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We received our's right after our customization window closed. They arrived by UPS.
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We are arriving to WDW on December 1 and have not gotten anything about ordering Magic Bands. So I was wondering when you were notified that you could order your Magic Bands?(I see you will be there the same time as us). I linked our tickets yesterday and today did the early check in at AKL.
No way to tell just when you'll get the bands. The only thing you can do, a CM advised us, is to keep checking MDE daily. We actually had FP+ show up first and got the customize notice a couple days later. We got both at about as far out as you are now, so check daily and keep hoping.
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We customized them and still have yet to receive any invite! LOL.....
So, if you're wondering about if/when you can get them, I would just keep checking MDE, that's what I did, plus I subbed to a thread on another board so as soon as I saw someone was able to who was arriving the day or two after us, I checked and I was able to do so.
However, as others said, Dec. doesn't seem to be part of the test group. I saw that the rollout might actually start Dec. 1, so you're 60 days would have been Oct. 2...I would think anytime after that you might/should be able to customize them.
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They Are still in test mode for the bands. I received a letter on Friday Oct. 1st inviting us to help test. Our trip starts Nov 4th. We customized them on Saturday and got them today, Tuesday.
I called Disney to set up our DME reservations and asked about the Magic bands for December and she said that as of right now the testing goes through Nov.30,so we missed it by a day. She said to keep checking on MDE because they could extend the testing or actually start the roll out on December 1st. Guess I'll just keep waiting.
We actually had already done our online check-in for November stay but they weren't available then. But then I kept reading on another board that November folks were getting them but I still didn't see the option. Another poster said he had to go back into online check-in again and then he could get his bands. Sure enough I went back thru online check-in again and now our option for Magic Bands showed up. So we have ordered bands and set up all FastPass+ reservations.
By the way, we never received an invite or notification from Disney that any of this was available for us. The only way I found out was reading the boards and checking my MDE.
By the way, we never received an invite or notification from Disney that any of this was available for us. The only way I found out was reading the boards and checking my MDE.
I got a mailing inviting me to participate 2 weeks after I customized the and then an email inviting me on the day the MB's were shipped. :@
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We will be in WDW in less than a week and just found out that our MagicBands will be at POP waiting for us...seems they do not send them out to guests who live outside of the US.
We are staying at the Wilderness the week before Christmas, I did the online check in today and was also able to customize my Magicbands. It still says that I have 29 days to customize...so I guess I will have to wait and see when they ship...hopefully sooner rather than later
Thankful for all the info this thread has provided. I just went back through online reservations and now I can personalize my magic bands and make fastpass reservations. When I would click "manage magic bands" nothing would happen,so thanks to all who posted their experiences!
My closing date for customization was October 15 and they shipped on that date.
I had customized them a few weeks prior to that date. It looks like they wait until the customization date to ship them. I did receive the bands with 2-3 days after the customization date passed.
Are the magic bands a 'done deal' now or are they still testing? I've just made reservations at Pop Century for early Feb and was hoping we'd have them or be able to test them.
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