You only tap Magic Bands for FP lines?

[CheriePenguin]

Just checking - you only need to swipe/tap your magic bands when you enter a FP line, correct? You don't need to when entering a standby line, right?

 

[ErinsMommy]

nope, you don't tap it on standby line.

 

[wilkeliza]

The only time you tap for standby is during EMH during regular park hours you don't tap to get into standby.

 

[Queen of the WDW Scene]

You do not need to when entering a SB line during regular park hours.
Although you will during evening EMH so they know you're a resort guest.

You will need to tap it...
-To get on DME (if your magic bands were mailed to you)
-To get into your resort room
-To enter a park
-To enter a FP+ line (there are 2 places to tap it but sometimes they do not use the second point in line)
-To charge to your room using the magic band
-To use your dining plan credits.

 

[HopperFan]

You do not need to when entering a SB line during regular park hours.
Although you will during evening EMH so they know you're a resort guest.

You will need to tap it...
-To get on DME (if your magic bands were mailed to you)
-To get into your resort room
-To enter a park
-To enter a FP+ line (there are 2 places to tap it but sometimes they do not use the second point in line)
-To charge to your room using the magic band
-To use your dining plan credits.

and ...

- Resort Parking Lot Gates
- Some Pool Gates
- Parking Lot Toll Booths
- PhotoPass
- Few extras like Design your Car at Test Track

 

[CheriePenguin]

Thanks! That's what I thought. Trying to figure out possible FP configurations where someone uses a family member's band for a FP, when the youngest and oldest don't want to ride, but the middle ones want to ride 2 overlapping rides.

 

[Queen of the WDW Scene]

and ...

- Resort Parking Lot Gates
- Some Pool Gates
- Parking Lot Toll Booths
- PhotoPass
- Few extras like Design your Car at Test Track

Haha yeah I forgot about a few things.
Where is my mind right now? lol

 

[cigar95]

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- Few extras like Design your Car at Test Track

Forgive the tangent.

The TT car design is an interesting one, in that it doesn't really care who you are, it just needs an identifier number that it can remember between the design point, the loading point, and the ride exit. It's one of the few (only?) cases where bands on the same MyDEx account aren't interchangeable.

I suspect that ANY rfid chip will work there, Disney or no Disney. I KNOW that expired WDW tickets will work. The system will remember the designs for at least a couple hours, but they definitely don't remember them when you bring the same band back for your trip a few months later. (Why would they? No reason to not purge the designs every night.)

 

[mikedoyleblogger]

Don't you also tap for standby to prove you're ticketed for Halloween and Christmas parties?

 

[HopperFan]

Don't you also tap for standby to prove you're ticketed for Halloween and Christmas parties?

No. You will be wearing a party wristband for those. Even EMM we had wristbands. Not everyone has a MB for those.

Only for EMH where all onsite guests get MB.

 

[BrianL]

Don't you also tap for standby to prove you're ticketed for Halloween and Christmas parties?

Nope. You get a separate wristband for that and they toss out all the non-party guests anyway, so there are no issues.You only need to tap when you first get your party wristband.

 

[HopperFan]

Nope. You get a separate wristband for that and they toss out all the non-party guests anyway, so there are no issues.You only need to tap when you first get your party wristband.

Or a hard ticket or let them scan an e ticket.

 

[mikedoyleblogger]

No. You will be wearing a party wristband for those. Even EMM we had wristbands. Not everyone has a MB for those.

Only for EMH where all onsite guests get MB.

Nope. You get a separate wristband for that and they toss out all the non-party guests anyway, so there are no issues.You only need to tap when you first get your party wristband.

Thanks and ugh. I'm familiar with the wristbands from DL parties. My hypersensitivity can tolerate my MB. But wristbands are problematic for me. An MB and a wristband together...my partner's going to have to talk me down from the ledge all night when we go to MVMCP in December.

 

[HopperFan]

Thanks and ugh. I'm familiar with the wristbands from DL parties. My hypersensitivity can tolerate my MB. But wristbands are problematic for me. An MB and a wristband together...my partner's going to have to talk me down from the ledge all night when we go to MVMCP in December.

If you can handle this better ... get a small roll of this. Wrap it not tight on your wrist area and have them put the band over it. You'll have more fun off the ledge than on it.

 

[china mom]

Thanks! That's what I thought. Trying to figure out possible FP configurations where someone uses a family member's band for a FP, when the youngest and oldest don't want to ride, but the middle ones want to ride 2 overlapping rides.

We do that all...the...time... My mother and her caregiver don't ride much, if anything at all that you would need a FP for. We book their FP for ones that the kids will like and give the kids those bands. The kids then just ride everything twice in a row.

 

[bumbershoot]

Thanks and ugh. I'm familiar with the wristbands from DL parties. My hypersensitivity can tolerate my MB. But wristbands are problematic for me. An MB and a wristband together...my partner's going to have to talk me down from the ledge all night when we go to MVMCP in December.

No one needs to *wear* the MB. I wear it half the time. You can even get a card that takes place of all the tapping uses of the MB if you really can't handle it or don't want to handle it.

Can't help you with the party wristband but the MB isn't something you have to use it especially wear.