I did not see this posted but DVC announced Magic Beyond will continue in 2026.
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Nice to see a couple of new things added, especially with the pricing remaining stable at $99 for the year
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Thanks! I had wondered about this. I was hoping for a discount on a renewal membership, but I guess I’ll take it as a relief that they are keeping the price stable!
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Am I reading this correctly- 5 day ticket is for traveling party not just HOUSEHOLD?
That’s huge for us
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I didn’t realize this would include 30 days of Memory Maker, and I already added MM to my Sorcerer’s Pass for $99. 
ETA: I called the WDW AP Support Line to see if they could remove MM from my AP and give me a refund. They said I would have to talk to DVC MS, since it is a DVC AP. I talked to DVC MS and they said although I qualified for the Sorcerer’s pass as a DVC member, AP’s are not their product and referred me back to WDW AP Support. I talked to the AP Support a second time, and they said that the MM is NOT refundable. So that is that… 
Lesson learned.
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Just keep in mind that the 30-day memory maker begins to run as soon as you use it, then expires. So IMHO, it doesn’t work that well with an AP, unless you do all your trips within that 30 days. I did/will still add the photo pass to my AP regardless because of that. In fact, the 30-day MM I got from MMB lies dormant in my account. I should find someone who can use it on transfer. I can transfer it, right?
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But if you have an AP I would guess you’re going more than once in the year? Won’t you want MM for the rest of the year?
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We have a family trip planned for April 2026. We likely won’t go again until March 2027. We are typically a once per year family, but the AP still made sense if we could squeeze 2 trips in. If MMB is offered again for 2027, I would probably buy it again (mainly for the opportunity to get extra points at half of the cost).
This is why I bought it for 2025 and why I’ll buy it again in 2026
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Do the extra one-time points you purchase have to be used in the calendar year for which you purchased MMB? In other words, can you bank them? For example, can I purchase points in my use year that begins 3/1/26 and bank them for my use year that begins 3/1/27? Or can you only purchase them at the time of booking?
It has to be a 7 month booking, booked at the time you call. You can modify that reservation but you cannot bank the points to another use year. For example, I bought Membership Beyond and my UY is August. I called in April and booked a studios at AKL with some of my points, and 24 one time points for an October reservation. I modified that reservation twice but kept the reservation in my August 25 use year.
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Ok, thinking this through then. My brain doesn’t want to understand today. 
I have a March Use Year. Hypothetically, let’s say in April 2026, I want to book a trip for March 2027 (at 11 months). From what you are saying, I would not be able to use the one-time points at that time to put toward the 3/27 trip. But if I waited and booked (or re-booked) the trip for 3/27 in September 2026 (at 7 months) would I be able to purchase and apply the 2026 MMB one-time use points to that reservation?
You can book all but the last night at 11 months and just add the last night using the OTU points at 7 months (from that date).
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Great idea! 
But here is the verbiage from the FAQ’s on the DVC website:
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In the event that your trip does not unfold as planned and your reservation must be cancelled, be aware that one-time-use Vacation Points expire at the end of your Use Year.
Do you think this means that since my 2026 Use Year would end in February and my booked vacation would be in my 2027 Use Year, those booked one-time use points would expire?
(I realize that I am overthinking this…)
My brain is hurting here!
But from what I’ve read about MMB, you can only buy these points once you have bought MMB for the year you want to use them.
So someone who is wanting to use them for a stay in early May 2026 cannot buy them now, even though it’s within 7 months. They would have to wait until they can buy MMB for 2026.
In your case I think you’d have to wait until you could buy MMB for 2027.
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I believe that when I was researching this, this is not true. This would in practice mean that for at least 25% of the year it would be impossible to use this benefit? If you bought in 2026, would you be able to to use them in January, February or March? It could be very difficult. I believe these points retain the same rules as any one time use points.
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If the booking is in your 2027 use year, the points would expire at the end of the year. It does not matter what use year the reservation is booked in, it is when the trip will take place.
I might be wrong but I don’t think you can buy one time points in order to modify an 11 month booking. I think it has to be added as additional days.
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Sorry for all of the back and forth. I am in a situation where I will have a small number of leftover points from our family trip, but not enough to really book another trip. I thought if I could somehow accumulate those leftover points and add the one-time use points, I might be able to use them in 2027. If I will not really have an opportunity to use the one-time use points, I’m not sure if MMB is worth it for me in 2026. Trying to figure this out. Thanks all!
Ok so now I am totally confused?
Prior to MMB one time use points were for the use year you were using them in…
I am probably misunderstanding this but i thought the MMB is a discount lasts the calendar year regardless of u/y points used.?
I have an October UY so technically I would need to make a reservation before Dec 31 traveling before July- or will a July 2026 reservation require a 2026 MMB?
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