VWL Groupies & Lovers Thread (Special Collectors Edition 2.5) updated 2 February 2025

[DiznyDi]

For the May travelers, jekjones has posted a thread on Mousecellaneous about AP Magic Bands. Worth reading if you're an Annual Passholder. I knew nothing about the AP MB's. You can request through your MDE account. As long as you're at least 10 days out, you still have time to customize and get them prior to your trip.

 

[twokats]

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend.

The wedding pictures were fantastic. I am sure she will remember that day forever!

I am sitting here with my darling husband watching the Masters. Needless to say I don't usually follow it, but my laptop is in the living room and I needed to get some work done, so hence, I am watching the Masters!!

I am hoping not to get too depressed this next week. We were originally leaving for WDW and our Disney cruise on Friday, but the ordeal with the broken bones meant my surgeon asked me to postpone the trip til September. I do so need a getaway, but it is not to be.

W have the sun kinda shining right now, but we had some hard rain this morning. We are due for a front, which could bring us some really major weather. But it is that time of year for us, so we are praying that we don't get a tornado or wind wall out of it tonight. We desperately need the rain, just not any damage from wind and hail.

 

[Granny]

For the May travelers, jekjones has posted a thread on Mousecellaneous about AP Magic Bands. Worth reading if you're an Annual Passholder. I knew nothing about the AP MB's. You can request through your MDE account. As long as you're at least 10 days out, you still have time to customize and get them prior to your trip.

Thanks for the referral to that thread. Interesting that so many things are going on that it's hard to keep up with new developments.

I went on my MDE account but I couldn't request the AP Magic Band since my AP is not yet active. So it doesn't work with vouchers which is all we have right now. Still, it is great info to share with us...thanks again!

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

For the May travelers, jekjones has posted a thread on Mousecellaneous about AP Magic Bands. Worth reading if you're an Annual Passholder. I knew nothing about the AP MB's. You can request through your MDE account. As long as you're at least 10 days out, you still have time to customize and get them prior to your trip.

I ordered mine a week and a half ago or so. Got a message that it shipped via USPS - guess they're reducing the expenses from a few months ago when they shipped UPS? Anyway it said delivery would be by the 12th but so far not here. USPS says by the 17th - I think they got the Pony Express involved for the shipment out west.

I am hoping not to get too depressed this next week. We were originally leaving for WDW and our Disney cruise on Friday, but the ordeal with the broken bones meant my surgeon asked me to postpone the trip til September. I do so need a getaway, but it is not to be.

W have the sun kinda shining right now, but we had some hard rain this morning. We are due for a front, which could bring us some really major weather. But it is that time of year for us, so we are praying that we don't get a tornado or wind wall out of it tonight. We desperately need the rain, just not any damage from wind and hail.

So sorry about your delayed trip Kathy but glad you have a new one scheduled. And good luck with the weather! We too could use some good rain but wind and warmer weather is all that we've seen and that's the forecast for the next week or two.

 

[jimmytammy]

Moose Dust to all for a wonderful week!!

 

[eliza61]

Granny, Msmithmd is correct. This shows up no where in your MDE reservations. I took a screen shot with my phone to have just in case we need it. When Mom and I did BOG lunch in February, we had no problem at all. Check in with the CM's at the booth prior to crossing the bridge. They should be able to see your reservation on their iPad and will let you go ahead of the line. If not, well that's why you took the screen shot.

WELCOME back Heather! Was so very nice following your trip on FB. So glad you enjoyed Boardwalk. We'll be staying there for the first time in just a few short weeks.

Ohio is looking at a high of 76 tomorrow. Promises to be a warm and sunny day. My kind of weather!

Also going to throw in my tip for the thanks.

 

[horselover]

I am hoping not to get too depressed this next week. We were originally leaving for WDW and our Disney cruise on Friday, but the ordeal with the broken bones meant my surgeon asked me to postpone the trip til September. I do so need a getaway, but it is not to be.

Awwww I'm sorry Kathy. I hope you were able to do it before final payment so you didn't incur any penalties.

Thanks for letting people know about the AP bands Diane. I didn't order one. I have so many MBs already but now that I have my customized purple sparkly MB I'm not giving it up! MBs can be reused on future trips (up to 3 yrs) even if it's not a AP band. I don't want to customize another one. When I'm tired of the purple one I'll make a new color.

Hope everyone has a great week. It's finally Spring here!

 

[Kathymford]

Awwww I'm sorry Kathy. I hope you were able to do it before final payment so you didn't incur any penalties. Thanks for letting people know about the AP bands Diane. I didn't order one. I have so many MBs already but now that I have my customized purple sparkly MB I'm not giving it up! MBs can be reused on future trips (up to 3 yrs) even if it's not a AP band. I don't want to customize another one. When I'm tired of the purple one I'll make a new color. Hope everyone has a great week. It's finally Spring here!

The thing I don't get though, is I think they ship whether you customize or not, right? Seems like such a waste. Including my AP band I have 3 bands, plus possibly 2 more coming for my Nov split stay!

 

[eliza61]

Saw this on youtube. Now I thought it was hilarious but I will give a warning, it's got Hitler as the main character and I recognize he's generally not a historical figure most could ever find funny.

