I like that.
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Me too! I think @sanstitre_has_left_the_building would appreciate this too, provided it’s still in effect if and when he makes it back.
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Nice, 3 separate distribution times throughout the day to join the virtual queue. It’s about time they learn some common sense from UOR. 
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And Disney was listening Randall!
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This is great and makes a lot.of sense. Now I can ride 3 times 
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That’s fantastic!
But let’s be honest here, it wasn’t like I was saying something radical. It made total sense to have them as needed, and my stance was always that refusing to have them at all was the dumb move.
I am also glad they’re finally doing the staggered distribution times. Which I’ve also been saying they should do since… well… nearly the start?
The only change is they chose different time frames. And as I recall, I got quite a lot of flak for the “Staggered times” notion. 
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According to DFB, you can ride only once per day. 
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I suppose that’s fair and will make their idea actually work but still…
No you can’t, sorry. You are limited to once per day.
Even then, at 25% capacity there could be 20k people at DHS. No way the ride can take 2K people per hour, so there will still be plenty of disappointed guests not able to ride.
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@len speculated that capacity will start out at more like 10k guests per day. Still might be too many to get through with reduced capacity on the ride, and he could be wrong of course. But a better chance.
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That’s a very good point. I saw that a well known blogger had put up estimated crowd numbers and had DHS at 18K. But that has been refuted as way higher than the figure they are actually using by three good sources, including Len.
I can’t even remember now what the hourly capacity is for Rise. It seems like an age ago we were all discussing the Boarding Groups and getting daily charts on it’s performance. 
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at its peak they were saying 1800 per hour or something. But with social distancing it’s probably going to be more like 1000 or less.
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18K would be like 66% of DHS’ daily average. I would be exceptionally surprised if corporate lets them open at that number. Bet against it.
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Seems to be ALOT of people allowed into HS today. ROTR BG out in 1 minute. Second guessing our mid August HS one day trip.
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I know they added reservation availability… I expect we will see this intermittently as they add more availability, see what the impact is to social distancing rules, then decide whether or not to keep adding availability.
I also think that because it’s still the reopening period, there’s more people trying to “be there at the beginning.” I don’t expect it to stay this way.
They said they were only shifting availability between categories (ticket holders to AP), not increasing capacity. Although I’ve always suspected they will be ramping up capacity over time. I especially think that’s true for MK and Epcot where they can probably fit more guests. I think HS is already maxed out.
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Prince Charming confirmed with a cast member yesterday that they were, indeed, to max capacity in HS. So the good news is that it can’t get any worse, apart from rides breaking down a lot or something.
I saw on liner chat this morning that for certain days that were full across all categories there is now availability. I originally thought the same as you, but now I just don’t know.
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Yep. Watching vloggers, i was ok doing a trip to the Disney bubble. Then i saw HS. Now i’m not sure. I think Disney’s “limited capacity” in HS may be too high for my comfort level, during an ongoing pandemic.
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For every other park demand is below capacity, so ramping up capacity doesn’t really matter right now. The only people who can’t get in as often as they want are local APs, and shifting more availability their way will fix that.
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