Good Info. How are old are they, Rscfa? We haven't been back since pre-covid over five years ago. We still have our Magic Bands from from our last trip, and even some going back years before. Any chance they would still work? Hate to pay for what used to be free, but also hate to have to pull out a card every time a check-in is needed.
ALL Magic Bands will work for everything that requires you to tap Mickey's head (room door, park entry, LL tapstyles, payment, etc. It doesn't matter how old they are. As long as they are still connected to your MDE account, they will work. Battery is irrelevant for those functions. Even an uncharged MB+ will work when you have to tap something. I have dozens of original Magic Bands dating back to 2013 and they all work just fine for everything important.Good Info. How are old are they, Rscfa? We haven't been back since pre-covid over five years ago. We still have our Magic Bands from from our last trip, and even some going back years before. Any chance they would still work? Hate to pay for what used to be free, but also hate to have to pull out a card every time a check-in is needed.
Hope you all are having a great weekend!
@Fangorn above is right - they'll work for all tap functions. The only thing they won't do is link ride photos over the air for rides that don't have a photo tap point at the end, like Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, and that deficit can be overcome by having MDE open on your phone and allowing it to use Bluetooth.Good Info. How are old are they, Rscfa? We haven't been back since pre-covid over five years ago. We still have our Magic Bands from from our last trip, and even some going back years before. Any chance they would still work? Hate to pay for what used to be free, but also hate to have to pull out a card every time a check-in is needed.
Hope you all are having a great weekend!
Check your MDE account, under Magic Bands and Cards. If the MBs you want to use are marked Active, you're good to go. If they're marked Inactive, tap there to make them Active again. If MDE says Lost or something else other than Active, then when you arrive I would go to the front desk to have them re-activated and linked to your MDE account. (There might be a note with a phone number to call - I can't remember.) Of course, this needs to be done for each person who's coming and for each MB you plan to use.
As already mentioned, if the Bands show as "Active" in your MDE, you should be fine. UNLESS, you're staying at either Beach Club or Yacht Club. If that's the case, you will most likely need to stop by the front desk and have them activate each person's band for use at that resort.
What’s different about YC/BC? We’ve stayed before and never had an issue with our MBs. Is this new?
Storm-a-long Bay. It may have changed (it's been a few years since I've stayed there), but previously, when they gave out free MBs, old bands would not work (only the one for the current trip). I talked to several managers there and the idea was that people were trying to use their old bands and giving them out family/friends not staying at Y&BC, to get them into SAB. All resorts have the ability to limit MB usage at the resort to a single band (as opposed to every band attached to your MDE account), but only Y&BC have ever actually done so.
Last time I was at SAB, a cm with an iPad scanned our bands.
So, a plastic room key would have worked as well.
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