Disney Genie announcement

[persnickity]

So back on Genie+…any speculation on what the hold up is as far as announcing which attractions and/or pricing? Surely there would have been plenty of analysis internally as far as pricing before they announced anything at all…so why no more news at this point? They’ve already started changing the signs and we’ve all braced ourselves that it’s coming…just get it over with! I’m a little scared that the rides/prices won’t be announced until the first day you can buy them at this point!!!

I think they're trying not to kick the hornets nest. Every time they talk about it, it's going to generate a wave of negative comments and publicity. So it's not really in their interest to trickle out more details, as much as we would like them.

 

[JakeAZ]

Disney: "Hey we need you guys to plan months / years in advance of a trip"
Us: "But that's crazy"
Disney: "Do you want to come, or not?"
Us: "Well Ok, at least you'll also announce your changes in advance, with all the info, to give us as much time as possible to adjust, right?"
Disney:......

https://imgur.com/a/HoYp1cA

 

[cpep42]

I wouldn't have minded $15 for all rides.

 

[NickC]

I'm curious as to how many people who are planning to use IA$, plan to use it more than once. I've never done RotR, so I would be willing to pay extra to experience it. But, I don't see myself paying annually to ride it. I've done FoP a number of times, and each time I've had a FP+. Unless someone else in my party MUST ride it, I wouldn't pay extra for it.

 

[itf]

My current thinking is I’ll have to pay once for RoTR but for our trip we had three visits booked to HS across our two weeks in case we didn’t get a boarding group. We will now only go twice and use the extra day as a hotel day or go to a different park, and just do ROTR once.

 

[CWTC]

I'm curious as to how many people who are planning to use IA$, plan to use it more than once. I've never done RotR, so I would be willing to pay extra to experience it. But, I don't see myself paying annually to ride it. I've done FoP a number of times, and each time I've had a FP+. Unless someone else in my party MUST ride it, I wouldn't pay extra for it.

We’re likely to pay once, maybe twice for ROTR and maybe once for Remy (depending on how crazy/popular the BGs are). Beyond that, nothing that we would pay an upcharge. Honestly we didn’t even like FOP.

 

[crazymomof4]

I'm curious as to how many people who are planning to use IA$, plan to use it more than once. I've never done RotR, so I would be willing to pay extra to experience it. But, I don't see myself paying annually to ride it. I've done FoP a number of times, and each time I've had a FP+. Unless someone else in my party MUST ride it, I wouldn't pay extra for it.

We are only doing 1 day at Epcot and one in MK for this upcoming trip. We've all decided the ONLY thing we would consider paying IA$ for is Remy's and THAT'S because I don't think we will be taking another WDW vacation in a number of years. If we were planning on coming back at our usual frequency, I'm not sure we'd pay for IA$ even for Remy. We'd say, "if we don't get a BG, we'll catch it next year"
As many others have said, I'd be totally fine with the $15 Genie+ pp / day. Paid that, without batting an eye, for MaxPass on our 2018 DLR trip and then the $20 it was in 2019. The IA$ goes against my grain so much more.

 

[snikki]

I'm curious as to how many people who are planning to use IA$, plan to use it more than once. I've never done RotR, so I would be willing to pay extra to experience it. But, I don't see myself paying annually to ride it. I've done FoP a number of times, and each time I've had a FP+. Unless someone else in my party MUST ride it, I wouldn't pay extra for it.

We only go every 2-3 years (closer to 3) so we will most likely pay for whatever big ride can have 3-4 hour lines or have a chance of risking injury or fights to do RD. We’ve never done ROTR. We haven’t been since it opened. Right now I think we will pay for that ride and FOP. All the other rumored IAS rides I think can be done at early entry or end of park day.

When and if we go back in a few years who knows what ride we will pay for then. In 2-3 years ROTR will probably have died down a bit and the hysteria will be onto another ride.

 

[Marionnette]

I'm curious as to how many people who are planning to use IA$, plan to use it more than once. I've never done RotR, so I would be willing to pay extra to experience it. But, I don't see myself paying annually to ride it. I've done FoP a number of times, and each time I've had a FP+. Unless someone else in my party MUST ride it, I wouldn't pay extra for it.

