2026 Wine & Dine Half Marathon Weekend

[fatmanatee]

does runDisney run the telegram site or someone on the DIS?

It's not official, appears to have been built by teamrundis.com.

 

[butterscotchcollins]

I’m shocked that even the charity route is hitting a brick wall. My fingers are crossed to make a random Half or Challenge drop but if we don’t get in this year it wasn’t meant to be.

 

[Thegoofysmers]

THIS!

I think themes and publicity combined probably drove a lot of new interest, and Disney redesigning the page to eliminate link sharing (purposeful or not) impacted the veteran community's ability to virtually guarantee entry.

If it was a design decision, I wonder if they got enough complaints about not being able to move your own queue (due to wifi outage, having to commute to work during the wait, etc) if they'd reconsider adding it back? If it was indeed on purpose and they intended to break up the clique, I think they are going to regret it. The community that's been created around rD is something a lot of companies work really hard for, and to purposefully destroy that is truly shortsighted.

We were lucky and got in, but it seems more than usual did not. I do believe the queue sharing change affected many, especially in this community.

In the past, DVC had a very similar process for registering for their Moonlight Magic events. I got into those by using multiple devices, however many in the community had strong opinions against this strategy. Last year DVC made changes and required you to log in to your account before getting into the queue. Then if you use a different device/browser, once logged in through those, you are placed in the exact spot as your first log in, thus eliminating the use of multiple devices. Needless to say, with that change I didn't get into the event. I just hope runDisney doesn't go in a similar direction.

 

[DisneyParrothead]

I’m shocked that even the charity route is hitting a brick wall. My fingers are crossed to make a random Half or Challenge drop but if we don’t get in this year it wasn’t meant to be.

Not all charities have been listed yet. Many are still signing their season contracts.

 

[CaliforniaGirl09]

We were lucky and got in, but it seems more than usual did not. I do believe the queue sharing change affected many, especially in this community.

In the past, DVC had a very similar process for registering for their Moonlight Magic events. I got into those by using multiple devices, however many in the community had strong opinions against this strategy. Last year DVC made changes and required you to log in to your account before getting into the queue. Then if you use a different device/browser, once logged in through those, you are placed in the exact spot as your first log in, thus eliminating the use of multiple devices. Needless to say, with that change I didn't get into the event. I just hope runDisney doesn't go in a similar direction.

I have always wondered why they don't do this. I suspect it costs too much.

 

[accm]

Why not do both? Increase CrD spots, not more than demand but just enough to grab more money per registrations that now are harder than ever to get. People don't let their CrD lapse because of the perceived limited availability. Then continue to increase registration costs for all races. As long as they keep selling out they have no incentive to change things to better the consumer experience.

They absolutely can, but that doesn't make sense if their goal is to attract infrequent guests who spend more money. My guess is that they'll raise the cost of both CrD and registration. I also think they're using the expanded 5k field and starting times as a trial run, and if it goes well they'll do the same for all the races.

 

[fatmanatee]

They already started bumping the cost more than they have in the first few years post-return. Not thrilled about it but was probably inevitable.