IMO, having to open an app and click around to open your hotel door is /will be a pain. I will be asking for a key card at the front desk if my MBs no longer work. I have more than enough MBs to last as long as I want to travel to WDW.
Yeah they certainly won’t go away instantly.I don't see any reason to think you can't use them in the future. They make big bucks selling them. They also probably have about a million gray ones that they can give out when you check in.
I'd say it would take several years if they really want to phase them out.
I don't see any reason to think you can't use them in the future. They make big bucks selling them. They also probably have about a million gray ones that they can give out when you check in.
I'd say it would take several years if they really want to phase them out.
Disney didn’t spend $2 billion on magicbands specifically but infrastructure around it. That infrastructure isn’t leaving. The functions of the magicband will be furthered to the smart phone though. Disney has announced that.Disney spent $2 BILLION on The technology behind Magic Bands. It's not going away anytime in the foreseeable future.
If the intent was to do away with Magic Bands, we would not be seeing dozens of new designs showing up almost weekly. Disney's little experiment with allowing resort guests to purchase a very limited selection of special designs resulted in a massive wave of purchases and showed them that they no longer have to give MBs away for people to use them. Hence this change.
The announcement was that you no longer get one for "free". Not that they were going away. IMO, adding some functionality to the app is an enhancement aimed mostly at guests that stay off-property and those that don't like wearing MBs. It's an alternative/backup, but not a replacement. Way, way, way more convenient to scan my band rather than pull out my phone and open the app.
Steve
i checked my account and it does have that "warning" about them not being complimentary in 2021. I looked at my order that i put in after booking our trip and it still has ours free due to a "pre-order rate" or some verbage like that. it definetly says pre-order in the wording. And its the plain color ones. The ones with designs are discounted due to pre-order but they are not free.
I looked in mine for the heck of it and I can get the plain colors for the preorder rate of $5. We were going to order the designed ones anyway, but I was curious!
just out of curiosity, when are you going? We are going in February. I wonder if that pre-order rate changes the closer to your trip you customize.
June 5th
Maybe it’s based on when you booked?just out of curiosity, when are you going? We are going in February. I wonder if that pre-order rate changes the closer to your trip you customize.