Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance officially opened recently at Disney'due south Hollywood Studios to positive reviews from guests, but the method for reserving your place in line came as a surprise to near visitors.

The new attraction is utilizing a virtual queuing arrangement. All guests that want to ride Rise of the Resistance in the beginning weeks of the new attraction'south operation are required to reserve a boarding pass. Here are some of the basics for this system, too as a list of some of the most oft asked questions most it. I will endeavor to keep this mail updated as changes happen, and so cheque back before your next visit in case things have changed. UPDATED 01/26/2020

UPDATE 12/xviii/2019: Starting today Boarding Passes volition not become available until scheduled park opening time, regardless of how early guests are let into the park. Every bit of now this means that arriving earlier than scheduled park opening time will have no advantage in reserving passes. Make sure you are inside the park by scheduled opening time and open the app to reserve your Boarding Pass exactly at scheduled open time. Check out the new TIPS department below for more details!

We'll outset with the official description from Walt Disney World on what the Boarding Pass organization is, and and so nosotros'll go into how it actually works, and finally we'll delve into some tips and tricks. Disney has not officially appear how long they will use this system for the new attraction, but information technology has been reported that they only intend to use it for the "first few weeks of operation." After that, the ride will movement to regular standby line status.

Virtual Queue Official Description:

We are currently using a virtual queue system to experience our newest attraction, Star Wars: Rising of the Resistance, allowing you to enjoy the other offerings in Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge and the rest of Disney's Hollywood Studios while y'all wait.

Check the My Disney Experience app or digital condition boards throughout the Park to see the current boarding group condition.

You must use virtual queue and obtain a boarding group to ride the attraction. There volition exist no standby line. However, chapters is limited and obtaining a boarding group does not guarantee the ability to feel the attraction.


How to Utilize Virtual Queue

Of import: All members of your party must be inside of Disney'due south Hollywood Studios earlier you lot can reserve your Boarding Pass. The system knows if your park ticket or MagicBand has been scanned to enter the park.

Yous will demand the My Disney Experience Walt Disney Globe app to create your Boarding Pass reservation. If you do not utilise the mobile app, you will need to visit a Guest Experience Team kiosk (guest service Bandage Members wearing bluish shirts) and they will be able to book your Boarding Pass for you.

Pace 1:

Open the My Disney Experience app after entering Disney'south Hollywood Studios. Click on the "Rising of the Resistance – Access by Boarding Group" banner on the main screen of the app. Annotation: If information technology does not recognize that you are within the theme park, endeavor restarting the app so information technology can refresh.

Stride 2:

Select the JOIN BOARDING GROUP button. (It should appear equally orange if there are Boarding Passes available. If it is shaded out gray then there is no more than Boarding Passes available for the day.)

STEP three:

Select all of the members in your political party that you would like to add to the Boarding Group. All members of your political party must be in the theme park currently -AND- must have their tickets connected to your My Disney Experience account.

You will and so be assigned to a Boarding Group. Yous can click on MY STATUS anytime from the Boarding Grouping screen to encounter the status of your group. The Boarding Group screen will display the current groups that are allowed to load. Y'all tin also see the electric current Boarding Groups loading on digital status boards around the park.

When it is fourth dimension for your Boarding Group to ride y'all volition exist sent a push notification (be sure this selection is enabled for your mobile device). You lot tin can also bank check MY Status any fourth dimension and it volition display when it is time to ride as well. You will have ii hours from the time your group is called to ride. After that your Boarding Laissez passer will expire.

At that place are a limited number of Boarding Groups bachelor every day, and they seem to run out very speedily. If the allure runs smoothly for the 24-hour interval it is possible that they may add together additional Boarding Groups later, so keep checking the app in the late afternoon/evening only in case.

UPDATE 12/16/2019: A new type of Boarding Pass, chosen a Backup Boarding Pass has become available beginning today. Substantially this is a Boarding Pass y'all can reserve if they take run out of the regular Boarding Passes for the solar day. However, there is an even less adventure that Backup Boarding Groups volition go onto the ride, as they will only be chosen if and when all of the regular boarding groups accept ridden for the day. Backup Boarding Groups are available immediately following the regular Boarding Groups, and will also run out adequately quickly.

