Disney Genie announcement

[Tom_E_D]

I thought you only got two LL per day.

You can only get two Individual Lightning Lane Selections per day, but you can get a larger number of Genie+ passes. The number is uncertain, but probably at least one per hour.

Edit: subject to the limit of one for each available eligible ride.

 

[Turksmom]

You get 2 paidLL (which are only for a few attractions, not all) but you can get as many Genie+ LL as you can get... so if you get one for 8:30am, ride it and get another for 9am, another for 10am, etc., you could conceivably get tons. However, if everyone else is doing the same thing...

Well "tons" up to the number of G+ attractions in a park (or parks, if you hop)

 

[AndreaA]

I think this is going to fundamentally change touring for a lot of people. When you cannot book something for the evening without giving up booking anything else all day, there is more of a chance that people will book as they go and availability for all rides in the evening will actually last much longer.

On the other hand, those who enjoy sleeping in, can wake at 7am and book a time for something at 1pm, so I think that availability for afternoon may decrease.

 

[JakeAZ]

I Iove Genie+. Getting rid of advanced booking and that less people buying it should hopefully make availability good.

Oh, I'll buy it, but only because I see it as a severe disadvantage if I don't. I view it as insurance for the money I've already spent.

But I stand by it being a terrible concept. Two systems; one for the main rides and one for the premier rides is a short-sighted mistake. It also makes things confusing for the non-disney message board visitor. People don't come back to places they find expensive and confusing. One or the other, maybe...but, both?

Every single thing I’ve read has said that you can only have ONE attraction time booked at a time. Period. No getting another 120min out while you still have one booked for 5pm. I wouldn’t trust one Q&A over multiple written sources from Disney.

This has been confirmed by Disney. 120 min cool off period.

 

[katyringo]

Oh, I'll buy it, but only because I see it as a severe disadvantage if I don't. I view it as insurance for the money I've already spent.

But I stand by it being a terrible concept. Two systems; one for the main rides and one for the premier rides is a short-sighted mistake. It also makes things confusing for the non-disney message board visitor. People don't come back to places they find expensive and confusing. One or the other, maybe...but, both?


This has been confirmed by Disney. 120 min cool off period.

i think when Disney says one at a time it doesn't mean you can't hold more than one at a time. It literally means you can only book one at a time. With fastpass plus you go on at your 60 days could make 3 per park for different times. They are trying to say you can't get on and book your entire day.

you can hold more than one at time-
You just have to wait that 120 minutes between if your first selection is further away then 120minutes. If it's before 120minutes you have to use it first.

 

[Foreveraprincess17]

2 Questions on Genie+:
For the 2 paid LL. Each has to be be booked 120 minutes apart like the Genie+??
Can you make a reservation both for a paid LL and a Genie+ LL at 7 AM?

Just a side note. This whole new Genie+ is stressing me out. I'm a night owl, we stay up late on vacation. Getting up early to make a Genie+ reservation is not my cup of tea. For a long time we have wanted to go to UO to do the Harry Potter rides. We may do the Genie+ for a couple of days but certainly not for the whole trip. I've been over reading everything I can on the Universal Boards.

 

[nurseberta]

I wouldn't be surprised to see the best way to get the most out of Genie+ is being ok with criss crossing the park a lot.

I just came here to say this! I think what will happen is you will get a genie+ LL that is halfway across the park.... do you head that way or stay put and wait standby??? or will the system send you rides that are close to your location? can't imagine it would work that smoothly. I liked to plan my fast passes so that I could go land to land.

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

Have any Genie-pigs received any info direct from Disney? I check in on the 17th, and have park reservations on the 18th and 19th and nothing from Disney. No email, no pop up notifications, no notes on the "my plans" section of MDE. I've been following along here and actively searching out info from other sources, but I can't believe they aren't reaching out to guests

We are staying off site. We are AP holders and have park ressies for 10/19-21. Crickets

 

[LSUfan4444]

I am onboard with buying it for MK and HS, and not for AK,

With Everest being in refurb in January, we arent even going to schedule a park day there sadly much less ILL or Genie+. Maybe we will hop there but maybe not. Just enough enough for us there right now.

