When Disneyland Park reopens on April 30, Californians will be able to return to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge for the first time in a year. Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance was only open for three months before Disneyland had to close, so many guests didn’t get to experience the attraction. Like its Walt Disney World counterpart, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance will be utilizing a virtual queue upon reopening. Below is all the information direct from Disney.
Upon reopening, we’ll continue leveraging a virtual queue system for Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance.* The attraction’s virtual queue is only accessible via the Disneyland mobile app, and you may only experience the attraction by joining the virtual queue. Distribution times for virtual queue enrollment will be twice daily, one in the morning, and one later in the day. Specific times and details will be shared at a later date on Disneyland.com.
- Guests with a valid ticket and theme park reservation who will start their day at Disneyland park will be able to access the virtual queue system and check for an available boarding group in the morning on the day of their park reservation. Guests will need to have their park tickets linked to their Disney account.
- To access the second virtual queue opportunity for later that day, guests must have a valid ticket and park reservation, and have entered Disneyland park, or Disney California Adventure park with a Park Hopper ticket by the second enrollment time. Guests beginning their day at Disney California Adventure Park may then enter Disneyland park with their Park Hopper ticket after 1 p.m. for their boarding group.
*Access to a Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance boarding group is subject to availability and not guaranteed. In order to give as many Guests as possible the opportunity to join the Resistance, each Guest can enter the virtual queue no more than once per day.
As a reminder, only Guests with a valid admission into Disneyland Park will be able to experience Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, subject to availability. Distribution times are subject to change or cancellation.
If I’m reading this right, the ability to insert you paper park ticket into the Star Tours or Splash Mountain Fast Pass kiosks at the beginning of the day/the time the queue opens will not return when DLR reopens. DLR will be like DHS, and if you don’t have an app capable phone, you don’t get in the queue. So after speding $154 for a Tier 5 1-day ticket, and 15% capacity (correction, 25% if in Yellow), and probably a scaled back RotR experience due to no indoor queuing, you still won’t get on the attraction for which you are paying extra. I want my AP back, then I’ll at least know how much I’m spending on park admission per year.