Disney Genie announcement

[AnnaKristoff2013]

Ummmmmm

Id say exact opposite........Other than the top 3 rides, theres barely any wait times in 3 of the 4 parks

On a random Tuesday in October during historically low crowd levels for Disney because of Covid. It's not going to stay that way.

 

[Jrb1979]

Saving 3-4 hours for 3 rides is better than saving 2 hours for ten rides with ten minutes waits for me. I won’t even bother with G+ at RD.

I would never pay $15 for 3 rides.

This isn't meant towards you. This discussion is proving Disney is right. People are happy with 3 LL a day.

 

[BrotherCraig]

For those having issues added Genie+, someone helped me to get it added. I had to log into the MDE online and go to My Plans - Change Tickets. I scrolled down to Genie+ and added. It rang up the total correctly w/tax and I paid for it. Done.

 

[Brewerfan101]

I don’t know if it’s been posted but I can confirm stacking. At 11am, we booked TT for 330-430. At 1pm, we were able to book another LL but we’re at DHS having cocktails so didn’t bother to do so.

I assume you could have looked for some other attraction that was available prior to your 330 - 430 if you had exercised that (and weren't at DHS)? Further, if you did book something else prior to your 330 - 430, I assume once you tapped in to that earlier attraction, you could have searched LL again?

 

[LSUfan4444]

I would never pay $15 for 3 rides.

This isn't meant towards you. This discussion is proving Disney is right. People are happy with 3 LL a day.

So you would pay for it so long as you used it on 6 rides even if it meant the same or more time standing in line but more time on your phone?

 

[DavidNYC]

The point is.... it is still available! which means everyone already has the opportunity to get it also. If others choose to ride 5 different attractions.. that is their choice. But there are people/families that choose to do 2 rides multiple times. Why not?
Why should someone that has been there since opening be forced to wait until a late arriving person gets a chance to use it??
There is no reason to limit it to once.... IMHO!!

Um - no. You don't seem to understand how the system works. Not everyone has had the chance to get it yet. You get one ride at a time. It will take you the better part of day to get through all of the rides. You seem to want a system that benefits you to the detriment of everyone else who paid the same amount you did simply because you choose to be in the park earlier. A family that wants to do a ride a 2nd time after using LL can get on line like everyone else. I could use your rationale to say that purchase limits on items are stupid. I mean if they're "still available" . . . . Disney has decided to make a system to allow the largest number of people to be able to ride each attraction. You just want a system that allows you to ride whatever attraction you want as many times as you want even if it means someone else won't get to ride. As I said - you may not like it - but saying it's stupid and there's no reason for it is just amazingly selfish. There is an exceptionally easy to understand reason for this which I don't think is lost on most everyone else who understands the phrase "you've already had your turn".

 

[AnnaKristoff2013]

Further, if you did book something else prior to your 330 - 430, I assume once you tapped in to that earlier attraction, you could have searched LL again?

Nobody knows the answer to this yet. At least nobody has tested this yet because it's probably still too early in the day for this to have happened.

 

[DisneyKidds]

Pretty much! Just confirmed 7DMT did the same thing... widespread ILL$ timeslots available again starting as soon as 9:15 EST

So, maybe there’s no real benefit to getting up to snag a LL return between 7am and 9am? The best way I’d see using this whole G+/ILL$ thing is real time….get to the ride and if standby is too long see what’s available for purchase?? Perhaps Disney is trying to encourage that kind of real time use???

 

[Joeboo25]

I wonder if this is just a random way to spread out the crowd. there could be an algorithm or it could be at random so as to not prompt all guests to the same rides at the same time

That seems likely to me. Genie+ is supposed to have a certain amount of AI involved and the whole point seems to be spreading out the crowd. FOP lines get huge at RD, but imagine how short they would be if the whole day's worth of people were averaged out from open to close?

 

[AnnaKristoff2013]

So basically what I'm getting from today (a very low crowd day, probably a 1), is that on a moderate to high crowd day getting a SDD LL at 7 am is going to be of similar difficulty to getting a ROTR boarding group last year. They will probably all be gone in seconds.

 

[Sunelis]

My tip board - "something went wrong". Update the app. log off/on the app, reboot phone, uninstall reinstall app.
Still having the same issue. Any of you have any tricks I forgot to try to resolve the issue?

