We will be at Hollywood Studios next Wednesday and most people in our group are big Star Wars fans. Our plan is to rope drop RoR and then ride Smugglers. Does anyone know about how long the wait will be for Smugglers if we ride RoR first?
We do have ILL for the evening for RoR but I do think our kids will want to ride it multiple times. We do have LL for SDD, ToT, and TSMM. My plan for the next tier one would be MMRR.
The trouble with rope dropping Rise is that it frequently fails to open with the rest of the park. So just a word of warning there.
As far as your wait time, have you put these steps into a touring plan? I think that would give you a more precise estimate than any of us could guess at.
Yeah I did do that. It says 34 minutes. I didnât really like that so I was hoping others had different info based off experience lol.
I donât have anything concrete and I will NEVER recommend rope dropping Rise, but Iâm ok with this scenario if you have an ILL for later. That being said we did TSMM twice before heading to MFSR on our last trip and the wait was not bad. I think if you are there before the 9am people are able to get back there then you should be fine. I donât think we waited 34 minutes.
from what @melcort10 shares, that 34 minutes sounds about right!
Ok, so using my photos as evidence, we rope dropped TSMM and I have my son being escorted on as the first rider at 8:07am. I have a pic of our score at 8:25am. I have a pic in front of the Millenium Falcon at 8:35am and then a pic of my son at the holo chess board at 8:43am. So we waited less than 10 minutes!
But coming off Rise you probably wonât get there by 8:35am unless you are really at the front. But hopefully less than 34 minutes? Definitely be prepared to bail on Rise if they tell you itâs not running right away.
Love it!
Mom doesnât take so many pics for nothing I guess!
Thank you! This is really helpful. I appreciate you pulling out your evidence to confirm the timing 
I have heard that if Rise is running well that they basically start the whole park early. I think that this particular day it was up at rope drop. If you feel like they arenât opening early and there are rumblings of Rise being down or the CMs say it might be âdelayedâ just be ready for your pivot plan. Youâll already be too late to go to Slinky so just go for MFSR two times or something.
Here is a chart for Rise of the Resistance wait times from Thrill Data:
When RotR is operating, the waits are shortest at RD, but they also tend to drop around 4pm. Note that the wait times typically include the experience, which is like 20-25 min including pre-shows and inbetweens, so a 30-minute standby wait is essentially walk-on.
MFSR has a similar profile, with shorter overall waits. Avoid peak times in the mid-morning and early afternoon.
We rope droppped RoR this past Friday (6/20). We were heading through the que by 8:12am and in the first pre-show by 8:22 and back in Bantu by 8:38. We ended up finding the wait time too long (I am pretty sure it was expected to be over 30 minutes at that point) for MF at that point because we had a 9am LL at ASS. So, we just ended up picking up a LL later in the afternoon when we were planning to spend some hours in Bantu and then rode it a second time using single rider lane.
I am planning on a same plan ROTR then MFSR i July. Did the taps open at 8:00 and you just walked straight back?
Someone somewhere suggested MFSR first and then ROTR because the line for MFSR builds faster than ROTR. As long as you get to ROTR before the off site crowd arrives.
One other data point for @NatLMain, if Rise is down and you ride MFSR first, I find SDD to be a 20-25 min wait if you hop in line by 8:55. So that is an option in the worst case scenario.
Yes, we just kept walking straight back to ROTR and didnât stop. It was great.
Thank you!
How do you âoptimizeâ a touring plan for your selections but also indicate the ride you want to rope drop? When I try, it shuffles the rope drop back. Thanks.
I donât think you can. But you can optimize and then manually move that rope drop selection to the top, and then evaluate
But if itâs putting ROTR or MFSR somewhere other than rope drop, itâs because the system has calculated that it will be a more efficient touring plan that way - you should consider doing what it wants you to (especially since ROTR is down so often at RD)
Thank you!
I found the optimization feature off last week when we were in WDW, particularly with rope drop. In two of the parks it was giving me an expected zero minute wait, while in others it was getting me longer than expected waits (like ROTR, which we ended up rope dropping and having a great experience with). I did contact TP for help and they were finding the same glitch and said there wasnât an easy fix for it. They told me to just add a manual âbreakâ at the begining of the day to cover the rope drop time.
I wanted to give an update on how this went for us last week. We got in line for ROTR at rope drop and there was an announcement that it was down. We waited a little bit because no one got out of line. They did another announcement reminding people they did not know when it would be operational so we got out of line and went to MFSR. The wait was 10 minutes. It ended up working out since we had the lightning lane for later in the day for ROTR and we rode it a second time using the single rider line.
