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

[closetmickey]

Group 12! Thanks for all the tips!

 

[vickiea]

We got BG 14. I am so excited and so thankful for all of the tips.

We were by coke corner using and old iPhone 5 on AT&T.

 

[ironband74]

In other news, I pulled out my wife's old S7 to play along at home along with my S7. I had a really hard time getting a button to go active on either of them, and then the two of them did not behave the same, with different buttons active at different times and weird differentials. As I sat pondering why this would be, I checked and realized that the recently inactive phone is still on Android 7 while my current phone is on 9. So some differences in the operating system are causing some different behaviors. I'll update this phone and try again tomorrow to see if they behave similarly or not.

 

[PairOfDice]

This was our experience as well..... it threw off our entire day even though we were done with the ride by 9:40. I think all of the stress made everyone in our group just feel off and I found us kind of wandering trying to figure out what to do even though we’ve done Disneyland at least ten times since June!

I've been discussing this whole BG thing at length in preparation for our trip the last week of February. I say I've been discussing it because it's become a monologue. Yesterday two family members said crazy things to me like, "It's just a ride" and "We'll just move on with our day if we don't get a BG". I'm going to work on not having an extreme level of anxiety or disappointment about it so hopefully it won't affect the rest of my day. My family will be fine. I don't want to dwell on that one thing and be a Debbie Downer. Anyway, I appreciate you posting about your feelings about it. It made me feel like I'm not the only one that has a stress response to these things.

Funny how I never feel stressed about CA mornings. Only DL mornings.

 

[Angrose]

We’re here at turnstiles. View attachment 470975

Thanks for reporting! Do you recall how the non-MM lines looked at that time? I'll be there on Thursday, but I have an AP, so no MM. I plan to be at Harbor security by 7:30am just to be on the safe side. Turnstile lines stress me out!

 

[smercerdiemont]

This was me & my DH discussing this ride over dinner this evening. HAHAHA! Just had to share with y'all because you're my people and you understand!

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This was me telling DH after I booked our hotel Jan.17th. He was like "you are crazy". Now he thinks it was the best decision ever after riding it.

 

[salemk]

Drove here from AZ. Got to GC at 7:45am. Dropped off DW/DS. She checked in while I did self park. Got in by 8:05 for early morning and rode Star Tours and got to see ROS scenes. 9a hit and my son with XR while on WiFi got BG 41 near Star Tours/Space Mountain. Followed everyone’s advice here so thank you all!!!!!!

 

[Angrose]

Regular groups appeared to run out in about 45 seconds. Backups out at 9:03. 72 is the first backup, so we should see early-ish boarding at group 1.

Edit: Groups 1-4 are already boarding. brilliant!

Thank you for all the updates. I've been following along for the past few weeks, playing at home and watching closely. I'll be there this Thursday, so really interested in how things go today since it will be a similar situation on Thu with 9am opening and MM/EMH at DL. Looks like BGs went super fast today, but playing at home I was able to get the red button right away with just 2 bars on my iPhone 8, AT&T cell data, wi-fi turned off. I'll have two friends trying too, so hopefully the force will be with us!
Also, I LOVE THIS THREAD!!

 

[PairOfDice]

DD thinks we should have three of four of us use our phones and one try a kiosk? She's concerned about her older phone. Any thoughts on that?

 

[natebenma]

70. Phew. Galaxy at&t. Benches on left side of castle

 

[Skyegirl1999]

DD thinks we should have three of four of us use our phones and one try a kiosk? She's concerned about her older phone. Any thoughts on that?

If you have three people trying who all know what they’re doing, dollars to donuts you’re going to get through no problem.

It’s only worth trying a kiosk if you’re going to be actually FIRST. First to the gates, first in the park, first at the rope, move quickly... so, if that’s going to be you, it’s not going to hurt to try if you have three other phones going already. But I probably wouldn’t bother. I’d just throw that 4th phone in the mix and spread out.

 

[EmJ]

I've been discussing this whole BG thing at length in preparation for our trip the last week of February. I say I've been discussing it because it's become a monologue. Yesterday two family members said crazy things to me like, "It's just a ride" and "We'll just move on with our day if we don't get a BG". I'm going to work on not having an extreme level of anxiety or disappointment about it so hopefully it won't affect the rest of my day. My family will be fine. I don't want to dwell on that one thing and be a Debbie Downer. Anyway, I appreciate you posting about your feelings about it. It made me feel like I'm not the only one that has a stress response to these things.

Funny how I never feel stressed about CA mornings. Only DL mornings.

