Everything to Know About Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance at Disney World

HI!!! we are a family of 5 going to Hollywood studios only to experience the Star Wars rides, in the case of nothing will be working, we can go and do the lines? Is there any possibility of not to get into the rides at all???

I will be flying out at 7am from NJ to Orlando. I only have 1 day in HS. Should I try for the 7am boarding or wait til 1pm when I will be in the park? I know there is no guarantee either way, but just curious if I do get an early boarding and am not at the park yet, what happens if I miss my boarding?

Hi, does anyone know what happens if you a child under 3 in your party? Does it still let you get a boarding pass if they don’t have a ticket for the park for that day? Like if it doesn’t have my whole party selected already and I have to hit select all? I’m afraid manually selecting everyone but the little one will waste too much time.

From everything I've read about how to join a boarding group for the virtual queues I was under the impression that I could make my reservation before our reserved visit date. Especially since I've read repeatedly that you can join from home. Not everyone live in or near Anaheim. It needs to be clearer that you can only join on the day of your reservation. Not a month prior from home in another state.

I'm not sure if anybody has tested it, but does a group of 8 have less a chance of getting a board pass than a group of 4? I'm wondering if it'd be better for my group to breakdown into smaller groups to try.

Just to chime in with another experience to add to the heap. My wife and I recently attended the park on July 1st. We used two phones (one for countdown on time.gov) and were able to get boarding group 49. I tried my best to complete the process within 2 seconds, and think I succeeded, but may have taken a smidgen longer. But yeah, that's what it takes. One thing to note (since every second counts), even though we have the same model phone, I noticed on time.gov that her phone lagged a second behind mine. I'm not sure how this is possible since it's a website, but I upgraded Safari on her phone and that fixed the problem. So watch for that! Every second counts!

I’m so sad. I did everything I was told to do from a bunch of sources during my research about the virtual queue for Disneyland. I woke up at 6:55 am. Refreshed the app. I watched a 2nd phone’s clock using the clock Disneyland syncs with. I took off location services for the app. I refreshed right before 7am and hit join as soon as it turned blue and hit the second create a family almost instantly since I knew both names were already checked. I got some red box message and hit the back button and it then said it was full. Literally did it all within 2 seconds. How is that possible on a Friday. With limited park reservations? Is the 12pm going to be just the same? We are only here for one day and came just for this ride, so idk what else to do. ????

Would it be smart to remove anybody not going with us to the park that day from my friends and family section on my account so I don't have to scan through all of them to find my husband. This is specifically for the 7am attempt

Thanks!

This has to be the most inequitable system ever. What if you don't have a cell phone? What if you are not tech savvy? The process is flawed and needs to be fixed.

This is probably a silly question, but I’ve seen a lot of strategies suggest having multiple people in your group try to get a boarding group at the same time. Should everyone trying for a boarding group have their own My Disney Experience account, or can they all log into the same one from the app on their phone to try for a boarding group?

When I first booked my trip a few months ago, I practiced getting into a boarding group and saw that if filled up within seconds. I tried again a couple times this past week and noticed it took 2-3 minutes to fill up. Does that seem right? Is it because the park has increased capacity and therefore it creates more availability during the day to join the ride? I'll be heading there during the last week of June.

I’ve tried on 3 different days at 7 a.m. and still haven’t gotten boarding passes for me and my husband. This morning I at least got to the second Join page (after it shows our boarding party), but I discovered that my husband wasn’t automatically selected!! Verified that we are both in the “Plans” as the “group” being managed together. How can I ensure that the delay won’t occur again?

There will be 2 adults in our party that will be on scooters due to disabilities. Is there a safe place to keep them while we are on the ride?

Mommy Frog,

Think this has been answered but want to double check. When I click "Join" in the Virtual Queue App, do I need to select my daughter (8) as part of the group before proceeding? It's just the two of us and didn't know if saving a few seconds and they would let her ride with me or "must" I add her? I noticed when practice that has to be done first.

thanks

Mike

Just to be clear - the screen your phone should be showing in order to hit the blue JOIN button needs to say "Join Virtual Queue" at the top? Is that correct? I have that screen up on my phone now - when i swipe it down to refresh i see it flashes "refreshing groups"....just want to make sure I'm in the correct screen at 7am the day we have tix and have my 2 sons in that same correct screen. Also - can you get that JOIN button (secure a boarding pass) from a computer instead of on your cell phone app?

