READ POST 1 & 2 FIRST-Rise of the Resistance Boarding Group Planning and Information-*No Spoilers*

[hopey1kenobi]

I should probably know this, but what is DP?

Oh, the Star Wars: Galactic Spectacular Dessert Party. It was fabulous!

 

[Iowamomof4]

Oh, the Star Wars: Galactic Spectacular Dessert Party. It was fabulous!

Ah ha! Yes, very familiar with the event, but I guess I've not seen it abbreviated like that very often.

 

[hoosierdad5]

Also...my Group 29 was done by opening the app right at 7...no refresh method

 

[PrincessWithABlaster]

For those who think the ride should be shut down entirely until it's more reliable--keep in mind that actual experience and effects of large numbers of people, day after day, hour after hour, doing RotR can't be duplicated by testing or theoreticals. I'm hardly an expert in this (I don't work at WDW and am not a theme park specialist!) but it seems to me that anything like this ride, which has multiple elements, has to be "tested" in actual use before all the problems can even come to the fore. If you haven't been on RotR, you don't realize how many various, different elements are involved and I'm not going to go into that here on a no-spoilers thread.

What I'm trying to say is that RotR involves several complex systems that need to be put to actual use day after day in order for WDW to figure out how to keep everything running as smoothly as possible as much of the time as possible while the ride is in actual use.

So, be a little patient. And here's another vote for the current BG system. I think it's working out as well or better than any other system they could've implemented.

Yep. This is still working better than Hagrid’s where you can wait in line during a break down for 2.75 hours and if you leave you will get no guest recovery.
I’m sorry for the people who have gotten caught in multiple break downs the last week or so. That really sucks. But I don’t think it’s at Close It And Start over again levels. Yet. Pandora had a day where both rides were down all day. MK has had multiple days since I’ve been on the Dis when 3 major rides have gone down all at once. FEA was a nightmare for reliability when it opened. Unfortunately it’s impossible to make anything 100% reliable.

Oh a different topic, I’m really surprised they are going back to the one hour return times right as dinner starts. Maybe it’s good idea to grab lunch ADRs for my DHS days. We usually eat sit down at dinner but if this holds, lunch may be the better choice.

 

[wishman35]

On the ride now in the hall and they said “ delayed” assuming ride is down? Had group 12.

 

[JessM]

Can anyone tell me where they are holding crowds at DHS before opening? I've heard people mention the Galaxy's Edge crowd or TSL crowd but are people by the Theater or further in towards the lands? We are going in a couple weeks with 4 adults and one baby. I was thinking if the bag check lines look insane I'll wait in bag check with the baby and have everyone else head in (we'll just have a diaper bag). Hoping we can get at least 3 people with BGs, I don't think my Mom really cares if she rides ROTR or not so we can just switch bands when our time is called but I wasn't sure where the best place would be to meet up with them. I think we will be heading to TSL first thing.

Also does anyone have experience with Rider Switch at ROTR? Is the second group still being allowed to enter through a FP line? If we all get BGs we'd all like to ride but hoping it doesn't take half the day to swap the baby around.

 

[MommaBerd]

Just checked and no more back-up BGs available.

 

[CastAStone]

Did anyone see when backups ran out?

 

[GADisneyDad14]

Just a reminder to watch the spoilers. Even small descriptions of rooms and processes. Many are trying to keep their first experience as clean/spoiler free as possible.

Anything too close to being a spoiler may be edited or removed by a moderator.

Thanks all.

 

[CastAStone]

Thank you to everyone on this board! Left Caribbean Beach in Uber about 6:00. Got to Hollywood in about 10 minutes. At 7:00 and like one nano second I started the process and got boarding group 5!!!!!!

Did they give you 1 or 2 hours to return?

 

[MommaBerd]

Did anyone see when backups ran out?

I can’t give a specific time, but I was toggling between this thread and the app to see. So, if I had to guess, I would say sometime between 7:35 and 7:45?

 

[Good&Plenty]

Exact same experience for me this morning practicing from home.

Me too (I was at home). On another phone, I opened the app at 6:59:55 and the button was red when the app was opened.

 

[cakebaker]

Did anyone see when backups ran out?

Roughly about 10 minutes ago-

 

[hoosierdad5]

Can anyone tell me where they are holding crowds at DHS before opening? I've heard people mention the Galaxy's Edge crowd or TSL crowd but are people by the Theater or further in towards the lands? We are going in a couple weeks with 4 adults and one baby. I was thinking if the bag check lines look insane I'll wait in bag check with the baby and have everyone else head in (we'll just have a diaper bag). Hoping we can get at least 3 people with BGs, I don't think my Mom really cares if she rides ROTR or not so we can just switch bands when our time is called but I wasn't sure where the best place would be to meet up with them. I think we will be heading to TSL first thing.

Also does anyone have experience with Rider Switch at ROTR? Is the second group still being allowed to enter through a FP line? If we all get BGs we'd all like to ride but hoping it doesn't take half the day to swap the baby around.

They are holding them by the respective lands...they are letting people past the theatre.

 

[kgriffitts]

Did they give you 1 or 2 hours to return?

Boarding group called about 7:10/7:15 and we went immediately to ride. We are about at the half way point and it’s down. (I think it’s the half way point, I haven’t ridden before). They say they are hoping it’ll be back up soon.

 

[maybs607]

I see that people are saying the button turns red. What button and what does this mean?

 

[Iowamomof4]

Did they give you 1 or 2 hours to return?

I saw someone on Facebook this morning had a very low bg # and was given just one hour to return.

 

[lindamomof3]

Boarding group called about 7:10/7:15 and we went immediately to ride. We are about at the half way point and it’s down. (I think it’s the half way point, I haven’t ridden before). They say they are hoping it’ll be back up soon.

We are group 25. Is it still broken down?

 

[tookydo]

Just moved to 15

 

[lindamomof3]

Boarding group called about 7:10/7:15 and we went immediately to ride. We are about at the half way point and it’s down. (I think it’s the half way point, I haven’t ridden before). They say they are hoping it’ll be back up soon.

We are group 25. Is it still broken down?