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How early should I get to Hollywood Studios for Rise of the Resistance?

If you're wanting to do park opening, arrive at Disney's Hollywood Studios at least 30 minutes before the official park opening time. It'll take around 15 minutes to get through bag check and the turnstiles, that should give you at least 15 minutes to join the masses and be ready to go at official park opening time.



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Hollywood Studios typically opens at 8.30am: Early Entry is 30 minutes prior to opening – so 8am for an 8.30am opening. Early entry guests are typically granted entry in advance of 8am so aim to arrive early – more details below!

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The standby queue will close when the attraction breaks down, and you can almost certainly plan on it breaking down at some point throughout the day. According to data from thrill-data.com, the average posted wait time for Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance so far in 2022 is 130 minutes.

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Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance at Disney World originally required joining a virtual queue, but you can now more easily ride the popular attraction through waiting in a regular standby line or paying to bypass the standby line with an individual Lightning Lane selection during regular theme park hours.

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If you want the best time to do Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance in the first half of the day, line up around 11 am. The posted wait time will still likely be triple digits, but it's typically falling at this point rather than rising.

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Rise of the Resistance can be scary at times for kids, even ones who love Star Wars. The interactions with Kylo Ren, Stormtroopers, and the First Order can be a bit intimidating. The ride itself can also be too much for some children, since some areas of the ride are dark and there is even a drop.

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Of course, our advice is to use the restroom before you enter the queue because seeing backstage areas could take you out of the magic a bit, but if you can't time it perfectly, it should come as a relief to know that the Rise of the Resistance attraction does, in fact, have restrooms available from the queue.

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As you can see, Individual Lightning Lane typically sells out before 9am (or shortly thereafter). In this single-day graph, we can see that Individual Lightning Lane selections were available for Rise of the Resistance later in the day than Tower of Terror and Slinky Dog Dash.

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At Hollywood Studios, things are a little bit backward. The worst day of the week to visit has historically been Monday! Perhaps it's because people expect the weekends to be the busiest, so they go with a weekday instead. Nonetheless, Monday wait times might be a bit higher than you'd want.

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Evening At Hollywood Studios The earlier showtime typically has the advantage of lower crowds, but you often won't be able to do any rides after it, effectively shortening your day. The later showtime will have higher crowds, which means you'll want to be in line at least 30 minutes early.

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Rise of the Resistance can be scary at times for kids, even ones who love Star Wars. The interactions with Kylo Ren, Stormtroopers, and the First Order can be a bit intimidating. The ride itself can also be too much for some children, since some areas of the ride are dark and there is even a drop.

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Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is for guests 40? or taller. This height requirement means that most elementary school aged children and even some preschoolers will make the cut and be able to ride Rise of the Resistance.

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With these numbers, the theoretical hourly ride capacity would be 1,280. Compared to other new attractions, this is about the same as Na'vi River Journey but less than Flight of Passage's 1600 and 1800 for Smuggler's Run.

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Disneyland's Rise of the Resistance fills up fast. Why you may still score a seat. Fans and experts estimate that Disneyland's popular Rise of the Resistance attraction can serve about 1,100 to 1,500 visitors per hour, with a maximum of perhaps 1,900.

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Rise of the Resistance But if you do get to ride the attraction, the best seat is the very front seat in the first car. This puts you in front and gets you some one-on-one time with the Probe Droid (depending on which of the two cars you're seated in, you get a slightly different ride experience.

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A full day to take in everything would be best. Make sure you get fast passes for the rides that usually have the longest wait times, like toy story ride, rockin roller coaster, and tower of terror....all great rides not to be missed. All the shows are great, so you can't go wrong with any you choose.

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