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Disneysplaining Halloween or Christmas Party Ticket Reassignment
If you're thinking about reassigning party tickets that appear on your MDE, make sure you understand the way the MDE system works before proceeding. Maybe you already do understand, in which case ... proceed.
Disney party tickets are not like football game tickets or concert tickets. They aren't a physical thing.
The party ticket isn't "on" the plastic card.
The physical card that you receive isn't the party ticket. It's just a plastic card that acts as a conduit to access the party "entitlement" (in Disneyspeak). You can move the party entitlement off the plastic card by reassigning. But you can't reassign the plastic card. That always stays on the profile of the original guest that the party ticket was assigned to on an MDE. That card is nontransferable. The party entitlement, however, is reassignable.
The party ticket is a sort of metaphysical idea or concept that exists as a disembodied entitlement. It starts out life born onto a plastic card. But it doesn't have to stay there. Until the ticket entitlement is used to enter the MK, you will see the option to reassign it on the Reservations and Tickets page of your MDE. (You will not see this option if the person with the entitlement has their own MDE - only that person will then see the reassign option.) Until someone enters the park with that entitlement, it can be transferred to someone else - as many times as you like. There will only ever be one park entrance possible. But you can play hot potato with the entitlement, bouncing it from one guest to another on your MDE until someone actually uses it. Not that you would have any reason to bounce it around. The point once again is that the ticket entitlement can be transferred. But cards cannot be transferred. MBs and cards marry the guest for life. Once a card is linked to an individual, it is stuck there.
When you buy party tickets on the Disney website, you're offered the choice of a print-at-home voucher/confirmation or you can have the plastic tickets mailed to you. (It doesn't matter too much which method you choose.) When you place the order for the tickets, you are required by the website to identify which of your friends and family members will be using the party tickets. When you receive the cards, either in the mail or at the will call/guest services window,each plastic card has been preassigned to one of the guests you designated. At the will call window, the CM will probably write the name of each guest on the back of his/her card. But if you get them in the mail, the only way to tell which card has been assigned to which guest in your group is to go to the Magic Bands and Cards page of your MDE and match the numbers shown with the numbers on the back of the cards in your hand. You can then write the name of the appropriate guest on each card with a Sharpie. Though you could still enter the parks if you've accidentally swapped the cards around among your group members. Biometrics are not used on party nights.
If the party tickets are going to be used by the guests you preassigned at purchase, then you're all set. The guests can use those plastic tickets to enter the parks. It's always a good idea to stop by Guest Services to make sure the various tickets on the guests' profiles are prioritized -- so you won't lose a park hopper day when entering after 4:00 p.m. for a party. The Halloween party ticket "knows" about everything on your MDE. It knows all the other tickets you have. So do any of the cards and bands that appear on the Magic Bands and Cards page of your individual MDE profile. They are all clones.
If you know someone who would like to reassign their party entitlement to you, they can do that on their MDE (as long as your MDEs are friends). Once your friend has reassigned the ticket to you, you will see that ticket entitlement on the Reservations and Tickets page of your MDE. However, they will still see the plastic card that once "held" the ticket on their own MDE. So you would then use one of your own MBs or cards (annual pass or any other RFID card linked to your personal profile) to access the entitlement and enter the MK for the party, not the plastic card the ticket was initially linked to. If you tried to enter the party with your friend's original plastic card, you would not get in. The entitlement is no longer on that card. No one can get in with that card.
It's easiest to reassign a party ticket to a profile that has a way of accessing the entitlement -- in other words, to a profile which already has an MB or card on their MDE. If you want to reassign to someone without an MB or card, visit guest services and tell them that you've reassigned the entitlement, but the new owner of the party ticket has no ticket media. The new guest will probably have to show ID to get a new plastic card which will be linked to their own MDE (and therefore to the party entitlement which now resides there).
If you're picking up the tickets with a voucher and would like to reassign, tell the CM at guest services that the guests for whom you bought the tickets won't be using them. You're giving them to other friends. If you don't do that, you'll be given plastic cards that are linked to the people for whom you bought the tickets on your MDE.
Reassigning the party ticket entitlement is allowed, and it's easy to do. Just remember that the plastic card itself is nontransferable! Guests who get confused about this might end up wasting the first 45 minutes of their MK arrival at guest services straightening it out. Those are people who don't read the DISboards!
