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Best Time to Ride Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance

See when Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance has the shortest and longest waits at Hollywood Studios, hour by hour, from real wait-time data.

dark ride40" min heightLightning Lane~18 min ride

Average wait by hour

Hour-by-hour average posted wait while the ride is operating. This is the same live history ParkCharter schedules your day around.

9 AM
45m
10 AM
47m
11 AM
50m
12 PM
52m
1 PM
49m
2 PM
50m
3 PM
44m
4 PM
43m
5 PM
39m
6 PM
41m
7 PM
36m
8 PM
26m
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When to ride Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance

Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance averages its shortest waits around 8 PM (about 26 minutes) and its longest around 12 PM (about 52 minutes).

Shortest: 8 PM (~26m)Longest: 12 PM (~52m)Typical: ~44m

Based on 940 wait-time readings from the last 14 days (2026-08-28 to 2026-09-11, America/New_York). Refreshed daily. How we measure

What 90 days of history shows

The hourly chart above covers the last two weeks, which is the right window for what today looks like. These three take the long view, where a weekday pattern needs a full season before it means anything.

Quietest day of the week

Across the last 90 days, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance has run its shortest lines on Sundays (about 40 minutes) and its longest on Tuesdays (about 50 minutes), a difference of roughly 10 minutes.

Sunday
40m
Monday
45m
Tuesday
50m
Wednesday
45m
Thursday
45m
Friday
50m
Saturday
50m

Median posted wait per weekday. Medians, not averages, so one breakdown day does not move the number.

What the end of the day is worth

Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance peaks around 11 AM at a median of 55 minutes. By 9 PM that median is 25 minutes, so riding late rather than at the peak has been worth about 30 minutes in line. Your own day can differ, and this is what the history showed.

How often it goes down

Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance was reported temporarily down in about 11.3% of the checks taken while it was scheduled to be running, across the last 90 days. Build a little slack into the day around it.

Measured against the checks taken while the ride was scheduled to be running, not against every check. More than half of all readings on any ride are taken overnight while the park is closed.

Based on 6,387 readings taken while Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance was operating, 2026-06-13 to 2026-09-11, America/New_York. How we measure

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