SDFP: CHANGES COMING!! Beware the 7th of June?!

[McKelly]

Well, something happened over night, because one of my tickets has dropped off of MDE for my trip in July.

 

[5DisneyNuts]

Yes me too. Not all previously linked tickets are there.

 

[anomamatt]

Yes me too. Not all previously linked tickets are there.

And same for me... missing 4 tickets including a couple bought directly from WDW. Hoping I'll be able to re-link them.

 

[Marionnette]

Well, something happened over night, because one of my tickets has dropped off of MDE for my trip in July.

Yes me too. Not all previously linked tickets are there.

I have a number of tickets missing as well as one friend who had tickets. I hope it's a temporary glitch.

ETA: I logged out and logged back in on a different browser and it looks like my friend and I have been reunited and her tickets are there. Other missing tickets have also been returned to my account.

 

[pookadoo77]

Story I just saw....If not allowed let me know i can remove. http://www.chipandco.com/disney-world-plans-lock-mde-accounts-guests-abusing-fastpass-system-271631/

 

[ScrapYap]

About these unofficial tour guides. They definitely exist. But would you guess they get much business? My impression was that most guests know to avoid those offsite ticket seller places - don't most people avoid unofficial tour guides? Have you ever been approached by one of these tour guides? Have you ever seen one? Do they have kiosks set up at offsite hotels (the way ticket sellers used to set up at all the hotels selling partially used tickets - before biometrics)? Do they tend to target guests coming from other countries?

The articles are wrong when they say tour guides like this are loading up on FP at rope drop. As someone else said -- who's ever seen a guy with a bucket of bands at a kiosk? They'd just have a bunch of tickets on their MDE and would prebook FP. Probably they prebook all the most popular attractions, then they're ready when they get a client. They've been off my radar, and it's hard to imagine that there are very many of them or that it's easy for them to get clients. Unless I'm missing a piece of the puzzle. Those unofficial tour guides are probably watching this thread and learning all about Change Party, though now they'll have to enter the park with as many assistants as they have clients - so it's going to be a less and less profitable business.

What a pity that profit had to enter into it at all. As the poet said, "Though every prospect pleases, and only man is vile."

 

[firsttimemom]

We are heading down next month. Just checked MDE and in the My Plans screen, some of my booked FP show "FastPass+ for: 3 guests" but when you click on it, it shows my entire party of 4. Seems to be one out of the 3 FP that I booked each day. I'm guessing this will all shake out at some point but I'll bet this will freak out more than a few people today.

 

[ktate82]

I logged into my account via Chrome and only my tickets were showing. It said that it wasn't able to fully load my friends and family. So I logged into to my account via Safari and everyone was there (I sometimes have problems with MDE and Chrome anyway). All my FP are there as well.

 

[BuckeyeBama]

Logged into the app on my droid and all of my plans are intact. My wife's AP is not listed in My Tickets, but it let me book a FP for her so it knows that she has a ticket assigned. Either still loading data or glitchy, but it seems to be largely ready for whatever they are going to do today.

 

[runwad]

All my tickets are there as well accessing thru chrome. We have 10 day NE tickets on our main profiles with 3 admissions left and 4 day tickets on our phantoms, all are showing.

For fun I went and booked fastpasses and it let me do 4 days out for everyone even the main profiles that only have 3 day tickets left on them, why would that be?

 

[LoopyDoopy]

About these unofficial tour guides. They definitely exist. But would you guess they get much business? My impression was that most guests know to avoid those offsite ticket seller places - don't most people avoid unofficial tour guides? Have you ever been approached by one of these tour guides? Have you ever seen one? Do they have kiosks set up at offsite hotels (the way ticket sellers used to set up at all the hotels selling partially used tickets - before biometrics)? Do they tend to target guests coming from other countries?

I can't even wrap my head around a normal person TRUSTING some stranger with sketchy magic bands. I can only assume this has to be tour guides who take groups of people into the parks and lead them around. I can only assume the people who would pay for this service would be either extremely wealthy or non English speakers and the wealthy folks can afford better ways of getting priority service.

 

[ScrapYap]

I can't even wrap my head around a normal person TRUSTING some stranger with sketchy magic bands. I can only assume this has to be tour guides who take groups of people into the parks and lead them around. I can only assume the people who would pay for this service would be either extremely wealthy or non English speakers and the wealthy folks can afford better ways of getting priority service.

I agree. I just can't see that it happens much.

 

[ScrapYap]

Waiting for a live report from @ArielSRL !!!

 

[ArielSRL]

I was able to book Fp on ticketless bands at the kiosk this Am. Will check change Party when I get a chance.

 

[hodad]

I've had cast members ask me if I was a tour guide when I ushered my family around the park with multiple magic bands before. But every time I loaded up SDFPs at City Hall at rope drop (removing millions, if not billions of FPs that good upstanding citizens would otherwise be able to reserve), I was the only one doing so.

 

[hiroMYhero]

I was able to book Fp on ticketless bands at the kiosk this Am. Will check change Party when I get a chance.

Thanks!

I can confirm that the Change Party function still works when moving FPs to ticketed people in MDE.

 

[hiroMYhero]

I've had cast members ask me if I was a tour guide when I ushered my family around the park with multiple magic bands before. But every time I loaded up SDFPs at City Hall at rope drop (removing millions, if not billions of FPs that good upstanding citizens would otherwise be able to reserve), I was the only one doing so.

I believe it's because former cast members work for the offsite tour guide companies and they are highly recognizable when in the parks.

So even if not too many are at kiosks, everyone knows their motives.

 

[jeremy1002]

Thanks!

I can confirm that the Change Party function still works when moving FPs to ticketed people in MDE.

To clarify, moving FP from non-ticketed to ticketed still works? Thanks.

 

[hiroMYhero]

To clarify, moving FP from non-ticketed to ticketed still works? Thanks.

Once the FP entitlement, it's now digital info, is in MDE, the Change Party function applies as long as the entitlement is moved to a ticketed person.

 

[Marionnette]

To clarify, moving FP from non-ticketed to ticketed still works? Thanks.

That's what @ArielSRL will be checking later. I'm assuming that they have FP+ on their ticketed account which must be used up first?