Marathon Weekend 2027

[GuinnessRunner]

Hoenstly as much as I would love to have advanced AP registration again. And honestly would be a smart choice for Disney since that would definitely encourage AP sales arguably. I feel like eventually we would just reach so many people with APs doing both registrations that it doesn't even make a difference.

This happened back when they offered this option. The number of early registration spots was limited so you had a lot of AP holders (me included one year) who were frustrated because they were shut out of the early registration. While I would still love for it to come back, I think it would just expand the time people are upset rather than reduce the overall number (and of course as you said would potentially reduce the benefit of paying for CRD which we know they don't want either).

The one thing I think they could consider, and I know would not be super popular with some, would be to limit how many people you can register at one time under any queue ID to something like 4 people. It would not cover all families, which would suck, but I also know of several groups that would have someone who got through register 6-8 people. Limiting it to something like 4 would in theory increase the number of queue IDs that get a chance. Definately will not solve all the problems (and upset those wanting to do it as a large family group) as demand is just so high now (like it is for all the majors that experienced record lottery entries this year) but might help a little.

 

[Barca33Runner]

This happened back when they offered this option. The number of early registration spots was limited so you had a lot of AP holders (me included one year) who were frustrated because they were shut out of the early registration. While I would still love for it to come back, I think it would just expand the time people are upset rather than reduce the overall number (and of course as you said would potentially reduce the benefit of paying for CRD which we know they don't want either).

The one thing I think they could consider, and I know would not be super popular with some, would be to limit how many people you can register at one time under any queue ID to something like 4 people. It would not cover all families, which would suck, but I also know of several groups that would have someone who got through register 6-8 people. Limiting it to something like 4 would in theory increase the number of queue IDs that get a chance. Definately will not solve all the problems (and upset those wanting to do it as a large family group) as demand is just so high now (like it is for all the majors that experienced record lottery entries this year) but might help a little.

Limiting queue IDs to a set number of registrations definitely crossed my mind today. As I said in my initial post-registration post, I registered 8 different people for a total of 9 races. It felt ridiculous as I was doing it but, if my whole group wanted to get in, it was our only option. I somewhat expected it to say my queue had reached the limit on registrations at some point.

My sister-in-law actually made the last 3 5k registrations for the group when she finally had a queue go live after about 55 minutes. In all we have 11 people entered for races. I think we still would have gotten all of the races we wanted if some sort of queue limit was in place; it just would have happened as my sister and SIL had queues open up earlier as others reached their quotas, rather than having myself enter the lion share of the group.

Any system will lead to frustration when there are people getting shut out, but some sort of registration limit per queue could be a solution to so many people getting signed up by someone other than themselves.