Magic Band+ at Disneyland

[bwvBound]

That only applies if you have a reservation made on a date that showed both parks available. If you select, for example, a day that shows only DCA available for reservation, even after 1:00 you still need to scan into DCA first, then hop.

Our pre-Covid "Flex Pass" did allow us to book "both parks" as an option. I've never seen the option offered since Magic Keys were introduced in Aug 2021. Thus I've always taken the verbiage you quoted as "legacy" from the Flex Pass days.

Rather often we'll book our reservation at "whatever is available" for a given day; arrive after 1PM; and enter a park at random (based more on "current whim" than "where was that pesky reservation??"). After 1PM, we simply don't care ... unless we are staying at the Grand Cal and choose to use one of the special back-door entrances to DCA.

 

[bwvBound]

First off, I just wanna say ya'll are bunch of suckers for buying into this MB+ gimmick! J/K. well, kinda. I wish my old MBs worked. I hate that it's bigger and needs charging every night. And you can't even open your hotel room and charge on it yet. I don't want to play Star Wars pokemon game that bad.

LOL, I hear you.

We were in DL last week when the Magic Bands were first sold and were eligible for the early purchase (DVC, Magic Key) ... but didn't know about them! I heard about the 1st day of sales only after we returned home -- and I felt a huge wave of "missing out." It was rough.

However ... looking more closely ... there are only a couple benefits to me:
a) The Bounty Hunter game in Galaxy's Edge. I've played the Data Pad to death ... a new game/feature might be enough to justify the purchase. We'll see?
b) Auto-linking of attraction photos. Now that our level of Magic Key gets PhotoPass (yeah!!) ... I want my photos! I hate taking a picture of the preview and then transcribing the photo ID into the app. So ... the Magic Band might be "worth it" for that, too??

Otherwise, we don't do Genie+ and I'm ok with using my phone for Park entry and carrying a plastic room key.

 

[DonMacGregor]

Today at Grand Cal:

 

[nasmith]

We brought our WDW Magic Band + to Disneyland last week - and I must say that the experience was rather underwhelming. I have not played the Galaxy's edge game - but it's the same at both parks - so maybe I'll do that next trip. The bands did light up at the end of a couple rides, and during the end of Fantasmic/ World of Color - but it's not all that exciting - and particularly if it's cold out ( it was) and you're wearing a coat that covers the band..... And the charging every night was tedious - particularly at GC studio, which has not been updated to take into account our current charging needs given the phone usage requirements and subsequent battery drain ( Seriously, the night stand doesn't have anywhere to plug in a charger except the regular outlet BEHIND the nightstand).

Personally, I may wear the + band one day at WDW just to try the Galaxy's Edge game - then switch back to my regular old band.

 

[DonMacGregor]

We brought our WDW Magic Band + to Disneyland last week - and I must say that the experience was rather underwhelming. I have not played the Galaxy's edge game - but it's the same at both parks - so maybe I'll do that next trip. The bands did light up at the end of a couple rides, and during the end of Fantasmic/ World of Color - but it's not all that exciting - and particularly if it's cold out ( it was) and you're wearing a coat that covers the band..... And the charging every night was tedious - particularly at GC studio, which has not been updated to take into account our current charging needs given the phone usage requirements and subsequent battery drain ( Seriously, the night stand doesn't have anywhere to plug in a charger except the regular outlet BEHIND the nightstand).

Personally, I may wear the + band one day at WDW just to try the Galaxy's Edge game - then switch back to my regular old band.

You do know that the MB+ works just like a "regular old band" when it's not charged. All of the RFID functions of MB2 are still there, it just won't interact or light up/vibrate. If you've already purchased the MB+ there's no reason not to keep using it.