natebenma
Beach Club Dee
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- Jul 19, 2008
I am quoting a recent post from one of my very favorite trip report writers, Missyrose. This is from her May 2013 Trip Report in process. If you enjoy great trip reports and want to see mind-blowing pictures of the World by her fiance pixeldust (Franklin), check out one (or all) of her reports!!!
Here are descriptions and pictures of the new Magic Bands:
Here are descriptions and pictures of the new Magic Bands:
The process of swapping out the APs was completely painless. There were lots of CMs to help and virtually no line at all.
And after a couple of years of AP character roulette, you finally got to choose the character on your AP. I, of course, chose Minnie and Franklin chose Mickey. The other cool thing about what they had set up in the Odyssey building, was that they had CMs there to show off MagicBands and answer questions about them.
We both tried them on and were impressed with how light they were. There were also a couple of design features that seemed very interesting. First, the top of the band sits higher off the wrist than the rest of the band, so air can flow through. They also created ridges on the rest of the band that will promote air flow in the Florida heat.
For those of you worried about the bands being too big for kids, they have a pretty cool design element for that.
In this photo, the green part of the band pulls apart from the gray to create a smaller band, a kid-sized band (or a band for adults with pretty small wrists). The CMs confirmed some things that had bounced their way around these boards:
* You can take the bands on and off and theres no requirement to wear it all the time.
* No personal info will be stored on the band (just an ID number that will tell the Disney systems who you are). So for anyone to steal your info, theyd need access to not only your ID number on the band, but also the Disney system, as well.
All in all, we walked away pretty impressed with the bands.