WOW ! The speed in which ‘ Rise’ boarding passes become unavailable

[Lily8]

Originally Posted by Budmiester

Has there been any indication as to when RoTR will change to a fastpass or is the current setup likely to last for the foreseeable future? It's that we will be there at the end of April for two weeks and we are trying to plan out what days to go to Hollywood Studios.

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There's no indication as to when the boarding group arrangement may end and change to FP. I think it's a lot to do with ride having quite a bit of down time, making it difficult for them to ascertain daily capacity.

[Floridadreams]

Originally Posted by SteRobbo

We are going to HS tomorrow. It says the park opens at 8am but what time would anyone recommend we arrive to join the entrance queue? Staying in Davenport so was thinking of leaving villa around 6:45

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Aim to be there around 7.15am so you are in the park around half an hour before. Good luck

[princessnicki]

we don't go until May 2021 but we have already decided we are only trying once to get on this ride and if we don't it's no big deal, it looks amazing from the many youtube vlogs we have seen of it but i'm not going to stress over it- I actually think we are more bothered about riding Hagrids and hoping that will have calmed down by then and match the 20 min queues we had for Forbidden Journey and Gringotts last May

[DanLees]

That minute or so and to a lesser extent the few minutes leading up to it are stressful as heck!

Crosspost from another RoR thread:
We were in HS on the 21st Feb.

In the park in plenty of time - honestly we were there too early but with traffic, parking, security, old magic bands and a new will call ticket I wasn't leaving things to chance.
App allows booking at 8am, however the "Join Boarding Group" button was still greyed out for me until 08:00.30ish. That 30 seconds resulted in Boarding Group 106! Considering they only guarantee 61 per day, that is not the result you want. The mood was a bit somber in our party for a bit.

However, for whatever reason (maybe the cold damp weather) they were charging through through boarding groups, I was keeping an eye on which groups were boarding via the app and they had got to 86 IIRC by lunch and we were called for our group at 15:30.

PHEW!

To be fair though I would say the ride (wrong word to be honest - experience is better) is worth the stress - it's phenomenal!