Rope drop Rise of the Resistance?

[lpass]

Has anyone who rope dropped Rise of the Resistance during early park entry been able to ride another ride before park opens to all guests? I’ve heard it breaks down a lot so trying to nail down best strategy

 

[scrappinginontario]

Ride Rise plus another attraction before park opens to other guests? Almost impossible as Rise itself is 18 mins from the time the first portion of the pre-show starts.

The first few may be successful riding and possibly getting in line for a second attraction but riding both, no unless Rise opens before official ETPE. Then maybe but again, many things need to line up perfectly.

 

[jennypenny]

No, but GE is in the back of the park so it will take a few minutes for guests from the front to make it back there when the park opens. Assuming you were one of the first ones into the line for Rise, I would think you could exit Rise and get in line for Millennium Falcon before the masses make it back there. I don't think any others (like Slinky) would work.

 

[Stacybaeasm]

I did - once. I was also lucky that Rise didn't have any problems AND it started running about 10-15 minutes BEFORE the 8:30 EE time frame. I was able to get through Rise and Falcon by 9:01. But, the stars truly had to align to make that happen.

 

[only hope]

Most people who get in line during EE won’t get off the ride til well after the park opens. You’d need to be one of the first people waiting at the gates prior to park open and a fast walker to be one of the first on, which would just barely give you time to walk to SR.

 

[MemoryMakers]

We've tried to rope drop Rise 6x in the last 6 months...it was down 4 of those times. But, both the times we were able to ride it during EE, we were able to make it over to Toy Story Mania around 9am just before the regular park open and it was less than a 10 min wait once in the queue.

 

[lpass]

Two questions.. has anyone who rope dropped Rise of the Resistance during early park entry been able to ride another ride before park opens to all guests? I’ve heard it breaks down a lot so trying to nail down best strategy

Thanks to everyone for all the info!

 

[MIChessGuy]

This exact thing happened to me last June: early entry, headed out to ROTR, saw the cast members at the ride entrance announcing it was not in service. I continued straight on the "long way" to Slinky and only had a brief wait there. (It looks like tons of people, but not really because the interior queue is not in use yet.) Then I went to TSM and that took a while but only because a track, or maybe two tracks, were down. Later in the day, the wait for ROTR moderated so it all kinda worked out anyway. I recommend having a plan in place to pivot immediately in the event ROTR does not operate for EE.

 

[jeankeri]

Our experience was also ROTR being down during EE. We chose to wait it out and the ride was up in maybe 20 minutes? Then easily rode MF two times. On our other EE day we went MRR, TSM and could have ridden Slinky (15 posted wait time) but opted to go ToT instead.

 

[Karalee402]

We rope dropped Rise about two weeks ago, and while we weren't able to ride anything else before park opening, there wasn't a super long line yet for MFSR, so we did wait but not super long.

 

[ofcabbagesandkings]

ROTR was down during EE on October 15. Instead, we hit MMRR and then rode Milennium Falcon twice before 9am, walking right on to each ride. At 9, ROTR was back up but already a 50 minute wait, but we were able to walk right on using our Single Purchase LL booked for 9-10. Then we went and used our LLMP reservation for TSMM. So by 9:35 or so, we had already gone on 5 rides.