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

[Chenalex]

It broke down at 63, got up to 67 where I got in line, and then broke down again

 

[robododo]

We're heading down in April, and I just wanted to say this thread gives me hope

I was afraid it was 100% random lotto, but it sounds like some planning and effort can let my family experience the ride. Thanks for all the tips and tracking the ride status, everyone.

This board's the best

 

[PairOfDice]

What time do you guys suggest we arrive for our Tuesday MM (8:00am) and also Friday (8:00)? We're staying at the crosswalk so no parking garage. We'll be at CA on W/Th but I'm not as concerned about those days. But CA opens at 9:00 if you have suggestions for that.
I'm so excited to head out tomorrow and I promise (to myself) to just get over it and move on if for some reason we don't get a BG.

 

[AmyJamer]

What time do you guys suggest we arrive for our Tuesday MM (8:00am) and also Friday (8:00)? We're staying at the crosswalk so no parking garage. We'll be at CA on W/Th but I'm not as concerned about those days. But CA opens at 9:00 if you have suggestions for that.
I'm so excited to head out tomorrow and I promise (to myself) to just get over it and move on if for some reason we don't get a BG.

I’d be there at 7. Magic mornings are super busy

 

[chicagodisneyguy]

We'll, they got thru like 40 bg while at Napa Rose...let's see if we can get on this ride

 

[HydroGuy]

I don't understand how you could share your ticket with someone, since it has your photo assigned to it. I know that some days they're not taking photos at DL, to keep the lines moving, but you would still have to exit the park, "share" your ticket with someone, who then goes into CA Adventure, where their picture IS taken. And obviously since you did this in a 5 minute period, you did not do anything at DL.

And if it's an AP, which already has your picture, how exactly would that work? I'm curious as to what I'm missing here. If the security block was not in place, how would one game the system?

I don't either.

 

[PHXscuba]

I just got back from a Fri/Sat Disneyland trip. We were successful in riding ROTR and I appreciate everyone's research and commentary leading up to it. I'll add my own.

GETTING IN: We left HOJO at 6:35 on Friday and (2 adults) walked briskly to security, where lines were short and we were through by about 6:50. CM looked through my cross-body bag verrrrry thoroughly. Lines in the esplanade were about halfway back even then. I took this thread's advice and we found a center line. When the lines got almost back to DCA about 7:15, they opened the gates. Our line split at opening so we got in pretty quickly. No photos taken. I made a MaxPass reservation for Space Mountain to verify we were both considered inside the park. They held everyone on Main Street until it filled, then held everyone at the individual land rope-drops until about 7:55 a.m. We chose to stay between Plaza Inn and Star Tours as we had a good cell signal there.

GETTING A GROUP: We closed everything before 8:00 and launched the app 5 seconds before the hour. It was all a blur at that point, both of us poking the buttons until I got in!!! GROUP 42!!! I should probably mention what big Star Wars fans DH and I are and how badly I wanted this to go right. Huge relief to get a lower group. The atmosphere listening to everyone around us was unique and fun. We were both on verizon cell service, DH has an iPhone 8 and I have an iPhone 10.

WAITING TO RIDE: It's probably a good thing I was offline all weekend and didn't know til later how few groups they got through on Friday or I would have been more worried. We knew it was a delayed opening. We checked on the progress throughout the morning as it finally opened and inched up. We got called right around 2:00. The line took about 30 minutes and we experienced the whole attraction seamlessly as far as I could tell (I avoided spoilers).

MY NO-SPOILER REVIEW: VERY awesome. I really need to ride it again to take everything in. My father asked me later what kind of ride it was and I said "all of them," which explains nothing and everything. This was our first visit to SWGE and we also rode MFSR twice. DH got to pilot the Falcon, bucket list item checked. And got a legacy Luke Skywalker lightsaber, check. We both liked our Ronto Wraps. Oga's was meh for us but I'm glad we did it once.

Good luck to all who are trying to experience this, especially over the busy spring break season. It's worth it.

PHXscuba

 

[ironband74]

Hooray! We broke 100 groups despite almost 6 hours of downtime today. A rough day to be sure. And we're still going for a while longer.

Meanwhile, DHS may have had its best 8-8 day ever, with maybe 20 minutes of downtime, pulling over 140 groups in 10 hours.

The future is bright.

 

[StarGirl11]

It broke down at 63, got up to 67 where I got in line, and then broke down again

It did this Friday too. Went down first time around 65. Came back up and went back down again at 71. They came back up a final time and ended the night then at 86.

 

[montreid]

Bad/Ugly - major downtime and fits on restart today
Good - when it was humming, even the MF has trouble keeping up lately. -- 122 groups. not bad.

 

[Chenalex]

I just got home. I stayed in line, and it was back up within 50 minutes. I’m so glad I did. This is by far the best ride Disney has ever built, in my opinion. Once they work out all the issues and come out with a more efficient boarding process, this will be amazing. But I don’t know how often I’ll be waking up at 6am to get to the park at 7am

 

[ten6mom]

I'm heading out for my trip in a couple days (driving from Phoenix) and seriously considering departing here around 0200 to make rope drop on Wednesday. Even though we will have Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in the parks also, I am still feeling like Wednesday is the best bet for ROTR and with the down times as well as these new error messages some folks are experiencing, I want to give it every chance I have.

This thread and everyone's experiences have been amazing... thank you so much!

 

[Peachy0118]

Have there been any recent updates when the ride goes down? Are they issuing Fastpasses and allowing you to leave the line or are you having to wait for however long it is down?

I know before you had to wait... just seeing if it changed.

 

[StarGirl11]

Bad/Ugly - major downtime and fits on restart today
Good - when it was humming, even the MF has trouble keeping up lately. -- 122 groups. not bad.

Funny you mention MF. Last time I rode that on Friday the ride glitched towards the later half of the run. Like it froze for half a second before continuing. I made sure to make a comment to a CM as I was headed out that I had noticed something. And they might want to get to it and fix whatever part of the program caused the issue before the entire bay goes down.

 

[dina444444]

My final chart update:

 

[chicagodisneyguy]

We ended up using our fastpass from this afternoon's walk off and we're on the ride in no time around 730pm. While many parts were the same, the main ride seemed shorter than WDW's version. For those that have done both...is that normal? Or is there a faster version of the ride where they can skip a scene or two to allow more riders?

 

[dina444444]

We ended up using our fastpass from this afternoon's walk off and we're on the ride in no time around 730pm. While many parts were the same, the main ride seemed shorter than WDW's version. For those that have done both...is that normal? Or is there a faster version of the ride where they can skip a scene or two to allow more riders?

The ride is identical on both coasts. The only differences are in the queue before the pre show. The queues are laid out slightly differently.

 

[chicagodisneyguy]

The ride is identical on both coasts. The only differences are in the queue before the pre show. The queues are laid out slightly differently.

I guess maybe a few things weren't working today then. Probably makes sense as the ride was down so much.

 

[matthewthompson87]

I guess maybe a few things weren't working today then. Probably makes sense as the ride was down so much.

Would you mind sharing which parts you believe were missing/skipped/not functioning for your ride over on the RotR Spoilers thread?

 

[ironband74]

My final chart update:

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Thank you @dina444444 for your steadfast devotion to providing this important intel.

While I have strongly hinted at it and most of you have probably figured out, I have volunteered to take on the charting duties, so you'll have to deal with me from this point forward