We had this at POR in June as well. But when we went to Contempo Café for dinner one night, the Rapid Refill was activated. Not sure if this normal or if they just use sometimes.
Hurricane Hanna, That's interesting about it only being a test run which makes sense. I'm sure Disney doesn't do even the smallest thing without testing and getting feedback ... Stacy J. Aswad is the host of Must-Do-Disney which is the promotional program that plays on your t.v. when you stay at an onsite resort. If you've stayed onsite, you know her. I don't like to watch the news or regular t.v. when I'm at Disney to maintain my "escape". So I make my family watch Disney Channel or Must Do Disney all the time. Drives them nuts.
Well it's Disney's fault for putting hardware in a cup
Oh, we bought mugs. I discovered the difference with the two machines sleepily getting morning fill ups when one machine was picky and one wasn't, and confirmed this watching people fill up regular non-Disney travel mug, etc.
Well it's Disney's fault for putting hardware in a cup
Actually the price has increased to 17.99.It's $16.99.
Why try to cheat it? They obviously had to put in chips for a reason.
Please people, we're talking a few dollars here..
Eventually we won't even be able to get our own drinks. Or they can do what other amusement parks do and have an employee scan your cup before you can fill. Either scenario would be completely annoying.
Just pay it so we can all avoid that
To be totally fair, I don't think the person trying to hack it is trying to get free drinks. Also, even if you could change the data (apparantly you can't do anything to it unless you know the right bits or something from another forum so that's part of why it's hard to figure out a method. Someone basically needs to find a key for that) you'd need to have a scanner to reset the info each time. This chip doesn't have any capacity to actually compute anything so you can't give it an algorithm to keep changing the data itself. It just holds data. It'd look pretty fishy to pull out a scanner and be scanning your cup in a Disney park, and even if you went somewhere secluded to do it, isn't the timer only for a few minutes? Hiding out and scanning a cup would take longer than that so there doesn't even seem to be much point.It's $16.99.
Why try to cheat it? They obviously had to put in chips for a reason.
Please people, we're talking a few dollars here..
Eventually we won't even be able to get our own drinks. Or they can do what other amusement parks do and have an employee scan your cup before you can fill. Either scenario would be completely annoying.
Just pay it so we can all avoid that
You can use them in the parks, but you can only fill them with ice water. We take ours to the park and have saved a lot.
Didn't you already say this in this thread?
Fair enough, but I'm sure there are plenty of people who will now try to get free coffee and iced tea. I just don't understand the rationale of trying to cheat the system, it hurts everyone in the long run. If people just took some responsibility for themselves, followed rules, didn't have such entitled attitudes, then we wouldn't need extra hardware, software, employees etc- which all lead to higher prices for all of us.
No chip readers in any resort on iced tea and coffee.