I think at 17 min till the pre-show, your wait was definitely shorter than some of the times I’ve ridden with a boarding group. And without the stress at 7am! The other actual wait times submitted weren’t too bad - between 40 and 80 minutes.
I am completely uninterested in Star Wars. I rode MF and thought the queue was cool, but spent most of the ride waiting for it to be over. For me, boring and slightly nauseating. I told my boyfriend a while back that I watched ROTR and I was actually really excited for it, but I didn’t want him to watch so it would be a surprise. The last couple of days I’ve been asking how long he would be willing to wait and he said he didn’t know, because he doesn’t know what it is. Finally today he wanted to watch and I agreed. We didn’t even get to the ride vehicles before he said, “Ok, I don’t want to see anymore.” He’s ready to wait any amount of time. I may pay, but we’ll see how it goes.
I was looking at the Touring Plans Instagram story and they rode Rise three times today. It appeared to me that they were counting the line to go until the first vehicle - the shuttle -, not the primary ride vehicle. Has anyone explicitly asked them what they prefer? I think the Fab 5 timed until they reached the primary vehicle in the wait times they submitted.
I’ve seen multiple actual waits at 70 minutes, but not higher. Even if actual waits were 100 at the peak, it wasn’t documented so won’t apply to the average wait data.
This seems really odd that the standby line was so great, i.e. shorter than boarding groups.
Do you think that they maxed the capacity just to get standby accepted?
OK. Here is the chart data from Thursday.
The black dots are Disney’s posted wait times. That average was 81 minutes.
The actual (green dots) average waits appear to have been 45-50 minutes.
This is nice. Whenever I’ve timed in the app, it always says something very generic like, “Stop the timer when you’re about to get on the ride.” Which isn’t helpful when there are multiple ride vehicles like RotR.
P.S. I’m going to mentally shave off like 12 minutes off the wait times, because I consider everything starting with the first preshow to be part of the experience.