Rise of the Resistance - queue help

[Emmy10]

Hello,

I'll be heading to Disneyland next week and I'm still a little confused about how Rise of the Resistance works in terms of in-person queues and Genie plus. Can you just go up to it at any time of the day and get in an in-person queue? (I'm aware that the wait times will be pretty long). And from what I understand, you can purchase an individual lightning lane to 'skip' the queue? So does Genie plus not work at all with this ride?

Sorry for all of the questions - this is the one ride I really would like to do more than anything, so I want to make sure it goes as smoothly as it can!

Thanks.

 

[DLRExpert]

Rise has a Standby Wait (normal queue) and Individual Lightning Lane option.
There is really no need for the ILL unless you want make sure you get on at some point during the day as the ride can go down quite a bit and it really sucks if you are in the SB line and it goes down.

Otherwise, wait for a return time you are comfortable waiting in.
A posted 70 minute wait is usually 60 minutes or less.
A posted 60 minute wait is usually 50 minutes or less.
A posted 50 minute wait is usually 40 minutes or less.
A posted 40 minute wait is usually 30 minutes or less.
A posted 30 minute wait is usually a near walk on.

 

[Lumpy1106]

My advice - don't rope drop it. RotR is at the very back of the park, as far back as you can go. You will be in a mass of humanity and bypass nearly every other ride on your way there - all with walk-on lines at RD. The RotR quickly builds to 60 minutes or more - just don't do it. Ride everything else first, then come back later. Even if you end up in a > 60 minute line, you will have saved much more than that in all the other lines.

 

[JerrodDragon89]

Most days when I've gone ROTR opens like 20-60 mins after the parks does

So if you go over to say Big Thunder or Falcon and the ride does not open with the park, you can jump on it once the Q reopens



The other day the ride was down until 9:20 AM and I was near Big Thunder, when I got to the line it was still a walk

 

[LKing]

Otherwise, wait for a return time you are comfortable waiting in.
A posted 70 minute wait is usually 60 minutes or less.
A posted 60 minute wait is usually 50 minutes or less.
A posted 50 minute wait is usually 40 minutes or less.
A posted 40 minute wait is usually 30 minutes or less.
A posted 30 minute wait is usually a near walk on.

It really depends on what you consider the start of the ride. The posted wait times are for when you are seated in a vehicle. However, most people consider the pre-ride show as part of the ride which is why the wait times don't always match.

 

[BrianL]

It really depends on what you consider the start of the ride. The posted wait times are for when you are seated in a vehicle. However, most people consider the pre-ride show as part of the ride which is why the wait times don't always match.

Do they actually post the wait unil the actual vehicle? I never knew that. I would have assumed it was to at least the cruiser part. That's 20 to 30 minutes of experience if you count the pre-show. Man, how many times did I walk by saying I don't want to wait that long, but it's not really.

 

[LKing]

After you see the storm troopers, there is another queue. The estimated wait time could be when you stand on the colored blocks, but I believe they ask time trackers to hand the lanyard to the person who seats you on the vehicle.

 

[Porsche4]

It really depends on what you consider the start of the ride. The posted wait times are for when you are seated in a vehicle. However, most people consider the pre-ride show as part of the ride which is why the wait times don't always match.

Yes this is something that I now fully understand. I don't consider the pre shows as wait time at all as they are totally engaging and part of the experience. For me the wait time is the time it takes to get to the first pre show so I usually take about 15-20 minutes off the time posted as that is how long the pre show takes before you actually get on the ride vehicle.

 

[twodogs]

-G+ does not work on ROTR (nor on RSR in DCA)
-ILL$ works on ROTR; you pay the dynamic price via the app and are assigned a return time (next available time; you can’t choose your return time other than by watching the times go out as the day goes on and booking your ILL$ when the return time is around when you want to ride it; usually the return times available are nearly immediate); you will essentially walk right into the pre-show with Ray and BB8. I have never waited at all with an ILL$ for this ride
-you can stand by anytime. Wait times can be inflated. If the ride goes down while you are in SB line, you will not get a “recovery pass” to come back through the LL later; you will just wait it out or leave the line and try again in SB later.
-the SB line closes earlier than park closing because they need time to reset the ride; do not wait until minutes before park close and think you can jump in line to avoid a long wait because it will already be closed
-this rides goes down enough that if it is a major trip priority, I would by the ILL$ on day one and make sure you get to ride it