We are staying at the Animal Kingdom Lodge this weekend, although spending our theme park days at Universal which, by the way, is looking awesome. Lots of ongoing expansion, apparent high quality (haven't noticed any broken effects so far with excellent maintence in guest areas), and friendly CMs.
We were at WDW last Thanksgiving and received separate KTTW cards for that stay. Although those KTTW cards used RFID technology for the room doors, there was no mention of it on the cards. The new cards have the following added to the back:
"This card interacts with radio frequency technology. For information, visit disneyworld.disney.go.com/faq/my-disney-experience/frequency-technology/"
I wonder if this change was made after the
official MyMagic+ announcement in January. Perhaps there were numerous questions about it because of the news coverage it received.
Separately, I noticed the car gate at AKL start to
rise on 2 different occasions while I was approximately 40-to-80 feet away. The guard might have done this from his office but I intentionally removed my car check-in
placard from my windshield the second time to see if it might be related to the new media. Maybe the guard opened the gate for me anyway. I'll try to talk with the guard tomorrow if I have time. (WWOHP is calling.
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Between the additional information on the back of the KTTW card and the behavior at the gate, I wonder if the new KTTW cards have been upgraded to use Ultra High Frequency (UHF) passive tags, which have farther read ranges. (HF passive tags typically have a range of less than 3 feet.)
I really don't know what to make of the change, just mentioning 2 observations that might be completely
coincidental and could turn out to mean nothing.