UPDATE 12/18/2019: Starting today Boarding Passes volition not become bachelor until scheduled park opening time, regardless of how early guests are allow into the park. Equally of now this means that arriving earlier than scheduled park opening time volition take no advantage in reserving passes. Brand sure you are inside the park by scheduled opening time and open the app to reserve your Boarding Pass exactly at scheduled open time. Check out the new TIPS department below for more details.


Virtual Queue Tips and Tricks:

Now that Boarding Passes cannot be reserved until the scheduled park opening fourth dimension, things are running a bit differently than they were in the first two weeks. Here are our tips for making the best of your twenty-four hours to Star Wars: Milky way'south Edge to ride the new attraction. Updated 12/xx/2019

TIP: You only need to arrive to the park virtually an hour prior to posted opening fourth dimension to exist among the outset to get a Boarding Laissez passer.
Guests may exist permit in up to a half-hour prior to park opening fourth dimension, merely Boarding Passes will not be able to be reserved until the verbal moment the park is scheduled to open. That ways there is no benefit to being the first in line to the park when reserving your Boarding Passes. Just endeavor to go to the park before it opens.

TIP: Exist sure you accept your My Disney Experience Walt Disney World app logged in and all members of your party connected to your account earlier you arrive.
You can download the app, create and connect your business relationship, and add together all of your family unit's tickets to your account in the days leading up to your visit. That way you are ready on the twenty-four hours of.

TIP: Close the app BEFORE entering the park.
Equally soon as the clock strikes the scheduled park opening time, then open up the app, and click on the Rise of the Resistance Boarding Pass data push button, and then Join Group. Your device may not refresh automatically if the app is already open up.

TIP: Plough OFF WiFi on your device.
The in-park gratuitous WiFi may get bogged down every bit the park's scheduled opening time approaches. Information technology may be safer to use cellular data service on your device for reserving your Boarding Passes.

TIP: If you go far subsequently all regular Boarding Passes have been given out, in that location'southward a adventure Fill-in Boarding Passes might all the same be bachelor.
Even if you lot get to the park and in that location are signs out front telling you that all Boarding Passes have been handed out for the twenty-four hour period, you should still open the app and check for yourself. "Backup" Boarding Passes are unremarkably distributed for several hours Afterwards those signs get upwardly around the park. You may not be guaranteed a spot with Backup Boarding Passes, but if the ride runs well all day in that location is a practiced chance your group will be chosen by the end of the day.

We hope these tips help you brand the most of your morning! Please see the Frequently Asked Questions department below for even more useful information.


Virtual Queue Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How long will they use Virtual Queue for Ascension of the Resistance?
A: It has been reported that they simply intend to apply it for the "offset few weeks of operation." After that, the ride will move to regular standby status.

Q: Can I wait in a regular standby line instead of virtual line?
A: No. Just guests with a Boarding Pass tin can ride Ascent of the Resistance during this time.

Q: Can I volume a FastPass for Rise of the Resistance?
A: No. Only guests with a Boarding Pass tin can ride Ascension of the Resistance during this time.

Q: Can I still reserve a Boarding Pass even if I already have 3 FastPasses for the day?
A: Aye. Boarding Passes are separate from the FastPass system.

Q: Do I have to be in the park to reserve a Boarding Pass, or tin I reserve it from habitation?
A: Yes. The system knows if you have entered the park based on whether your ticket or MagicBand was scanned in at the turnstiles or not, (information technology does not utilise GPS).

Q: Can I reserve a Boarding Laissez passer for me and my family, even though they are not in the park, just I am?
A: All members of your party must be inside the park to reserve your boarding pass. It recognizes who scanned their ticket/MagicBand at turnstiles to enter the park. Connect your family's tickets to your Disney acct to ensure they can be added also (like for booking FastPass+ passes).

Q: Do I need to walk all the style to Galaxy's Edge to reserve a Boarding Pass?
A: No, you can book it as soon equally you lot enter the park. You may need to restart the app for it to recognize that yous entered though.

Q: After reserving a Boarding Pass, can I exit Disney's Hollywood Studios and then come up back when my Boarding Group has been called?
A: Yes. You may exit the park once your boarding pass has been created. Yous tin view your boarding status in the app by clicking on MY Condition. Information technology volition send you a push button notification when your boarding group is ready. Yous then have 2 hours to come up back and go on the ride (or until park closing fourth dimension if it is less than two hours away).