Approximately 40% of the conversations between DH and me go like this these days:

Me: So guess what?

DH: What's that?

Me: I was reading on the Disney board...

DH: [Eyes glaze over and I can see his brain switch over into "pretend to be interested mode"]

Me: … talk talk talk, Disney, ROTR, look at this graph, more talking ...

DH: [Nods blankly]

 

[VandVsmama]

Approximately 40% of the conversations between DH and me go like this these days:

Me: So guess what?

DH: What's that?

Me: I was reading on the Disney board...

DH: [Eyes glaze over and I can see his brain switch over into "pretend to be interested mode"]

Me: … talk talk talk, Disney, ROTR, look at this graph, more talking ...

DH: [Nods blankly]

I've been driving my DH crazy with all of my ROTR talk lately!

 

[DLgal]

I have an S10. How do you turn on high performance mode?



SO MUCH YES!

Swipe down from the top on the home screen to bring down all the quick launch settings. Under the battery icon, it says Power Mode. Click on that. Then select High Performance. Be prepared to be blown away by the lightning speed of your phone now. LOL. I couldn't believe the difference. It will absolutely KILL your battery though, so make sure to put it back afterwards.

 

[PairOfDice]

If you have three people trying who all know what they’re doing, dollars to donuts you’re going to get through no problem.

It’s only worth trying a kiosk if you’re going to be actually FIRST. First to the gates, first in the park, first at the rope, move quickly... so, if that’s going to be you, it’s not going to hurt to try if you have three other phones going already. But I probably wouldn’t bother. I’d just throw that 4th phone in the mix and spread out.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I'm going to get DH to do some practice sessions so we'll all know what to do.

Approximately 40% of the conversations between DH and me go like this these days:

Me: So guess what?

DH: What's that?

Me: I was reading on the Disney board...

DH: [Eyes glaze over and I can see his brain switch over into "pretend to be interested mode"]

Me: … talk talk talk, Disney, ROTR, look at this graph, more talking ...

DH: [Nods blankly]

Exactly. For my DH it's more like 'try not to look at her like she's crazy' but I can see it in his eyes. Especially last night when I told him my worries about the BG.

 

[JWelch62]

If you have three people trying who all know what they’re doing, dollars to donuts you’re going to get through no problem.

It’s only worth trying a kiosk if you’re going to be actually FIRST. First to the gates, first in the park, first at the rope, move quickly... so, if that’s going to be you, it’s not going to hurt to try if you have three other phones going already. But I probably wouldn’t bother. I’d just throw that 4th phone in the mix and spread out.

This.

Do some practice runs from home. Get the timing down. You'll have success in the park. My wife and son both tripped up trying to follow the process, because they hadn't practiced. I was able to secure three boarding passes on three successive days.

Unless you're the first person to the kiosk, you will probably not get a BG.

 

[Skyegirl1999]

I know people have said that they are understanding of reservations for Oga's and droid building and so on if you stop by and tell them you have a BG if there is a scheduling conflict... but what do you do about other reservations? I'm thinking Blue Bayou for example.
We are planning on booking WOC dessert party too, but since that is a specific time not much to do about that.
Anyone have any experience with other scheduling conflicts?

First, since you typically have a 2-hour window to return, it’s unlikely that you’d actually have to miss a reservation in order to ride.

If you do, though (particularly if you get stuck in line for 90 minutes due to a breakdown, AHEM), it shouldn’t be an issue. Even apart from ROTR, historically DL will always honor reservations missed due to breakdowns or whatever. Just make sure you screenshot your BG so you can show someone what you had and I’m sure they’ll squeeze you in.

 

[Skyegirl1999]

Approximately 40% of the conversations between DH and me go like this these days:

Me: So guess what?

DH: What's that?

Me: I was reading on the Disney board...

DH: [Eyes glaze over and I can see his brain switch over into "pretend to be interested mode"]

Me: … talk talk talk, Disney, ROTR, look at this graph, more talking ...

DH: [Nods blankly]

This is why you have us.

 

[Peachy0118]

First, since you typically have a 2-hour window to return, it’s unlikely that you’d actually have to miss a reservation in order to ride.

If you do, though (particularly if you get stuck in line for 90 minutes due to a breakdown, AHEM), it shouldn’t be an issue. Even apart from ROTR, historically DL will always honor reservations missed due to breakdowns or whatever. Just make sure you screenshot your BG so you can show someone what you had and I’m sure they’ll squeeze you in.

Thanks so much! That's great!

 

[JWelch62]

This is why you have us.

Co-dependency?