A Possible Meet-Up, More on FastPass+, and A Special Pinterest Board

News on Fastpass+, MagicBands, a possible meet up, Pinterest, and more!

FASTPASS+ INVITATIONS STILL COMING BY EMAIL, MAIL, PONY EXPRESS, ETC.

I’m getting ready for my next test of FastPass+ and MagicBands in November.

(For the last test, see this; if you have no idea what I’m talking about, see this.)

As happened last time, I did everything first in MyDisneyExperience.com, but also got an emailed invitation—on the right—and a mailed invitation—see below.

I’d thought that maybe these weren’t coming out anymore to those who have already tested FastPass+.

Wrong again.

BTW—Josh reported last week that the ability of FastPass+ testers using MagicBands to also get regular Fastpasses (using the backup Key to the World Card all testers have been getting), may be “scaled back” beginning today.

Josh is almost always right… but while this program so far has been a leaky as a sieve, many of the reported leaks have not quite panned out…so I guess we’ll see…

I have no actual information or sources on the issue, but do have a guess forecast.  My forecast is that since Disney’s discussion of FY13 results is 11/7, and there might be a howl–and resulting bad press–if this cut-back actually begins today, Disney World will hold off killing the ability of testers to use both Fastpass systems til after November 7th.

I don’t feel strongly about this forecast–I can argue the opposite side almost as compellingly. I balance between the two possibilities by noting that Disney doesn’t lose much by delaying til after 11/7…and delaying avoids the chance that a lot of complaints by sell-side analysts from New Jersey (as most are) will clot up the earnings call…

CUSTOMIZING YOUR MAGIC BAND

The scoop on customizing your MagicBands is here. The link tells the tale of my red MagicBand.

While I love my red MagicBand, I got a blue MagicBand for this visit.

(You can re-use your old ones, or get new ones.  I’ll be getting new ones for each visit until 1. the tests are over and the MyMagic+ program is stable, and 2. I have one of every color…)

The two gray MagicBands are ones I didn’t customize—that’s the default color.

You get a total of nine characters for customizing, including spaces, and can’t use special characters like commas or periods.  We had a spare—long story behind that—so I did what I could with the new red one.

Here’s a close up.

Maybe it’ll be a giveaway if we do the meet up!

A POSSIBLE MEET-UP IN DISNEY WORLD ON NOVEMBER 13?

Our last night at Disney World on the November trip, Wednesday November 13, overlaps with the first night of the trip of my favorite Disney World blogger.  He and I are chatting about doing a joint meet up with any fan who wants to meet us the afternoon or evening of the 13th.

Planning is still at the early stages—largely emails: “Got any ideas?”  “Nope. You got any ideas?” “Nope.  How about you—had any ideas since my last email?” “Nope”—so I’m not even naming him, and you shouldn’t view this as an invitation. Yet.

But I really like the idea of a joint meet-up–the cool thing about both of us hosting it is that each of us is guaranteed that the meet-up will be attended by at least one fan!

More to come, maybe…

A REALLY COOL PINTEREST BOARD

I had a chance to chat Thursday with Linda, a Facebook friend who has given me a lot of really great advice.

We had a nice talk, and it reminded me that I’ve never recommended her pinterest stuff.  So if you are a Disney World fan, you should check out her pins and follow her boards!

Linda’s goal is to present only the best of what she’s seen about Disney World…which will save you a lot of time!  And you may learn about some great other sites.

I know, I know…I’m really lousy at Pinterest—some of the most important stuff on this site isn’t really even pinnable…but I’m beginning to work on it, with the help of some of the best in the world at this—like Linda!!!

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