Disney to begin allowing purchase of MagicBands without linking to a ticket

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Ability to purchase MagicBands without an existing ticket now expanding to more retail locations

 

[USAND3KIDS]

I think the reason people are buying extra unlinked bands is so that when they do travel to Disney with the free linked Magic Bands they receive, they will have another whole set of bands which are not eligible for advance fast pass booking, but are indeed able to be used at the in park kiosks. So these people cheating the system can now pre book 3 rides then get to the park and pull infinite amounts of Fast Passes depending on how many bands they purchased separately. Always someone trying to cheat the system and make life harder for the rest of us who pay a lot of money to be crap out of luck trying to do things the moral way.

 

[Tuvalu]

I think the reason people are buying extra unlinked bands is so that when they do travel to Disney with the free linked Magic Bands they receive, they will have another whole set of bands which are not eligible for advance fast pass booking, but are indeed able to be used at the in park kiosks. So these people cheating the system can now pre book 3 rides then get to the park and pull infinite amounts of Fast Passes depending on how many bands they purchased separately. Always someone trying to cheat the system and make life harder for the rest of us who pay a lot of money to be crap out of luck trying to do things the moral way.

Though you can purchase a band without immediately linking it to an account, you cannot USE any band without it being linked to an account. Attempts to use a unlinked band will be unsuccessful.

 

[Rob562]

Also, FP+ usage is not a function of the Band, but rather a function of a park ticket and it's associated MDE profile. Someone could buy a second park ticket, create a fake MDE profile for it to make a second set of FP+ selections, but that would be a very expensive gaming of the system...

-Rob