Almost 14 months after hinting at pre-planning, changes to Genie+ have finally been announced, including new names 
Looks like a hybrid of Genie+ and Fastpass+. Onsite guests can choose 3 attractions including selecting times 7 days in advance, offsite guests 3 days in advance. It says after you use one you can select another one. This sounds terrible because someone can get a 4th LL as early as 5 mins before park opening (by tapping into the first LL at the earliest time slow 5 minutes early). Time will tell what all nuances within the system there are. Sigh.
The name changes are for both DL and WDW, but the process changes are only for WDW. As we all know DL’s system works well as is.
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I’m dreading updating this thread. 
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I’m going to need to you to do that stat! 
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Time for a thread rename …these changes will fix nothing
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Effective beginning July 24th, really? that soon?
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And provide the TPS reports!! 
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I wonder what prebooking will do for rapid stacking. Within two hours of park opening, I had almost ever LL for rides booked other than Slinky Dog. Ugh!!!
Other than having to get up at 7AM, I liked G+ the way it was. It worked well, if you understood HOW it worked.
On our December trip, I had initially planned to get G+ both days but got through so much on the first MK, that I didn’t need it the second one. We went on a party day for day 2 and did all the shows and a few rides with low wait times. I would have wasted my money if I had prepurchased G+.
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It will make it go away. (Good riddance, I say … but my regrets to those of you who learned to use it to great effect.)
I’m sure we’ll figure out tricks to maximize the benefit of the new program.
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I’m curious on how’re they’re going to price this out.
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not anymore you won’t
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I think it will ease the anxiety of many guests who don’t like not knowing what’s next.
It also allows families with late arrivals to plan for that accordingly instead of spending the day in the app booking and modifying to get those later times. Availability will be even more scarce for top tier rides of course, but with diligence most liners can still get those either through drops or pure dedication to refreshing in the app.
It will take some reprograming after almost 3 years and countless trips but I remember hating Genie+ initially, so hopefully this combination of the two systems will be better once we figure it out.
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Should I start a brand new thread or repurpose this one?
- New thread
- Repurpose this one
- Some third option
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(Always include “other,” even if you can’t think of a possible response outside the binary! )
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And then also modify the title of this one to show Genie+ ends 7/23.
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Who’s to say Rapid Stacking won’t work with the new system? May be the only way to stack…
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I went ahead and started a new thread. I haven’t written the lead post yet, and it could take me a while.
On the bright side, the Disneyland thread will largely remain as it is other than some name changes.
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I fumbled RS and SCRS more often than I was successful.
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Will you please still keep up with the old thread until 7/23 too? Some of us have trips coming up in early July. 
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