Disney has announced that beginning September 23, boarding groups will not be used for Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, and the attraction will utilize a traditional standby queue.
The Disney Parks Blog announced the change, stating, “We know our guests love choice and flexibility when planning their time in a theme park — which is why, starting September 23, we will pause the use of virtual queue for Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance.”
It is noted that virtual queue may be used at the attraction in the future, or from time to time.
Fans have long complained of the boarding groups required for Rise of the Resistance, as they were notoriously hard to get. This announcement comes just a week after the addition of “Virtual” queue signage at the attraction.
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This is great news and will slow down people who have ridden on it multiple times, since they might be more resistant to a physical queue at this point. There will always be lightning lane if they absolutely must skip the standby line.
I hope that guests who have yet to experience the attraction will finally be able to. It’s a great one, for sure.
It’s not worth the wait. At. All.
Here come the 3 hour waits. The virtual queue had just gotten the kinks out and was working well. WTF, Disney!
Better than the “Oh you were not .00005 seconds faster than everyone else? Well sorry you are SoL! Enjoy the rest of your day!”
Too them long enough
Take some notes from universal
So every one will rush to ride in morning or whenever they arrive.Even with virtual que there were lines back to Toy Story Land. Or pay a lot extra money for maybe a slightly shorter wait.Guess profit is all Disney executives care for.
Profits before people. The Disney way.
“Even with virtual que there were lines back to Toy Story Land.” I did not know that. Impressive.
“We know our guests love choice and flexibility when planning their time in a theme park”
That’s funny.
So flexible you can spend half your day in the park waiting in line for a ride that’s 50/50 going to break down. Plus the ride is from a crappy movie anyway. PASS!
There would be too much money left lying on the table if they were to offer a free virtual queue along with the paid Lightning Lane. So now there will be a 7am dash to purchase the Lightning Lane pass. Same guest experience, just now you will pay for the privilege.
This is just to push for the paid lightning lane. It’s All about that $$$
It’s about darn time!!
So this is going to basically make it rideable in the morning for the people that are staying on property, and will be getting access to the parks 30 minutes early. Not much for enhanced flexibility and choice. At least it gives people another reason to stay on property come October.
This is terrible news. With the virtual line you knew if you had it or not– and could carry on. They were having as many riders as possible with the virtual line.
Now it’s likely be to be one more line to waste way more time in: the worst part of Disney is the lines. Now folks can ride it again and again. Yes, folks can choose to wait in line to get on this instead of trying for the virtual option, yet I can’t see how this will improve customer experience.
It made it so much more effective to plan for… I’m hoping for more and more virtual lines.
I honestly think lighting and virtual should be the same like no offense but you want to pay for this i definite. I do think standby should always be an option also because das goes by standby without it folks who need the assistance wait twice blindly! Flexibility is the key the new genie thing. Lets also remember kiddos before fp we all waited and it was free and and most importantly you got on the ride!
With this change does that mean that people with DAS will be able to get a come-back time vs standing in line? I figured it wouldn’t qualify when it was virtual, but surely this would change that?
This will be interesting!!!
This is the prelude to the Lightning Lane up-charges $$$. The lines will be long again and they hope you’ll spring for the money. The corporate greed is just sickening. I was hoping to go on for the first time this December, now that looks dismal. Whatever happened to the “happiest place on earth”? Only if you have big big bucks! I think Walt would be dismayed! 🥲
I wonder if they have to make this change before they can implement the Genie service??? I am thinking it would make whatever they charge for this ride WAY more attractive than a 3 hour wait!!!
The thing that Disney can’t seem to figure out is that there are some people who don’t want to plan every detail of their trip ahead of time…when to eat, what rides to ride, etc. When we had annual passes for five years to Disneyland the fun of it was being spontaneous. You’d walk by a ride with a short line and say “let’s ride that”. And you would eat when you get hungry.
I wouldn’t enjoy a trip to a Disney park anymore with all of the planning. We don’t carry around cell phones at Disney that can connect to the Internet. We have basic smartphones but no Internet or Wi Fi access. We can’t plan things out on a cell phone. I’m disabled and planning ahead gets you nowhere because life happens and you have to adjust. Disney lost us as a customer and they don’t even care.
Wow. Convenient time for this Disney. So when the standby line is 2 hours + the sales for Lighting lane will somehow go up right?
Sheesh, wish Disneyland had this. I might get in line at 5am just to hurry and be one of the 1st thousand+ that will go right to the ride and nit get a boarding pass. Any1 wants 3 new green magic bands $10 each jtabor1976 at hotmail dot com yo
Ahhh make guests suffer thru the pains of 2 hour queues, so that when lightning lanes @ $15/guest start , they’ll fork that dough effortlessly, only Chapek could’ve come up with this diabolical scheme.
I am also going to guess that this was also done so Disney can promote their new “paid fast pass” system that they keep trying to hype.
Are they actually framing this as something other than the virtual queue is free, and they want people to pay for Genie+, and to specifically pay for Rise of the Resistance, which is why they’re opening the standby queue now?! The greed is overwhelming!!
I’m happy Disney did this. It levels the playing field… at least until pay to ride “aka lightening lane” starts.
Split on this one.
Good news in that we don’t have to get up early and fight for a millisecond advantage in the morning, but bad in the same way it was for Avatar. It’s basically going to make you spend hours in line waiting for the ride instead of enjoying the park. This was what the virtual queue was great for preventing, but there ya go.
If it’s a money thing, think of all the revenue lost with people static in a line vs out spending while they wait. We have several reservations and that little bit of flexibility the queue provided if they overlapped made it possible to squeeze it all in, plus get to go do other things in the park outside of GE.
I’m not a big fan of the Lightning lane concept (we’ll see how it works out), but I don’t get to Disney every year, more like 4-5 years. So if it’s available during our trip, I’ll likely be using it so my kid can experience the ride before he goes to college and we don’t waste half a day in line.
Bright side is that it’ll be easier to get into other things around Batuu with everyone in line? Guess we’ll see.
Such a money grab! Wasn’t bad enough trying to get a boarding pass, but now, instead they’re offering guests the “privilege” of having to pay extra to get on the ride. Hope that they have a backup plan for the guests that wait 4+ hours in the standby line only to have the ride breakdown before they get on! Way to try to twist this as a positive Disney! That standby line will get so long that guests will likely spend 1/2 their park day in a standby for 1 ride and have to skip out on other rides because of this! Such an awful guest experience! Universal, we’ve been once this year and will be back!
They are doing this so the can charge you for it down the road.
Planning the trip with 2 little kids under 5 (just a few days after the mentioned date) the queue was the only chance for both my husband and I to experience this ride, no more possibility to do so without paying extra after we’ve already paid a lot for the trip 🥺
“We know our guests love choice and flexibility … which is why…we will pause the use of virtual queue.” How interesting. So, until now, Disney had no idea that guests love choice and flexibility, so they have been using the virtual queue this whole time to make guests’ suffer. Here’s the truth: without virtue queue, Disney will be able to sell a lot more LIghting Lane passes. This is Disney’s way of saying: we are opening our money box big and wide so that you can empty your wallets in it.
I will never go back to Hollywood Studios or none of Disneys Park it has been the worst experience ever. Flew from my country to US with the expectation on having my teens on those rides. It was a waste of time and money as the virtual line was a terrible option for us. Will never go back
This is another gag in the Bob and Josh Show. There was no money to be made with the virtual queue. That would be a big no-no under their regime. However, switch this to a traditional standby queue so you will be forced to buy Genie+. Remember: Bob and Josh are all about giving you “choice and flexibility” to spend more money.