Oh, I don’t think that’s very true at all.
Yes, they have to be happy that their ride is so in-demand and getting mostly glowing reaction from those able to ride. But the whole thing is a logistical nightmare for them on MANY levels, there’s a lot of unhappy people in the parks and on social media, AND it’s not necessarily juicing park attendance much. In fact, MLK weekend almost certainly would have had more people there if the ride hadn’t opened. They’re also just hemorrhaging money on this attraction, and have been for over a year. It’s expensive to staff, expensive to run, expensive maintenance, causing a lot of other costs (early staffing, IT work, etc.) Big-picture, there’s a lot of downside, honestly.
“Relieved it’s not a failure,” sure, and it’s a feather in their cap in some key ways. “Pleased as punch,” I think, definitely not.
People in the know do post here and on other boards and we do know that SW:GE went about $600MM over budget per park, We don't know how much of that is ROTR but read the tea leaves - everything else opened on time or early vs Disney's announced dates, this is still requiring daily troubleshooting. Other insiders have noted that attendance has barely budged at DHS, while at DL it appears thousands of APs are leaving right after park opening every day (either to go to work and come back just for their ride later or because they didn't get a BG); they will count in attendance but Disney isn't getting extra $$ from them that day.How do you figure this is "hemorrhaging money"? You have no idea what total earrings are. None of us do.
My back up notification did not start until 9:03:22. Do you think it's amount of people in your boarding groups that could make it go faster for others? I'm a group of 2 playing from home. Every other time before today I have matched back up times with others.
I was playing at work, not on wifi. It still isn't popping up about being in a backup group for me.... It's 9:08
From home: Regulars gone in 1 minute and have been getting a backup group popup message for 9 minutes. Now the button is greyed out finally. My wife never got a popup mentioning the backup groups, so I am wondering if this phenomenon of some people getting the backup message and some not has to do with phone type and/or popup settings.
Other than yesterday, they've been opening the turnstiles plenty early. If you get there early enough, you should have plenty of time to scan your tix in to the app and try for a boarding group on day one, if that is your desire.Unfortunately we booked through Get Away Today and the tickets are very specific about not being able to load them into the app until they have been scanned at the turnstiles. Kind of a bummer but we will have a great chance the 3rd day we're there during MM.
From home: Regulars gone in 1 minute and have been getting a backup group popup message for 9 minutes. Now the button is greyed out finally. My wife never got a popup mentioning the backup groups, so I am wondering if this phenomenon of some people getting the backup message and some not has to do with phone type and/or popup settings.
Unfortunately we booked through Get Away Today and the tickets are very specific about not being able to load them into the app until they have been scanned at the turnstiles. Kind of a bummer but we will have a great chance the 3rd day we're there during MM.