Every time you visit Walt Disney World and decide to stay on property at one of their resort hotels, the mouse and company will offer you a brand new MagicBand. This wrist strap has technology inside it which identifies you and allows you to enter your room, enter the parks, and take advantage of your FastPass reservations. Some people visit the parks enough that they have a bunch of these things just lying around the house. Should you refuse a new MagicBand and just carry along your favorite? Join me as I unbox my newest band and talk about why having more than one might be ideal.
We have our Magic Bands from 2014 somewhere. I’m pretty sure they are in a box in the garage with some other Disney souvenirs that will likely remain there until the next time we move. I have my doubts they will still be functional when and if I visit Disney World again. Heck, mine was having issues during that trip! Earlier this year, Disney started banning people who were using multiple Magic Bands to score additional FastPass reservations. I didn’t read up on the details of how that was accomplished, but apparently abuse was rampant and with the relatively low… Read more »
My understanding of the multiple FastPass thing is that those people were using special passes that were bought by someone else. Your My Disney Experience account manages how many FastPasses you can have at any one time, and since your MagicBands are associated with that account it shouldn’t matter which band you use. They will all pull from the same account. MagicBands will eventually stop working once their battery runs out, but that will take some time. In my situation, the two bands I’m using are both basically brand new and neither has been used in a park before. That’s… Read more »
Just as an FYI…we have never gotten another slider for our magic bands…ours is from 2014…which I believe is the first year we bought AP’s. So, they’ll send you one the first time you sign up…but not necessarily when you renew. I’ve been told you can sometimes get them at Guest Services by showing your card, but haven’t tried it.
If you want a slider on your own schedule or in a different color, there are a variety of sources to get them. For example, the link below takes you to a place on Easy where they sell them for about $4 a piece.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/184240519/protect-your-disney-magic-band-fastpass?utm_campaign=shopping_us_Bitbelt_sfc_osa&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_custom1=0&utm_content=9290497&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1caNoqXS1QIVWEsNCh336w3MEAQYASABEgIUYPD_BwE
I’ve also seen similar items for sale on Ebay.