There is an arbitrage opportunity for those who get a boarding pass. I wonder what the going rate would be for 1. Of course if the Disney overlords find out they may block your AP. But a quick screenshot of the pass sent to someone and they can use the screenshot to get on the ride.
Noted. Just got the SoCal Res tick and wanted to know if I'd have any advantage that way. Still fine by me IMO. Hoping my phone doesnt crash or something lol
As I said, not even Hagrid got 12 hours waits. I do know it had 10 hour waits but some people have said it wasn't that bad with some theorizing that it was to discourage people of getting in line since the ride was clearly operating in the bare minimum of its capacity. Don't get me wrong, I did read stories of people waiting for 6 hours to ride it, but again, going back to my original post, this was totally Universal's fault for not having the ride ready. Same as Disney. my whole point is that boarding passed are not for guest convenience but a patch that had to be implemented because they didn't meet the deadline.
Smuggler's Run didn't post wait times longer than 2 hours (I would imagine that in some cases it might have, but the talk of the town was how little interest there seemed to be for the brand new attraction looking at the wait times). I went in the reservation period and waited around an hour to ride Smuggler's run. I really thought I would spend the whole 4 hours in Batuu, but after riding Smuggler's run and eating, we left after 2 hours. A few times the overflow queue had to be opened but not in reservation period as I recall. Lines weren't very long for the ride. The time guests spent in the land started being a problem because you could see that Galaxy's Edge was empty at moments, that's when Disneyland started allowing guests to add people to their reservations, something that was said to be a big no no when you reserved. I went the weekend after opening date during the reservation period.
My whole point. Very low capacity. They decided to open even though the ride was not ready.
I am talking about people saying "wait until ROTR opens and you will see Disneyland crowds come back". By the look of things that happened only in the first few days, like it happened for GE opening.
I mean one day isn't enough to say "the hype has died down" either, the park was still pretty crowded for a January wednesday.
Yeah I still stand behind my comment. You can't open a ride in the off-season and expect them to reach park capacity on the weekdays after a major holiday. I haven't met a single person who isn't hyped af about ROTR. The boarding pass has been discouraging frequent visitors and that's exactly one of the reasons it's in place.
They still haven't reached capacity on the weekends either. Mind you that the opening of ROTR was during MLK weekend. After the mild disaster that was the opening of GE, many people started trying to figure out what exactly happen and why the land flopped. Many said it was because ROTR was delayed and that once it opened, you would see the justification for all the money spent in Project Stardust. That still hasn't happened. Yes, at opening, the park has very long lines to enter, but once the morning rush is over, the park is pretty slow. One indicator that attendance is slow is that there was no price hike. At this moment last year all prices have been raised for tickets and APs. I am not saying one price hike is impossible in February, but we can be more or less sure that prices won't rise in the near feature. I guess Spring Break will be the test for Disneyland. All I'm saying is that ROTR isn't pulling the kind of attendance Disney expected. I guess we have to wait and see for Spring Break
You know, it's very telling of the crowd response when we're trying to make excuses for the land's lack of performance. "Oh, GE underperformed at grand opening because of the reservation system." "Oh, the crowds aren't showing up this Summer because they're too scared to come/the prices are ridiculous." "Oh, the APs are unblocked and not many are showing up because they they're waiting for RotR to open." "Oh, the ridiculous crowds aren't showing up after RotR opened because they're waiting for Spring Break." While GE seems to be doing okay now (I stress the word "okay"), I'm pretty sure the popularity/crowd levels are not what Disney was hoping for. You can argue that Spring Break and Summer will be the real test of wanting to bring the major crowds that Disney wanted, but it doesn't help that it opened on MLK weekend, which is normally pretty busy. Oh, and all APs were unblocked on GRAND OPENING DAY with very manageable wait times! Just like I predicted several pages back, GE has continued to under-perform; and even then opening day wasn't as crazy as I thought! "But Freak, boarding passes are selling out like hotcakes!" Yeah, because the rides still doesn't have all the kinks to work out. They have to implement that because of how unreliable the ride is right now.
