bluezy
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Sep 7, 2008
I don't understand why going to the Freestyle machines would make Disney go to mugs with no handles. The "resting" area for a cup/mug at a Freestyle machine is much bigger than it is at the current soda stations at Disney. It's a challenge to have 2 mugs next to each other at the current stations -- you have to make sure the handle is facing outward and not sideways. There's really only enough space for 2 people to be standing on one side of the soda machine at a time and even that feels like an invasion of my personal space some times. The Freestyle machines would (for me) be so much nicer because there would be one defined space for you to fill your drink -- no pushy guest trying to squeeze their mug in between two others to hurry up and get their fill.
If you have a Rapid Fill mug (the ones with the sensor), you can take it back to Disney on a future trip and have them reactivate it for the same price as buying a new mug. Though I've heard mixed results with this -- some people say they've been able to do it, others say they were told it's not allowed. Until I read about 100% success with that, I'm not dragging 5 o 6 mugs back to Disney only to find out I *can't* reactivate them and now I have to lug 10 or 12 mugs back home with me. We have 40+ mugs from our trips. My husband is the only one who really uses his once we get home. Whenever we have out-of-town guests, I give them a Disney mug full of hot coffee on the morning of the drive home. Unfortunately, we buy them faster than I can give them away.
I'm a member of the FB Group (Disney Foodies) that showed the pictures of the new mugs (the ones that the PP shared here). Someone in that group posted yesterday that only the green and purple mugs have no handles. The red and blue still have handles. At this point there's no way to know if that's just the current inventory and once those red & blue mugs are sold out if they will be restocked with handles or no handles. Time will tell.