Thanks so much for your very thorough and detailed analysis. It may be a lotto but your tips are MORE than helpful. I tried to read all of the comments before asking this question but I am still unsure about one thing. You mentioned "Thanks to recent app changes, anyone who has a reservation and is currently inside the park with you should be automatically selected."

How does this apply, if I join a boarding group at 7am from my Resort Hotel? There are 4 members in my party for my upcoming trip. My plan was to be the one who arrived early to get on the queue. But now that we can do this from the resort, can I still arrive earlier than my party or do we all have to be inside the park when it opens? Does the statement I quoted above only apply to the 2pm, inside the park, boarding group reservation?

What exactly do you mean by "refresh the app"? Do I keep hitting the "join" button, or is there another way to refresh?

Thanks for the tips. We were able to get Backup Boarding Group 172 when the queue opened at 1 pm. Our Group was notified to come to the line at 6:36. Hope this helps people who get a similar group assignment.

I have been "practicing" on the app (even though our HS reservation/tix aren't until June. So far I HAVEN"T been able to get a boarding pass using this system. I wonder--is the system set up that...no matter if I do it "in time"...that it will tell me the "all booked" message because it doesn't see I have a res/tic for HS that day? I heard of people actually getting a boarding pass even though they were just "practicing". Can anyone speak to this?

Hi - quick question in response to THIS part of your post..."Thanks to recent app changes, anyone who has a reservation and is currently inside the park with you SHOULD be automatically selected."

My wife and I went back in Feb 2020 (right before you know what). We logged in the queue at the park (we both tried to do it simultaneously). She got "back up" group, but it didn't automatically add me even though we're the only 2 in the party at all times. I understand from your post that apparently that issue has been fixed since then.

My question is, since time is of the utmost importance to mash the "Join" button, if it doesn't auto-add me like it's supposed to, will a cast member be able to add me to her/our boarding group once we enter the park? We are linked in the App under one account, and we both have a reservation on Wed, Apr 21 - so there's ambiguity there. Just want your opinion on if they'd fix an issue like that if it arises. THANK YOU!!!

-- Nate S.

This was great info. My wife and I used this today April 13 and were selected to ride. This is a definite ride for all Star Wars fans. Our girls loved I so much. The park right now is at 35% capacity. Their is so much room to walk around and take pics. Now is the time to go before all restrictions are lifted. Thanks again for the info.

We will be traveling with our 3 year old and really want the opportunity to ride. I also noticed that this ride is not listed on the website as having rider switch. I asked Disney customer service and they said no it does not have rider switch. Any tips on how to make this work so all three adults in our party can ride?

I read a recommendation to start refreshing at 6:59:56am and it worked!

looking for advice. We will arrive between 1:00 and 1:30. Should we try for the 7:00 Queue and just pray we don't get called till after 1:00 or should we just try for the 1:00 queue if we're in the park on time.

I'm going with a party of 9 of us. Do you recommend that we split into 2 groups (5 and 4) to better our chances of getting a reservation for the ride or do you think we should just try with 9? Thanks

I know that Disney recommends only trying to join the queue from one device. We have a group of 12 with 4 adults. Is there a problem with trying to get in the queue with 2 or 3 phones? And do we each need a different username/password? Or can we share? (We currently have 2 accounts and have linked everyone already!)

Got on 3/7/21. We were all set up to join the queue at 6:55 am. I was was ready with my android phone and wife standing by with her apple phone. I hit join at 7:00:00 and got in, select all on my group members, then got an error saying we were not yet in the park!

Luckily my wife then tried on her apple phone and got our group boarding pass #56. This was at about 7:00:05. So, I would recommend not using an Android phone for this. There was an obvious error with the android app since you longer need to be in the park to reserve a spot (park isn't open at 7:00). And do it at 7:00 on the dot if you really want in. Make sure all of your group members are loaded in the "friends/family" section the night before. Good luck. Everyone loved the ride.

