Rise of the Resistance to utilize normal queue starting Sept 23.

[jennb529]

This makes me happy and sad at the same time. Happy that now maybe I don’t need two days at Hollywood Studios and this can allow me to squeeze some other things into my trip, but sad that my choices to ride ROTR are stand in a long line or pay to skip it.
Luckily I’ve got until June before I have to worry about it and will have plenty of time to see it work for others, but it’s really making me reevaluate our budget, hotel location, plans, etc….and I get to worry about in until June!

 

[BrianL]

Does everyone really think the standby line will be 5, 6, 8, hours long? That just doesn't make sense to me. Flight of Passage, the most comparable attraction, doesn't have wait times that long - certainly not regularly. I just don't see the line being 6 hours long and people deciding to get in it, pushing it higher. It's going to crest somewhere, and yeah, that may be a few hours at the busiest times, but it's not like it's going to be constant. We'll see I guess.

 

[Narcoossee11]

Hmmm, does this mean Genie+ is rolling out September 23rd?

I think we have a day now!!!!!!!!

 

[ShayBells]

Does everyone really think the stanby line will be 5, 6, 8, hours long? That just doesn't make sense to me. Flight of Passage, the most comparable attraction, doesn't have wait times that long - certainly not regularly. I jsut don't see the line being 6 hours long ans people deciding to get in it, pushing it higher. It's going to crest somewhere, and yeah, that may be a few hours at the busiest times, but it's not like it's going to be constant. We'll see I guess.

I was thinking three, but as there’s never been a stand by line maybe in the beginning it’ll head up towards 4 or 5, BUT once people start using LL for it… that’ll make stand by go up. It’s all speculation.

 

[Juventus]

People who like this better than the lottery...well now it will be a lottery where if you win you get to pay. No way the paid LL doesn't sell out quick each day imo. And the standby line will be long and slow no matter what; this is one of the lowest capacity big rides out there.

 

[gharter]

Does everyone really think the standby line will be 5, 6, 8, hours long? That just doesn't make sense to me. Flight of Passage, the most comparable attraction, doesn't have wait times that long - certainly not regularly. I just don't see the line being 6 hours long and people deciding to get in it, pushing it higher. It's going to crest somewhere, and yeah, that may be a few hours at the busiest times, but it's not like it's going to be constant. We'll see I guess.

When FoP opened, wait times were often well over 4 hours consistently. Now, its still at 90 minutes most of the day. With lesser crowds, the wait times have been better. But the crowds are getting larger, as are the wait times.

 

[shh]

ChanaC said:
This is really going to affect mine (and probably everyone's) rope drop strategy. The "problem" with Hollywood Studios is that there are a LOT of big e-ticket attractions. So at rope drop do you head to RotR, SR, MMRR, SDD, RRC, or ToT? There are a lot of big decisions to make. I'll be interesting to see what everyone does and what does or doesn't work once this starts happening, and once Genie+ starts. Sorry to those with late September or early October trips! Like someone said above, you are our guinea pigs!

It's kinda funny. I remember everyone on the boards ranting just a couple of years ago about how the studio had nothing to do and was a waste of time - WDW had closed down rides, the newer attractions weren't up yet and there were hardly any headliners. The place was a shadow of its former self. I'm no WDW cheerleader, but I have to admit at least THAT's a bit different these days. Now if they only bring back all the live entertainment and crowd eater shows, we'd really have something.

 

[Tyler's Dad]

As someone else stated, FOP wait times at it's worst were during FP+. When 70% of the people getting on a ride are not part of the standby lines, then that drives the wait times way up. I would imagine times will be fairly similar, 2 hours or so and then people will choose not to get in line and come back later.

We were 4 for 4 for getting boarding groups in the past and will be there during Christmas this year, so this is going to really dampen our chances to ride, but I still think this might be better for people to get on. It was actually kind of off putting in the past to celebrate getting a boarding group and then look over and see a kid crying because they weren't going to get to ride that day. At least now everyone has a choice to wait in line.

As for the LL passes, I don't think this is a ploy to sell more at all. If you think a long line of people will motivate people to buy LLs, then imagine how many they would have sold at 1:00 or after, when people had no choice but to buy them, if they wanted to ride. If anything, this will just spread it out throughout the day, rather than having tons of LL sold after the afternoon boarding group drop.

 

[Marionnette]

Disgusting attempt to force people into long lines in order to make them bribe the genie. Anyone shocked?

 

[NikNakNY]

We get to Disney on Sept. 24, and our first HS day is the 26th. So I guess we'll be one of the early guinea pigs.

I was thinking the same thing. We will be at HS on the 26th as well. Our oldest daughter has been watching videos and reading up on how to do the VQ.

 

[snikki]

Right, the (very?) infrequent visitor will pay the $24 (or more?) per person, which is what Disney wants.

I was at Guest Relations a few months ago and a Cast Member was explaining how Boarding Groups worked to a Guest. The CM was professional but you could tell by her voice that the CM knew this Guest had no chance of getting a BG.

I would have preferred a system where Disney gives everyone a one-hour window to sign-up (say from 6 AM to 7 AM), and then use a random number generator to determine who actually gets Boarding Groups out of the pool of those who had signed up.