If you're thinking about reassigning party tickets that appear on your MDE, make sure you understand the way the MDE system works before proceeding. Maybe you already do understand, in which case ... proceed.
Disney party tickets are not like football game tickets or concert tickets. They aren't a physical thing.
The party ticket isn't "on" the plastic card.
The physical card that you receive isn't the party ticket. It's just a plastic card that acts as a conduit to access the party "entitlement" (in Disneyspeak). You can move the party entitlement off the plastic card by reassigning. But you can't reassign the plastic card. That always stays on the profile of the original guest that the party ticket was assigned to on an MDE. That card is nontransferable. The party entitlement, however, is reassignable.
The party ticket is a sort of metaphysical idea or concept that exists as a disembodied entitlement. It starts out life born onto a plastic card. But it doesn't have to stay there. Until the ticket entitlement is used to enter the MK, you will see the option to reassign it on the Reservations and Tickets page of your MDE. (You will not see this option if the person with the entitlement has their own MDE - only that person will then see the reassign option.) Until someone enters the park with that entitlement, it can be transferred to someone else - as many times as you like. There will only ever be one park entrance possible. But you can play hot potato with the entitlement, bouncing it from one guest to another on your MDE until someone actually uses it. Not that you would have any reason to bounce it around. The point once again is that the ticket entitlement can be transferred. But cards cannot be transferred. MBs and cards marry the guest for life. Once a card is linked to an individual, it is stuck there.
When you buy party tickets on the Disney website, you're offered the choice of a print-at-home voucher/confirmation or you can have the plastic tickets mailed to you. (It doesn't matter too much which method you choose.) When you place the order for the tickets, you are required by the website to identify which of your friends and family members will be using the party tickets. When you receive the cards, either in the mail or at the will call/guest services window,each plastic card has been preassigned to one of the guests you designated. At the will call window, the CM will probably write the name of each guest on the back of his/her card. But if you get them in the mail, the only way to tell which card has been assigned to which guest in your group is to go to the Magic Bands and Cards page of your MDE and match the numbers shown with the numbers on the back of the cards in your hand. You can then write the name of the appropriate guest on each card with a Sharpie. Though you could still enter the parks if you've accidentally swapped the cards around among your group members. Biometrics are not used on party nights.
If the party tickets are going to be used by the guests you preassigned at purchase, then you're all set. The guests can use those plastic tickets to enter the parks. It's always a good idea to stop by Guest Services to make sure the various tickets on the guests' profiles are prioritized -- so you won't lose a park hopper day when entering after 4:00 p.m. for a party. The Halloween party ticket "knows" about everything on your MDE. It knows all the other tickets you have. So do any of the cards and bands that appear on the Magic Bands and Cards page of your individual MDE profile. They are all clones.
If you know someone who would like to reassign their party entitlement to you, they can do that on their MDE (as long as your MDEs are friends). Once your friend has reassigned the ticket to you, you will see that ticket entitlement on the Reservations and Tickets page of your MDE. However, they will still see the plastic card that once "held" the ticket on their own MDE. So you would then use one of your own MBs or cards (annual pass or any other RFID card linked to your personal profile) to access the entitlement and enter the MK for the party, not the plastic card the ticket was initially linked to. If you tried to enter the party with your friend's original plastic card, you would not get in. The entitlement is no longer on that card. No one can get in with that card.
It's easiest to reassign a party ticket to a profile that has a way of accessing the entitlement -- in other words, to a profile which already has an MB or card on their MDE. If you want to reassign to someone without an MB or card, visit guest services and tell them that you've reassigned the entitlement, but the new owner of the party ticket has no ticket media. The new guest will probably have to show ID to get a new plastic card which will be linked to their own MDE (and therefore to the party entitlement which now resides there).
If you're picking up the tickets with a voucher and would like to reassign, tell the CM at guest services that the guests for whom you bought the tickets won't be using them. You're giving them to other friends. If you don't do that, you'll be given plastic cards that are linked to the people for whom you bought the tickets on your MDE.
Reassigning the party ticket entitlement is allowed, and it's easy to do. Just remember that the plastic card itself is nontransferable! Guests who get confused about this might end up wasting the first 45 minutes of their MK arrival at guest services straightening it out. Those are people who don't read the DISboards!
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