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

[Gaugersaurus]

App says groups 82 and above “will not be called unless all other planned groups are called”

 

[EmJ]

I just peeked in the app and the Backup BG notice is already up

Soooo... one minute?

 

[Mathmagicland]

At 8:01 the app says they are only distributing backup BGs.

 

[ironband74]

Damn! The app says that initial BG distribution is complete and backup boarding groups are now being distributed.

 

[SirBill]

Got group 58, exactly at 8am... 82 and above appear to be backup BG today.

 

[Emily Urena]

Back up Boarding groups were out by 8:00:52 am

 

[dieumeye]

Group 25.

App says groups 82 and above are backups.

 

[CastAStone]

Soooo... one minute?

Yup.

 

[EmJ]

On backup BG by 8:01am!

Holy macaroni. Well. That really stinks for everyone that couldn't connect in the first minute, but there is probably some serious champagne popping going on in a board room somewhere. THIS is what the execs wanted SWGE to be. A massive, over the top hit.

 

[KPeterso]

wow - that was fast! Hope everyone here got a group!

 

[CastAStone]

Got group 58, exactly at 8am... 82 and above appear to be backup BG today.

The least they’ve ever gotten through at WDW is 86...that’s not showing a lot of confidence from Park Ops...

 

[ashley0139]

How often do they call backups in Florida?

 

[Version 6]

How do you see what group they are up to

 

[EmJ]

App says groups 82 and above “will not be called unless all other planned groups are called”

Based on WDW standards, 82 is a very low number of boarding groups. There have been a handful of days where they only got to around that many boarding groups, but once the ride was more fine tuned and the CM more experience, the numbers started getting to 150 and above. My guess is that DL only released a very small number today anticipating slow boarding and/or a lot of breakdowns. I would expect to see that number rise significantly in the coming weeks.

 

[montreid]

82 is reasonable for day 1. Remember open to 12mn today so A LOT longer hours than HS even when they extended it.

Graph of HS times

 

[CastAStone]

The good news is that Backup BGs are still available.

 

[dieumeye]

81 BGs seems like they went conservative for day 1, compared to what’s been happening at WDW. Still, one minute is fast!

Looks like backups are still available.

Now let’s see how the ride operates today!!

 

[CastAStone]

How often do they call backups in Florida?

They have called at least 1 backup BG all but 2 days so far. There's a chart in the WDW thread showing how many groups by day.

 

[Katiebird]

The least they’ve ever gotten through at WDW is 86...that’s not showing a lot of confidence from Park Ops...

more like playing it safe. Otherwise they could be giving out a lot of compensation. I’m sure they plan for getting through a reasonable amount of back up groups as well, but it’s better to set the bar low and exceed it.

 

[EmJ]

The least they’ve ever gotten through at WDW is 86...that’s not showing a lot of confidence from Park Ops...

WDW had to give a LOT of comp tickets in those first few days because they overestimated what they/the ride could handle. I think it is a really rational business decision to aim low in the first week or two. They will save themselves a lot of money on comps, and it's not like they will close the ride at 4 pm if all the boarding groups have been called. They still have the backup boarding groups, and then those people will be really happy.