Disney Genie announcement

[AnnaKristoff2013]

Has to be a Disney IT glitch.........If i had to guess, this will be corrected y tomorrow

Why would it be a glitch? This was how it was reported it was supposed to work. Genie+ all guests at 7 am, ILL$, On-site at 7 am, offsite at park open.

 

[TropicalDIS]

Updated the app, my future plans are there for next month, but can't get tip board to load to see today's wait times. Even though I'm not there, I should still be able too? Have tried rebooting, and signing out/signing in.

 

[DavidNYC]

Do we confirmation yet of:

1. whether if you booked a ride at 7am your 120 minute window started then or didn’t start until park open

2. Can you modify LL time (regular ones - not the ILL ones)

I so didn’t want to be right about this but does seem far more stressful with massive loss of control over your day. The fluctuating times for the paid experiences and not being allowed to modify is really inexcusable. Perfect example of how Disney wants to take charge of your day and remove your ability to plan what works for you.

 

[AnnaKristoff2013]

With the inventory being refreshed at 9am, what is the advantage to being onsite and able to book at 7am?

at 9am, Disney dropped new inventory and ROTR other IAS rides had 9am availability

Why would i wake up at 7am and see SDMT is now 4pm return and then at 9am they drop new inventory and 10am is available?

No resort benefit

There is no benefit other then the slight benefit of getting a second shot at 9 am if you didn’t get a good time at 7 am. On the other hand you have to wake up at 7 am…. Seems like no real resort benefit relative to genie or IAS at this point.

 

[wisblue]

So just speculating here but to me it does not seem like you will be able to do many rides using genie+... At least not headliners. Not sure I want to pay $15 to only get maybe 3 or 4 rides. 5 dollars a ride is close to ILL prices.

My immediate reaction from this first real experience is about what I expected.

I think this will be like paper FP on a crowded day. To get something for one of the most popular attractions (like Slinky) you will have to get it very early.

 

[RedmonFamily]

1 hour past park opening slinky dog is gone. Refresh is the only option now.

 

[AnnaKristoff2013]

ROTR showing sold out for me too. Wow.

Well I guess Chapek just learned that $15 per person per ride is too low for ROTR. Can’t wait to see the pricing next week.

 

[wideboty2000]

How are they handling rider swap with LL? will my daughter get to ride twice (with me and wife) even though we only buy her LL once? cant LL only be purchased once per person? who wants to ride alone?!

 

[AnnaKristoff2013]

RoR 7:40 time slot available....

I feel like I'm at the park right now....

I can’t see how a 7:40 pm ROTR ILL$ makes sense. Couldn’t you just jump on standby line at 7:59 PM?

 

[OhDannyBoy]

I can’t see how a 7:40 pm ROTR ILL$ makes sense. Couldn’t you just jump on standby line at 7:59 PM?

Good point.

 

[DavidNYC]

What a mess of an app…. Was checking it out earlier and was checking out how purchasing ILL worked and now I go in and it only shows their recommendations (which don’t match what I said I preferred) and cannot even find anymore the screens for ILL. Amazingly un-user friendly and a muddled mess.

 

[Disturbia]

So just speculating here but to me it does not seem like you will be able to do many rides using genie+... At least not headliners. Not sure I want to pay $15 to only get maybe 3 or 4 rides. 5 dollars a ride is close to ILL prices.

It probably won’t be publicized, but it looks like that’s a trick up Genie’s sleeve; hence Genie+ will never sell out

 

[ENJDisneyFan]

I can’t see how a 7:40 pm ROTR ILL$ makes sense. Couldn’t you just jump on standby line at 7:59 PM?

You could....unless they close the line early. And no guarantee how long you'll have to wait. The ILL$ will (in theory at least) give you a guaranteed shorter wait time. For some people that is worth paying for.

 

[Jrb1979]

Do we confirmation yet of:

1. whether if you booked a ride at 7am your 120 minute window started then or didn’t start until park open

2. Can you modify LL time (regular ones - not the ILL ones)

I so didn’t want to be right about this but does seem far more stressful with massive loss of control over your day. The fluctuating times for the paid experiences and not being allowed to modify is really inexcusable. Perfect example of how Disney wants to take charge of your day and remove your ability to plan what works for you.

What I read is that 120 minute window starts once park opens.

It looks like there is no "modify" option with G+. Similar to Park Pass, it appears G+ makes you cancel your existing LL in order to choose a different time. So if you grab the first available (for say, 2pm), but then you refresh and see an 11am slot pop up, it's possible that by the time you cancel your 2pm reservation and return to the LL selection screen, the 11am slot could be gone, and now you've lost the one you had at 2pm.

 

[ENJDisneyFan]

Why would it be a glitch? This was how it was reported it was supposed to work. Genie+ all guests at 7 am, ILL$, On-site at 7 am, offsite at park open.

We had a lot of discussion on this a few pages back. I think there was confusion about whether you were talking about G+ attractions or the paid ILL$ attractions.

 

[AnnaKristoff2013]

Do we confirmation yet of:

1. whether if you booked a ride at 7am your 120 minute window started then or didn’t start until park open

2. Can you modify LL time (regular ones - not the ILL ones)

I so didn’t want to be right about this but does seem far more stressful with massive loss of control over your day. The fluctuating times for the paid experiences and not being allowed to modify is really inexcusable. Perfect example of how Disney wants to take charge of your day and remove your ability to plan what works for you.

We have confirmation as to 1. Another poster indicated that their “next available ability to book” was at 11 am after making a selection at 7 am. It’s posted upthread.

Doesn’t sound like Ike you can modify, (but you can cancel), but I’m not sure about that one.

 

[snikki]

My immediate reaction from this first real experience is about what I expected.

I think this will be like paper FP on a crowded day. To get something for one of the most popular attractions (like Slinky) you will have to get it very early.

Yup. This is a virtual legacy FP and we barely used legacy FP because of this and the running everywhere.

 

[Disturbia]

What about lemon streamers?

Auto correct throws all kinds of things at us

 

[JoJoGirl]

Same boat (same week, see you there!) and said I had to wait.

We’ve known for a while that APs would not be able to purchase G+ in advance, but can add it day-of for the days they want.

What about inactivated AP vouchers? Does the voucher have to be activated in order to add G+ day-of, or to purchase ILL$ at 7:00 am for later that day? Or do we have to go to GR and activate the pass first?

This would be great to know for those of us traveling in with inactivated vouchers.

 

[Disturbia]

What a mess of an app…. Was checking it out earlier and was checking out how purchasing ILL worked and now I go in and it only shows their recommendations (which don’t match what I said I preferred) and cannot even find anymore the screens for ILL. Amazingly un-user friendly and a muddled mess.

Not what I want to hear. I was hoping it would be more helpful. Hopefully a CM can help. Maybe try logging out and back in?