Is anyone in a Magic Band test planning to try to pick up their tickets early?

[LMDisneygirl]

We have gone to WDW once before and picked up our tickets a day or two before our package started. We would like to do that again this time, but we are going to be testing the Magic Bands. So I'm wondering how or if that will work.

If anyone is planning to try this please let me know and I will make sure to follow along with you and see how it works.

Thanks!!

 

[LMDisneygirl]

Lots of people have looked at this, but no answers yet. Bumping in case someone has or is planning to try but didn't see the post.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

Early Package Ticket Pickup can only be done at a Theme Park or DTD Guest Relations Office.

Magic Bands can only be activated at a Resort.

 

[LMDisneygirl]

Early Package Ticket Pickup can only be done at a Theme Park or DTD Guest Relations Office.

Magic Bands can only be activated at a Resort.

I understand how to pick up tickets early, thanks to you Cheshire! We have already received our Magic Bands in the mail, and online it says that they are active.

What I'm wondering is, if we pick up our tickets a day or two before our package starts, would that then affect our using the Magic Bands? Or, might they even tell us we can't get our tickets early because they are already connected to our "active" Magic Band?

Or maybe, since our Magic Bands are "active" we would be able to just use our tickets a day before our package starts. That doesn't sound right, but it kind of makes sense.

 

[MelissaTnNc]

Bumping this because I'm curious too!

 

[brios86]

Bumping again to see if anyone has any more to say. I will be checking in at POP with a RO on Saturday and the. Moving to POR on Sunday with a package.

 

[babydoll65]

Bumping again to see if anyone has any more to say. I will be checking in at POP with a RO on Saturday and the. Moving to POR on Sunday with a package.

I plan on doing this in November but so far no one has posted on weather they have tried this or not. If this works for you could you please post? If been having anxiety over this but I still plan to push through and go to dtd on the day I arrive to get my tickets. Since I really don't need to get into mk till 7pm that night it should leave me plenty of time to hit a few guest relations if the first one has any problems.

 

[MadameMim]

I am so confused about this whole MB business.

Our MBs came in the mail yesterday. When I log into MDE I see our ADRs and our PhotoPass# confirmation. But if I click on FP+ it immediately gives me a pop-up saying "We're Sorry!
The selected date must be within at least one party member's FastPass+ selection window."

Our tickets were purchased separately from our room and have not arrived. They are past due. When we called the rep said that they will reprint our tickets when we check in at our resort.
So... am I out of luck getting any FP+? Will we be able to have our tickets loaded on to the MB at all now?

I'm not sure if doing FP+ will even benefit us at all. On our trip last fall a CM told me to stop pulling Fast Passes because of our GAC. That I was just taking Fast Passes away from other guests who could use them. But on here people say to use your Touring Plan and do FP and not overuse the GAC.
I'm so stressed out! We leave in 8 days.
This is our 3rd trip and I'm feeling like a newbie all over again.

 

[SCIrishMama]

I'm not sure if doing FP+ will even benefit us at all. On our trip last fall a CM told me to stop pulling Fast Passes because of our GAC. That I was just taking Fast Passes away from other guests who could use them. But on here people say to use your Touring Plan and do FP and not overuse the GAC.
I'm so stressed out! We leave in 8 days.
This is our 3rd trip and I'm feeling like a newbie all over again.

I had a question about this, too. I will have a GAC and will be in a wheelchair, so should we even bother with fast passes?

 

[mydisneytwins31]

We received our magic bands the other day. We are going there for the Food and Wine Festival. We purchased our hopper tickets online and then you go to My Disney Experience and set up your account (your tickets have to be purchased and sent before you can connect them online a far as I understood). It was fairly easy but they had some problems with their website probably because they are still working out the quirks. I was able to pick 3 fast passes for one park per day. I also did the online check in. It is pretty neat because when your done it will show all your experiences, dining, fast pass selections, days your at the parks, and our resort.
I was wondering how they selected the people to test the bands. Is everyone else part of the vacation club? We go twice a year and wasn't sure if maybe that's why we were picked? I'm wondering how many quirks they haven't ironed out yet.

 

[mydisneytwins31]

Hi Cheshire I am sure you don't remember me but I couldn't remember my password so I had to start from scratch. It was Ohsodisney, we did a cruise with you a few years back on the Dream.
You were very helpful on our cruise forum , thank you!

 

[Cheshire Figment]

I have heard a very good explanation concerning all of NextGen, which includes MagicBands, Fastpass Plus, My Disney Experience, RFID tickets and everything related.

The description is from a friend who is a very high-level Technical Specialist in Disney's IT department: "This is a railroad claimed to be in full operation while they are still building the locomotive".

Everything is in testing and development. There is nobody who can give any accurate answer about any of these, or their interactions.

Everything is still subject to change on a daily basis.

And nobody has any idea when when everything will work. My personal opinion, also, is that Bob Iger's public statements are prepared by the PR department and not by knowledgeable people.

