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

[BigOHawk]

Wanted to share the last three days that I got a boarding group with anyone going in the future

We arrived 45 mins early to the gates each day and allowed for 20 mins for security.

I tried three separate areas of the park during my visit. Bench’s by small world, train station, and the flag pole.

I’m using a iPhone 11 Pro on Verizon.

The way I did it was clicking the find out more on the home screen couple mins before park open. Then I would click my status as soon as my phone showed park open.

Day one got bg38. Day two and three got bg4

Let me know if anyone has questions.

Any confirmation this same method works on Android OS? It seems that if I click Find Out More prior to park open, I get locked out and even after clicking My Status, the Join Boarding Group button there is intermittently active, sometimes requiring a back out or app reboot, etc. Playing from home of course....I think next month when there I'll just Force Quit app, clear cache a minute or two prior to open, relaunch app and NOT click Find out More until a few seconds after park open per Ironband's advice, which I really appreciate over the last several weeks!

It seems the above tips and tricks work well for IPhone and the latter is better for Android from what I can gather...

 

[ironband74]

So everyone here got a BG of 10 or less, and ya'll have been called before 9:30am.

It's a good day to be a DISer at the park.

Backups still available at 9:25...

 

[ironband74]

Any confirmation this same method works on Android OS? It seems that if I click Find Out More prior to park open, I get locked out and even after clicking My Status, the Join Boarding Group button there is intermittently active, sometimes requiring a back out or app reboot, etc. Playing from home of course....I think next month when there I'll just Force Quit app, clear cache a minute or two prior to open, relaunch app and NOT click Find out More until a few seconds after park open per Ironband's advice, which I really appreciate over the last several weeks!

It seems the above tips and tricks work well for IPhone and the latter is better for Android from what I can gather...

I've seen some android users report success with this method.. For me if I get into FOM early, but tap MS after OPO, I typically will get an active button. But the only thing that seems to work every time without fail is waiting to tap FOM until after OPO, so I'm sticking with that as a best practice for Android.

 

[ironband74]

Backups are gone now. 72 and up are backups.

 

[becauseimnew]

What is up with DLR today. RSR, incredicoaster, Matterhorn & Space are all down.

 

[ballonewb]

What is up with DLR today. RSR, incredicoaster, Matterhorn & Space are all down.

Pirates was down 15 mins ago as well

 

[ironband74]

What is up with DLR today. RSR, incredicoaster, Matterhorn & Space are all down.

Wild. Space looks to be back up...but I guess they reallocated all hands to work on ROTR

 

[dismsn]

Wanted to share the last three days that I got a boarding group with anyone going in the future

We arrived 45 mins early to the gates each day and allowed for 20 mins for security.

I tried three separate areas of the park during my visit. Bench’s by small world, train station, and the flag pole.

I’m using a iPhone 11 Pro on Verizon.

The way I did it was clicking the find out more on the home screen couple mins before park open. Then I would click my status as soon as my phone showed park open.

Day one got bg38. Day two and three got bg4

Let me know if anyone has questions.

Thanks! I'll try that tomorrow.

Yesterday, sat on the benches under monorail track beside Matterhorn and clicked "find out more" and husband (who tried to avoid helping get BG but reluctantly decided to help) got BG 42. Ride was down after BG called. Ate lunch, still down after that, went to Oga's and it was finally back up. Took about 50 minutes from scanning us in to walking off ride. Daughter had to leave at 2 and we finished ride just in time.

 

[bethwc101]

I know you can either all be signed in to the same account or different accounts when multiple users are trying, but has one proven to be more successful than the other or does it seem irrelevant.

 

[ironband74]

I know you can either all be signed in to the same account or different accounts when multiple users are trying, but has one proven to be more successful than the other or does it seem irrelevant.

It appears to be irrelevant. The message the app sends to the server only contains the ticket/ap numbers and does not include any account information. The important thing is that the tickets selected are consistent between the various devices/accounts being used.

