Old Magic Band still activated?

[Scarlett71177]

I was at WDW in July of 2014 and had a Magic Band. I never did anything with it after coming home.

Fast forward. I am going to WDW again this November 2015. I tried to choose my Magic Band for my current trip, but MyDisneyExperience says my old band is still activated. Do I need to deactivate that to choose a new one? Do I have to hunt up the old one to use again? Do I need to call Disney?

Thanks in advance.

 

[MrPTato]

You can customize a new band without deactivating the old. Should be able to do that until about 30 days from arrival. You can have more than one active at a time.

 

[Wood Nymph]

I was at WDW in July of 2014 and had a Magic Band. I never did anything with it after coming home.

Fast forward. I am going to WDW again this November 2015. I tried to choose my Magic Band for my current trip, but MyDisneyExperience says my old band is still activated. Do I need to deactivate that to choose a new one? Do I have to hunt up the old one to use again? Do I need to call Disney?

Thanks in advance.

You don't have to deactivate the old one in order to customize a new one. You should have an option to customize your new MB for your upcoming trip if you have a Disney resort reservation. If you can see your resort reservation in your MDE account then you should see the option to customize the band. If you don't see the Disney resort reservation then the MB option won't be there either. In that case then you'd have to call Disney.

 

[HopperFan]

I have about 15 active Magicbands. I take several each trip and use different ones different days.

 

[mom2my3kids]

Yeah the old band can still work, I had my daughters old band activated because she was not staying onsite with us...It showed our old bands activated as well, I thought he told me you could use which ever one you wanted they all worked and was hooked up..

 

[Mousemommy1]

As a family, we have about 20 active bands sitting in a ziploc bag. We just bring them all and grab one with our name and go, lol

 

[mmouse50]

I understand that old magicbands are still activate, but would the resort charging privileges still be active? Do you need to reactivate that part each time you use another magic band? My magic bands are all linked to different hotel stays each with charging privileges.

 

[bumbershoot]

I understand that old magicbands are still activate, but would the resort charging privileges still be active? Do you need to reactivate that part each time you use another magic band? My magic bands are all linked to different hotel stays each with charging privileges.

Your MBs are linked to your account. Not to a ticket, not to a hotel, not to a stay. They pull from the info on the account.

You have no charging privilege unless currently staying onsite with room charging set up (that's not automatic...you have to ask for or agree to it and give them a card for that purpose). So when you do online checkin or do physical checkin and say that you want room charging, you enter or give a cc for that purpose, and now all MBs on your account of the people on that trip (except certain age of minors' bands) will have access to charging once your stay begins.

 

[HopperFan]

It's always good to bring extra even if you don't plan to switch out for style or fun purposes ............. in case you lose one or it stops working for whatever reason ........ you have a backup and you don't have to pay for it.

 

[Accident]

I understand that old magicbands are still activate, but would the resort charging privileges still be active? Do you need to reactivate that part each time you use another magic band? My magic bands are all linked to different hotel stays each with charging privileges.

You can't charge to the room after you've checked out so your safe in that respect. We tried it once where we were in the parks for 6 more hours and didn't expect that to end. We deactivate our bands as we're in transportation when leaving and know we're done. I've heard stories of people with so many bands that bands didn't work until they deactivated them. If your not there, there is really no reason to have them active in the system.

As a family, we have about 20 active bands sitting in a ziploc bag. We just bring them all and grab one with our name and go, lol

We've been told they only fully work for about 2 years so you might want to track them a little better. The part that would stop working is what the ride uses to detect your on it, the park where you touch mickey's is passive should work a lot longer.

 

[jerseygal]

Thought I read a post that there was a problem with a guest using their new MB and the dining credits being loaded properly on it because this particular guest had too many "activated" MB's with "past trips"...When I read this, I became concerned that this might happen and didn't want to waste unnecessary vaca time trying to resolve MB problems'; vaca time is too precious to waste on silly stuff like that. I deactivated the old ones "just in case".

 

[Mousemommy1]

You can't charge to the room after you've checked out so your safe in that respect. We tried it once where we were in the parks for 6 more hours and didn't expect that to end. We deactivate our bands as we're in transportation when leaving and know we're done. I've heard stories of people with so many bands that bands didn't work until they deactivated them. If your not there, there is really no reason to have them active in the system.



We've been told they only fully work for about 2 years so you might want to track them a little better. The part that would stop working is what the ride uses to detect your on it, the park where you touch mickey's is passive should work a lot longer.

Yes. We actually have the years written on each one for that reason.

 

[Wood Nymph]

Our oldest MBs are from Dec 2013 so they are fast approaching the two year mark. I had a problem when entering Epcot on our last trip and the CM said that I had too many active MB's - I have 11 MB's. He was able to get me in the gate but it took about five minutes or so. Now I only take a handful, including the most recent MB, and deactivate the rest of them.

 

[bumbershoot]

Since I doubt anyone at Disney had the foresight to see how long the battery actually worked (nor to have one tester using it all the time like a local vs another tester using it every 9 months or so like a regular but longer-time-between guest, etc), they are guesstimating at the battery life. When they first came out they said 2-3 years. Now they are saying 2. But that's only for the long-range stuff. From what I've read the short range stuff doesn't use the battery at all.

I have 8 bands soon to be 10. All active. None have caused problems. I personally think the "you have too many bands" CMs are guessing. Make a change to the account, and often the glitch clears up. This is their pet "problem" to make the change to.

 

[Scarlett71177]

Thanks, all. Thankfully it was a really easy fix. My sister in law booked the trip, so I didn't know SHE had control of choosing my Magic Band. A quick login to her account and I am set up with a spangly new Orange MB. ;-)

 

[Wood Nymph]

Thanks, all. Thankfully it was a really easy fix. My sister in law booked the trip, so I didn't know SHE had control of choosing my Magic Band. A quick login to her account and I am set up with a spangly new Orange MB. ;-)

I'm glad it was fixed. I had to call IT yesterday because my daughter and I were having trouble connecting our trips. The CM said that there had been quite a few problems with MDE lately and a lot of people had to call in for fixes.

Normally, both you and your sister would be able to modify your band if you were properly connected as friends and family. My DH and I each have our own accounts and either one of us can change the color of our bands.