A Billion-Dollar Bracelet Is the Key to a Disney Park

Yahoo Finance ^ | April 2, 2014 | Brooks Barnes

[C19fan]

Walt Disney World has spent more than a year rolling out a $1 billion system that changes how visitors do everything from enter their hotel rooms to ride Space Mountain. But a few weeks ago a front desk agent at one of Disney’s marquee hotels was still wrestling with the technology.

“Behave, you naughty thing,” a Wilderness Lodge reservations clerk muttered at the malfunctioning management system. Scolding didn’t work, but a computer reboot finally did.

So it has gone with MyMagic+, an ambitious effort to make Disney World more profitable by making its 30 million annual visitors happier. The multifaceted system has taken longer to introduce than expected as Disney has confronted an array of daunting complexities: training 70,000 employees, equipping 28,000 hotel room doors with radio frequency readers, prompting guests to wear data-collecting electronic wristbands.

[dmz]

Disney parks have been a fools’ errand since the 80’s why anyone still goes is beyond me?

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You do realize it’s not really for adults, right?

Kids of an appropriate age still like it. The kids are not the ones thinking about Agenda 21, or the gay agenda, or any of the other agendas Disney is guilty of supporting or not supporting, whichever applies to whomever.

It’s just a theme park to them.

[kingu]

It still shocks me how little video security exists on the Anaheim resorts at least. And when I was back stage as part of a race at Disney World, never saw a single monitor camera away from an entrance point. Security is very Ears on the ground there (and at Anaheim.)

But what a security service; quick and efficient at dealing with issues and getting them off stage as quick as possible. Since I tend to people watch at the Disney Parks, I generally notice their actions more often. Love going around ‘gay day’ and watching the group leaders be escorted off property. Which is dramatically different from ‘bats day’ or ‘dapper day’ where they bend over backwards to help organizers.

As much as Freepers love to bash Disney Parks on here, they are without a doubt the most conservative of the Disney properties.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Was there a couple months ago. The technology worked great, we had no problems with it. We could leave our billfolds in the room safe and use the bands for everything. They got my CC # (which they would have gotten anyway) and could track where I went and what I spent - but so what?