were this an actual day when we were actually in DL...and had I NOT paid attention and just immediately selected the blue "Join a Boarding Group" button, I wouldn't have gotten one because of the 2 parking tickets being checked off in green.

So I had to UNCHECK them first and THEN click the blue "Join a Boarding Group" button.


If not everybody is in the park yet with their tickets scanned, then you'll get a message like this:

 

[disneyholic family]

I learned something this morning by playing along at home. Sharing here so y'all can learn from my innocent "mistake." Bear with me as I explain.

Last night, I bought 3 out of the 4 DL tickets we'll need for our trip in March. I also purchased 2 1-day parking tickets at that time through the Disneyland website. All 5 of those immediately showed up in my Disneyland.com account (and on the phone app). Great, right? I mean, all I'll have to when we get to the parking lot is have them scan the bar code of the parking ticket. It's very convenient.

Well, that's not ideal if your goal is to get a ROTR boarding group. Here's why...
When you click the red "Join Boarding Group" button, a screen similar to the following popped up. Except those 2 "tickets" at the bottom (i.e., "ID ending 2965" & the one below it) are the parking tickets. They were the first two in the list and like our park tickets with our names (the stuff blocked out in blue), they ALL had green check marks.

Were this an actual day when we were actually in DL...and had I NOT paid attention and just immediately selected the blue "Join a Boarding Group" button, I wouldn't have gotten one because of the 2 parking tickets being checked off in green.

So I had to UNCHECK them first and THEN click the blue "Join a Boarding Group" button.
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If not everybody is in the park yet with their tickets scanned, then you'll get a message like this:
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thanks for the heads up!!
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[ironband74]

I learned something this morning by playing along at home. Sharing here so y'all can learn from my innocent "mistake." Bear with me as I explain.

Good note. I was watching Ordinary Adventures today and they showed that you can also get wrecked by After Hours (like yesterday's 80's night) tickets on your account.

So be careful out there!

 

[Smrtalec33]

In line - ride just went down

 

[Mark_E]

Just about to head in to the “ride” and it appears to have broken down.

 

[ironband74]

Just about to head in to the “ride” and it appears to have broken down.

 

[Mark_E]

Yup it’s down. Have multiple experience for any attraction both parks, including Rise

 

[JWelch62]

I've been calling it occasionally Queen Cake myself because I hate calling it 10; would rather just call it Q even . I'm really hoping they go back to dessert names with R later this year.

But yeah, brand new released Android phones from the past year should at least be mostly shipping with Pie. Oreo is 2017 and what the Pixel 2/2XLs shipped with (I have a 2XL myself). Not that many outside of the Pixel line are on Q yet. Some are, though.

Would be another interesting data point for people to share OS too.

Quince

 

[Kender]

Quince

Not sweet enough!

But I did think it was in the running too with the very few things that are sweet to sweet-ish and begin with a Q

 

[LizzyS]

I've been calling it occasionally Queen Cake myself because I hate calling it 10; would rather just call it Q even . I'm really hoping they go back to dessert names with R later this year.

But yeah, brand new released Android phones from the past year should at least be mostly shipping with Pie. Oreo is 2017 and what the Pixel 2/2XLs shipped with (I have a 2XL myself). Not that many outside of the Pixel line are on Q yet. Some are, though.

Would be another interesting data point for people to share OS too.

I'm really not well versed on phones as I usually keep one for 5 years before getting a new one and all the talk in this thread made me look up what Android version I have and it's apparently "Nougat", 7.0, lol.

I hope that doesn't disadvantage me in some way; Maxpass worked pretty well for me on the app last year at DLR.

 

[afan]

Wonder too if they had no idea what food/sweet to name for Q to just settled on a number system?

They could've used quiche but at least bow I know why it only had numbera when I was looking my version up last week.


Also, has anyone tried setting the alarm on your phone for park open as an alternative to a countdown clock? Though I suppose that assumes it goes off right as the clock changes.

