MDE and linking 10day tickets

[LisaRN97]

If this has been answered, I do apologize - I've been searching for an answer and have yet to find it.

Three weeks ago I linked our 10 day non-expiry tickets, or at least I tried to. It shows the tickets but says 'we are sorry. The complete details for this ticket or pass are not available at this time. Please check back soon' Again that was three weeks ago and I even called MDE and they said to wait until we get there. So I guess that mean I can't make any FP reservations?

Has this happened to anyone else? Or can I not make FP reservations because it is not an annual pass?

 

[erionm]

Until you have a resort stay that is eligible for MyMagic+ (MagicBands & FastPass+), you will not be able to make FP+ selections. There is still no word on when November check-ins will be enabled for MyMagic+. Your 10 day MYW ticket (if it linked properly) will allow you to make FP+ selections once you are eligible.

 

[LisaRN97]

Until you have a resort stay that is eligible for MyMagic+ (MagicBands & FastPass+), you will not be able to make FP+ selections. There is still no word on when November check-ins will be enabled for MyMagic+. Your 10 day MYW ticket (if it linked properly) will allow you to make FP+ selections once you are eligible.

Thank you so much - that makes sense now. Everything is linked, I guess I wait and see if I become eligible for the FP+. I assumed anyone was eligible for the FP portion and only a few are selected for magic bands.

 

[dmunsil]

I have three sets of NE tickets from three different previous vacations, in 2003, 2007, and 2010. All of them were purchased from Undercover Tourist, I believe.

The 2010 tickets linked just fine and they show up as 10-day hoppers. The only anomaly is that they say they have 10 days left on them, even though they actually have 4. I'm pretty confident that they won't actually honor them for 10 days of admission, no matter what MDE says.

With the 2007 set, the adult tickets linked, but the same message you saw shows up, "The complete details are not available at this time" etc. The children's tickets will not link. Perhaps because those children are now adults? I mean, at this point even if they were 3 then they'd be 10 now. Anyway, I need to get those tickets upgraded to adult tickets when we go next, so no great loss.

The 2003 set are not MYW tickets and they won't link. And I have one lone 2004 ticket, which also won't link.

I'm going down next week for a weekend thing, so I'm planning to convert all the tickets to RFID. We'll see what that does to MDE and the linking.

 

[DizBub]

I have three sets of NE tickets from three different previous vacations, in 2003, 2007, and 2010.

I'm going down next week for a weekend thing, so I'm planning to convert all the tickets to RFID. We'll see what that does to MDE and the linking.

Will those tickets all be converted to Magic Bands at some point?
We have some non-expiring tickets and they are listed on MDE but they all say they are not active. I know they have to be converted eventually but are currently using PAPs.

We were at BLT last week and are at BWV now, neither place is testing Magic Bands during our trip. Our PAPs are linked to MDE and oddly enough open our room doors. Did not expect that.

 

[dmunsil]

Will those tickets all be converted to Magic Bands at some point?

I assume at least some of them will be linked to MagicBands. According to the guest relations CM I talked to on the phone, when you link a ticket to a MagicBand, the ticket is not canceled; the MagicBand just links to the ticket. So if you enter a park using a MagicBand, one day is deducted from the linked ticket. But you could also enter the park using the original ticket; they're both valid and usable.

I assume at some point they could have a "linked" ticket on a MagicBand that you don't have any physical copy of, so they only way to use it would be the band. Even in that case, if they have a record of the ticket being yours, they can reissue it and cancel the old ticket, link it to a new MagicBand, etc.

At this point, a ticket is an entry in a database somewhere in TWDC's server rooms. The physical ticket or MagicBand is just a carrier for an ID code that lets the park gates look up the database entry.

 

[Kidanifan08]

As a DVC member, we have been buying the DVC AP's the last two years, and we already have a voucher for our next AP. But, we have a trip coming up in April and will only have 2 days for parks, and we don't have an active AP for DW and I. By some miracle, DS's PAP actually expires on the last day that we need to use it in April.

I was considering buying a 10-day MYW with PH and WPFM non-expiration ticket for DW and I. But how will DME, Magic Band and FP+ work if you have two active ticket types? I would want to use our 10-day NE tickets for the two days in April and have the 60-day pre-arrival option for FP+. But for our trip in July, I would want to activate our DVC AP and use that for FP+, as well as use it in Dec 2014 and June 2015. I have seen that other DVC members on these boards use these two ticket types, as well, but was wondering how this would work? Sorry to hijack the thread, but it seems like a valid question for DVC members.

ETA: Even though we plan on using AP's for two trips annually for the next several years, I wouldn't mind having the WP entitlements to use over the next five years, and periodically we may have a conference or other brief stay where the major park entitlements could be used.

 

[Pirate Granny]

We were at BWV a few weeks ago, although they weren't testing the band there, I couldn't link my non expiring ticket cause it was too old(2006) I had to have guest relations print up a new ticket on a plastic card. Have 6 days left, so time will tell, as I'm getting an AP for our May visit.

 

[OneMoreTry]

I linked our 10 day tickets but dont think it did me any good as our resort isnt participating...probably a waste of effort... Three of them had an older format code but linked just fine.