News Round Up 2018

[rteetz]

Yeah - can't picture when pulling out my phone would be more handy than using my MB, but I would say if you lost your MB it would be a good back-up option.

And its an option for those who don't like to wear magicbands.

 

[rteetz]

News

Disneyland Has Indefinitely Cancelled Plans to Offer FastPass, MaxPass at Pirates of the Caribbean

 

[dolewhipdreams]

News

Disneyland Has Indefinitely Cancelled Plans to Offer FastPass, MaxPass at Pirates of the Caribbean

Can someone with a better understanding of theme park logistics/IT explain to me how this might not work? It seems like a no-brainer but maybe I just don't get the complexities involved in starting up a FP queue.

 

[publix subs]

i dont know if its just me, but i have 60+ magicbands linked to my account and more than half of them never work for opening my room. it's highly annoying to make sure i have a band that works before we leave. this is a fantastic option.

 

[rteetz]

Can someone with a better understanding of theme park logistics/IT explain to me how this might not work? It seems like a no-brainer but maybe I just don't get the complexities involved in starting up a FP queue.

FP at Disneyland is much different than at WDW. Pirates isn't an attraction that was built for FP so logistically it doesn't work as well.

 

[dina444444]

Can someone with a better understanding of theme park logistics/IT explain to me how this might not work? It seems like a no-brainer but maybe I just don't get the complexities involved in starting up a FP queue.

Because the standby queue would spill out into the walkway way more then it already does.

 

[dolewhipdreams]

FP at Disneyland is much different than at WDW. Pirates isn't an attraction that was built for FP so logistically it doesn't work as well.

Because the standby queue would spill out into the walkway way more then it already does.

Okay so it's just a spatial thing? Well I guess it's better to put a pause on it until it can be done right (if it can) than to put some haphazard dysfunctional system in place!

 

[AMusicLifeForMe]

Can someone with a better understanding of theme park logistics/IT explain to me how this might not work? It seems like a no-brainer but maybe I just don't get the complexities involved in starting up a FP queue.

There is about 4-6 hours a day where it is common that the Pirates of the Caribbean Attraction queue will spill out and weave around the New Orleans Square bridge causing that area to get backed up and crowded. With FP, I don't think there is a queue that hasn't gotten longer stand-by wait times when fastpass was added. Adding fastpass would basically make the Pirates of the Caribbean area worse than it already is.

I always say to ride the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disneyland in the morning or at night for this reason.

 

[skier_pete]

There is about 4-6 hours a day where it is common that the Pirates of the Caribbean Attraction queue will spill out and weave around the New Orleans Square bridge causing that area to get backed up and crowded. With FP, I don't think there is a queue that hasn't gotten longer stand-by wait times when fastpass was added. Adding fastpass would basically make the Pirates of the Caribbean area worse than it already is.

I always say to ride the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disneyland in the morning or at night for this reason.

The logic here isn't really sound. Fastpass/Maxpass work because they get some portion of the people out of the line. Though the standby wait TIME would get longer - the actual LENGTH of the wait LINE should get shorter.

Think of it this way:
- If you normally have 2000 people going on a ride with no-FP, and the wait time is 45-minutes, it means you have 1500 people standing in line at any one time.
- If you then shift 75% of the queue to MaxPass/FastPass, you now have 1500 people that are going through the Maxpass/FastPass line every hour,but with the wait time with this kept to a maximum of say 10 minutes, only 250 people of these 1500 people per hour would be in line at any point.
- Meanwhile, there still room for 500 people get through the standby line per hour. Even if your standby wait time doubles to 90 minutes, your stand-by line now only has 750 people in it (500 people per hour waiting 90-minutes) instead of 1500 people (2000 people per hour waiting 45 minutes).

So in the above scenario, we went from 1500 people waiting in line at any one point in time, to at most 1000 people waiting in line (250 in MP/FP and 750 in standby), even though the standby wait went from 45-minutes to 90-minutes.

