Disney World's annual passholders will start getting the new MagicBands sometime before the end of the year, with Disney's resort guests getting the new devices around the turn of the year. The old MagicBands will continue to work along with the new MagicBands. MagicBands are used not just for park admission, but for Fastpass+ attraction admissions, hotel room access, and payment at restaurants and merchandise locations throughout the Walt Disney World Resort.
What's this? What's this? MagicBand 2 debuts today exclusively at #DestinationD ! More details coming soon! pic.twitter.com/DmAFSD7VnZ
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Switching to a removable icon gives Disney the flexibility to offer a new line of more fashionable wearables, while holding down their manufacturing cost, as they won't need to include the core technology in them. Just dropping in an icon will achieve that. That should help boost profits, while allowing fans a wider range of choices for how they'll wear their MagicBand tech.
Universal Orlando recently announced its MagicBand-style wearable, a TapuTapu, which will be used to facilitate virtual queueing at its new Volcano Bay water park. The TapuTapu will include a display screen, to alert users when to return to an attraction to ride. We're waiting for someone to figure out how to embed a Disney MagicBand icon into a Universal TapuTapu, to create the ultimate, functional Orlando theme park fashion accessory.
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@162, I'm pretty sure regular FastPass has already been phased out at WDW.
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