Official wait times now available on the iPhone via official WDW app 'Mobile Magic'

asianway

asianway

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DisneyInsider said:
It probably looked something like this. Where kids just bombarded the characters like they were red carpet celebrities. Looks like if you wanted a photo of your child with a character you had to enjoy it with a few other people as well. Although, I am sure I will be told how this is a flawed representation and that things were really not like that.

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Depended on the time of day. Early mornings while people were running to space mountain, no. Later in the day it was a melee.

Then came the advent of the character attendant to escort the character. A good thing. Of course somewhere along the line characters were no longer allowed to roam(the main reason they needed escorts) and we added Photopasses and queue ropes.

Union rules helping things along we end up with 4 CMs needed to take pictures of inanimate objects.

No one wants to go back to that but somewhere in between lies common sense. Kind of like at DLR...
 
Tigger1988

Tigger1988

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DisneyInsider said:
It probably looked something like this. Where kids just bombarded the characters like they were red carpet celebrities. Looks like if you wanted a photo of your child with a character you had to enjoy it with a few other people as well. Although, I am sure I will be told how this is a flawed representation and that things were really not like that.
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No, you'd be correct. Most of my childhood photos with characters include no fewer than 5 random children in them at a time. There was also the time a grown women PUSHED my 5 year old self out of the way so her kid could get a picture with Chip and Dale. Luckily the CMs who were "friends with" Chip and Dale that day saw what happened. They took my hand, walked me over to a nearby bench and spent a few moments with me alone.
 
Florida_is_hot

Florida_is_hot

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If I could afford data in the USA. (I heard of people paying $200+ for data roaming in the States)

If there was an Android App .... most people I know hate Apple and the iPhone (maybe they will try and sue us for thinking that way?)

If I believed in using a smartphone, annoying everybody around me, and being extremely rude with my phone stuck in my ear(while on Vacation).


Well then maybe this be ok.
 
Tigger1988

Tigger1988

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This app doesn't require the phone being "stuck to your ear". And I pay $30 a month for my data plan on AT&T, not sure who is paying $200 for data alone...
 
Florida_is_hot

Florida_is_hot

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If I could afford data in the USA. (I heard of people paying $200+ for data roaming in the States)

I am not American

but I also will never buy an iPhone either.
 
Pioneer Hall

Pioneer Hall

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wdwmagic said:
Don't you get the exact wait times only when you are inside the park? Outside the park you just get the low, moderate etc
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This is correct. The GPS has to pick you in the park in order to get the exact wait times. Everywhere else you get the See Now, Moderate, High thing.
 
bhg469

bhg469

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Maybe not data roaming but if you dont have an unlimited plan you could get up that high. Maybe you meant overage charges. On the note of apple, i agree the lawsuits are silly. Apple delivers a product that is perfect for some people. They dont need to prevent other people from buying alternative hardware.
 
Thurp

Thurp

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I played with this for a bit yesterday. Indeed you get wait times and FP distribution times when you are in the park.

Sometimes I was a bit confused as to whether the wait times I was looking at were current or not. I didn't find a "last updated at" type of timestamp which would have been useful since we all know that data speeds at the parks can occasionally be less than ideal.

But it worked and it worked well.
 
Pioneer Hall

Pioneer Hall

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Thurp said:
I played with this for a bit yesterday. Indeed you get wait times and FP distribution times when you are in the park.

Sometimes I was a bit confused as to whether the wait times I was looking at were current or not. I didn't find a "last updated at" type of timestamp which would have been useful since we all know that data speeds at the parks can occasionally be less than ideal.

But it worked and it worked well.
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I am pretty certain that it is real time and tied to the system that posts the wait times at most attractions. I have rarely seen the time shown on my mobile magic app to be different from what was is posted outside the attraction.
 
Thurp

Thurp

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DisneyInsider said:
I am pretty certain that it is real time and tied to the system that posts the wait times at most attractions. I have rarely seen the time shown on my mobile magic app to be different from what was is posted outside the attraction.
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Right, what I meant was that if you had your phone in your pocket for say an hour and you opened the app again, the times you were looking at were most likely not updated yet. It could take a little longer for the app to go and get the latest times but without a timestamp I couldn't tell if that had happened yet or not.

I'll play with it some more today.
 
Pioneer Hall

Pioneer Hall

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Thurp said:
Right, what I meant was that if you had your phone in your pocket for say an hour and you opened the app again, the times you were looking at were most likely not updated yet. It could take a little longer for the app to go and get the latest times but without a timestamp I couldn't tell if that had happened yet or not.

I'll play with it some more today.
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Gotcha. I would just go back to the menu and select attractions again so it has to open the list.
 
Rasvar

Rasvar

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Monty said:
And if I understand correctly, the app is GPS based and gives you wait times for the park you're in or nearest, so from BW you likely wouldn't be able to find out the wait time for Splash Mountain beyond the "See Now", "Moderate" or "High Demand" that's available from further away.

~~Luddites were wrong~~
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This is correct. Realtime info only when physically in the park.
 
Monty

Monty

Brilliant...and Canadian
In the Parks
No
Regarding data charges...

For those of us who do not reside in the USA, if we don't have an unlocked phone or use our home provider even when traveling with an unlocked phone, when we come to visit your fair country we have to pay for data through our home provider, not through whatever local providers you have. This is called "roaming data". There have been reports of data charges in the tens of thousands of dollars for people who travel without making appropriate plans before leaving.

In my case, I have a data plan from Rogers that allows me to roam into the USA without additional charges, but the largest data cap available is only 500MB/month, which is not very much data depending on usage [streaming video can eat up a lot of data]. My plan costs the same as a Canada-only 500MB data plan plus $10 to allow roaming in the USA. If I travel to elsewhere in the world, I have to prearrange for a data plan that covers where I'm going and how much data I expect to use.

A one-week data pass for roaming in the USA costs $100 for 250MB.
A one-week data pass for roaming internationally costs $225 for 75MB.

For customers who have domestic Data Plans, data roaming in the U.S., Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands is $0.006 per KB, or approximately $6 per MB.

Data roaming without any plan at all costs $0.03 per KB - or approximately $60.00 per MB.

All of the above are based on current Rogers rates for data. As you can see, traveling with a smart phone could get very expensive very quickly if you don't plan ahead.
 
Monty

Monty

Brilliant...and Canadian
In the Parks
No
Polydweller said:
Monty, all that is good info, but unless I miss something the app isn't in the Canada store. Don't why it wouldn't be.
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No, thus far the app is only available in the U.S. App Store.

I posted info on how Canadians can create a U.S. account in an earlier post in this thread.

EDIT: Earlier post
 

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