The basics are - FP makes standby people wait in line longer, but because the wait times go up, the actual line length becomes shorter. A great example of this in WDW is in HM - whose queue used to back up out the gates but was rarely more than a 30 minute wait until the instituted FP. Now the waits are often 45 minutes or more, but they rarely back out the gates.

 

[danikoski]

Yeah - can't picture when pulling out my phone would be more handy than using my MB, but I would say if you lost your MB it would be a good back-up option.

I've used this at Hilton and it unlocks the door a decent ways away. So you can pull out your phone and put it back without actually touching it to the door. I haven't played with it enough yet, but I think you could walk in the hotel, hit the app, put phone in your pocket, then walk to your room, and the door should unlock...I think. Like I said, haven't had the chance to play with it a long, and not sure if Disney's doors would work the same.

 

[afan]

Yeah - can't picture when pulling out my phone would be more handy than using my MB, but I would say if you lost your MB it would be a good back-up option.

I'm looking forward to not having to wear my magicband with my garmin watch while running the W&D half. I think a lot of runners may take advantage of it since a lot of have watches and already run with their phone. It was a bit annoying last time to run with essentially two watches on with the mb for my size wrist/arm.

 

[leholcomb]

I'm looking forward to not having to wear my magicband with my garmin watch while running the W&D half. I think a lot of runners may take advantage of it since a lot of have watches and already run with their phone. It was a bit annoying last time to run with essentially two watches on with the mb for my size wrist/arm.

This is a great point. The less I have on me for those 26.2 miles in January, the better.

 

[rteetz]

This is a great point. The less I have on me for those 26.2 miles in January, the better.

But then you can’t use your magicband to buy things on course

 

[BigRed98]

News

“Hook & Ladder Co.” and “Silver Dollar Six” Breakout Bands Set to Leave Disneyland Next Month

 

[MickeyMinnieMom]

i dont know if its just me, but i have 60+ magicbands linked to my account and more than half of them never work for opening my room. it's highly annoying to make sure i have a band that works before we leave. this is a fantastic option.

It does seem to cause an issue once you have too many MBs -- it's a known issue. I was told that a hotel room door can only be associated with up to 40 bands (e.g. you have 4 family members with access and each one has 10 bands on their MDE account). After that point, it seems like random bands will not be able to access the room. Making some bands "inactive" online in MDE or marking them "lost" does NOT remove them from this total.

I knew for a while that this could be an issue. This trip, I took the time to go down to the front desk of the hotel and have them DELETE a bunch of old bands from our MDE accounts. I’m told only the front desk can delete bands permanently from the account. I went in and made a bunch of them "inactive" online myself as a way of letting them know which ones to delete.

 

[afan]

But then you can’t use your magicband to buy things on course

Whenever I run outside I always have my id, a credit card and insurance card in my pocket. Safety and in case I want to stop somewhere on the way home.

 

[rteetz]

News

Save up to $300 on Select Adventures by Disney Departures in Early 2019

 

[rteetz]

News

Falcon's Fury Reopens to Guests at Busch Gardens After Weeks of Downtime

 

[publix subs]

It does seem to cause an issue once you have too many MBs -- it's a known issue. I was told that a hotel room door can only be associated with up to 40 bands (e.g. you have 4 family members with access and each one has 10 bands on their MDE account). After that point, it seems like random bands will not be able to access the room. Making some bands "inactive" online in MDE or marking them "lost" does NOT remove them from this total.

I knew for a while that this could be an issue. This trip, I took the time to go down to the front desk of the hotel and have them DELETE a bunch of old bands from our MDE accounts. I’m told only the front desk can delete bands permanently from the account. I went in and made a bunch of them "inactive" online myself as a way of letting them know which ones to delete.

thank you for this info! i’ll definitely be deleting a ton of magicbands in september.

 

[memo10]

Yeah - can't picture when pulling out my phone would be more handy than using my MB, but I would say if you lost your MB it would be a good back-up option.

My new resort band didn’t work last stay... didn’t find that out until my hubby was paying the tab at the pool bar and I was waiting outside our room with three wet kids. They literally rolled out POR the day after we checked out.