Q: How long will it be until my Boarding Group is chosen? How exercise I know when it's getting shut to my time?
A: When each grouping will be called will vary wildly from solar day to 24-hour interval. If things are running well, it could be within a few hours, if things are not running well, it could be at the end of the 24-hour interval. Pay attending to the app or the digital signs around the park to see which boarding group is currently loading. That will give yous an thought of how fast groups are being called, and will help you prepare when you're number is coming up.

Q: What do I do until my Boarding Group is called to ride?
A: Yous tin can do whatsoever of the other experiences in the park including other rides, dining, shopping, and amusement. You can also leave the park and come back later your Boarding Group has been chosen.

Q: What if members in our group were reserving Passes on a unlike device and we ended up with two different Boarding Groups? Can we withal ride together?
A: You can visit a guest services representative, either at the front end of the park, or in one of the blue shirt Guest Experience kiosks effectually the park. They should exist able to combine your Boarding Groups so anybody can ride at the same fourth dimension. Added 12/20/2019


Q: Does everyone connected to my app have to be on the boarding pass reservation? What if 1 or more in my party isn't interested in riding?
A: You can select who yous would like to include in the boarding pass during the process, just similar reserving a FastPass, not anybody has to be selected.

Q: I don't use a MagicBand or the app, how does it work for me?
A: Scanning your ticket also proves you're in the park. If yous do not use the app, run into a invitee services representative or 1 of the blue shirt cast members most the archway and they can book it for you.

Q: What practice I do if my political party is using a Disability Access Service card (DAS), do we still have to make a Boarding Pass reservation?
A: DAS users must still go a boarding laissez passer first, same equally other guests. Be certain to let a greeter at the ride entrance know you have it earlier you enter though. (Let them know equally soon as you can, even before your boarding pass is called, as they may demand to add additional details to your reservation electronically. This volition save yous time and trouble later on.)

Q: How long will I have to look in the queue after entering at my Boarding Pass fourth dimension?
A: While the average wait later entering the queue was originally around 30 minutes, it has been longer in contempo days, lasting between 1 and 2 hours. Information technology could be shorter or longer depending on backups due to technical difficulties. Updated: 01/26/2020

Q: Tin can I reserve a second Boarding Pass after I ride the attraction once?
A: No. While guests were immune to reserve a 2nd Boarding Pass in the first few days, as of Dec 9th, guests are now limited to one Boarding Pass per day each. Updated 12/viii/2019 9:00 EST

Q: How early can I make it to the theme park so I tin can be outset to get a Boarding Pass?
A: As of December 18, 2019, as long equally you get in early on enough to enter the park by scheduled opening time yous should be amid the first to reserve a pass. Boarding Passes are now simply available beginning at scheduled opening time, regardless of how early guests are let in. See the Tips section above for more details on how early to arrive. UPDATED 12/xviii/2019

Q: It says that there are no more than Boarding Passes available for the mean solar day, just is at that place a risk they could release more afterward?
A: If the attraction runs smoothly for the twenty-four hour period information technology is possible that they may add additional Boarding Groups later, and so keep checking the app in the tardily afternoon/evening only in case. Too, cheque the app to see if any "Backup" Boarding Passes are still available, equally they are distributed for some time, fifty-fifty after the signs are posted around the park.

Q: I was able to become a Boarding Laissez passer, only it says it is a "Backup" Boarding Laissez passer. What does that mean?
A: A Backup Boarding Pass group will but exist chosen if and when all of the regular boarding groups have ridden for the day. Backup Boarding Groups are available immediately following the regular Boarding Groups each morning, and are also simply available in limited quantities. If y'all receive one, your ride is non guaranteed, but there's a adventure you lot may become to ride after all of the boarding groups before yours take ridden. Picket the app or digital signs around the park to see what boarding groups are loading throughout the day. Updated 12/twenty/2019

Q: What happens if they ride breaks downward after I go far
A: If there is an extended downtime they will evacuate and offer everyone that was inside the ride and the queue an someday FastPass to return after the ride is back up and operational. This will permit you to get back into the attraction without booking some other Boarding Pass.

Q: Is the ride whatever good?
A: It is soooo good, y'all guys, you lot don't fifty-fifty know!


Have a question I didn't answer higher up about the Boarding Pass organization? Delight leave a comment below and I volition endeavour my best to find the answer for you so add together it to this page. I will attempt to update this page daily every bit things change. Star Wars: Ascension of the Resistance is still a very new attraction and there will be downtimes, so be prepared to wait, even if you lot secure an early Boarding Pass.

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