Quote Originally Posted by RENITA View Post
They actually sent room magic bands for our all stars sports resort and separate annual pass magic bands that had little annual pass slides to go on them, then had to get replacements. Just got back from trip.

We did have some trouble of bands not working to open the rooms. Took them up to front desk, and they could not get them to work. So we got new grey magic bands. Now more magic bands. Not sure what we are going to do with all the magic bands. Made bounce back reservations and see they have new magic bands for that trip ready to be personalized.

I saw a lot of the grey ones on racks at the resort, and asked. The receptionist said that if you make reservations with no time to mail they will be at the resort. Also if you forget you magic bands they can issue new ones when you check in. Unfortunately they only have gray.
The grey ones are the default color that everyone will get if you don't plan in advance, only way to get the personalized pretty ones is to make reservations ahead of time.I was told we would be able to use the same ones from previous trips as they are suppose to be good for 3 years. I'm also getting new ones, seems like a waste to me and asked the CM again and she said they are technically still in test mode and in the future we will be able to re-use the bands. She said some people are bringing their old ones back and they will recycle them or she said to start a collection of them for souvenirs. I wanted to use our previous ones again but had to add a new AP to it and it would not link to the old ones, had to personalize the new bands before they would link, CM had to do all this for me over the phone. They definitely still have kinks to work out, can't imagine what the cost is to keep sending new bands out to everyone for every trip....we go twice per year.