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MyMagic+: My Disney Experience, MagicBands, and FastPass+

MyMagic+: My Disney Experience, MagicBands, and FastPass+

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MyMagic+ is Disney’s suite of high-tech tools designed to enhance your planning and touring experiences. These technologies, including My Disney Experience, MagicBands, and FastPass+, work together and are changing how we vacation at Disney. Some elements of MyMagic+, such as FastPass+, are continuing to evolve as we write this. You should expect changes as tweaks are made in the coming years.

My Disney Experience—This is a web- and mobile-based app that acts as a centralized point for your Disney plans and reservations. Use My Disney Experience to customize your MagicBands (see below), complete online check-in as early as 60 days before arrival, make resort room requests, make advanced dining reservations, link admission, create day-by-day plans, and make FastPass+ selections. You can also link family and friends in your travel group, so they can make and share the plans. Access it online at http://mydisneyexperience.com or download it free to your mobile device via the Apple App Store, Google Play, or Amazon Apps. The mobile app has GPS-enabled maps, displays wait times, show times, and character greeting times, and gives you access to create and modify dining and FastPass+ selections.

MagicBands—The MagicBand is a wristband for Disney resort guests that uses radio (RFID) technology to identify you at park and attraction entrances, shops, restaurants, your resort... everything you could use your Key to the World card for, “plus.” Your information is securely stored on Disney’s computers. Next-generation versions of the MagicBand now allow you to remove the icon from the MagicBand (with a small screwdriver) and put it on a MagicKeeper lanyard or even just put in your pocket. To use it, you just touch the icon to a special sensor, and in some cases enter a PIN number afterwards. You can use the MagicBand icon to check in for Disney’s Magical Express at the airport, register at your Disney resort, unlock your resort room door, get free parking at the parks, enter the Disney parks (provided you’ve purchased admission, of course), reserve and check-in for dining and FastPass+ (attractions, character greetings, entertainment, parades, and fireworks), link your PhotoPass images, and play interactive games and attractions (such as Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom). The waterproof wristband uses a non-latex, hypoallergenic material that is soft and flexible—one size fits all (those with small wrists can peel away part of the band to make it smaller). Disney resort guests can customize the band color (purple, red, blue, green, pink, yellow, orange, or gray) and the name that appears under the icon at My Disney Experience (if entered at least 10 days prior to your vacation). If you’d rather not use a MagicBand or MagicKeeper, you can request an RFID card when you arrive at your Disney resort. Note also that you will create a PIN number at check-in, to be used when charging to your account with an icon (for added security). Tip: You can further personalize your MagicBand by purchasing buttons (Bandits, $6.95–$12.95), frames (Sliders, $12.95–$14.95), and bands (CoverBands, $6.95–$15.95). Only Disney resort guests and annual passholders get complimentary MagicBands, but everyone can buy one for about $13.

FastPass+—This is an enhanced version of the popular FASTPASS program (see page 120) that utilizes your MagicBand, Key to the World card, or park pass, and does away with paper. You can also book FastPass+ selections (up to three per day) up to 30–60 days in advance at My Disney Experience or at a kiosk when you arrive at the parks—you get to pick from several different available times offered when you make the selection. You can change your FastPass selections at any time up to your return time at My Disney Experience or at a kiosk, and if you miss a return time, you can reschedule it for a different time or attraction. Each person in your group can choose their own FastPass+ selections, or you can do them all together. The FastPass+ system currently includes more than 60 attractions, shows, and parades (the legacy FASTPASS system only had 28), so there are activities you can reserve with FastPass+ that you can’t reserve otherwise. You can use your MagicBand at all attractions marked in this book with either the headliner symbol FP+ or the regular symbol FP+.

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