Disney Genie announcement

[Mike Mantis]

Sitting in the Wilderness Lodge Lobby as I type this wondering if I should get this for my MK visit tomorrow. Interested to see how smooth this launch goes. Disney IT has never failed us before right? ;-)

 

[canyoncam]

You cannot modify or cancel

That is the breaking point for me. If I’m penalized to totally lose a ride (I know standby is still an option) because I cannot modify my time for a legitimate reason, then I truly am paying for nothing. And to be clear, I was referring to G+ not ILL$ attractions as I mentioned Peter Pan as the example which was what the cast member used in her example.

 

[fly girl]

Sitting in the Wilderness Lodge Lobby as I type this wondering if I should get this for my MK visit tomorrow. Interested to see how smooth this launch goes. Disney IT has never failed us before right? ;-)

I'd go for it, but I am a gambler.

 

[MJJME]

You can't modify a G+ selection? So say you have a G+ pass for Splash at 12:30 and something comes up and there's a 3:30 Splash available later, you can't switch to the 3:30 before 12:30?

To be clear, I don't mean the paid-per-ride ones.

Sorry for the confusion

No sorry. You cannot modify or cancel an IAS selection. This I am sure about.

I am not sure about Genie+ Selections, that was not brought up during our presentation

 

[wisblue]

It has been confirmed


What if the return time for that selection is not until much later in the day?
Walt Disney World has confirmed that guests will be able to make another reservation 120 minutes after their first reservation even if they have not yet redeemed the first Genie+ selection.
In practice, this means that you might make a reservation at 7:05 am for Splash Mountain that has a return time of 10:00 am. At 9:05 am–before riding Splash Mountain, you’d be able to make another ride reservation.

It would be great if this were true, but I was under the impression that the 120 minute period wouldn’t start running until the park opened.

If you could make one reservation at 7, then another one at 9, even if you haven’t used the first one yet, that would make Genie+ more attractive. Then you could have two active LL passes in your pocket and do a couple more attractions standby before using them.

 

[scrappinginontario]

Sitting in the Wilderness Lodge Lobby as I type this wondering if I should get this for my MK visit tomorrow. Interested to see how smooth this launch goes. Disney IT has never failed us before right? ;-)

If it were me I'd go for it as I'm guessing the average guest doesn't have a clue this is starting tomorrow so you can get a lot of rides done in a short amount of time!

 

[Sunelis]

Just want to wish good luck to all the Genie-pigs tomorrow. Please keep us posted.

 

[elgerber]

We are at Epcot tomorrow. I wasn’t originally planning to buy + just the ILL. But I think I will just so I can see how it works so we won’t be figuring it all out at MK

 

[Party.Of.4-NY>>>FL]

All rides are on genie+ except for the 2 most popular rides at each park. The only restriction is that you can only book each ride once with genie + (for eg. If you wanted to ride space mountain twice you would have to do standby either before or after you used your genie+ selection). The 2 rides at each park are:

AK - FOP and Everest
Epcot - RRat and frozen (will change to GOG when it opens)
MK - seven dwarfs and Space Mountain (will change to Tron when opened)
HS - ROTR and MMRR

Question about the bolded:
Does this mean that rides such as Peoplemover and Astro Orbiter will be included with Genie+? Or did you mean to say that all rides that previously offered FP+ will be offered with Genie+?

 

[MJJME]

Question about the bolded:
Does this mean that rides such as Peoplemover and Astro Orbiter will be included with Genie+? Or did you mean to say that all rides that previously offered FP+ will be offered with Genie+?

it’s previous fast pass, but they should be included! How could they leave off country bear jamboree?!?!?!?

Here’s the list.

Here’s the official Genie+ list of attractions:
Magic Kingdom

• Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
• Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin
• Dumbo the Flying Elephant
• Haunted Mansion
• “it’s a small world”
• Jungle Cruise
• Mad Tea Party
• Magic Carpets of Aladdin
• Mickey’s PhilharMagic
• Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor
• Peter Pan’s Flight
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Splash Mountain
• Goofy’s Barnstormer
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
• Tomorrowland Speedway
• Under the Sea ~ Journey of the Little Mermaid

Epcot

• Disney & Pixar Short Film Festival
• Journey into Imagination with Figment
• Mission Space
• Soarin’ Around the World
• Spaceship Earth
• Test Track
• The Seas with Nemo & Friends
• Turtle Talk with Crush

Hollywood Studios

• Alien Swirling Saucers
• Beauty and the Beast: Live on Stage
• Disney Jr. Play & Dance
• Frozen Sing-Along Celebration
• Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular
• Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run
• MuppetVision 3D
• Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith
• Slinky Dog Dash
• Star Tours – The Adventures Continue
• The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
• Toy Story Mania

Animal Kingdom

• A Celebration of Festival of the Lion King
• Dinosaur
• It’s Tough to Be a Bug
• Kali River Rapids
• Kilimanjaro Safaris
• Na’vi River Journey
• The Animation Experience at Conservation Station
• Feathered Friends in Flight

 

[scrappinginontario]

Question about the bolded:
Does this mean that rides such as Peoplemover and Astro Orbiter will be included with Genie+? Or did you mean to say that all rides that previously offered FP+ will be offered with Genie+?

No, you're correct that not all rides and attractions are included with Genie+. In the MK things like 'Prince Charming's Regal Carousel', 'People Mover' and others are not included in Genie+.

Here's the official list on the Disney website of attractions available via Genie+ starting date Oct 19th.

 

[Disturbia]

Anyone see any app updates? I still see version 6.22

 

[elevatorgeek]

We may see something soon. With the exception of EEH at Epcot the last theme park just closed for the night.

 

[Disturbia]

Sorry for the confusion

No sorry. You cannot modify or cancel an IAS selection. This I am sure about.

I am not sure about Genie+ Selections, that was not brought up during our presentation

So you did attend a presentation. Thanks for clarifying some things in that case; Disney has certainly kept some things in the dark.

I’m sure you can appreciate how confusing this is for all of us trying to imagine what this will be like vs seeing it in action.

 

[nurseberta]

Good Luck to all of you out there in genie+ land!!!

 

[Disturbia]

Like Molly says, any day at Disney is better than not at Disney.

Keep calm and carry on!!!

You are the Magic!

 

[moorish]

Sorry for the confusion

No sorry. You cannot modify or cancel an IAS selection. This I am sure about.

I am not sure about Genie+ Selections, that was not brought up during our presentation

Thanks for the response!

 

[Octoberbaby]

Our trip isn't for another week, but can I add Genie+ to our tickets at midnight?

 

[CBMom01]

I liked Rivers of Light. But that purple float. And Stitch's Great Escape

My kid loooooooved Stitch’s great escape

 

[scrappinginontario]

Our trip isn't for another week, but can I add Genie+ to our tickets at midnight?

Possibly. If you're adding them to every day of your ticket you may be able to add once Genie+ is live. If you're adding to only select days I'm pretty confident that cannot be done until the actual day you're adding it for.

again, still a lot unknown even less than 2 hours before the start date of Genie!