Disney Genie announcement

[Princess Disney Mom]

A miserable morning for mom while everyone else is still sleeping. At least this is how it works in this family. I’m the one that spends months out planning and then I get the bad end of the stick While on vacation not being able to relax but instead being our family’s concierge service.

That's how it goes for the moms. I feel your pain.

 

[TwoMisfits]

Bourne is a show, not a ride.

Studios, by its nature, focuses more on the "attractions" than the rides...since it still has some of the "movie magic" aspect to that park...that's why it has so many more shows than Islands...and Islands is so "moving ride" focused...

 

[kylenne]

You better marry her ASAP lol

This will be our last big trip anywhere, for a while…have to save money for Luau Pointe.

 

[tguz]

My early thought is that we will probably do the $15 per day option as there are a lot of what I think will be tier 2 rides that we like and either do tier 1 rides at rope drop or jump in line just before park closing so we get to ride it.

 

[TropicalDIS]

As of now, they have made no announcements about the ROTR policy changing. Unless they say anything, ROTR opens at 7am for everyone.

Genie+ and LL however, will open at 7am for on-site guests, and at park opening time for everyone else.

Not quite. Genie+ will open at 7am for everyone.
LL will open at 7am for on-site guests only.

 

[disneyworldsk]

Idk, I wonder if those situations will be balanced out by how many couples are like us, where one person is the crazy type A planner type and the other one is cool with whatever, the “just tell me when to show up” type. My gf is so laid back I could tell her we gotta get up 4am and do the ice bucket challenge to get into a park and she’d be fine as long as she got her dole whip on time

Lucky. you have a winner there! my Dh's response is: well it's a business isn't it, you pay for perks like anywhere else. he gets it.
what i don't get are the other issues that are coming with it , he's just looking at the big picture. not the specifics.

 

[jimmymc]

Me neither. do we have a list of the Tiers yet?

Not full lists. The announcement mentioned Rise of the Resistance, Remi, and 7 Dwarfs as paid extras, while Big Thunder and Smuggler's run as included. So I would imagine only 1 or 2 rides per park are extra.

 

[Sjm9911]

I haven't read through all 24 pages so I'm sure someone has already mentioned this but.... the thought of being up at 7am every day of my vacation stressing out while the rest of my family sleeps does not sound exciting at all.

Look on the brite site everyone will be in bed early so there will be less noise at night
Im with you though. Not fun, not easy to plan, and more like work then a vacation. Before i could plan everything at home and relax when i got there knowing i had a well thought out plan. Now, i have nothing, no peice of mind on what rides i can get or where i will even be at certian times. This will effect dining and everyrhing else. So , im not for it in its current configuration.

 

[ABE4DISNEY]

Just waking up to this....

This genie needed to stay in its bottle.

 

[TropicalDIS]

Think it was on the Touring Plans live stream from yesterday afternoon, but was mentioned that Space Mountain is shown as being the other LL ride for MK.

No doubt it will be Frozen and Remy for Epcot.
SDD, ROR, for HS. Could also see MMRR & SR being added to that list.

It will be interesting to see what kind of prices they are charging for LL. If they are truly ridiculous, that will really dampen the experience, and just give lead to increased dissatisfaction amongst parkgoers.

Also not a fan of doing everything day of at 7am. Disney's IT is not known for being the best (or even just decent), so I could see people having issues. Would seem much easier for everyone to book their first Genie+ pass a week out, and then the next one once you are in the park.

 

[Lashed34]

People: USP is Universal Studios Park. The one park. UO is the entire resort.

The two most recent rides at USP are Fallon and Fast & Furious, which is what I was calling two of the worst theme park rides in the last thirty years. I wasn't talking about Hagrid's or Velocicoaster, which are both amazing (when Hagrid's is actually working).

I was specifically talking about the fact that one of UO's two main parks has been widely neglected for fifteen-plus years (not unlike how Epcot was neglected for decades).

F&F I agree with, just a complete waste of space, but Jimmy Fallon we absolutely loved - great fun, rode it lots when we were there.

 

[BroadwayHermione5]

To everyone suggesting that on site folks move to off-site, it just simply isn’t an option for us. We are DVC members, and go to Disney 3/4 times per year. Staying off site would cost way more than our annual dues for our points, for the amount we go. Being able to book FPs 60 days out was a complete game changer because we were pretty much guaranteed to ride on all the new attractions with no wait times. Now we will have to pay or wait three hours in line. This is NOT a value added benefit.

