Last week, we told you about many of the MagicBand interactive features around the parks that had recently been deactivated. Well, since we posted that story, a few of these elements have returned to service at the Magic Kingdom.
Space Mountain and “it’s a small world”, which boast two of the simpler “name display” effects, were both reactivated over the weekend. These effects had both been turned off for weeks when we ran our story last week (in fairness”it’s a small world” was closed for most of that time, but returned for at least a week with the effect still off). Maybe somebody reads WDWNT.com?
Perhaps it had simply gone unnoticed, or perhaps Disney was in the progress of updating the technology or fixing the broken readers at the attractions. The truth is, we may never know exactly what happened.
Interestingly enough, the effect in The Haunted Mansion is still turned off. Perhaps the upcoming December refurbishment will be used to fix the effect? Only time will tell.
With it being turned off and slowly being turned back on, it sounds to me like a back end change to the hardware.
I wonder if the hunted Mansion effects are being updated so they can be added to the photopass system in the same way other attraction photos and videos are.
Is the poster effect in the Rock n Rollercoaster queue working?
It worked for me on 25 Sept.
Haunted Mansion was turned on during MNSSHP on the 29th, but wasn’t on during the day earlier that day.
Whilst I was at WDW this summer, the effects didn’t work on my MagicBand. Everyone else in the party had their name show up e.g. Rock n Rollercoaster, Expedition Everest etc. Anyone know of a particular reason for this or does it sound as though my MagicBang is faulty? I also didn’t get the pics/video from Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, whereas my partner did. Didn’t realise it was on Space Mountain and Haunted Mansion too!