2. Make sure you are inside Disney's Hollywood Studios well before your boarding group is called
In the past, guests visiting Disney's Hollywood Studios have had a two hour window with which to return to Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance after their boarding group was called. However, in recent weeks, Disney has shrunk that window down to a single hour, which means if you are at your hotel room or park hopping at Disney's Animal Kingdom or the Magic Kingdom when your boarding group is called, you might miss your window.
Our advice in this situation is that if you leave the park, be to keep an eye on boarding group progress, and when you see that there are twenty left before your number, start heading over to Disney's Hollywood Studios. So, if you are Boarding Group 56, and you see boarding group 36 being called, you need to make sure you are in the park as soon as possible so you don't miss your boarding group, especially if you are park hopping or hanging out at your resort and will need to take Disney transportation to get back to the park.
3. If you have a later boarding group, prepare for long in-queue waits
Due to recent increased technical difficulty with this attraction, there has recently been less time to call guaranteed boarding groups, which has led to large numbers of both guaranteed and backup groups being called at one time in the afternoon and evening hours. And unfortunately this has meant that guests with high boarding group numbers have had to wait much longer than normal in the physical queue of this attraction.
However, in an effort to keep guests happy while waiting in this line, Disney has been taking some interesting measures, with characters like Rey, Chewbacca and Vi Moradi coming through the queue periodically, talking to guests about the mission and taking pictures. n addition, to prevent any "hangry" feelings, Disney has been coming through the queue with fresh fruit, chips, and bottled water for guests who have been stuck for awhile, especially during ride downtime.
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We're heading to Disney Studios for a single day in the middle of April, do you think things will have calmed down for this ride by then?