We are not DVC and we have to agree-adding a rental car even with discounts and saving coins for gas money and to pay for parking is not worth it. We might be going 3-4 years instead of every 2-3 but thats the unfortunate reality. Also we have been discussing it: lets say we do a land and sea trip-we would absolutely use genie + the land portion of the trip as we arent there enough. Usually when we come, its about 6 days disney, one day UOR and one day of nothing. We would probably only do genie plus for 4 of those 6 days if thats an option.

I also keep telling myself that this could all change in the future all over again and to brace for it to. I like the concept but there are some things that did not need to happen (im sorry but WDW ROR should not have lightning pass with galactic starcruiser).

 

[kylenne]

Lucky. you have a winner there! my Dh's response is: well it's a business isn't it, you pay for perks like anywhere else. he gets it.
what i don't get are the other issues that are coming with it , he's just looking at the big picture. not the specifics.

Logistics are definitely a concern for sure. I really feel for the people who don’t want to get up at 7 on vacation, but this really won’t change much for us. As much as we’re night owls in normal life, we are rope droppers at Disney even though we do stay in the parks late and prefer them at night. We just do a lot of napping and relaxing at the resort in the middle of the day so we’re not exhausted.

Idk why that is, as soon as I’m on property I guess I’m so amped on adrenaline that it’s impossible for me to sleep in any later than like 8am. She’s the same way. Even on resort days we tend to be up early and will go for walks around the grounds.

 

[EddieMI]

What I do not see in any of the announcements is if they are limiting the sales of Genie+. Universal limits the sale of Express Passes so that there are not so many of them that they can insure shorter lines for Express Pass. If everybody at the park on a day has paid for Genie+, do you really think everyone will be able to get the rides they want that day that works with their schedules? They better have a real Genie somewhere to make this work.

 

[BroadwayHermione5]

Think it was on the Touring Plans live stream from yesterday afternoon, but was mentioned that Space Mountain is shown as being the other LL ride for MK.

No doubt it will be Frozen and Remy for Epcot.
SDD, ROR, for HS. Could also see MMRR & SR being added to that list.

It will be interesting to see what kind of prices they are charging for LL. If they are truly ridiculous, that will really dampen the experience, and just give lead to increased dissatisfaction amongst parkgoers.

Also not a fan of doing everything day of at 7am. Disney's IT is not known for being the best (or even just decent), so I could see people having issues. Would seem much easier for everyone to book their first Genie+ pass a week out, and then the next one once you are in the park.

I do wonder if some of the rides with lightning pass will overlap with genie +. Because I can see Peter Pan being one of those.

 

[queenadnama]

I'm predicting that, at some point, this service becomes available for Deluxe Resort guests for free. I say 'predict' only because Universal has a similar perk to their deluxe resorts with Express Pass, and at this point staying on property (especially deluxe) is becoming so moot it's a little laughable.

 

[JenSop]

Wow - I can't keep up with reading everything! Lol!
I did want to chime in with one more thing - I'm not averse to change. Really, I'm not. But to COMPLETELY change to a paid tiered system, when it was fully included before, with no transition is what irks me. Also, there is NO benefit for on-site guests in this new system. At least with FP+, onsite guests could book their rides before off-site guests. There seems to be a huge move to NO on-site benefits. Which I find baffling.

 

[honeymo78]

Here are a few of my additional thoughts:
Honestly a little surprised that people are complaining about buying the 2 individual attraction passes plus Genie+ on every park day, especially for long trips. Unless you will be there at an extremely busy time, I can't imagine needing to buy everything on each day of a multiple visit to each park, unless you really wanted to. But again, waiting in some lines is no big deal for me, and that's what we did even with FP+ since I couldn't always get more FPs for the rides I wanted later in the day. I usually have 3 Epcot days and I can't see needing to get Genie+ for all those days as only one or 2 of those days are ride heavy.

If you don't go to the parks early, and you aren't going to buy the add-ons, I don't think you need to get up at 7am to book your fist Genie+. Wouldn't booking at 7am get you an early morning, park opening time slot? If you are more likely to roll in at 10am or later, why not just book when you normally get up? I don't think waking up early would get you the timeslot you were looking for in the first place.

 

[WhitneyMB]

The biggest question in my family is when this will begin, as we have a Labor Day trip coming up. It’s just hearsay, but on another board someone said they worked for Disney had had training on Genie+ tomorrow/Friday. They predicted a rollout the following Tuesday
Anyone have any additional news or rumors about the time table?

 

[disneydreamer1980]

This will add $1050 to my 7 person family’s 10 park days. For something previously free. Insane.