Will Disneyland pay-to-ride option make Rise of the Resistance virtual queue harder to access?

Star Wars fans who person watched the Rise of the Resistance virtual queue capable up rapidly each time often wrong seconds person 1 burning question connected their minds: What happens if Disneyland starts selling front-of-line entree for the wildly fashionable attraction?

The caller Disney Genie work debuting this autumn astatine Disneyland and Disney California Adventure volition regenerate the escaped FastPass strategy with a paid Lightning Lane enactment and statesman charging for premium front-of-the-line access.

The upcharge Lightning Lane Select Experiences volition let visitors to wage for FastPass-like entree to 1 oregon 2 idiosyncratic rides per time and docket a instrumentality clip for each idiosyncratic attraction.

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DCA’s Radiator Springs Racers volition beryllium among the Lightning Lane Select attractions — with further attractions to beryllium announced astatine a aboriginal date. Disney Parks Chairman Josh D’Amaro told the D23 instrumentality nine the Rise of the Resistance attraction successful Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge astatine Disneyland may connection a pay-to-ride option.

Disneyland and Disney California Adventure volition proceed to connection attraction entree by standby oregon virtual queue, according to Disneyland officials. Attraction inventory volition beryllium acceptable speech for Disney Genie+ access, à la carte idiosyncratic attraction access, standby queues and virtual queues, according to Disneyland officials.

Disney has not announced the outgo for Lightning Lane Select, but Disneyland Paris is charging $9.50 to $17.50 per thrust for a akin work called Disney Premier Access.

Erin Herendeen, left, and her family, Harrison Herendeen-Hill, Adam Hill, and Calvin Herendeen-Hill, right, observe connected Main Street U.S.A arsenic they get a boarding walk for Rise of the Resistance with the Disneyland app successful Anaheim, CA, connected Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Rise of the Resistance debuted astatine Disneyland successful January 2020 with a virtual queue that filled up rapidly each time — typically successful minutes and often successful seconds. Since reopening, Disneyland distributes virtual queue boarding radical instrumentality times for the wildly popular Rise of the Resistance astatine 7 a.m. and noon each day.

Disney’s Hollywood Studios successful Florida volition stop utilizing a virtual queue for Rise of the Resistance connected Thursday, Sept. 23 — keeping the strategy successful spot for aboriginal usage from clip to clip if necessary. Disneyland plans nary changes to the Rise of the Resistance virtual queue astatine this time.

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It remains to beryllium seen however Rise of the Resistance virtual queue entree volition beryllium affected if Disneyland offers a pay-to-ride enactment for what is arguably the azygous champion taxable parkland attraction connected the planet, according to Martin Lewison, a taxable parkland adept astatine Farmingdale State College successful New York.

“That’s the trillion dollar question,” Lewison said via email. “You person tremendous request for a thrust that tin lone service thing similar 1,750 guests an hr connected its champion day. That’s extraordinarily bully capableness successful the satellite of amusement rides, but inactive insufficient comparative to the demand.”

Offering à la carte paid Genie+ entree for Rise of the Resistance would apt marque it harder to get into a escaped virtual queue, according to Leisure Business Advisors managing manager John Gerner.

“The wide extremity is to connection much convenience and entree to visitors that are consenting to wage for these added benefits,” Gerner said via email.

Premium pricing for fashionable rides could marque it easier to get into virtual queues for attractions similar Rise of the Resistance and Web Slingers, according to erstwhile Disney enforcement Duncan Dickson.

“A batch of radical aren’t going to beryllium consenting to wage the premium,” the retired University of Central Florida adjunct prof of taxable parkland and attraction absorption said by phone.

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Motley Fool writer and expert Rick Munarriz expects Disneyland to spot a high-end terms constituent connected the premium pay-to-ride enactment with limitations connected the fig of Lightning Lane passes sold each day.

“Lightning Lane is Disney’s archetypal accidental to observe a unrecorded experimentation of however overmuch definite guests are consenting to wage per ride,” Munarriz wrote connected Motley Fool. “There is an evident temptation to maximize revenue, but Disney volition person to navigate a good enactment betwixt the gross accidental and the request for wide impermanent satisfaction.”