 

[ElizabethG]

I had a question about this, too. I will have a GAC and will be in a wheelchair, so should we even bother with fast passes?

Have you read about the new Disability Access Service (DAS) Cards that replaced the GAC on 10/9? The new system doesn't work the same as the old one. I would still get FP+.

Thread on new system (I haven't seen many personal accounts yet):
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3178976

 

[biim85]

To answer your question, yes you can!

We were wondering this as well and called Disney to get an answer. If you got the pamphlet or paper in the mail about the Magic Bands then you know it says that you have to have them customized by a certain day in order to have them mailed to your home before the trip. (It doesnt actually tell you that if you're okay with not having your name or a specific color on them, you can pick up generic Magic Bands when you check in and imput your selections and passes into them then).

If you have a will call number or some sort of verication number for the purchase of your tickets (itll just be one number no matter how many tickets youve purchased), you can enter that when customizing your band and itll pull up your tickets and imput them into your Magic Bands before theyre sent out. So everything will be all set already. Tip here, make sure you accurately include the ages on those traveling in your party, so childrens tickets sync with children, and adults with adults.

You can also customize your bands and include everything you need (resort reservations, fastpass, dining, etc) and not include your park tickets until you pick them up and can imput them. It works just fine and the bands are still mailed to you and customized, just add the park ticket once you pick them up (you can go online, use the My Disney Experience app, or have it done at guest relations for you).

We were also told that customization depends solely on your resort reservations, not your tickets. We purchased the Premier Passport which is like an annual pass for every Disney park int he country, but when trying to schedule dinning reservations and fastpass times using the MagicBand system for the day before we checked into our resort and the day after we checked out, it wouldnt let us.

Also if your stay is split between more than one resort, youll get a band for each person for each resort. We're staying 10 days between Saratoga Springs and Animal Kingdom and all the Magic Bands that showed up on my doorstep scared me at first glance!

Hope that helps some.

We have gone to WDW once before and picked up our tickets a day or two before our package started. We would like to do that again this time, but we are going to be testing the Magic Bands. So I'm wondering how or if that will work.

If anyone is planning to try this please let me know and I will make sure to follow along with you and see how it works.

Thanks!!

 

[APiratesLifeForMe2]

I understand how to pick up tickets early, thanks to you Cheshire! We have already received our Magic Bands in the mail, and online it says that they are active.

What I'm wondering is, if we pick up our tickets a day or two before our package starts, would that then affect our using the Magic Bands? Or, might they even tell us we can't get our tickets early because they are already connected to our "active" Magic Band?

Or maybe, since our Magic Bands are "active" we would be able to just use our tickets a day before our package starts. That doesn't sound right, but it kind of makes sense.

I was also following to see what the answer to this was as we would like to do it with our December trip but I am so confused with all of the answers so far.

To answer your question, yes you can!

We were wondering this as well and called Disney to get an answer. If you got the pamphlet or paper in the mail about the Magic Bands then you know it says that you have to have them customized by a certain day in order to have them mailed to your home before the trip. (It doesnt actually tell you that if you're okay with not having your name or a specific color on them, you can pick up generic Magic Bands when you check in and imput your selections and passes into them then).

If you have a will call number or some sort of verication number for the purchase of your tickets (itll just be one number no matter how many tickets youve purchased), you can enter that when customizing your band and itll pull up your tickets and imput them into your Magic Bands before theyre sent out. So everything will be all set already. Tip here, make sure you accurately include the ages on those traveling in your party, so childrens tickets sync with children, and adults with adults.

You can also customize your bands and include everything you need (resort reservations, fastpass, dining, etc) and not include your park tickets until you pick them up and can imput them. It works just fine and the bands are still mailed to you and customized, just add the park ticket once you pick them up (you can go online, use the My Disney Experience app, or have it done at guest relations for you).

We were also told that customization depends solely on your resort reservations, not your tickets. We purchased the Premier Passport which is like an annual pass for every Disney park int he country, but when trying to schedule dinning reservations and fastpass times using the MagicBand system for the day before we checked into our resort and the day after we checked out, it wouldnt let us.

Also if your stay is split between more than one resort, youll get a band for each person for each resort. We're staying 10 days between Saratoga Springs and Animal Kingdom and all the Magic Bands that showed up on my doorstep scared me at first glance!

Hope that helps some.

So does this mean if you want to get access to them early you need to make sure they aren't liked to your MB or that it doesn't matter wether they are linked or not?

 

[babydoll65]

I was also following to see what the answer to this was as we would like to do it with our December trip but I am so confused with all of the answers so far.



So does this mean if you want to get access to them early you need to make sure they aren't liked to your MB or that it doesn't matter wether they are linked or not?

The way I've been reading it, if your tickets were purchased separately like from uct or there not part of a pkg they are active when you arrive. If your tickets are part of a pkg like doing a split ress with you pkg starting a few days later you need to do the usual early ticket pickup at guest relations in the parks or dtd. I haven't heard anyone posting that they were denied access to there tickets but the process could take anywhere from 10-45 min depending on the cms experience.