I wanted to write and thank you for these tips! We had one shot on Friday, March 5, and got boarding group 72 on our first try. Thanks also to Dusten for comment about trying at 6:59:56. We had one person watching the clock and did a refresh at 6:59:56 and joined no problem! Unfortunately the ride itself is prone to glitches, so we spent about 2 hours in line/stuck in various parts of the experience. We did finally get through the whole thing, and I would say it’s so well done that it’s worth the hassle if you’re a big fan. The virtual queue does strike me as very unfair knowing that some people travel long distances just for this park and Star Wars experience. Thanks again for helping to bring our plans together!

Do you need a park reservation to join the virtual queue?

Hello :) Great info thank you. We will be there Tue.April 20th for Hollwood Studios. Am I understanding that the app tracks your location? Aka you have to be so close to the park to reserve? It was mentioned if you arent at a disney hotel, within 20 miles is fine? If you do not have to be i the line by 7am, when would you suggest showing up? (And does showing up earlier even give you any advantages for specifically riding Rise Of Resistance now that they are requiring virtual cue?) And regarding another commenters questions, if we don't get in for boarding at 7am would you recommend trying to do Hollywood Studios another day? Thank you! :)

My husband and I are going in Wednesday. If I try to get the boarding pass but am unsuccessful can I cancel my Disney park reservation and schedule on another day without any penalties?

Hello! We will be going to Disney for the first time since our son was born two years ago. Thus, it will also be the first time getting to try for ROTR. Do you have any idea how the ride will work with Rider Switch? We've never used Rider Switch and aren't sure where the other spouse will have to wait. Will it be inside? Outside? Will both of us have to wait in line? Or will the second person get to skip to the front of the line after the first person gets off? We haven't seen anything on how this will work, or if it will work differently than other rides.

Thanks for the help!

I reserved all 7 days in HS, knowing it may take a few days to get ROTR, first 2 days, no luck, 3rd and 4th day we got boarding groups (51 & 18) we got a system going, you need a spare cell phone or watch with seconds hand, make sure to have logged in website about 10 minutes or less beforehand so your login is current, then hit join around 6:59:56. I laugh when I read articles that say passes go quickly without qualifying what quickly means, 10 seconds or less. That doesn’t mean 10 seconds after 7, that 5 seconds before and after 7, if you make i mistype which is very easy on those smartphone touchscreens, no ROTR that day. System is heavily weighted towards locals that can try every weekend because they have an AP (annual pass). As of this writing, they are not currently selling annual passes. Only thing harder to get is Oga’s, there 3 weeks in October (only 25% capacity in parks) and never got into oga’s cantina, woke up 60 days before our next trip 5am (6am ET) to get reservation at oga’s and we only got one because staying on property currently gives you 60 plus your nights at Disney so 66 days out for us, got oga’s 61 days out and 63, 64 days out so basically, if your not staying on-property and get up 6am ET exactly 60 days before your trip, no oga’s cantina. Reservations available were changing really fast so lots of people doing the same thing. Worth noting we never had a problem switching from HS to any other park that morning. On days we didn’t get ROTR we had no problem getting onto MFSR, MMRR, SDD, etc. so it was still a fun day and good excuse to come back another day to try again, but I def understand if you only got 1 day in the park it’s not an ideal system!>)

We were also unable to get on ROTR. Disney needs to let it be known that it is near impossible to ride this ride so that people can make educated decisions when deciding where to spend their money. Was very unhappy with Disney and from now on will be spending our money with Cedar Fair.

These tips and tricks DID not work for me. Tried at 6:59 and said boarding was not happening. Literally, as soon as it turned 7, tapped join and said boarding was full. Within 5 seconds, boarding was full... I hate this Virtual Queue as it’s unfair. Traveler over 2,000 miles and can’t get on this ride? Screw you Disney.

Thank you for all of this great information! My question is, I have all of my party on my disney app linked to my party. Do each of them have to have the disney app too and an account, or does having them on mine suffice for snagging a boarding pass?

