It’s a good lesson - if you have a high BBG, don’t give up hope. Hang out around the line and make friends with CMs about 2-3 hours before closing time and they may let you in!
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Ok, MiceChat is reporting that you should not have multiple people with linked profiles trying to get BGs at the same time because it will kick you out of each other’s group and you will get different BGs. I’m not sure I buy that because it has been working at WDW and I can’t think of why it would be different at DL. Plus as long as you get a BG you can plead your case to GS to switch to the same one. If anyone has experience or hears about that, please report back here.
In any case, no one has reported any issues logging in using the SAME credentials on multiple devices, so I still recommend that.
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I am thinking they are just trying to reduce the number of people hitting their servers with DDOS attacks.
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Thanks for the great info everyone!!! Turns out I won’t be able to go tomorrow after all, so maybe I’ll try to go on Monday. Have a great weekend everyone!
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So is anyone keeping track today as well? I want to see how fast the BGs get snatched up. I’ll be watching Twitter.
EDIT: So for ish and giggles, I tried to get a BG from home (obvi it won’t let me cuz I’m not in the parks), but (1) it didn’t have my AP linked for some reason, so there’s a snafu that people should make sure is already taken care of before they try to get BGs, and (2) the BGs were ALL gone in about 2 minutes again. So FYI.
2nd EDIT: And today they’re saying 75 and up are backups.
3rd EDIT: My DL app is not seeing my AP as linked to it (even though it has my AP info stored). This is not good. I’m hoping it’s just a temporary glitch caused by the RoR chaos and not some bug that rode along in the last update. Obviously I can’t even think about getting a BG until this has resolved itself.
4th EDIT: Yes, the DL app “is currently experiencing a temporary system downtime which may affect Disney MaxPass. We are working as quickly…”. So I wonder if this affected people trying to get BGs this morning.
Day 2 Timeline 1/18/20
Link to OP
6:52am Line at main gate extends to DCA across Esplanade
7:30am (Approx) Park opens; guests held at hub
8:00am Published park opening; App starts issuing BGs (5+)
8:01am App starts issuing Backup BGs (75+)
8:03am App stops issuing BGs
8:25am Ride opens; Accepting BGs 5-7
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I timed it today with a screen capture video and Initial Boarding Groups we’re gone in 40 Seconds!!! Backup BGs were gone another 43 seconds after that. So ALL BGs were distributed within 1 minute 23 seconds of 8:00:00am.
In that time, I was able to go through the motions of getting a BG several times, including closing out the app a couple of times. So unless you are woefully unprepared and haven’t read my tips and tricks in the lead post, you should get a BG.
Side note: weirdly, my phone’s clock skipped 8:59. I mean it was 8:58 and then it was 9:00. I wouldn’t believe it if I hadn’t taken a screen cap video. So bizarre! Was it leap minute today or something?!
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Out of curiosity, who is getting BG’s 1-4? VIP’s?
They aren’t issuing 1-4 to my knowledge. No one knows why but every day they start at a different number somewhere between 2-14. Maybe they are trying to be unpredictable to mask patterns?
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Day 3 Timeline 1/19/20
Link to OP
7:11am Park opens; guests held at hub
8:00am Published park opening; App starts issuing BGs (12+, 40 sec) and Backup BGs (82+)
8:01am App stops issuing Backup BGs
9:56am Ride opens; Accepting BG 12
If you have a park hopper ticket, can you join a BG after going through turnstiles at California Adventure or do you have to go through DL turnstile first?
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All reports have stated that you need to have your ticket scanned in DL before you are granted access to pull a BG.
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I haven’t seen anyone try this at DCA but at WDW you have to be in HS to get a BG. Since BGs are distributed within a minute or two, there’s no time to waste trying various approaches if you actually want a BG so I wouldn’t recommend trying! Also good to be near a CM in case there is an IT issue.
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Thanks for the clarification!
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I don’t think that is exactly true? You have to have scanned into the park but it has been tested that you can leave and grab a BG from outside of the park? I am not confident that anyone has been able to test if you can get a boarding group if you then scan into another park but I would be interested to see if it would work the same way.
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I think I read somewhere that a wife at home, using her husbands account, grabbed a BG for him after he had scanned into the park.
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Yes! That has been working well! There have also been successful bookings from the Boardwalk area after someone entered the park and then left.
Yes you’re right, I meant “scanned into” HS as opposed to MK, etc. but technically you can leave after scanning in and still get a BG.
Now that you mention it I haven’t heard of anyone trying this either, but given how closely I’ve been following I would be very surprised if someone had done it and I hadn’t heard about it. But possible.
Edit: just realized your wording implies you could scan into a different park after already scanning into HS. I would assume this is possible. If you have only scanned into a different park I am fairly confident you can’t get a BG.
Someone told me that they had tested it and it worked but I don’t think that is actually possible yet? BGs are opening at 7 and no other parks are open yet? I know a liner was hoping to test it but I think the hours have changed. Is it possible to test it in DL? Are both parks open before BGs are released?
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