 

[Kender]

I'm really not well versed on phones as I usually keep one for 5 years before getting a new one and all the talk in this thread made me look up what Android version I have and it's apparently "Nougat", 7.0, lol.

I hope that doesn't disadvantage me in some way; Maxpass worked pretty well for me on the app last year at DLR.

Nah, I'd be shocked since Nougat is still decent and running the app fine for you. I'd only be concerned if you were still on KitKat or earlier. Maybe Jelly Bean? I feel like Nougat and up should be fine.

I'm just curious if there could be a correlation between OS and speed. Just another data point for fun


EDIT:

They could've used quiche but at least bow I know why it only had numbera when I was looking my version up last week.

There's a fun Easter Egg where you turn the 10 to a Q to get the Easter Egg animation in this version.

 

[ZCarroll]

I noticed with my last trip that my After Dark tickets were included with all my boarding group selections so in addition to deselecting those I will be having to deselect all my kids for my next trip which I am not able to remove... I'd log into my husband's account but for some reason it's not allowing him to get AP discounts with mobile orders or photopass even though he has an AP and I am paranoid of not being able to get back into my account later and then missing out on all those extras we paid for. I'm not too worried about having to hit 9 check boxes, but I guess I will see in a couple weeks! What I'm really worried about is having to stay nearby ROTR all day in case my BG gets called and yet still being around for After Dark and the early morning BG frenzy... I'd love to just sleep until my BG gets called... has anyone used something like Light Flow or Automagic to set an alarm for the Disneyland app push notification when your BG gets called?

 

[ONDABASS]

Yeah so I decided to purchase Sweetheart night tickets for my wife's b-day last night and it definitely affected my practice run this morning just like the person above with the parking tickets.I unchecked them, proceeded as far as I could go, went back to home to try again and they were always re-checked.
Is there any way to change this or does it look like I'm gonna need to add some"fast unchecking" to my play along practice routine?
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[longtimedisneylurker]

I'd log into my husband's account but for some reason it's not allowing him to get AP discounts with mobile orders or photopass even though he has an AP

This was a problem with my husband's AP too. The problem seems to have stemmed from me buying both of our passes so his pass was attached to my account with me as the account owner. He called the Disneyland AP phone line and got it sorted out fairly quickly. He is now the account owner of his own pass and he can now use photopass and get his mobile order discount. I am also now able to add and remove his AP from my account. I was not able to delete my husband's AP from my account before he got the problem fixed.

 

[Sith]

I’ve played along from work/ home a few times, but this morning was the first time doing it for real. We took a 6:45am flight from the Bay Area. Uber’d straight to Harbor drop off. Made it into DL at 8:43. Got BG 2! Gave us until 11:17, so we were still able to keep 9:30 Carnation Cafe reservation. Went straight from breakfast. Ride is amazing! Will try again tomorrow!

Had four bars from esplanade, flagpole and top of train station steps, which is where we actually got the BG. iPhone XS on AT&T.

 

[ZCarroll]

This was a problem with my husband's AP too. The problem seems to have stemmed from me buying both of our passes so his pass was attached to my account with me as the account owner. He called the Disneyland AP phone line and got it sorted out fairly quickly. He is now the account owner of his own pass and he can now use photopass and get his mobile order discount. I am also now able to add and remove his AP from my account. I was not able to delete my husband's AP from my account before he got the problem fixed.

Oh, good to hear that actually worked well... we got passed around all over from one person to another over hours at the park to get to the point where we were finally told we need to call in to get resolved and I was so frustrated by the whole experience I never bothered to do that worried it would just create some other issue, heh, so I appreciate hearing from your experience. The final people we talked to just said to have everyone sign in to my account and use my AP because that's what they have to do if their families want to use their CM benefits... and I kept saying that is not the same since their family members aren't CMs but my family members are AP holders!

 

[ironband74]

Looks like BGs are getting called again. That was a rough bit of down-time. Hopefully it will sail smoothly for the rest of the day!

 

[StarGirl11]

random question anyone have a screenshot of the boarding groups from when it hit 122 or any of the days it topped 110? Trying to make a point elsewhere