MagicBand+ announced

MickeyLuv'r

MickeyLuv'r

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CaptainAmerica said:
You will always be able to use the old ones. Even if they "phased out" the MagicBand 2, that would just mean they stop selling new ones. Even the old Magic Band 1s still work.
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You mean just like WDW promised their tickets would never expire?

Or the original refillable resort mugs would be refillable forever? (You know, like the ones that say "Dixie Landings", from the time when each resort had a unique mug design.)

And what ever happened to Pal Mickey? The one that interacted around the park?


And what about all the Sorcerers of the MK cards we collected?
 
CaptainAmerica

CaptainAmerica

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MickeyLuv'r said:
You mean just like WDW promised their tickets would never expire?
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No-expire tickets never expired.

MickeyLuv'r said:
Or the original refillable resort mugs would be refillable forever? (You know, like the ones that say "Dixie Landings", from the time when each resort had a unique mug design.)
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Never happened.

MickeyLuv'r said:
And what ever happened to Pal Mickey? The one that interacted around the park?
And what about all the Sorcerers of the MK cards we collected?
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I don't recall these ever being promised to last forever.
 
Castle Cake Apologist

Castle Cake Apologist

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MickeyLuv'r said:
You mean just like WDW promised their tickets would never expire?
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You can walk up to ticketing to this day with a previously purchased non-expiring ticket and still use it, though most people keep them as vintage souvenirs at this point.

And Pal Mickey was always only for 100 Years of Magic. The fact that they kept extending how long he still worked was just added gravy.

EDIT: Cap beat me to it.
 
Andrew C

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DisneyExpert said:
You can walk up to ticketing to this day with a previously purchased non-expiring ticket and still use it, though most people keep them as vintage souvenirs at this point.

And Pal Mickey was always only for 100 Years of Magic. The fact that they kept extending how long he still worked was just added gravy.

EDIT: Cap beat me to it.
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I have a 30th anniversary "disneyland passport" ticket. Only souvenir ticket I have. Maybe I will try to use it one day. lol
 
MickeyLuv'r

MickeyLuv'r

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CaptainAmerica said:
No-expire tickets never expired.


Never happened.


I don't recall these ever being promised to last forever.
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I assure you, back in the day, CM's proudly proclaimed WDW did not and would not ever sell expiring tickets.

And for the record, one of mine did.

If you have (had) an old non-expire ticket on you account, but buy a new one, WDW is supposed to 'prioritize' the newest ticket, especially after you tell them to prioritize the newest ticket, which I had. If they make a mistake though, and you catch it, you still can't get your old ticket replaced with a non-expire ticket. If you don't catch it, you are just out of luck. In my case, I noticed because I tried to park hop. The older ticket was not a hopper, but the newer one was.


I was able to get the 1 day entitlement back, but not as a never-expire.

And that was several years ago. If you make that mistake now, the best 'replacement' any CM can issue is a ticket that expires in a few months.

Yes, the original refillable mugs were supposed to be refillable forever.
 
Castle Cake Apologist

Castle Cake Apologist

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MickeyLuv'r said:
I assure you, back in the day, CM's proudly proclaimed WDW did not and would not ever sell expiring tickets.

And for the record, one of mine did.

If you have (had) an old non-expire ticket on you account, but buy a new one, WDW is supposed to 'prioritize' the newest ticket, especially after you tell them to prioritize the newest ticket, which I had. If they make a mistake though, and you catch it, you still can't get your old ticket replaced with a non-expire ticket. If you don't catch it, you are just out of luck. In my case, I noticed because I tried to park hop. The older ticket was not a hopper, but the newer one was.


I was able to get the 1 day entitlement back, but not as a never-expire.

And that was several years ago. If you make that mistake now, the best 'replacement' any CM can issue is a ticket that expires in a few months.
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I've been regularly going to WDW for 30+ years, and worked at MK for several of them, and not once have I ever heard a CM proclaim that Disney would NEVER sell tickets that expire. That would be quite a lofty statement for a front-line CM to make in the first place.
 
MickeyLuv'r

MickeyLuv'r

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DisneyExpert said:
You can walk up to ticketing to this day with a previously purchased non-expiring ticket and still use it, though most people keep them as vintage souvenirs at this point.

And Pal Mickey was always only for 100 Years of Magic. The fact that they kept extending how long he still worked was just added gravy.

EDIT: Cap beat me to it.
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See my post above.

1.) In order to use it, you first need to get it replaced. You can't actually just use it.
2.) You certainly can't modify it, even though that was the policy that existed when it was bought.

Anyhow, my main point wasn't details of how ticket policies have changed, but rather that they have not remained as they once were.

Once upon a time, WDW used to make a marketing claim about how their parks were premium parks, and premium parks didn't sell expiring tickets. Of course, that was never in the fine print of their policies.
 
MickeyLuv'r

MickeyLuv'r

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DisneyExpert said:
I've been regularly going to WDW for 30+ years, and worked at MK for several of them, and not once have I ever heard a CM proclaim that Disney would NEVER sell tickets that expire. That would be quite a lofty statement for a front-line CM to make in the first place.
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Okay.

I've been going to WDW for over 45 years. I totally agree, it was very loft statement, that's why I still remember it. I also recall being skeptical.
 
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aaronml

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aaronml said:
From a photo online, the FCC ID appears to be 2AYEL-7282.

Usually Disney directly registers things like this with the FCC under one of their standard corporate entities. In this case, the FCCID belongs to a shell company. The only other company I’ve seen do their FCC filings that way is Amazon, though I’m sure there are others.

Given the recent “Hey Disney” partnership, it’s possible that Amazon might be involved in the creation of the MB+ also.
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Digging a bit deeper here…. I’m pretty confident at this point that the MagicBand+ hardware was developed by Amazon.

For Reference:
- MagicBand+ https://fccid.io/2AYEL-7282
- Amazon Echo Dot 4th Generation https://fccid.io/2ALXK-2767

Both were registered to shell companies with a California mailing address, but are registered in Delaware under CSC (Corporation Service Company). The President of both shell companies is named Brian Harrison. If you compare the Request for Confidentiality letters, they are almost identical.
 
freediverdude

freediverdude

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LSLS said:
I'll take my guess. $60 for the band. Charger costs extra.

Honestly, I'm surprised they didn't put more features in so they can charge a ton more.
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I agree, this looks like they originally planned to put an lcd screen on it and then that part got cut from the project. Could have been basically a parks smart watch.
 
CaptainAmerica

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egg said:
I’m surprised they didn’t go full on Disney MagicWatch and make it something that people could reasonably buy and wear outside of the parks too. Not that they still couldn’t. But this feels kind of gimmicky for me.
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If they wanted to go they route, they'd sell a launcher/UI for Apple Watch. They're not a hardware company.
 
matt9112

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aaronml said:
Digging a bit deeper here…. I’m pretty confident at this point that the MagicBand+ hardware was developed by Amazon.

For Reference:
- MagicBand+ https://fccid.io/2AYEL-7282
- Amazon Echo Dot 4th Generation https://fccid.io/2ALXK-2767

Both were registered to shell companies with a California mailing address, but are registered in Delaware under CSC (Corporation Service Company). The President of both shell companies is named Brian Harrison. If you compare the Request for Confidentiality letters, they are almost identical.
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So the righteous TWDC uses shell companies and registers things in Delaware to avoid taxes too? Odd...i thought they cared about everyone and stuff.
 

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