Right now, I cannot see myself paying for IA$ for anything that Disney has. I've done ROTR twice. I wasn't wowed either time. The most memorable part (in a bad way) was the CM who mask-shamed a young girl loudly and mercilessly in queue.

I enjoy FOP more than ROTR but have done it enough times that I don't need to ride it again.

7DMTR, SpcMtn, TT are all been there, done that. I'm not paying extra to ride them again. If standby lines are long, I have no qualms about not riding.

My brother just did the DVC preview of Remy yesterday. His verdict is that it's cute but he wouldn't pay extra to ride it. And he said that he wouldn't wait longer than 30 minutes to ride it the first time, although the queue appears to have been set up to accommodate a large number of people. I may just be satisfied to watch a YouTube ride thru video given that the attraction is mostly video screens anyway.

 

[emilymad]

I feel like most of the time we will pay for IA$ but not Genie+ unless it is super crowded. In AK, we mainly ride the Safari and Navi with just me occasionally doing FOP and EE. So basically we would be paying $15 for Navi only. I would rather pay for the Safari and just the occasional FOP ride.

 

[Q-man]

Man they really are going to wait until after October 1st arent they lol

I doubt they risk this flubbing up everything on the 50th. My guess is a week before to have time to iron out issues or right after Columbus Day weekend.

 

[Marionnette]

I doubt they risk this flubbing up everything on the 50th. My guess is a week before to have time to iron out issues or a week after.

That would be Friday of this week. Quite possible given that ROTR is going to standby lines instead of boarding groups starting on Thursday. But my money is on a week after the 50th. I really don't think they want to be rolling this out just as 50th anniversary crowds begin to arrive.

 

[NickC]

Honestly we didn’t even like FOP.

I'm not a big fan either. My family likes it, so I ride it. We've always been able to get a FP+ for it every year since it opened, so I don't mind.

 

[scrappinginontario]

So back on Genie+…any speculation on what the hold up is as far as announcing which attractions and/or pricing? Surely there would have been plenty of analysis internally as far as pricing before they announced anything at all…so why no more news at this point? They’ve already started changing the signs and we’ve all braced ourselves that it’s coming…just get it over with! I’m a little scared that the rides/prices won’t be announced until the first day you can buy them at this point!!!

I'll be surprised if we hear anything until just before it launches or possibly even the day it launches. Not the way we'd prefer it be Disney wants to avoid negative responses so I'm guessing there will be very little advance warning about the actual first day.

Personally I'm guessing it will be shortly after October 1st at the earliest.

I'm curious as to how many people who are planning to use IA$, plan to use it more than once. I've never done RotR, so I would be willing to pay extra to experience it. But, I don't see myself paying annually to ride it. I've done FoP a number of times, and each time I've had a FP+. Unless someone else in my party MUST ride it, I wouldn't pay extra for it.

I'm already budgeting for us to ride RotR once and possibly twice, depending on the cost. Also, if we can't get in the virtual queue for Remy I'd purchase that once.

Other than that we'll wait in standby lines.

 

[0FF TO NEVERLAND]

So back on Genie+…any speculation on what the hold up is as far as announcing which attractions and/or pricing? Surely there would have been plenty of analysis internally as far as pricing before they announced anything at all…so why no more news at this point? They’ve already started changing the signs and we’ve all braced ourselves that it’s coming…just get it over with! I’m a little scared that the rides/prices won’t be announced until the first day you can buy them at this point!!!

You need to pay a fee to find out that information on the app. Announcements cost money

 

[ChanaC]

I'm curious as to how many people who are planning to use IA$, plan to use it more than once. I've never done RotR, so I would be willing to pay extra to experience it. But, I don't see myself paying annually to ride it. I've done FoP a number of times, and each time I've had a FP+. Unless someone else in my party MUST ride it, I wouldn't pay extra for it.

