My daughter got backup group 164. How far into the backups have been allowed in?for @SouthFayetteFan
official Disney HUB times for today
park opened at 6:21am
"guaranteed" bg were gone by 7:20am
backup bg gone by 9:55am
I would jump so far as to conclude all am EMH for the next year are going to eventually be changed.I fell pretty far behind on the thread after not getting a chance to catch up at all yesterday, so forgive me if it has been mentioned.
Woke up to an email from Touring Plans that there was an hours change for my DHS day on March 2. Looks like they’re still getting rid of AM EMH further out. It was changed to PM EMH for that day.
that is a number we don't get until the end of the night but the backup bg start at 111My daughter got backup group 164. How far into the backups have been allowed in?
You can't test out the biggest factor, the speed of the system you connect to, be it WiFi or the cell tower you hit on and how busy it is. It's really 100% luck and if you are there at opening, the odds are so high in your favor to get a group, that's all I'd worry about.It sounds like those with a "quick draw" approach will be the winners. Should I time myself on the app to see how fast I can go?
That data is on the chart tooMy daughter got backup group 164. How far into the backups have been allowed in?
but not today's last bg number thoughThat data is on the chart too
There was some really odd unknown anomaly on the days they went in a couple of minutes. It's only been a couple. That is not indicative of how the groups have gone at all. That's not to say it can never happen again just not something that I would worry about.Sorry if I don't scroll past 172 pages to find this info (I am pretty sure it probably was already answered somewhere...) but I have a bit of a problem understanding the chart in the first post. So let's look at Jan 5th. They let you into the park at 6:20am, the park opens at 07:00am which is also when they allow you to sign up for a boarding group and at 07:01am all boarding groups are gone? Which indicates there is only a 60 seconds window to sign up for a boarding group? You get another 20 minutes or so to sign up for a backup boarding group which may or may not get called at the end of the day. Is this for real? Just looking at this it seriously makes me reconsider even trying to get onto the ride at all during out upcoming trip. If you have to rely on Disney wifi for getting a boarding group (we're from out of country, we do not have cell service in the US), I guess the chances are pretty much zero to snag an boarding group at all.
Yeah, I thought that is what PP was asking, how far in have the groups been getting.but not today's last bg number though
ETA: I see what you mean that we can see the last bg allowed in, from days past.
I'd suggest checking out the general theme park stategies board for some ideas about how to handle the other rides--there's no avoiding an early morning if you want to do RotR, but there are ways to snag additional FP+ throughout the day and many people have reported success with the strategy of jumping in line shortly before closing and waiting less than the posted time (Disney generally inflates wait times at the end of the night). This thread isn't the place to go into details on that, but I'd suggest starting with the FP+ FAQ thread (it's a sticky at the top of the forum).I guess I am a bit panicky about all this. Every single ride my kids have pointed out as their favorite rides requires some kind of early morning pre-opening dash to the park. My kids are NOT morning persons... LOL We are also not staying on property so we can't take advantage of the 60 day FP+ booking window for the other rides. Anyways - I guess we'll just see what happens. It could be worse in that Disney is getting rid of the boarding groups when we get there which would probably result in insanely long lines. But I guess since morning EMH hours for DHS are not happening when we are going and seeing that they have also moved them for March, I am assuming they will most probably hold on to the boarding groups for some time to come.
It’s varied every day. If the ride stays up and has little or no downtime they tend to reach every backup group. Yesterday they got to no backup groups due to downtime.My daughter got backup group 164. How far into the backups have been allowed in?
do you happen to know what time she got that BG #? It would be an interesting fact to me.My daughter got backup group 164. How far into the backups have been allowed in?
There was some really odd unknown anomaly on the days they went in a couple of minutes. It's only been a couple. That is not indicative of how the groups have gone at all. That's not to say it can never happen again just not something that I would worry about.
Get there extra early (close to 2 hours before park opening) to be at front of rope drop for MFSR and while in that line/mass of people secure a BG for RotR on your MDE. Seems like they wait a minute or two to let people join a BG before starting to March people back to GE to get in the MFSR line
Alternate is to go for MFSR closer to park closing