In my defense, I loved the movie "the producers" and "springtime in Germany"

Anyhoo, this is the link on the theme planning board. It will then direct you to the youtube video.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3262951

 

[horselover]

The thing I don't get though, is I think they ship whether you customize or not, right? Seems like such a waste. Including my AP band I have 3 bands, plus possibly 2 more coming for my Nov split stay!

Yes they do. If you don't choose a color they just ship you a grey one. I really wish they'd give people the option to opt out of getting a new one for each trip. Maybe they will in the future. Such a waste of money. They can keep shipping me new ones if they want to but I'm going to keep using my purple one I made until they offer purple as a choice on the website.

 

[wdwfan1]

The thing I don't get though, is I think they ship whether you customize or not, right? Seems like such a waste. Including my AP band I have 3 bands, plus possibly 2 more coming for my Nov split stay!

we already have 6 each. Does seem like a waste.

 

[jimmytammy]

Saw this on youtube. Now I thought it was hilarious but I will give a warning, it's got Hitler as the main character and I recognize he's generally not a historical figure most could ever find funny.

In my defense, I loved the movie "the producers" and "springtime in Germany"

Anyhoo, this is the link on the theme planning board. It will then direct you to the youtube video.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3262951

Eliza
I saw this Sunday and got a kick out of it. I think diehard WDW fans will get it. Hitler was a bad dude no doubt, but they did a good job with making this funny. I guess it boils down to not taking ourselves too seriously.

 

[PoohsFan1]

Saw this on youtube. Now I thought it was hilarious but I will give a warning, it's got Hitler as the main character and I recognize he's generally not a historical figure most could ever find funny.

In my defense, I loved the movie "the producers" and "springtime in Germany"

Anyhoo, this is the link on the theme planning board. It will then direct you to the youtube video.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3262951

That was hilarious, thank you for sharing. Actually, if you go to the YouTube site and type in WDW and Hitler, there's a whole bunch of these with different subject matters, they use the same movie clip but the subtitles are changed. My favorite is the one about how he was unable to get into Le Cellier. I happened to show DH some of these videos about a week ago and he couldn't stop laughing, I will have to make sure to show him this one too

 

[MiaSRN62]

Saw this on youtube. Now I thought it was hilarious but I will give a warning, it's got Hitler as the main character and I recognize he's generally not a historical figure most could ever find funny.

In my defense, I loved the movie "the producers" and "springtime in Germany"

Anyhoo, this is the link on the theme planning board. It will then direct you to the youtube video.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3262951

LOL....there is actually a lot of truth in what is being conveyed here. Thanks for the chuckle this morning eliza

 

[Lisann]

How come there are no 3-bdrm grand villas at the Lodge? Do you think Disney will ever add on to the current DVC se.ction... I mean, there's enough land to, isn't there? VWL are so popular, I think there needs to be an expansion!

 

[Granny]

How come there are no 3-bdrm grand villas at the Lodge? Do you think Disney will ever add on to the current DVC se.ction... I mean, there's enough land to, isn't there? VWL are so popular, I think there needs to be an expansion!

Lisa...welcome to our little thread here!

VWL is a very small resort, and it has been reported that they cannot expand since it is located near a protected water/marsh area. There are no Grand Villas primarily because the resort is so small (132 villas?) and they probably didn't want to take up the space and make the resort have even less villas than it does. Only Disney knows the answer to that one. But we don't see an expansion there in the future.

I think it would be hard to expand any existing resort with a 2042 expiration date because the expansion would result in new points coming on the market that would also have that same date? Probably a pretty tough sell at new construction/point pricing that we've seen lately.

 

[Granny]

Saw this on youtube. Now I thought it was hilarious but I will give a warning, it's got Hitler as the main character and I recognize he's generally not a historical figure most could ever find funny.

In my defense, I loved the movie "the producers" and "springtime in Germany"

Anyhoo, this is the link on the theme planning board. It will then direct you to the youtube video.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3262951

Eliza...very funny stuff. And a good job at bringing up all the "issues" with the FP+ system.

I agree with Jimmy, this in no way makes light of the horrors of Hitler's regime. Those are historical atrocities that everyone is aware of and any reasonable person is disgusted and disturbed by. These kind of lampoon videos don't lessen the horror any more than Dr. Strangelove made nuclear bombing a funny thing to do.

 

[twinklebug]

Saw this on youtube. Now I thought it was hilarious but I will give a warning, it's got Hitler as the main character and I recognize he's generally not a historical figure most could ever find funny.

In my defense, I loved the movie "the producers" and "springtime in Germany"

Anyhoo, this is the link on the theme planning board. It will then direct you to the youtube video.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3262951

LOL....there is actually a lot of truth in what is being conveyed here. Thanks for the chuckle this morning eliza

Oh. Hey. There's one point in there I failed to consider when getting excited over the potential for learning people's behavior and making modifications to rides and media accordingly. I think I'm going to leave my MB in the care of my daughter outside the facilities should the need arise to use one. No need for the nerds in the utilidors to know how many times I go pee in a day.

 

[Muushka]

Eliza, now you've done it.

You have managed to find something that Hitler and I both agree on. Who knew?

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

So the little ponies bringing my AP Magic Band must have picked up the speed and my box arrived yesterday.



The ever popular Gray! Even though I have plenty of these I got the passholder band mostly for the slider and a little to see the card. Oh - and I didn't have a gray band yet.