Princess Weekend 2022

[DopeyBadger]

Just tried it and it did not work Does the challenger people use a different code?

Challenge use the solo race codes. But sometimes the codes don’t work until closer to event and sometimes after.

 

[azrivest]

I think the reddish orange is Moana? Lime is Mulan/half, Periwinkle is Tiana/10k, baby blue is Cinderella/5k

You're right I was too excited this morning

Even better I love Moana

 

[amandolin]

So I entered my Bib numbers for Photo Pass. What pictures am I getting with that? Is it just if they happen to take one or is it used for the characters, etc.? Do I still need my Magic Band?

 

[MissLiss279]

Just tried it and it did not work Does the challenger people use a different code?

Like @DopeyBadger said, the challenge participants use the same codes. I think the first time I tried to put in the half code, it didn’t work, but then I tried it again to make sure I didn’t type something wrong and it took it. And then it took the 5k/10k codes for me as well. You might try again, or wait.

 

[DopeyBadger]

So I entered my Bib numbers for Photo Pass. What pictures am I getting with that? Is it just if they happen to take one or is it used for the characters, etc.? Do I still need my Magic Band?

Any photo a photo pass photographer takes while at the race. Characters, on course, waiting in starting group, finish line, etc. They link based on the visibility of your bib number. You do not need your magic band for photos.

 

[MissLiss279]

So I entered my Bib numbers for Photo Pass. What pictures am I getting with that? Is it just if they happen to take one or is it used for the characters, etc.? Do I still need my Magic Band?

You don’t need a magic band. It is any on course photos where they can see your bib.

 

[SheHulk]

So I entered my Bib numbers for Photo Pass. What pictures am I getting with that? Is it just if they happen to take one or is it used for the characters, etc.? Do I still need my Magic Band?

Any photos that are taken by a PhotoPass photographer will show up. All the ones taken on the course (look for a short green tent they will be sitting under), castle photos if you stop and wait for the PhotoPass photographers for those, and and the majority of character stops also have PhotoPass photographers.
And they use your bib number with the code you entered to link to your account, not your Magic Band.

 

[The Expert]

My redeye landed about 5:45. Grabbed coffee and breakfast, then a Lyft to ESPN. I got here about 6:35 and the line was outside and down the sidewalk. They let us in the staging room inside about 7:15. I'm in the 5th row back, so maybe 100 people in front of me.

 

[DopeyBadger]

Headed to the Expo. Say hi if you see me.

 

[The Expert]

Headed to the Expo. Say hi if you see me.

I'll be the one with the big brown suitcase!

 

[Novatrix]

The expos are getting crazy. I get that we may have unintended consequences if purchasing of race merchandise was limited to only those with bibs (aka eBay resellers buying up all the 5k/kids race bibs), but maybe require that people can only purchase 2 of each SKU and must have purchases go through your MDE account?

Who ever thought I'd be arguing for Big Brother just so I can buy some cheap made in China magnets...

 

[DopeyBadger]

8:06am and I’d say about 450-650 or so.

 

[YohoAPiratesLife4Me]

Was there pre-order merchandise for this weekend?

 

[Naomeri]

Was there pre-order merchandise for this weekend?

Yes, there was, but preorders closed a long time ago. Like, maybe before W&D even?

 

[Herding_Cats]

So here I am, drinking my coffee and getting ready to take 4 kids to the dentist and I'M SO JEALOUS OF YOU ALL! Wishing I could have figured out a way to make getting down there happen, but maybe I'll content myself to just run my 5k tomorrow.

Don't forget that mobile check-out (in the MDE app) is totally a thing for the expo now.

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8:06am and I’d say about 450-650 or so.

During MW it took us about 50min to get through the building once people started moving. At 1pm on Wenesday.

 

[GirlfromTN]

Me too!! Sitting on the post-yoga bus now, slowly starving, but looking forward to heading to the expo after breakfast.

For anyone curious, the yoga mats are blue, thin, and completely without branding or decoration. But the carry bag is decent and has the runDisney logo.

The yoga was good, but actually only lasted about 45 minutes, so it ended well before sunrise, and there was A LOT of standing in line waiting to get in.

Sounds like it isn’t worth the cost or effort to get up early and wait around - at least for me. Especially if you just get a cheap generic yoga mat. And the experience was advertised/described as 60 min of yoga. So there’s another problem, if it was only 45.

 

[DopeyBadger]

I'll be the one with the big brown suitcase!

I spy The Expert.

 

[Naomeri]

Sounds like it isn’t worth the cost or effort to get up early and wait around - at least for me. Especially if you just get a cheap generic yoga mat.

Yeah, I wouldn’t do it again. But it was a fun one-and-done thing. And if it were Springtime Surprise yoga, there would have been a sunrise included in the “sunrise” yoga.

 

[DopeyBadger]

8:30 and the room is full. I’d estimate over a thousand.

 

[azrivest]

8:30 and the room is full. I’d estimate over a thousand.

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I'm in the 2nd to last row, arrived at 8:30 in the parking lot