I was on WiFi the last few days, but today it was cellular. I’ll try again tomorrow on WiFi and report back if it works.
Do a speed test beforehand if possible. If you’re in a location in your home with spotty WiFi, that could have an impact.
Time for a quick update on BG stats!
Processing Rates
Processing rates have continued to climb from an average of 7 BG/hr in July to 11 BG/hr in late October. On a “bad” day, RotR is processing ~8 BGs/hr, which is better than a “good” day in July! We haven’t had a truly bad day since mid-September (knock on wood).
Delays
Delays per day and average delay time has remained steady in October, but significantly better than July, which explains the overall trendline.
Week | Delays / day | Min / delay | Total downtime |
---|---|---|---|
July 15th | 4.4 | 37 | 1150 min |
Oct 1st | 2.6 | 29 | 530 min |
Oct 14th | 2.4 | 29 | 500 min |
Downtime
Daily downtime started at around 25% with high variability (sometimes over 40%!) in July, and is now averaging closer to 13%, with many days under 10% (hard to imagine it being much lower than that with cleaning time).
Overall, operationally RotR is in a much better spot now than it was in July or August, and even September! Anecdotally, there have been fewer instances of the ride experience being abbreviated or simplified, though that can still happen.
Boarding Group called at 9:40 on a 10:00 open.
Time for a RotR stats update! Once again, all charts are from Thrill-Data
Distribution
There were a couple of days where distribution lasted more than mere seconds, but that seems to have been a fluke rather than a trend. Make sure you are familiar with the process before you arrive at the park! For advice on the process, try this great thread by @bebe80!
Processing Rates
We’ve continued to see a positive trend in BGs called per hour, and therefore total number of BGs called in a day. It started at ~7 BGs/hr in July and is now averaging over 12 in November! A “bad” day is now less than 10 BGs/hr, which has only happened once (11/5) since late October. I assume adding capacity (plexiglass barriers) is part of this but operational efficiency is also important.
Delays
Delays per day and average delay time has remained relatively steady since October but still much improved over July:
Week | Delays / day | Min / delay | Total downtime |
---|---|---|---|
July 15th | 4.4 | 37 | 1150 min |
Oct 1st | 2.6 | 29 | 530 min |
Oct 14th | 2.4 | 29 | 500 min |
Nov 9th | 2.7 | 28 | 525 min |
Downtime
The ride is now running close to 90% of the time most days, with up to 20% downtime on “bad” days, compared to days with over 40% downtime back in July and August. I don’t think we’ll see much more improvement than this until the cleaning cycles are no longer necessary.
In summary, RotR has been operating quite smoothly since mid-September. Hopefully this will continue going forward and perhaps improve or at least have less variability.
It kind of makes you wonder why they still call it a 10:00 open.
I think it’s good they call the BG’s early, everything else is running. They can get a couple extra groups through each day. And I’m sure they would give you til 11:00 to check in, even if it says 10:40.
Yeah. It would be quite surprising if they didn’t. So, basically the earlier BGs will be given slightly longer windows.
I think Disney is trying everything they can to help with increasing overall capacity, and this will help.
“our boarding group was called at 9:40AM — before the park had even opened!”
I believe the author meant: “officially” opened
Hehe. Good catch!
It is good to know, if this continues, since we have three days (well, 2 and a 1/2) at HS planned. The 10:00 opening isn’t really opening. Since we’re at Boardwalk, it is easy enough to walk over and get ahead of the main crowds if we so desire.
Was in line in the car at 8:50. At 9:05 exactly they started letting people in. We were on the park by 9:15 and rode Smugglers run and toy story mania by 10:00. In line for RRC now…
We got boarding group 86 from the house for ROTR, but they still didn’t call a single group yet…uhhhh
Ugh! I wonder what’s wrong? They’ve been doing really well lately - some days up to 130 BGs! Crossing my fingers for you!
There on 77 now, so look good for around 4:15.
It broke down again at 80…
Did you ever get on? Rotten luck today!
Yes about 4:30. Line was crazy long, but went very fast.
Oy