Magic band guru??? Anyone???

[BlueGiraffe]

We are are staying at POFQ for the first 5 days of our trip, and our 21 day tickets are linked to the bands that we'll pick up there (mine's orange). We are then moving to an offsite villa, but have 1 night booked at GF, and will be given another 4 bands for this stay (mine's yellow) - which I was quite pleased with as we'll then have all the colours. But I did wonder if I'd get myself into a muddle with one band for the parks, and another for our room key, etc. So, from what I've read here, will I be able to use my orange POFQ band to get in and out of my room at GF? And/Or will I be able to use my yellow GF band to access the parks? Thanks to anyone who can help me make sense of it

Can anyone help...?

 

[JayLeeJay]

We are are staying at POFQ for the first 5 days of our trip, and our 21 day tickets are linked to the bands that we'll pick up there (mine's orange). We are then moving to an offsite villa, but have 1 night booked at GF, and will be given another 4 bands for this stay (mine's yellow) - which I was quite pleased with as we'll then have all the colours. But I did wonder if I'd get myself into a muddle with one band for the parks, and another for our room key, etc.

So, from what I've read here, will I be able to use my orange POFQ band to get in and out of my room at GF? And/Or will I be able to use my yellow GF band to access the parks?

Thanks to anyone who can help me make sense of it

You should not have any trouble with this. Nothing is stored on the band so your orange band isn't really a POFQ band, it is just a band. Everything that matters is linked to your MDE account - the bands are just a way to access it. I have used my bands interchangeably and have had no problems. When I have checked in they don't even look at which band I have with me.

 

[practicallyperfect77]

I don't think the number of Magic Bands you have matters. They all work equally until the battery wears out. If our family collects enough of them from our many WDW split stays, we'll decorate them and string them around the Xmas tree in place of garland.

P.S. Still waiting for a purple magic band. I've seen pictures of it...

I want purple too. I mean it's a color in the rainbow...they should have it. I thought about getting a gray line and trying to "paint" it with fingernail polish.

 

[Nechville]

I don't think the number of Magic Bands you have matters. They all work equally until the battery wears out. If our family collects enough of them from our many WDW split stays, we'll decorate them and string them around the Xmas tree in place of garland.

P.S. Still waiting for a purple magic band. I've seen pictures of it...

Seriously? A recent picture of a purple band? Oh here I go getting my hopes up again!

 

[POOHsie]

Seriously? A recent picture of a purple band? Oh here I go getting my hopes up again!

Sorry, pic goes back to Aug 2013, before Magic Bands program began. Apparently it was from concept stage. I'll be right in line behind you if purple bands come out!
http://www.doctordisney.com/2013/08...g-to-different-resorts-in-next-couple-months/
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3177930

 

[disneynutz]

Close.

MagicBands are both Active AND Passive. There are actually 2 radios inside of each MagicBand. One radio is active (requiring the battery) and one radio is passive (no internal power is used).

The passive HF radio in the MagicBand is used for short range communication and is powered by the touchpoint they are held up to. When you touch the Mickey head of the MagicBand to the Mickey head on the touchpoint scanner, the radio waves sent out by the scanner power the passive circuit inside the MagicBand. The passive circuit in the MagicBand is then able to transmit its identification to the scanner, which then uses that identification number of the MagicBand to find your information in the database. This passive circuit is what is used at all touch points, and is why I said the MagicBand will continue to work just fine for most important things if the battery dies. You can still use the band for park entry, touch-to-pay, room locks, and FP+ return since these all use the passive radio.

The active RF long-range radio in the MagicBand is what uses the battery. This is used to pick you up on sensors from afar since the MagicBand uses this radio to constantly send out its identification information. This technology is used when you go to Be Our Guest for lunch so they can detect where you are sitting. It may be used in the future to detect you in ride vehicles to show you something personalized on the ride. This battery powered long-range radio is what privacy advocates worry about since Disney can use it to track your location through the entire park.

Disney is currently using the active feature to monitor crowd densities and movement.

Bill

 

[stormer]

I have a similar question. We have a set of MB from our Feb. trip. We are going again in Aug. MDE shows a set of bands linked to our APs and a set linked to our upcoming resort reservations. If I customize those two sets we will each have three bands. As I understand it all three sets will work for park admission. Correct? What about as a room key? In Feb. we needed to give them the MB as we checked in and they did something to them and then had us use each one at the resort room door to program them to the the room key. If we arrive with three sets of MB do they all work as room keys?