Yes this is us. We only go once every 2-3ish years and haven’t ridden ROTR yet. We go as a party of 2 (just me and my daughter) so I will pay the $24 a person to ride it once during our trip. The thought of the VQ gave me anxiety because I knew if we didn’t get one we wouldn’t have a chance for another few years.

 

[BrianL]

I was thinking three, but as there’s never been a stand by line maybe in the beginning it’ll head up towards 4 or 5, BUT once people start using LL for it… that’ll make stand by go up. It’s all speculation.

I'm not saying it'll Never hit 4 hours, but I just don't think that will be that common. 90 minutes is a far cry from 5 or 6 hours!

 

[jknc]

LOL Disney really is flying by the seat of their pants with all these announcements.

Their own Genie+ video which got downvoted to hell made a point that the Virtual Queue would still be an option for a ride like Rise.

You can tell they are doing this as they please with no forethought.

You wouldn't have built a brand new ride like Remy and installed FP+ signs/markers only to have to change them before the ride really opens up for the GP.

Will be interesting to see how this affects wait times at Studios.

With a VQ people could be waiting in other lines for other attractions. Now with Rise going standby those people who were riding Star Tours/Muppets/Tower/et al while waiting to be called will now be standing in line opening up space for other attractions in the park.

Seems little planning went into announcements. Sounds like more mandates from Lord Chapek.

 

[StarrySkye21]

Stupid Di$ney. I am pissed that they have pretty much got me to accept that I’ll have to cough up the $50+ it’ll be for my daughter and I to skip the line on our once-ever-mom-and-me trip. I am a penny pinching restaurant worker, and all I can do is think about how time is money and I’d rather work for 2 hours to pay for it than to wait 4+ hours in line on a day we are supposed to be making memories.

Screw you, Di$ney for making this even a thought process!

 

[ChanaC]

ChanaC said:
This is really going to affect mine (and probably everyone's) rope drop strategy. The "problem" with Hollywood Studios is that there are a LOT of big e-ticket attractions. So at rope drop do you head to RotR, SR, MMRR, SDD, RRC, or ToT? There are a lot of big decisions to make. I'll be interesting to see what everyone does and what does or doesn't work once this starts happening, and once Genie+ starts. Sorry to those with late September or early October trips! Like someone said above, you are our guinea pigs!

It's kinda funny. I remember everyone on the boards ranting just a couple of years ago about how the studio had nothing to do and was a waste of time - WDW had closed down rides, the newer attractions weren't up yet and there were hardly any headliners. The place was a shadow of its former self. I'm no WDW cheerleader, but I have to admit at least THAT's a bit different these days. Now if they only bring back all the live entertainment and crowd eater shows, we'd really have something.

Yep, they basically tore HS apart and reassembled it. People now complain about Epcot but give it a few years, it will be full of new exciting stuff soon enough. If there are basically redoing the park, the two options are to keep it open and have people deal with the construction walls or just shut whole the park down, which Disney would never do. Growing pains suck, but they are necessary sometimes. You can't have both new attractions and no construction.

As for the wait times, I have a picture somewhere of the wait time sign during the the few months Anna and Elsa met people in Princess Fairytale Hall at MK (I think the picture is from May 2014). The sign read 300 minutes, aka 5 hours. The other side of the hall was Cinderella and Rapunzel with a 20 minute wait. It's long, but people will apparently are willing to wait that long for something they want.

 

[jknc]

So, it’s just a matter days now until we learn that Lightning Lane will never sellout because there is no limit?

 

[jknc]

Rumor started by me:

ROTR Lightning Lane to be priced @ $200 per person to make Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser more appealing to childless millennials!

 

[RamieGee]

Yep, they basically tore HS apart and reassembled it. People now complain about Epcot but give it a few years, it will be full of new exciting stuff soon enough. If there are basically redoing the park, the two options are to keep it open and have people deal with the construction walls or just shut whole the park down, which Disney would never do. Growing pains suck, but they are necessary sometimes. You can't have both new attractions and no construction.

As for the wait times, I have a picture somewhere of the wait time sign during the the few months Anna and Elsa met people in Princess Fairytale Hall at MK (I think the picture is from May 2014). The sign read 300 minutes, aka 5 hours. The other side of the hall was Cinderella and Rapunzel with a 20 minute wait. It's long, but people will apparently are willing to wait that long for something they want.

Yes! I remember planning our May 2015 trip and having big Frozen fans in the family and this freaking me out. Getting the FP+ for Anna & Elsa was one of our BIG WINS for the trip. I remember thinking there was NO WAY we were meeting Anna & Elsa w/o the Fast Pass, because people were out of their minds waiting for hours. Now we need to think about what we’re willing to tolerate for our November trip for Rise.

 

[_19disnA]

The blog article reads like typical double-talk from the Disney Communications person. Lots of gleeful promises but little in the way of solid information of how Genie will work for this popular ride. I did like one of the blog comments where the person said the original reason for a virtual queue was to avoid having a line of people out to the parking lot. Guess that doesn't matter anymore?

 

[dreamer17555]

The blog article reads like typical double-talk from the Disney Communications person. Lots of gleeful promises but little in the way of solid information of how Genie will work for this popular ride. I did like one of the blog comments where the person said the original reason for a virtual queue was to avoid having a line of people out to the parking lot. Guess that doesn't matter anymore?

I think the assumption is that at x amount of hours people will overwhelmingly pay for lightening lane passes keeping them out of the queue… and they probably aren’t wrong.