On an upcoming trip, we will be trying for boarding passes for Rise of Resistance. My Friends & Family group lists all of my immediate family and some extended family that we often travel with, however this trip will only be two of us. Any chance having a large number of people in my Friends & Family will impact getting a boarding pass for two of us? Hoping a large list doesn't slow it down at 7:00 am.

I was able to get a reservation for Rise in Dec but I was staying on property. I'm now going up from Miami on Sat morning and should be at Hollywood Studios by 9am. My question is, will I be able to get a reservation on Rise at 7am if I'm on the road about 2 hours away?

Just spent 2 of our 3 mornings trying to get a boarding group with no success. Followed all tips, except one, we had multiple people trying as that worked December 2019 when you had to be in the park. No luck this time though, but we did see a red error message after we selected the family names, followed by queue full message about the 3rd attempt before 7:01am. The first day we were able to cancel HS reservation and make one for MK. This 2nd day we will go to HS and try again at 1pm, this time just my son’s fastest phone and fingers. We’re onsite at Coronado. Family in room next to us has had crying kids by 7:01am now 2 days in a row.

So i have my own disney experience app, and the 5 other members of my family are linked in a separate account. i won’t be able to get the group for all 6 of us at the same time unless we are linked through disney experience app? or would i be able to select that i want the que for 6 people? do i add everyone to my app?

There is no guarantee you’ll get in on this. Did all the things and still got put in the back up grouping. Party of two. (Staying on property.) Yada yada yada.

Was later told via a push notification that the ride was fully booked and we would not be able to experience it. That was around 2pm.

We lingered around the park until right before close in hopes some magical way would open up for me and my daughter to ride. No dice. The ride manager or whatever wouldn’t budge. They were on group 198. I was in 202.

Don’t get your hopes up, Manage your expectations, and may the Force be with you.

Also, I hate this process. I guess I’m a fan of getting up early, standing in a physical line, and waiting patiently for my turn. Anything else feels like a lottery. And that is not a way to do theme parks. I came for this ride. And only this ride. Paid all the money. Drove all the hours. Made all the reservations. For a lottery? That sucks.

Poor form Disney. Poor indeed.

This was kind of annoying. The clock on my phone. still said 7:00 and the queue was full. I know, reduced capacity, popular attraction, etc. But you had to push in under 12 seconds (I made the mistake of reading the screen so that I knew what I was pushing.). I'll try again at 1pm, but this was super disappointing

We are a group of 13 in 3 different families. Our reservations are linked in friends and family, but I’m concerned that we will only be able to reserve for our own families vs for the entire group. Is there any way to check to see if it will allow you to reserve for the whole group? We want to assign one person but are worried that someone in each family should try. Any recommendations welcomed!

Um, what is frog family?

Hi there! For the 7am boarding group, I know you can request to join from anywhere, as long as you have a park reservation for Hollywood Studios. It then says you need to be IN the park for the second 1pm request time. I have a park reservation for Hollywood Studios, but we won't get to the park until afternoon because we fly in from NY that day. I was thinking having the park reservation would give us an advantage for the 2nd boarding request time, but it sounds like it probably doesn't do us much good if we can't be in the park by 1pm?

Sure am looking forward to seeing this live!

Great article. Looking forward to using these tips on our upcoming trip. Thank you.

What happens if you do land a boarding pass for ROR and you have a reservation for something else like Savi's Workshop and your boarding group is called at the same time?

It should be set up as a fast pass or reservation that can be set up ahead of time. This eliminates the lines Disney was concerned about and allows visitors to plan their day.

We are staying at Pop Century and tired getting on the que is like winning the lottery. we tired at 7am and 30 sec gone. we tired at 2pm in the park and nothing again. So on the second day going to Hollywood

Studios, tired again at 7 am with others doing the same from other rooms here....we all did not get in the que.

Staying at Pop Century and tired to get on the queue at 7amand could not get on. Tried again at 2pm...no luck. Now, second day of trying, no luck at 7am. It's like trying to win the lottery! Last hops is at 2pm today. We scheduled two days at HS just to try to get on this ride. What is going to happen when park is at full capacity?