 

[Disturbia]

it says if it is more than 120minutes away you can make another selection 120 minutes later.. so for Epcot when it doesn't open until 11 you would make your first selection at 7am and probably get a 11-12 return time, then at 9 am
You would be able to make another selection. And you may get a 12-1 return time. Then at 11 you could make another selection and maybe get a 1-2pm return time. You enter the park at rope drop already having 3 lightening lane passes stacked up and can make another selection at 1pm.

No way I can do/remember all this while juggling 3 kids; Genie should do this automatically after we select 8 rides

 

[Disturbia]

What is the Genie?

It got released (from the bottle)..

 

[Disturbia]

I just came here to say this! I think what will happen is you will get a genie+ LL that is halfway across the park.... do you head that way or stay put and wait standby??? or will the system send you rides that are close to your location? can't imagine it would work that smoothly. I liked to plan my fast passes so that I could go land to land.

You can tell genie - don’t you dare (Molly- allears)

 

[canyoncam]

I think this is going to fundamentally change touring for a lot of people. When you cannot book something for the evening without giving up booking anything else all day, there is more of a chance that people will book as they go and availability for all rides in the evening will actually last much longer.

On the other hand, those who enjoy sleeping in, can wake at 7am and book a time for something at 1pm, so I think that availability for afternoon may decrease.

I agree that people will book as they go BECAUSE you are only offered next available time. So therefore I don’t see it being practical for anyone to wake up early to book if not going to a park until later. Maybe by mid morning the more popular LL rides will start to book into the later afternoon and evening. Only reason to get up at 7 would be to add ILL$ because for those you can select your time.

 

[MMSM]

I agree that people will book as they go BECAUSE you are only offered next available time. So therefore I don’t see it being practical for anyone to wake up early to book if not going to a park until later. Maybe by mid morning the more popular LL rides will start to book into the later afternoon and evening. Only reason to get up at 7 would be to add ILL$ because for those you can select your time.

Maybe this has been asked. We plan on doing park ressies at HS get up do our LLpaid for smugglers run and hope to get genie+ for Slinky. Then head to Tower and RRC. Can I then pay for my second LL to be Remy? That way I don’t have to have a park ressie for Epcot and can just hop.

 

[Disturbia]

The stacking was confirmed by Disney in one of the Q&A sessions with media or TA. But it did come from Disney in a language something like... You can book your second with G+ after you tap into the attraction OR 120 min after you booked the first one. So if you book your first at 7am, you can book your second at 9am even if you haven't used your first. So the speculation would be on the third. I think it is only assumed at this point that it is EVERY 120 min, so the third could be booked at 11 even if you haven't used any.

I don't have a source since it was from one of the Q&A, but it is confirmed by Disney.

 

[Turksmom]

Smugglers Run is a G+ selection, so you couldn't choose that and Slinky. Rise of the Resistance is the LL selection. You can choose an attraction in a different park if you have a hopper ticket, but I haven't seen info on when you can make that selection

 

[Disturbia]

I don’t think you can stack genie+ unless the park is open and you are in the window. if you rode it you can go ahead and book the next; if you didn’t then you have to wait to book. That’s how I read it

maybe they meant stack as in booked first genie+ (at 7 am), then LLIA no 1 (at 9) and book LLIA no 2 (at 11)?

 

[MMSM]

If this is the case- I don’t mind genie at all

 

[Disturbia]

I feel like a dog chasing it’s tail. I’m just glad I’ll have some Bloggers reports to reference before I start my trip.

I feel really bad for Disney not giving a real-time sample to people who are going to be in the parks next week. They should have done a soft opening so media can report back how it works in real-time.

 

[Thumper99]

I feel like a dog chasing it’s tail. I’m just glad I’ll have some Bloggers reports to reference before I start my trip.

I feel really bad for Disney not giving a real-time sample to people who are going to be in the parks next week. They should have done a soft opening so media can report back how it works in real-time.

I agree. With something this big there should have been a soft opening with a blogger videoing the whole thing. We have one week before we get there after launch. I’m praying some bloggers will be there answering all the questions.