 

[LSUfan4444]

So basically what I'm getting from today (a very low crowd day, probably a 1), is that on a moderate to high crowd day getting a SDD LL at 7 am is going to be of similar difficulty to getting a ROTR boarding group last year. They will probably all be gone in seconds.

Depends on the quantity they release at that time. One thing we do know from day 1 is that they have the ability to not release all reservations at 7 am. The tech is there for a staggered release.

Another thing to remember is VQ's were free, this is not. That will matter. There is excitement today. Bloggers are everywhere. People want to take part of the new shiny thing and the cost is low. That may not be the case on Thanksgiving Day.

 

[JETSDAD]

So you would pay for it so long as you used it on 6 rides even if it meant the same or more time standing in line but more time on your phone?

I want to use it for all rides....like I did with FP. I don't want to be in standby at all. I'm not one that is happy just because a wait is 'only 30 minutes'. Yes, I would use FP on Barnstormer if it meant saving 5 minutes....I would also use it on top rides over and over. Why must it be either quantity or quality?

 

[JETSDAD]

My tip board - "something went wrong". Update the app. log off/on the app, reboot phone, uninstall reinstall app.
Still having the same issue. Any of you have any tricks I forgot to try to resolve the issue?

Mine is the same...it doesn't work at all for me and I've reinstalled 10+ times today. I have Genie + today and can't to anything with it (thankfully it was free).

 

[DavidNYC]

I would never pay $15 for 3 rides.

This isn't meant towards you. This discussion is proving Disney is right. People are happy with 3 LL a day.

Although at least based on MK times today, it seems people can easily get 6-10 rides using LL. Returns times have consistently been under 2 hours with many in the 45-90 minute range. I would think that most people who were in the park all day today would be able to do most all of the LL rides using LL over the course of the day. We'll see if that holds up but that's not bad. I still take issue with not being able to pick your return times, the inflexibility for those who aren't there all day, and the ILL rides but at least the return times for most rides aren't bad. DHS looks like it'll be a nightmare however . . . .

 

[leeniewdw]

Apologies if this has been answered (somewhere), but can you easily add your 'group' to a IA$ selection? Basically we are traveling with adult children and footing the bill (we each have our own rooms but they are tied to my CC). If my CC card is tied to their MDE (or Genie) I presume anything purchased will hit me. But can I make the selections for others in my F&F that include paid attractions? I could see that it might not work that way because making a free FP selection for your group is a bit different than committing to a paid ride. But in this case, we're paying for all of it, so want to see how "easy" it will be to keep us all on the same time schedule.

 

[Jrb1979]

So you would pay for it so long as you used it on 6 rides even if it meant the same or more time standing in line but more time on your phone?

It doesn't bother me to be on my phone when I am at the parks. I do it know when I'm in queues. "Family time" for my family doesn't happen while waiting to ride a ride.

 

[MainMom]

Although at least based on MK times today, it seems people can easily get 6-10 rides using LL. Returns times have consistently been under 2 hours with many in the 45-90 minute range. I would think that most people who were in the park all day today would be able to do most all of the LL rides using LL over the course of the day. We'll see if that holds up but that's not bad. I still take issue with not being able to pick your return times, the inflexibility for those who aren't there all day, and the ILL rides but at least the return times for most rides aren't bad. DHS looks like it'll be a nightmare however . . . .

But what rides are they?

 

[LSUfan4444]

Why must it be either quantity or quality?

You can't use it on tope rides over and over. You get one ride so unless you only wanted to do everything once, you're going to be disappointed. Standby lines are unavoidable so if you're basing success of G+ based on the ability to skip them altogether by gathering as many G+ as possible, you're going to be really really let down.

FP+ is not an option....it's a ghost. It's G+ and ILL or nothing. So you can base your judgement on the current reality of what is offered or what was.

All I am saying is, different people can book varying amounts of G+, to the same attractions and wait the same time in line.
There will be no direct correlation between _____ G+ and saving the most time in line. Yes, sometimes booking more may end up saving guests more time in line but there will be no magic number that correlates to a mendoza line for G+ value.

 

[LSUfan4444]

It doesn't bother me to be on my phone when I am at the parks. I do it know when I'm in queues. "Family time" for my family doesn't happen while waiting to ride a ride.

Okay....So you would pay for it so long as you used it on 6 rides even if it meant the same or more time standing in line?