 

[JJ2017]

So we've never been to DL. I know we can be let in early as part of this Rise process and we plan to do just that. But now I'm trying to figure out the best place to wait it out with my family until BG attempt time. Would love to take in the scenery. Can we take pics at the castle or is it so crazy in that area? It will be a non EMH day and also, Indiana Jones is high on our riding priority list. Of course, this all depends on what time we actually get to the gates/thru security, etc.

 

[SOCALMouseMommy]

What is up with DLR today. RSR, incredicoaster, Matterhorn & Space are all down.

Pirates was also down at park open.

 

[ballonewb]

So we've never been to DL. I know we can be let in early as part of this Rise process and we plan to do just that. But now I'm trying to figure out the best place to wait it out with my family until BG attempt time. Would love to take in the scenery. Can we take pics at the castle or is it so crazy in that area? It will be a non EMH day and also, Indiana Jones is high on our riding priority list. Of course, this all depends on what time we actually get to the gates/thru security, etc.

If you have early morning access we really enjoyed it from small world. The second best was on the benches on top of the train station

 

[ten6mom]

I don’t have any super techy advice but we got into line in the Esplanade around 0835 or so and got in with about 12 minutes to spare. We went ahead and got FP for Star Tours (partly to ensure both of us were “in” the park) and waited upstairs at the train station. We just watched our phone switch to 0900 and I got it first with an iPhone 7plus (my friend also had an iPhone 7 Plus). We did put DoNotDisturb on and we closed all other apps prior. Nothing else fancy.

 

[ironband74]

It looks like the A team ate their Wheaties and took advantage of the extra downtime last night. 42 groups called in less than 2 hours...Though we do have the opening salvo included that means we're seeing a 42 group spread and I'm pretty sure we've not seen that before...and there is still 18 minutes before we hit that 2 hour mark.

Hopefully this confidence is not misplaced.

 

[SOCALMouseMommy]

It looks like the A team ate their Wheaties and took advantage of the extra downtime last night. 42 groups called in less than 2 hours...Though we do have the opening salvo included that means we're seeing a 42 group spread and I'm pretty sure we've not seen that before...and there is still 18 minutes before we hit that 2 hour mark.

Hopefully this confidence is not misplaced.

So my mom and I both rode separately with rider switch. They are moving people through efficiently. We were both off 30 after entering the queue. One ride element was not working but all the rest were in working order.

 

[ironband74]

They hit a spread of 1-45 at the 2 hour point. Haven't called another group since. Hopefully that's just them letting the queue die down a little and they didn't tax the system to the breaking point...

Edit: nope, it's still moving, but at a more typical pace...

 

[deejdigsdis]

Any confirmation this same method works on Android OS? It seems that if I click Find Out More prior to park open, I get locked out and even after clicking My Status, the Join Boarding Group button there is intermittently active, sometimes requiring a back out or app reboot, etc. Playing from home of course....I think next month when there I'll just Force Quit app, clear cache a minute or two prior to open, relaunch app and NOT click Find out More until a few seconds after park open per Ironband's advice, which I really appreciate over the last several weeks!

It seems the above tips and tricks work well for IPhone and the latter is better for Android from what I can gather...

Android user here. I have the same experience. I can't hit Find Out More until park opening, otherwise I get a gray button, and My Status won't show the option to join a BG that way either. All this while experimenting from home since my trip a month ago. When I was actually there, I watched the clock just in the upper corner of my phone and as soon as it turned 9:00 I hit Find Out More and joined a BG with no problem, getting BG 1.

 

[ironband74]

And now they seem to be pulling the lunchtime acceleration maneuver in a bid to reach backups before 1pm with a 9am open. I know we reached backups at 1pm before, but I think that was on an 8am open day.

Edit: Confirmed, last time (and first time) that happened was Friday 2/14, groups 8-79 were all called by 1pm, but boarding started at around 8:40ish.

 

[harmon54]

Any recent success getting boarding groups when you are in Fantasyland? What about back at your hotel? I will most likely be one of these places and was wondering if it is better not to risk it and just stay near the front of the park entrance?