Our Magic Bands in their pretty box which we are not bringing home.
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Magic Bands
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Harry was identifying the owner of each Magic Band and the colour.
We let Harry pick his own MagicBand colour…3 times.
The first time was using my iPhone and I was just going to pick the first one he touched on my phone. But then he picked the pink one, twice. Then the default, very un-fun colour of grey. Finally he picked yellow, whew.
Since his little mind is learning more and more every day I decided to let him try picking again. This time he picked green. (Or at least that’s where he first touched on the iPad)
Finally with only 2 days left to choose I let him try one more time and well he just didn’t care, he just wanted to touch everything on the iPad. I need to disable 4 finger app switching as his fingers, plus my fingers, on the iPad at the same time, cause a lot of frustrating app switching.
His MagicBand is now orange because that is the latest colour he has been able to say. He picked up a large orange duck in the bathtub and said “Ownge”. We also did a quick Google image search for orange MagicBands and saw one around some chubby little kid’s arm, which made Leanne go “aw” which meant that was the colour Harry had to have.
On a side note I’m not exactly sure why he even gets a MagicBand as I don’t feel comfortable giving room charging privileges to an almost 2-year-old, and I highly doubt he will need his own key to our room (although I wouldn’t mind him taking the bus back to our room by himself to have a nap in the middle of the day; heck, if he did that I’d gladly give him charging privileges…)
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My Magic Band Experience
We were fortunate to be part of one of the first roll outs of Magic Bands last September during our stay at Disney’s Pop Century resort. Overall I am very pleased with them. We never used cash or our credit cards once. We did have to use our key to the world card at one table service restaurant, I’m not sure why though.
Things I love about Magic Bands:
- Don’t really need to carry a wallet.
- The server using our Magic Bands to locate us in Be Our Guest restaurant was so cool.
- They control everything.
- They’re always accessible. (This will be much more important on our next trip as trying to juggle money, Harry and a stroller at the same time will be challenging.)
I have two minor annoyances with the Magic Band system.
- Typing in a PIN each time is a pain. I see why it’s necessary for security but why can’t it be like some MasterCard/Visa payments that do not require a PIN for low cost items? Maybe it is because Disney doesn’t have any low cost items? 🙂
- Sometimes “getting the Mickeys to touch” is difficult. A few instances I had trouble getting the Mickey to turn green. Worse case it took me 2-3 attempts (a couple extra seconds) but maybe increasing the range of the RFID scanner a bit would help? Not really a big deal. The more I used the Magic Band the easier it was to get it to work on the first try.
Other than that, I have no other complaints about the new Magic Bands. I can’t wait to get our new ones during our fall Disney World excursion. Little Harry gets one too. We even let him pick his own colour.
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MagicBand Muppets
Pig and frog today.
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Muppet Magic Bandits
Magic bands! Need to push those bandits in tight – I already lost Animal. 🙁 Oh well, finding him on the ground somewhere will make some kid’s day!
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Magic Bands are ready
According to Disney My Experience website our customized Magic Bands are waiting for us at Pop Century. Maybe they will ship them to Canada for our next trip.
Logged into Disney’s website today and noticed the site was finally switched over to the Disney My Experience site. Also noticed the “Customize your MagicBand” modal that popped up.
Super excited to be part of the test. I’m a little disappointed that according to Disney’s website they only ship MagicBands to the United States other countries will get their MagicBands when they check in to their resort. It would be fun to play with the MagicBands while at home but it’s not a big deal as we can’t really do anything with them until we get down there anyway.
Also setup FastPass+ for all our days. We were even to get 3 FastPass+ reservations for our evening at Hollywood Studios even though we won’t arrive until 7pm. We will actually get to go on Toy Story Mania that night! I was looking forward to booking Illuminations and Wishes with FastPass+ but it doesn’t look like it is being offered for our test.
So far I am pretty impressed with the system although the learning curve is pretty high. I’ve had to make all sorts of adjustments and tweaks to work around the bugs and inconsistencies with the new system. Still it’s cool technology and I love it.