I haven't been to WDW in about six years, but I'm planning a quick two day trip in December. We are doing two park days, two parks each day. I may pay for Lightning Lane, depending on reviews/reports from people who do use it (aka the Geniepigs... good nickname!). In this case, I think it might be worth it. For such a quick trip after not going for so long it feels like I "saved" the money to do it. Also, it will just be my sibling and I, no kids or big groups, so paying an extra $30 each isn't too bad for us. Plus my goal is to hit up a lot of the newer (to me) attractions like MMRR, Frozen, the Toy Story Land stuff, etc., which I know will all have long lines. I actually went to Disneyland in 2020 before the closure and got to do Galaxy Edge. I might pay again for RotR just because I really enjoyed it, and because I'm going with my sibling who is a big Star Wars fan, but Smugglers Run was really a one and done for me. We don't plan on starting one of the days in Epcot so it looks like we'll miss the virtual queue opportunities for Remy, so we may pay extra for that one. I'm pretty sure FoP will also be a paid LL but hopefully we can rope drop it. Looking at crowd calendars it looks like our park days will be low to medium crowds (3-5 on a scale of 10 depending on the day and park) so maybe the lines wouldn't be too bad to begin with. Idk, there is still so much unknown so I guess we will just have to wait and see.

 

[ThistleMae]

I'm curious as to how many people who are planning to use IA$, plan to use it more than once. I've never done RotR, so I would be willing to pay extra to experience it. But, I don't see myself paying annually to ride it. I've done FoP a number of times, and each time I've had a FP+. Unless someone else in my party MUST ride it, I wouldn't pay extra for it.

I've done both FOP and ROTR. I love FOP but would not pay to ride it. I'll try for EMH in the a.m. As far as ROTR, rode it once, stuck in the line in the middle somewhere for two hours. They brought us water and fruit. I would not pay to ride it, nor would I try for it at EMH, but that's just me.

 

[luv2cheer92]

I'm curious as to how many people who are planning to use IA$, plan to use it more than once. I've never done RotR, so I would be willing to pay extra to experience it. But, I don't see myself paying annually to ride it. I've done FoP a number of times, and each time I've had a FP+. Unless someone else in my party MUST ride it, I wouldn't pay extra for it.

I would gladly pay for RotR at least every trip right now, maybe more than once per trip depending on my length of trip. I would likely pay for FoP every trip, since I love it so much and want to ride it multiple times each AK day. Depending on timing/waits/price, there are a few other rides that I would likely pay for every trip.

 

[fumanchu2488]

It has to be after the 50th. I still don’t understand their plan from an IT perspective. You are telling me they have had almost 2 years to plan this and their brilliant idea was to have virtual queues, Genie+ and IA$ all needing to use MDE at 7 am? If they tried to do that on the busiest day they have had in years they would be nuts. Also, if it doesn’t roll out like they expect and the high crowds cause issues it would be an unmitigated disaster for them.

My bet would be they roll it out a week or two after the 50th to work through bugs before the holidays.

That being said, they have almost no self awareness for how bad their IT systems are so they will probably start it on September 30th.

 

[ChanaC]

You know, all of this is reminding me of when Magic Bands and My Disney Experience rolled out. I think it was around 2014? I was a cast member then. They started with picking a few high level execs to test out the magic band. They had them go around and get Photopass pics, or they had them set up credit cards through hotel reservations to test the purchase option. I was a PP photographer and remember being kind of amazed to see my first MB in person on someone's wrist because, it was here now! On the PP side we had to get a new piece of hardware that let us tap the MB to get the photos on the band vs the scanner we had to just scan cards. I don't remember the exact date Magic Bands began, but I think it was also a slow roll out where they started with guests at certain hotels and expanded from there. My Disney Experience and FastPass+ was also set up with multiple steps, and I remember CMs with iPads helping people book their FPs, and banks of FP+ computers for people to book them on their own when they got to the park if they couldn't do it online or on their phones themselves (since the system was still glitchy, and many people weren't aware of the new changes)

I wonder what the Genie+ rollout is like. It kind of seems like one day they will just announce it's open and that's that. FP+ and Magic Bands were a pretty big deal and affected nearly every department so it was probably a larger project, but still, has there been any word about people testing out the system? Even internally? Like I said before, the MDE rollout was slow and over a couple of stages. It wasn't an overnight change. I'm sure there is a LOT happening behind the scenes, but it really does feel like an overnight change once it starts up.