Genie - Initial Impressions

No reports of modify so far, and unclear how a cancel affects your booking window.

But I think you found the golden ticket - if times are going to be this unpredictable (unlike maxpass which released chronologically) they are going to need a modify button.

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Also Slinky breaks down a lot. I wonder if they didn’t want to deal with that for ILL$ when rise already breaks down a lot.

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I feel like staggering the drops is creating chaos and a sense that everyone needs to grab what is available “right now”.

I go back to my “all the uncertainty of maxpass, all the chaos of maximizing Fastpass” theory…

I’ll make it all work.

Side note: if times are released randomly throughout the day, touring plans is going to struggle with making LL suggestions (times and pick ups) because - chaos.

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I noticed Genie does not have wait time graphs for any shows that have set times. If a show has their time shown as continuous (e.g. Beauty and the Beast Sing-Along at EP) then it gets a wait time graph.

Another point to add to TP’s score.

ETA: TP doesn’t do that either. I guess I thought TP did. At least TP mentions when the popular time is.

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Just as they did with MaxPass…

Listen, I love TP. But I’m watching them on Twitter today and they are being a bit over the top with their critiques. Every post is about “Look at how bad Genie is…”

They’re complaining now about Genie saying go to Mad Tea Party as that is the lowest wait and not offering other suggestions. This is like when my TP keeps telling me to RD Ariel’s Adventure because it’s technically the best time to ride it.

IMHO - this is making TP look a bit salty…

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BEWARE THE NEW GENIE LENSES.

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What did they do to you?!?

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I love that now when i log on to MDE on my home PC the image content is Grandpa showing the youngsters how much fun it can be to push buttons on Granny’s phone while at the MK.

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Okay, I do really like the Dining board. Though when I tried to make a reservation for SciFi (initial screen said available), none came up for a party of 1, 2, or 4 for the remainder of the day.

Also, the Genie+ times at both MK and HS are not bad in my opinion. Could just be low crowds still, but traveling with littles, I could definitely see budgeting in dollars for this so we know what we can do an hour from now without a wait and then fill in the time with something that is walk on or food or just exploration.

Double also: I get Lorem ipsum as my legal disclaimer.

Final also: so excited for @sanstitre_has_left_the_building to arrive today!

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Tink can be a little aggressive, but she has a good heart. :slight_smile:

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That’s really cute!

Same energy:

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Looking at the dining board, it doesn’t seem like you can pick a later mobile ordering timeslot? Am I missing something?

I’m wondering about this also. I have a split stay onsite and offsite. I’m wondering if I will need to make sure that I go to HS on a onsite day to make sure I can get a ROTR reservation.

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Is anyone who is there planning on parkhopping with Genie+? Can you already choose your LL selection in the next park?

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Good question. I’d like to know the answer to that too. Genie does acknowledge my park hop from my APR park to my ADR at a different park for 11/28. I’m thinking that it should work.

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Getting answers in liner chat about LL wait times. Seems like they’re walk on. Been a while since I was at the parks, but FP used to be a few minutes at least.

This makes me think the paid aspect has them capping the per hour/per ride LL offerings much lower.

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They must have fixed it. Cause I had it this morning too.

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Call me cynical but they’d be fools to have long waits on the first day when everyone is looking to see if it’s worth the money and all the bloggers are there. It will be easy enough for them to increase the number they sell so the wait is as high as they think they can push it.

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True. But it’s also not worth the money if you can’t get any time slots.

Also, RotR is down…