Old Model 1 Magic Bands

[FC_Disney7]

Hello All,

My family is planning a trip to Disney in October and some haven't been back to Disney since December of 2015. They still have their old Magic Band 1s from that trip. I understand the battery is probably dead for it to pick up on rides like Seven Dwarfs and reading your name on certain rides but will these magic bands work for touch ID. Like entering the park and photo pass when they scan your band.

Thanks

 

[Klayfish]

Not sure it's a battery issue as much as just having the range that the new ones do. Regardless, yes, you are correct. They'll work fine for everything except the long range stuff like name readers on EE, Small World, etc...

 

[Wishfuiiy]

Hello All,

My family is planning a trip to Disney in October and some haven't been back to Disney since December of 2015. They still have their old Magic Band 1s from that trip. I understand the battery is probably dead for it to pick up on rides like Seven Dwarfs and reading your name on certain rides but will these magic bands work for touch ID. Like entering the park and photo pass when they scan your band.

Thanks

I was told by a CM that the batteries last for years, and I had went in 2015 and in 2017, I got a new one but the CM said the old one was still attached to my account and still worked at the parks if I had wished to use it.

 

[Redhead5]

All of my older magic bands still work all the way back to the very first one I used when Disney was beta testing magic bands.

 

[Fangorn]

ALL Magic Bands - from the very first ones to the most current ones - will work just fine for anything where you touch the band to Mickey's head. That covers everything except getting some ride photos and the few special things like seeing your name at the end of It's a Small World.

There are two RFID chips in each band. The long range chip has a transceiver and a battery - which will eventually run out (about 3 years on average). The short range chip is used when you touch the band to some device such as upon park entry or entering the FP line. The short range chip has no internal power source - the device touching the band provides the momentary power to the chip so it can be read. Consequently, the bands will, theoretically, last forever. Or at least until Disney changes the entire infrastructure behind the MyMagic+ system.

Steve

 

[FC_Disney7]

Thank you all!

 

[Queen of the WDW Scene]

Touch points will still work.
So entering the park, entering a FP line, photpass scans.... will work fine.

 

[scrappinginontario]

Would it be possible to carry a Gen 2 in your bag? If so, would that allow the on-ride photo feature to work?

 

[jkh36619]

My current MB is from '16. still works no prob.

 

[bdiddy]

We still have our bands from July 2015. My daughter just went with the band 2 wks age and I called to make sure hers was active and it was so they linked it to her new ticket and it worked completely fine. No issues at all!

 

[Fangorn]

Would it be possible to carry a Gen 2 in your bag? If so, would that allow the on-ride photo feature to work?

Yes. Not a problem.

Steve

 

[Fangorn]

We still have our bands from July 2015. My daughter just went with the band 2 wks age and I called to make sure hers was active and it was so they linked it to her new ticket and it worked completely fine. No issues at all!

In reality, the CM did absolutely nothing as there was nothing TO do. All bands associated with a person are active all the time (unless you have specifically "disabled" them) and completely interchangeable.

There is no such thing as "linked it to her new ticket". They may well have told you that, but they really didn't do it, since it doesn't work that way. Bands are linked to an account (and there can be multiples). Tickets are linked to an account (and there can be multiples). But bands cannot be linked to tickets.

Steve

 

[gap2368]

Hello All,

My family is planning a trip to Disney in October and some haven't been back to Disney since December of 2015. They still have their old Magic Band 1s from that trip. I understand the battery is probably dead for it to pick up on rides like Seven Dwarfs and reading your name on certain rides but will these magic bands work for touch ID. Like entering the park and photo pass when they scan your band.

Thanks

I have a 45 anniversary MB that works fine to get into the parks but does not get the pictures from rides

 

[bdiddy]

In reality, the CM did absolutely nothing as there was nothing TO do. All bands associated with a person are active all the time (unless you have specifically "disabled" them) and completely interchangeable.

There is no such thing as "linked it to her new ticket". They may well have told you that, but they really didn't do it, since it doesn't work that way. Bands are linked to an account (and there can be multiples). Tickets are linked to an account (and there can be multiples). But bands cannot be linked to tickets.

Steve

Excuse me for not being more detailed. I guess I SHOULD have said that the marching band director gave my daughter a slip of paper with her ticket number on it. They passed these out a month before the trip so the kids could set up their MDE and to make fast passes. Once she made herself an account, I took that ticket number and called customer service. I made sure her old magic band was working and gave them her ticket number which they linked to her old magic band and was somehow moved over to her new account. So now she could see the magic band on her account when she couldn’t before.

So yes there was something for them to do. Her ticket through the band had nothing to do with our previous trips on my account or her old magic band.

She made an entirely new Disney account on her own with her new ticket. To take it one step further, I actually had to call back again to link her account to ours. In case she decided to ride things with us so I could make fast passes with her. Once we did that we could now see each other on our accounts whereas before we couldn’t.

So the idea of them having nothing to do...that’s not true in our specific case. If I hadn’t called, her old magic band would have been sitting dormant on my account. She wouldn’t have been able to use it with her band ticket. And our accounts wouldn’t have been connected. Disney is magical and all but not *that* magical (haha)....that it just magically connects an old magic band on a completely different account to a brand new account someone creates with no help.